Tundra Books

• Hypertension
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Nutrition
  Diabetes
  Cholesterol
  Nutrition Research
   
  

  Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance

  If you're aging prematurely, getting fatter, feeling sluggish, and watching your blood pressure and cholesterol sneak upwards, you may have "Syndrome X," claim the authors, who say that up to 60 ...  > read more
• Seeds
  Ancient Civilizations
  Geography
  Cultures
  Agriculture and Food
  Optics
   
  

  Seed of Knowledge, Stone of Plenty: Understanding the Lost Technology of the Ancient Megalith-Builders

  Monuments in the Americas and beyond stand as silent testimony to the achievements of ancient technology. The scope of these mammoth structures has amazed generations. Could there be some ...  > read more
• Public Health
  Veterinary Medicine
  Chronic Illness
  Human Evolution
  Diseases and Conditions
  Early Humans
   
  

  The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

  Where's your next disease coming from? From anywhere in the world--from overflowing sewage in Cairo, from a war zone in Rwanda, from an energy-efficient office building in California, from a pig farm ...  > read more
• Cosmology
  Astrophysics
  Big Bang
  Astronomy
  Galaxies
  Physics
   
  

  Essential Cosmic Perspective with MasteringAstronomy(TM) and Voyager SkyGazer Planetarium Software, The (4th Edition) (MasteringAstronomy Series)

  KEY MESSAGE: The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition has been thoroughly revised to include more quantitative coverage, an enhanced illustration and photo program, and an unparalleled new ...  > read more
• Dogs
  Tundra
  Mammals
  Early Mammals
  Animals
  Wild Animals
   
  

  Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

  More than a half-century ago the Canadian Wildlife Service assigned the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the ...  > read more
• Petroleum
  Fossil Fuels
  Energy Policy
  Energy and the Environment
  Energy Issues
  Mining
   
  

  Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future

  Given the recent assertions made by the Bush administration, it would seem that coal is a glistening new energy alternative, the answer to the current oil crisis. Few of us realize that coal is ...  > read more
• Agriculture and Food
  Insects (including Butterflies)
  Exotic Species
  Mating and Breeding
  Food
  Invasive Species
   
  

  Beekeeping for Dummies

  Believe it or not, bees are one of the oldest species of domesticated animals. Archeologists have found evidence of beekeeping, or apiculture, in the Middle East dating back more than five thousand ...  > read more
• Mating and Breeding
  Evolution
  Gender Difference
  Evolutionary Biology
  Popular Culture
  Charles Darwin
   
  

  The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

  Evolutionary psychology has been called the "new black" of science fashion, though at its most controversial, it more resembles the emperor's new clothes. Geoffrey Miller is one of the Young Turks ...  > read more
• Human Biology
  Educational Policy
  Behavioral Science
  Educational Psychology
  Ecology
  Zoology
   
  

  Animal Physiology

  Animal Physiology presents all the branches of modern animal physiology with a strong emphasis on integration among physiological disciplines, ecology, and evolutionary biology. The book takes an ...  > read more
• Early Climate
  Climate
  Global Warming
  Ice Ages
  Environmental Policies
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

  Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. ...  > read more

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