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Offers an account of biology as a career, covering a necessary love of nature, philosophy and techniques, education and research, employment options, and ethical responsibilities

Product Description: Teaching in Eden provides any teacher with powerful and virtually free tools that he or she can use to alter the fundamental nature of the educational experience. The tools are simple instructional devices that require only a teacher's time, and the courage to break out of the existing constraints to discover and assemble the elements of an ideal instructional environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the magic behind the scientific process through the lives of five of the author's students as they study the insects, microscopic organisms, frogs, and fish that thrive in a tiny Nebraska pond. (view table of contents)

A professor of biological sciences provides a primer of environmental issues for professionals too busy to go back to school, covering in short lessons such subjects as ecosystems, species, and the fragility of the arctic. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

To learn from nature, not about nature, was the imperative that took John Janovy Jr. and his students into the sandhills, marshes, grasslands, canyons, lakes, and streams of Keith County in western Nebraska. The biologist explores the web of interrelationships among land, animals, and human beings. Even termites, snails, and barn swallows earn respect and assume significance in the overall scheme of things. Janovy, reminiscent of Henry David Thoreau in his acute powers of observation and search for wisdom, has written a new foreword for this Bison Books edition.

A biologist describes the magical landscapes of Baja California from a scientist's point of view and tells how his experience on the peninsula helped him recapture the natural curiosity that spurred his career

An essay reflecting on the growth of a father, his daughter, and their relationship as revealed through the focus of sport

Product Description: "Good biologist though [Janovy] is, he's an even better nature writer, with a special affinity for the mysterious and the mystic."-Noel Perrin "This 'human need for wilderness' is the trail winding through Back in Keith County . ...read more