With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with...
Widely considered the preeminent Chinese woman poet, Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s) occupies a crucial place in China's literary and...
At a time when night-singing insects have slipped beyond our noticeaindeed, are more likely to be heard as NatureSounds than in...
The first listed species to make headlines after the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973 was the snail darter, a three-inch...
What made the classical scholar Richard Bentley deserve to be so viciously skewered by two of the literary giants of his dayaJonathan...
In 1953, reflecting on early ventures in quantum theory, J. Robert Oppenheimer spoke of terror and exaltation, of history happening...
A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey through suburban backyards; an alligator...
John James Audubon's sumptuous four-volume edition of Birds of America, published between 1827 and 1838, contains 435 hand-colored...
Kenneth Norris was a natural historian in the tradition of Aldo Leopold. He was the father of American marine mammology and discovered...
Grasses and grasslands are of increasing interest to conservationists, biologists, and gardeners. There are more than 300 species...
This is the first comprehensive treatment of a major order of arachnids featuring more than 6,000 species worldwide, familiar...
Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives--arthropods--nonetheless outnumber all their fellow...
Howard Evans was a brilliant ethologist and systematist for whom the joy of science included lying on his belly in some remote...
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