Product Description: This entertaining collection of essays from professional scientists and naturalists provides an enlightening look at the lives of field biologists with a passion for the hidden world of nocturnal wildlife. Into the Night explores the harrowing, fascinating, amusing, and largely unheard personal experiences of scientists willing to forsake the safety of daylight to document the natural history of these uniquely adapted animals...read more

Product Description: This collection features 20 well-known and beloved American patriotic tunes plus one original tune. Biographical information is supplied for many of the pieces. Selections include: The Star Spangled Banner; When Johnny Comes Marching Home; Yankee Doodle; Anchors Aweigh; The Stars and Stripes Forever and many more...read more

What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls?In Landscapes and Labscapes, Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Explores the little-known species of animals that inhabit the deserts of Argentina, Iran, and Egypt, and shows how survival is possible for these small mammals in a harsh environment. (view table of contents)

This book presents a comprehensive overview of all aspects of ecology, including evolution, ecosystems theory, practical applications, plants, animals, biogeochemical cycles, and global change. A new chapter discusses global environmental change, human impacts on the global carbon cycle, and the possible implications for the global climate system. Six "Ecological Application Essays" demonstrate to students the real world relevance of ecological concepts. For example, Part V, Population Interactions, discusses how a lack of mushrooms helped power the Industrial Revolution. Reflecting current changes in the field of ecology, the new edition incorporates more discussion of the evolutionary perspective on ecological systems. For anyone interested in ecology. (view table of contents)

Essays offer a fresh look at common plants, animals, and natural phenomena (view table of contents)

J. M. W. Turner painted some of the most exciting and best-loved images in all Western art; this volume includes magnificent reproductions of oil paintings and watercolors from throughout his career, with contributions by Andrew Wilton, Evelyn Joll, David Blayney Brown, John Gage, Irena Zdanowicz, Margaret Plant, John Golding, and Andrew Sayers. (view table of contents)

Describes methods for observing the behavior of birds, reptiles, insects, rabbits, squirrels, and other wildlife in a variety of habitats

A British naturalist suggests seventy projects through which the whole family can experience and enjoy nature in city and suburb, and in winter and summer