Venus Books

• Ecology
  Ecology Research
  Nature
  Ecosystems
  Biology
  Environmental Policies
   
  

  Elements of Ecology (6th Edition) (Ecology Place Series)

  KEY BENEFIT: Elements of Ecology, Sixth Edition maintains its engaging, reader-friendly style as it explains the basic principles of ecology. The text is updated to include new chapters on current ...  > read more
• Medical Technology
  Medical Imaging
  Biochemistry
  Ultrasound
  Microbiology
  Photography
   
  

  Echocardiography, Sixth Edition

  The thoroughly revised Sixth Edition of Feigenbaum's Echocardiography reflects recent changes in the technology and clinical use of echocardiography. Included are detailed discussions of tissue ...  > read more
• Sustainability
  World Development
  Monkeys
  Language Acquisition
  Nature
  Environmental Policies
   
  

  State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future (State of the World)

  "Top-ranked annual books on sustainable development."—GlobeScan survey of sustainability expertsIn State of the World 2007, the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning research team focuses on the ...  > read more
• Severe Weather
  Weather
  Air Quality
  Atmosphere
  Pollution
  El Nino and La Nina
   
  

  The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology (10th Edition)

  Using everyday, easy-to-grasp examples to reinforce basic concepts, this highly regarded handbook remains the standard introduction to meteorology and the atmosphere – components, problems, ...  > read more
• Nature
  Environmental Policies
  Environmental Issues
  Climate
  Earth Science
  Early Climate
   
  

  The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity

  The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory's originator, that organism is now sick. It is ...  > read more
• Environmental Issues
  Geography
  Environmental Policies
  Climate
  Nature
  Air Quality
   
  

  Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation (9th Edition)

  Carrying forthTom L. McKnight's well-known thematic focus on landscape appreciation, this best-seller fosters a solid understanding of Earth and its physical geography. Its clear, user-friendly ...  > read more
• Space Telescopes
  Space Exploration
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Space Policy
  Astronomy
  Nebulae
   
  

  Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope--and How to Find Them

  A superb guidebook described in Bookwatch as 'the home astronomer's "bible"', Turn Left at Orion provides all the information beginning amateur astronomers need to observe the Moon, the planets and a ...  > read more
• 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
• 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
• 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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