Frog and Reptile Books

• Fish
  Fisheries
  Marine Biology
  Sea Life
  Zoology
  Nutrition
   
  

  The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America

  In this brilliant portrait of the oceans’ unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America’s national—and natural—history, and why reckless overfishing ...  > read more
• Nature
  Evolution
  Fossils
  World Development
  Biochemistry Research
  Sea Life
   
  

  Seashells

  Artist Josie Iselin celebrates the diversity and beauty of nature with her exquisite portraits of seashells. Like her extremely popular Beach Stones and Leaves & Pods, Seashells is not a field ...  > read more
• Photography
  Fish
  Geography
  Sea Life
  Apes
  Venus
   
  

  The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

  In a post-Jaws/Discovery Channel world, unearthing fresh data on great white sharks is a feat. So credit Susan Casey not just with finding and spotlighting two biologists who have done truly ...  > read more
• Endangered Plants
  Botany
  Nature
  Language Acquisition
  Insomnia Research
  Artificial Intelligence
   
  

  Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification

  Looking for a faster, easier, and fun way to identify plants? Botany in a Day teaches you the patterns method of plant identification, so that you can discover the wonderful world of plants around ...  > read more
• Prions
  Mad Cow Disease
  Sleep Disorders
  Sleep Disorder Research
  Cows, Sheep, Pigs
  Insomnia Research
   
  

  The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

  For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their ...  > read more
• Water
  World Development
  Nature of Water
  Drought
  Drought Research
  Resource Shortage
   
  

  The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink

  With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water. His gripping ...  > 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
• Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Origin of Life
  Developmental Biology
  Healthy Aging
  Charles Darwin
   
  

  Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

  "Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an egg and evolution from its ancestors," writes Sean B. Carroll in his introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The new ...  > read more
• Alternative Medicine
  Anthropology
  Popular Culture
  Sports Science
  Nature
  Religion
   
  

  The Arts of China (An Ahmanson Murphy Fine Arts Book)

  For the fourth edition of his much-heralded The Arts of China, last published in 1984, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic ...  > read more
• Evolutionary Biology
  Charles Darwin
  Evolution
  Human Evolution
  Nature
  Anthropology
   
  

  Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives

  What is the biological reason for gossip?For laughter? For the creation of art?Why do dogs have curly tails?What can microbes tell us about morality?These and many other questions are tackled by ...  > read more

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