Botany Books

• Geography
  Birds
  Early Birds
  New Species
  Atmosphere
  Nature
   
  

  The Sibley Guide to Birds

  More than 10 years in the making, David Sibley's Guide to Birds is a monumental achievement. The beautiful watercolor illustrations (6,600, covering 810 species in North America) and clear, ...  > read more
• Human Biology
  Developmental Biology
  Cats
  Solar System
  Immune System
  Solar Energy
   
  

  Human Anatomy & Physiology Lab Manual, Cat Version, Update with Access to PhysioEx 6.0 (8th Edition)

  Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab Manual, Cat Version is a clearly written and comprehensive lab manual that guides readers through well-planned lab activities and feature illustrations and ...  > read more
• Geography
  Life Sciences
   
  

  A Field Guide to Wildflowers : Northeastern and North-Central North America (Peterson Field Guides)

  Grouped by color and by plant characteristics, 1,293 species in 84 families are described and illustrated. Included here are all the flowers you're most likely to encounter in the eastern and ...  > read more
• Endangered Plants
  Botany
  Pests and Parasites
  Nature
  Grassland
  Seeds
   
  

  Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants

  This heavily illustrated volume will prove a blessing to every aquarium hobbyist who has had to settle for superficial plant descriptions in general fish-keeping books. It presents a detailed A-to-Z ...  > read more
• Ecology
  Marine Biology
  Ecology Research
  Coral Reefs
  Fisheries
  Ocean Policy
   
  

  Reef

  Coral reefs are often called "the rainforests of the sea" because of the quantity and diversity of life they support, and because they are highly sensitive and threatened ecosystems. Building on ...  > read more
• Fossils
  Origin of Life
  Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Anthropology
   
  

  The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

  Just as we trace our personal family trees from parents to grandparents and so on back in time, so in The Ancestor's Tale Richard Dawkins traces the ancestry of life. As he is at pains to point out, ...  > read more
• Cultures
  Top Technology
  Ethics
  Bioethics
  Internet
  Information Technology
   
  

  Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

  Neil Postman is one of the most level-headed analysts of education, media, and technology, and in this book he spells out the increasing dependence upon technology, numerical quantification, and ...  > read more
• Consumer Behavior
  Botany
  Environmental Policy
  Resource Shortage
  World Development
  Child Psychology
   
  

  Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers

  We buy more flowers a year than we do Big Macs, spending $6.2 billion annually. We use them to mark our most important events, to express sentiments that might otherwise go unsaid. And we demand ...  > read more
• Geography
  Nature
  Zoology
  Wild Animals
  Life Sciences
  Information Technology
   
  

  Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks: Third Edition (Peterson Field Guides)

  This all-new edition includes descriptions of the habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges of all the mammals of North America, as well as of selected birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects. ...  > read more
• Nature
  Healthy Aging
  Origin of Life
  Batteries
  Social Psychology
  Marine Biology
   
  

  Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

  The Burgess Shale of British Columbia "is the most precious and important of all fossil localities," writes Stephen Jay Gould. These 600-million-year-old rocks preserve the soft parts of a collection ...  > read more

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