Earth/Life Sciences

Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated...

Reef Life is a marine science memoir - the story of how Britain's pre-eminent marine conservation scientist, fell in love with coral reefs. Callum Roberts begins as a young university...

Insects conquered the Earth long before we did and will remain here long after we’re gone.They outnumber us in the billions and are essential to many of the natural processes...

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the YearA leading expert in animal behavior takes us into the wild to better understand and manage our fears.Fear, honed by millions of years of...

"Weather For Dummies is probably the best book written for a general audience about the subject." ―BILL GATESFind out what's really going on when it seems like the sky is falling with Weather...

Learn to think critically about the environment as you explore science through real stories from real people as Scientific American Environmental Science for a Changing World brings clarity to scientific processes and...

ISBN: 9781260091649 is an International Student Edition of Environmental Science a Study of Interrelationships 15th Edition by Eldon Enger and Bradley F Smith This ISBN 9781260091649 is Textbook only. It...

A biological and cultural biography of the ubiquitous yet mystical seashell.Seashells, stretching from the deep past into the present day, are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natural world...

A lavishly illustrated overview of the world’s lizardsLizards are one of nature’s great success stories: survivors from the time of the dinosaurs, they have taken advantage of almost every habitat...

A counterintuitive and compelling argument that existing laws already protect the entirety of our oceans—and a call to understand and enforce those protections.The world’s oceans face multiple threats: the effects...