Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants.

This engaging book examines the shared history of people and bears. Hopscotching through history, literature, and science, Bernd Brunner presents a delightfully illustrated compendium of information about different cultures’ attitudes toward bears, the central place of bears in our myths and dreams, how our images of bears do and do not mesh with reality, and m...

Naturalist William Burt has for thirty years roamed the marshes of North America to create this stunningly beautiful photographic portrait. Selecting ninety exquisite images, Burt shows us a place that few ever see--a mysterious world teeming with rare flora and elusive birds. His thoughtful reflections on the marshes he has visited complete this lovely volume.

A gorgeously illustrated book that is the first to explore the impact of Darwin’s ideas about nature and human history on nineteenth-century artists from Frederic Church to Claude Monet

How do plants and animals “know” the seasons will change? How do seasonal changes affect humans? What happens when the timing of seasonal events is altered? The authors of this fascinating book explain new findings about seasons and their connections with such biological mysteries as migration, hibernation, and reproduction.

Award-winning writer Richard Mahler embarks on a dogged quest to find the elusive jaguar and paints an intimate portrait of the magnificent animal that humans have made both sacred and profane.

This anthology presents a selection of 50 stories, recollections, essays, and poems featured in the Yale Anglers’ Journal during its first remarkable decade. Accompanied by original artwork from James Prosek, these writings all celebrate fish and the experience of fishing, yet they could hardly be more diverse. Some evoke a nostalgic earlier time, others...

The author of Red Sky at Morning would be the first to agree that we are in deep environmental trouble, but he offers hope that there is still time to avert global catastrophe. Gus Speth explores a wide variety of promising and even radical ideas for transforming modern capitalism so as to protect and restore the natural world.

What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for 150 years? This new investigation of Charles Darwin’s early years draws the first intimate portrait of this iconic figure and describes how he came to create his pathbreaking theory of natural selection.

By analyzing five cases studies on pesticides, plastics, hazardous waste sites, vehicle emissions, and nuclear weapons testing, environmental expert John Wargo envisions a safer world through greener intelligence.