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Holy the Firm
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a... more...
Galapagos at the Crossroads
National Geographic Society 2009; US$ 26.00As eloquent as it is alarming, Carol Ann Bassett?s portrait of today?s Galápagos depicts a deadly collision of economics, politics, and the environment that may destroy one of the world?s last Edens. For millions, the Galápagos Islands represent nature at its most unspoiled, an inviolate place famed for its rare flora and fauna. But soon today?s... more...
Native Mice and Rats
CSIRO Publishing 2007; US$ 25.95Details the diversity, evolution and ecology of Australia?s native rodents. more...
Run to the Mountain
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 14.99When Thomas Merton died accidentally in Bangkok in 1968, the beloved Trappist monk's will specified that his personal diaries not be published for 25 years -- presumably because they contained his uncensored thoughts and feelings. Now, a quarter of a century has passed since Merton's death, and the journals are the last major piece of writing to... more...
A Search for Solitude
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 14.99The third volume of Thomas Merton's journals chronicles Merton's attempts to reconcile his desire for solitude and contemplation with the demands of his new-found celebrity status within the strictures of conventional monastic life. more...
Hormonal Regulation of Farm Animal Growth
CABI 2005; US$ 60.00This book describes the cellular and molecular mechanisms that are involved with the regulation of cell and tissue growth, including development and body composition. The emphasis is on circulating hormones, local growth factors and gene transcription factors which regulate growth and differentiation of skeletal muscle, bone and adipose tissue. more...
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Nutrition of Cattle
CABI 2005; US$ 120.00There are tremendous benefits to feeding ruminants nitrogen and phosphorus supplements, in terms of milk production and productivity. However, what goes in must come out. Nitrogen and phosphorus excretions from dairy cattle are a major environmental pollutant. more...
Earth Science
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 29.95Earth science is the study of the Earth, its origin, its structure, the changes it has undergone, and the past and future consequences of those changes. Its four major branches include meteorology, oceanography, astronomy, and geology. From the formulation of the three major principles of modern geology to the publishing of Principles of Geology, Earth... more...
Winter World
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 11.99From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter. From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must... more...









