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Bug Zoo

Bug Zoo

by Nick Baker

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 64 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

This fun, illustrated guide to safely capturing, keeping, feeding and studying backyard bugs will appeal to children aged 5-8. Parents be warned: you may end up with a menagerie of creeping critters. (BST181, $12.99)

The Practical Naturalist

The Practical Naturalist

by Dorling Kindersley

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 245 PAGES

Families will be inspired to explore the outdoors with this informative, illustrated guide to the natural world, chock-full of color illustrations, identification guides and short chapters on everything from insects and forests to conservation and cloud spotting. (NAT228, $19.95)

Insectopedia

Insectopedia

by Hugh Raffles

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

Raffles packs a lifetime of study into this A-to-Z curio-cabinet of all things about insects. (BST156, $16.95)

Mariposa Road

Mariposa Road

by Robert Michael Pyle

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 512 PAGES

A man, a 1982 Honda Civic and a mission: to see as many butterflies as he can in a year. The affable Robert Michael Pyle sets out from his home in Oregon on New Year's Day, visiting friends and fellow lepidopterists -- and netting butterflies from the beaches of California to the Arctic Tundra and Key West. (NAM55, $27.00)

Adventures Among Ants, A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions

Adventures Among Ants, A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions

by Mark W. Moffett

  • SCIENCE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Intrepid explorer, biologist and photographer Mark Moffitt takes us on a globe-trotting adventure in pursuit, and study, of the world's most ubiquitous creature, the ant -- which, as revealed through his field work and photos from the Amazon to Australia, behave in ways that are surprisingly human. (SCI280, $24.95)

The Diversity of Life

The Diversity of Life

by E.O. Wilson

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

This world tour by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist and author E.O. Wilson is wonderfully readable: an insightful, candid and elegant story of the evolution on our planet. (CON02, $21.95)

 
For Love of Insects

For Love of Insects


by Thomas Eisner

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 464 PAGES

An enchanting, enthusiastic survey of the diversity, wonder and weirdness of insects. Eisner, a professor of chemical ecology, hones in on bombardiers, pheromones and other chemical wizardry. (BST96, $30.00)

Insect


by Mart Sheen

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2006
  • DVD

This Emmy Award winning introduction to the busy, varied world of insects is great for families. (NAT232, $12.99)

Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures


by Thomas Eisner

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

A sequel to For the Love of Insects by the "incorrigible entomophile" and also featuring a sampling of his dazzling photo collection of mostly North American arthropods in action. (BST97, $29.95)

The Amateur Naturalist

The Amateur Naturalist


by Nick Baker

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2005
  • HARD COVER
  • 256 PAGES

An enthusiastic, practical guide to observing, understanding and studying the natural world by the British journalist and TV personality. (NAT93, $30.00)

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