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  • Amarillo Flights

    Aerial Views of Llano Estacado Country

    by Paul V. Chaplo ...
    Series series American Wests, sponsored by West Texas A&M University
    Visitors to Texas and New Mexico have marveled for centuries at the immensity of the Llano Estacado and the surprising contrast as, at the edges of the great mesa, the flat ground gives way suddenly to such spectacular formations as the Palo Duro and Caprock Canyons. In the introduction to Amarillo Flights, artist and naturalist Walt Davis chronicle the history of this region—what Paul Chaplo ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Building an Ark for Texas

    The Evolution of a Natural History Museum

    by Walt Davis ...
    Series Book 54 - W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series
    Recounted through the eyes of a major participant, this book tells the story of the Dallas Museum of Natural History from its beginning in 1922 as a collection of specimens celebrating the plants and animals of Texas to its metamorphosis in 2012 as the gleaming Perot Museum of Nature and Science. The life of this museum was indelibly influenced by a colorful staff of scientists, administrators, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • A Natural History of the Senses

    by Diane Ackerman ...
    **This lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth.“Delightful. . . . Gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in.” —The New York Times**A Natural History ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Growing and Maintaining Healthy Fruit Trees: A Beginner's Guide To Growing Beautiful and Healthy Fruit Trees

    by Royce Niffenegger ...
    Growing and Maintaining Healthy Fruit Trees: A Beginner's Guide To Growing Beautiful and Healthy Fruit Trees This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: Finding Drought Resistant Trees Chapter 2: Dealing With Barren Trees Chapter 3: Dealing With Bird Problems Chapter 4: How To Prevent Small Fruits Chapter 5: Different Types Of Apple Trees Chapter 6: My First Tree Chapter 7: Growing ... Read more

    $6.97 USD

  • Venom Doc

    The Edgiest, Darkest, Strangest Natural History Memoir Ever

    by Bryan Grieg Fry ...
    Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most venomous creatures.Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He’s been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been stung by three stingrays, and survived a near-fatal scorpion sting while deep in the Amazon jungle. He’s received more ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Raising Chickens: The Essential Guide

    by Taliah Drayak ...
    Series series Need2Know Books
    Tempted by fresh eggs, or just looking for an unusual and endearing pet?Chickens are as fascinating, full of personality, they take to the garden on force keeping the bugs at bay.Filled with sensible advice, such as how and where to buy your chickens, and keeping your hen house clean throughout the year, this guide will give you the confidence to care for your chickens and avoid common problems ... Read more

    $5.45 USD

  • How the Canyon Became Grand

    A Short History

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Dreams of Earth and Sky

    by Freeman Dyson ...
    Provocative and philosophical essays on the history and process of scientific inquiry, written with “detailed, admirable conviction.” (The New York Times Book Review)“To observe a mind uncommonly endowed with dexterity and knowledge hop from subject to subject is exhilarating.”—TimeIn this sequel to The Scientist as Rebel (2006), Freeman Dyson—whom The Times of London calls “one of the world’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Memorylands

    Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

    by Sharon Macdonald ...
    Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this ‘memory phenomenon’ is related to the changing nature of identities – especially European, national ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Big Thicket Guidebook

    Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas

    by Lorraine G. Bonney ...
    Series series Temple Big Thicket Series
    Start your engines and follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocatesall as diverse as the Big Thicket itself. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, you will meet some unusual characters who inhabited an ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Goddess of War

    A True Story of Passion, Betrayal and Murder in the Old West

    by Dennis McCown ...
    John Wesley Hardin is the most famous gunfighter of the American Wild West. The subject of conversations from the Mexican border to the rowdy saloons of Kansas, he was the greatest celebrity of the age. He wrote an autobiography, but he only told what he wanted known, and few have researched beyond that. Today, Hardin is an enigma. Part of the mystery is his disastrous relationship with Helen ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum

    Exchanging Views of Empire

    by Kathleen Davidson ...
    Series series Science and the Arts since 1750
    The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex relationship ... Read more

    $64.99 USD