Venus Books

• 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
• Mars
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Missions
  Solar System
  Space Exploration
   
  

  Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet

  The first photographic tour of the surface of another planet has now been accomplished. Those who thrilled to the lunar beauty of Full Moon and the IMAX smash Roving Mars will marvel at this awesome, ...  > read more
• Sustainability
  Construction
  Environmental Issues
  Civil Engineering
  Environmental Policy
  Human Evolution
   
  

  The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design

  With more and more clients and architecture schools demanding green design, both student and professional architects need to get up to speed quickly with the vast range of techniques in this fast ...  > read more
• Photography
  Venus
  Environmental Policies
  Environmental Issues
  Psychology
  Climate
   
  

  The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change

  The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook is the official companion volume to the Live Earth concerts, 24 hours of nonstop concerts broadcast from around the world on July 7, 2007. The book ...  > read more
• Geography
  Land Management
  Earth Science
  Lost Treasures
  Transportation Issues
  Nature
   
  

  Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World (2nd Edition)

  Globalization and Diversity is an exciting contemporary approach to World Regional Geography that explicitly acknowledges the geographic changes that accompany today's rapid rate of globalization. ...  > read more
• Popular Culture
  Origin of Life
  Microbiology
  Photography
  Zoology
   
  

  Exploring Storyboarding (Design Exploration Series)

  An effective combination of creative exercises, real-life examples, and simple illustrations are integrated in this "how-to" book, teaching readers to develop their storyboarding skills for a ...  > read more
• Solar Energy
  Energy Issues
  Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Solar Flare
  Sun
   
  

  The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling

  Passive solar heating and passive cooling--approaches known as natural conditioning--provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from ...  > read more
• Birds
  Geography
  Early Birds
  Zoology
  Atmosphere
  Photography
   
  

  Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America

  World-renowned birder Kenn Kaufman addresses a long-running paradox of bird field guides with his Focus Guide. While beginning birdwatchers prefer photographic guides like those by Donald Stokes, the ...  > read more
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Ice Ages
  Nature
  Early Climate
  Nature of Water
   
  

  After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC

  20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing ...  > read more
• World Development
  Environmental Policies
  Environmental Issues
  Resource Shortage
  Water
  Nature
   
  

  When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

  In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the ...  > read more

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