著者:Richard Jones
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年11月14日
How did medieval people make sense of their surroundings, and how did this change over the years as understanding and knowledge expanded?
This new Seminar Study is designed to familiarise students o……続きを見る
Help your four-legged friend pass the Canine Good Citizen Test in a day? Easy!
The AKC's Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Program is one of the most rapidly growing programs in the American Kennel Club. Wi……続きを見る
Originally published in 1933, this extremely rare early work on the Wire Haired Fox Terrier is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS have republished it, using the ……続きを見る
著者:Robert Crease
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
Is science beautiful? Yes, argues acclaimed philosopher and historian of science Robert P. Crease in this engaging exploration of history’s most beautiful experiments. The result is an engrossing jo……続きを見る
A "true" story...Henry comes into this world in the middle of a winter blast. Then, after getting lost in the midst of trundling sheep, is rescued by the farmer. One day later, it is too cold for He……続きを見る
I have included maps of Tumalo State Park, Crooked River Gorge, Smith Rock State Park. Some details of the area of the locations of the photographs. I have total of 14 photographs in this book. Tuma……続きを見る
Drawing on anthropological and historical data, this book examines human-wildlife relations in China, Tibet, Japan, Bhutan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, India, Thailand and Vietnam. The vol……続きを見る
*Please note the 2015 paperback is a reprint of the original 2008 hardback*
In an increasingly urbanized world more and more people are turning to our forests and woodland for recreation and tourism……続きを見る
The Highlands and Islands of Scotland are rugged moorland, alpine mountains and jagged coast with remarkable natural history. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com
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著者:Helen Hoover
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年08月28日
To escape the city, to live close to nature in the beauty and quiet of the wilderness, to try to find within oneself a pioneer resourcefulness of spirit, mind, and handーit is an almost universal dr……続きを見る
Like the Sydney Opera House or Uluru, the kangaroo is a unique symbol of Australia. This is the remarkable story of our most famous marsupial, from its ancient origins and prehistoric significance t……続きを見る
著者:Marty Crump
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2013年06月18日
The natural world is filled with diverseーnot to mention quirky and oddーanimal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the insects, insects, and bir……続きを見る
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high q……続きを見る
Did you know that most wild cat species are small and that lions, tigers, and other large cats are the exception? That adult bobcats, clouded leopards, and other small wild cats are completely asoci……続きを見る
Central Appalachia is the system of linear ridges, intervening valleys, and deeply dissected plateaus that make up the rugged terrain found in western and southwestern Virginia, eastern and central ……続きを見る
著者:Ian Newton
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2013年08月01日
This illustrated survey of finch behaviour is a thorough, non-technical account of the habits of these birds throughout the world.
Greenfinches nest in plantations, large shrubby gardens and churchy……続きを見る
This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech scient……続きを見る
著者:Leslie Irvine
出版社: Temple University Press
発売日: 2008年11月20日
Nearly everyone who cares about them believes that dogs and cats have a sense of self that renders them unique. Traditional science and philosophy declare such notions about our pets to be irrationa……続きを見る
Following the success of the earlier Scatalog – Quick ID guide to southern African animal droppings, here’s another quick and quirky identification guide, this time to tracks of the region’s most co……続きを見る
A warm, witty memoir of one man’s escape from the city in an unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious Yellow Book – the ‘Gardens of……続きを見る
Originally published in 1924, this early work on the intelligence of Apes is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It comprehensively details the observations of a scientific study o……続きを見る
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual boo……続きを見る
Just across the Rio Grande from West Texas in the state of Coahuila, México, the mountain ranges of the Maderas del Carmen rise majestically. Often called magical or mystical, they have stirred imag……続きを見る
As ice retreated from Britain 15,000 years ago, a host of large mammals including reindeer, wild horses, wooly mammoths, moose, wolves, brown bears, lynxes and wolverines established itself in Brita……続きを見る
This fascinating book contains a collection of out of print articles from the pens of well known writers concerning the history, origins and anecdotes of the Bull Terrier. The book's one hundred and……続きを見る
著者:James Herriot
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2012年06月28日
James Herriot, strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, feels rather out of place, but he hasn't found a new profession and it surely won't be long before the RAF come round to his point o……続きを見る
著者:Leon Nell
出版社: Penguin Random House South Africa
発売日: 2013年10月03日
‘A book that is a joy to pick up and page through – one that will always take me back to where I’ve been.’ Such is the intention behind this book, a description of the lush rainforest area of the Ga……続きを見る
On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome…
‘Four Seasons in Rome’ charts the repercussio……続きを見る
The Afghan Hound - A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writing on the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it i……続きを見る