Reference Books


Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region (Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs) Best Price: $15.94 Very handy and easy to use as a reference and with BirdJam for iPod, but not as good for a...	A Field Guide to Eastern Trees (Peterson Field Guides) Best Price: $5.83 This is a pretty good field guide even though I have to skip around through the pages to find...	Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves Best Price: $5.20 This is an excellent book by and excellent author. Having traveled much in the arctic by kayak...	The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter Best Price: $8.84 Animals and emotions. It's a touchy subject. Most people can readily admit that most animals...	National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky (Audubon Society Field Guide Series) Best Price: $8.15 The National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky is a good book to get you started in...



The Songs of Insects Best Price: $3.57 As other reviewers have stated, this is a remarkable resource for insect identification. I...	A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America (Peterson Field Guides (R)) Best Price: $8.44 We own several different guides. Each has it's own strength. I recommend this as the first...	Backyard Market Gardening (Good Earth) Best Price: $14.22 This is a good book to have if you decided to get back to nature, downsize your life, get with...	The End of Nature Best Price: $8.44 If you haven't stumbled into Bill McKibben's work, do. He is very good at asking questions and...	A PocketExpert Guide to Marine Fishes: 500+ Essential-To-Know Aquarium Species Best Price: $18.34 If you need a quick, comprehensive marine fish reference book this is the one to get. It is...



Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World Best Price: $0.82 Very informative but will be somewhat dated as the green market develops. A good starter on...	Insects: Revised and Updated (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) Best Price: $2.39 Even if you didn't read a word of the educational information concerning the orders of insects...	The Control of Nature Best Price: $4.85 An intriguing book on man's efforts, as the title says, to control nature. The question is, can...	A Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides) Best Price: $12.05 Very good collection of bird songs. Great companion to 'Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and...	The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior Best Price: $20.00 This book is very usefull even for forign bird watcher as my self, it contents almost every...

The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) Best Price: $7.90 The Snow Leopard is slow paced and there is little plot. The book is about a long hike and the...	Weeds (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) Best Price: $3.47 The Golden Guide is just what I wanted. Not to small and not to large. Compact enough to carry...	Florida's Living Beaches: A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber Best Price: $13.87 Living near the ocean I wanted to learn more about what all I see on the beach. I was in search...	Four Paws Five Directions: A Guide to Chinese Medicine for Cats and Dogs Best Price: $16.50 Not necessarily the easiest book to follow for the lay person, but this book contains very...	National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife Best Price: $13.48 We took this book and Wildlife of East Africa by Martin B. Withers. This book is much better,...

Dragonflies through Binoculars: A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America (Butterflies and Others Through Binoculars Field Guide Series) Best Price: $16.80 I am the nutty dragonfly lady in my neighborhood. I am out every day with my camera, wading,...	National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Birds of North America (National Wildlife Federation Field Guide) Best Price: $13.57 This book is great; it was a gift and the person who received loved it.	The Good Life Best Price: $7.50 A very good read for anyone who dreams of ditching the rat race and living a more relaxed life...	Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History (Princeton Field Guides) Best Price: $18.72 With an ever increasing interest in butterflies I recently purchased an excellent book that had...	Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change Best Price: $11.91 Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially. Mainstream...

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons Best Price: $8.46 This book is hard to classify: Is it autobiography? Primatolgy? Travel adventures? Humanist...	Young Men and Fire Best Price: $3.75 This is the quintessential non-fiction account of Mann Gulch. It creates the foundation of our...	Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific Best Price: $28.10 My wife and I are avid divers and this Reef Fish ID book is good. However, it is not quite the...	Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape, Tenth-Anniversary Edition Best Price: $17.28 Galen's images are inspiring, but the real value of this book is the wealth of topics,...	Pond Life: Revised and Updated (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) Best Price: $1.92 This is a classic Golden Guide describing the plants and animals that live in ponds, lakes or...

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (P.S.) Best Price: $3.50 This book is very vivid in its descriptions of the storm and the activities leading up to it. ...	100 Edible Mushrooms Best Price: $15.60 Kuo's 100 Edible Mushrooms is a fantastic addition to any mushroomer's library. Fairly new to...	Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes of the Northern United States Best Price: $2.45 The book is perhaps of historical interest and contains some adequate illustrations that may...	With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change Best Price: $6.98 Best book I have read on Global Warming (so far: as of summer 2008) and I have read more than a...	Reef Best Price: $23.95 Absolutely stunning photography, the kind of book people will pick up from your cofee table and...

Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening and Conservation Best Price: $24.99 Very informative and chocked full of valuable material pertaining to specific types of plants...	Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide To Eastern North America Best Price: $18.77 This is a good guide for an amateur like me. The photos are good and the text descriptions have...	Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species Best Price: $27.76 This is an amazingly detailed book with many examples of the evidences of our four-footed...	The Book of Clouds Best Price: $8.72 This book has terrific color shots of many different kinds of clouds and skies. It's an amazing...	Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest Best Price: $4.93 Mark Plotkin, we learn in this book, collected a lot of information from natives of the Amazon....

The Secret Lives of Hummingbirds Best Price: $4.95 Another reviewer was right! Small book, LOTS of information that you can USE if you're into...	Stokes Beginner's Guide to Dragonflies Best Price: $5.04 This book is a handy little pocket guide. There is a beginning key to direct the user towards...	The Reef Set: Reef Fish, Reef Creature and Reef Coral (3 Volumes) (Reef Set) Best Price: $74.44 We have used these volumes regularly to aid in identifying what we've observed when SCUBA...	Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay Best Price: $7.50 Very well written. A medley of history, biology,vanishing resources and lifestyles. Seen through...	Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability Best Price: $3.23 I was not very satisfied with this book. Even though it is only a couple of years old, it seems...

Animal Liberation Best Price: $7.57 This book, more than any other shook the foundation of my perspective on animal suffering and...	Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon Best Price: $22.20 Well I love reading about the jungle...be it the Amazon or the Congo. I love the diseases...the...	A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All Best Price: $12.49 I picked this book up because of the crazy-looking bird on the front cover -- I'm not a birder,...	Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code Best Price: $14.36 This is an incredible resource for anyone interested in the architecture of the universe and the...	Horsekeeping on a Small Acreage: Designing and Managing Your Equine Facilities Best Price: $14.72 This is probably one of the first books you should buy when considering keeping your horse at...

Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day Best Price: $8.75 Well written, concise and precise in our fast moving world , of twoo much inofration.	Peterson First Guide to Rocks and Minerals Best Price: $1.95 I found it to be very helpful for my students since we don't always have an opportunity to get...	Living in the Environment, Enhanced Homework Edition (with CengageNOW, Cover Sheet, Audio Book, Essential Study Skills, InfoTrac Printed Access Card) Best Price: $112.31 G. Tyler Miller's worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of your...	Costa Rican Wildlife: An Introduction to Familiar Species (Pocket Naturalist - Waterford Press) Best Price: $2.55 When I bought this, I was expecting something a bit more substantial. It is literally a small...	A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians (Peterson Field Guides (R)) Best Price: $7.94 I have never received these books. They were due on June 1-5, 07. It is now July 13th. I...

The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists Best Price: $3.95 The goals of this book are admirable, but the authors (on behalf of the Union of Concerned...	Elements of Ecology (6th Edition) (Ecology Place Series) Best Price: $74.00 I've never even heard of Mr. Robert Leo Smith. Is he a Nobel prize winner? The world's most...

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