Product Description: If you wash dishes with binoculars around your neck, own more spotting scopes than shoes, and read the Bird Chat listerv before and after your first cup of coffee, then you can only be one thing: an ardent birder. Biology professor and lifelong devotee of our fine feathered friends Todd Newberry has written 50 short essays that range from meditations on bird-watchers' daily events to philosophies of why they do what they so ardently love to do...read more

Citing recent innovations in aquarium design and how they have dramatically expanded the potential of aquarium attractions and significantly impacted tourism, a profile of more than twenty-five international aquariums is comprised of more than seventy photographs and an interview with the photographers.