 | While this gorgeous coffee table book celebrating America's national parks might be labeled by some as a companion to Ken Burns's PBS series, there is little question that it stands alone among books on the subject. Duncan and Burns combine... |
 | Pi, the precocious animal-loving son of an Indian zookeeper, loses his family in a shipwreck en route to North America--and is left alone in a lifeboat with a man-eating Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, with whom he manages (thanks to his zoo... |
 | Timothy Egan, who won the National Book Award for his last book, THE WORST HARD TIME, documents the worst forest fire in American history and details how a legacy of conservation arose from the ashes. The U.S. Forest Service was founded in 1905 by... |
 | Columnist Thomas L. Friedman explains why, in a globalized world, crises in energy and the climate must be priorities. Friedman argues further that a globalized world makes it possible as never before to address these issues in a meaningful way, and... |
 | Conservative Mormon comedian and talk-show host Glenn Beck goes on a no-holds-barred assault on Al Gore (a man he has compared to Hitler), environmentalism, and liberal sentiment in his bestselling AN INCONVENIENT BOOK. His political stances and... |
 | A man and a gorilla set out on an intellectual adventure and in the process define what it means to be a human being. |
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 | Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his... |
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