Corvids play an outsize role in the human imagination. We keep ravens in towers, emblazon rooks on banners, find crows in the constellations and make sure to salute solitary magpies. We also see our own behaviour mirrored in this diverse family of birds, who are tricksters and thieves as well as problem-solvers and gift-givers.

This beautifully designed book showcases the visual and literary life of the corvid, from Norse legends to Game of Thrones. It includes beautiful and darkly seductive photographs and paintings as well as texts and poems in which they play a starring role and information about the traits that make them so intriguing to us.

A Penguin Classic

In the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck's masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez. In 1951, after Ricketts' death, Steinbeck reissued his narrative portion of the work in memory of his friend and the inspiration for Cannery Row's Doc. This exciting day-by-day account of their journey together is a rare blend of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. This edition features an introduction by Richard Astro.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Geoengineered Transhumanism is the third book in Elana Freeland's trilogy on geoengineering. It completes the picture of what geoengineering has been from its very inception decades ago: to control the ionosphere with phased array heater blasts so as to maintain an ionized atmosphere in which chemicals, nanotechnology, and synbio synergies can be continuously laid by jets, drones, and rockets in the name of climate change.

Thus, the groundwork for the synbio (synthetic biology) neural network inside Human 1.0 began by manipulating the macro environment upon which our extraordinary interior micro environment depends. The air we breathe, the soil we grow our food in, the water we must replenish-all have been commandeered by biotech and Big Pharma for Human 2.0 Transhumanism. Chemicals, nanotechnology, and electromagnetics are manipulated for geoengineering, genetics, and vaccinations, all in preparation for the software phase of the brain-computer interface (BCI) we now face after decades of quiet war preparation.

The Book That Launched an International Movement

Fans of The Anxious Generation will adore Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller. An absolute must-read for parents. --The Boston Globe

It rivals Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. --The Cincinnati Enquirer

I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are, reports a fourth grader. But it's not only computers, television, and video games that are keeping kids inside. It's also their parents' fears of traffic, strangers, Lyme disease, and West Nile virus; their schools' emphasis on more and more homework; their structured schedules; and their lack of access to natural areas. Local governments, neighborhood associations, and even organizations devoted to the outdoors are placing legal and regulatory constraints on many wild spaces, sometimes making natural play a crime.

As children's connections to nature diminish and the social, psychological, and spiritual implications become apparent, new research shows that nature can offer powerful therapy for such maladies as depression, obesity, and attention deficit disorder. Environment-based education dramatically improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages and develops skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making. Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that childhood experiences in nature stimulate creativity.

In Last Child in the Woods, Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. Louv shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply--and find the joy of family connectedness in the process.
Included in this edition:

• A Field Guide with 100 Practical Actions We Can Take
• Discussion Points for Book Groups, Classrooms, and Communities
• Additional Notes by the Author
• New and Updated Research from the U.S. and Abroad

The essential nature guide to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, written by a local wildlife biologist and eco-tour guide. More than 1.200 color photographs with concise descriptions reveal the richness of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This is the definitive field identification guide to the region's rocks, minerals, geysers, waterfalls, mushrooms, trees. wildflowers, insects, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds, mammals, tracks and scat, and the night sky. Includes 75 natural features with locator maps and 650 species. Don't leave home without this book on your dashboard or in your backpack.

This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond. Addressing the philosophical issues concerning indigenous and ecological knowledge production and maintenance, they focus on how environmental values and ethics are applied to the uses of land.Grounded in an understanding of the profound relationship between biological and cultural diversity, this book defines, interrogates, and problematizes, the many definitions of traditional ecological knowledge and sustainability. It includes a holistic and broad disciplinary approach to sustainability, including language, art, and ceremony, as critical ways to maintain healthy human-environment relations.

Published in cooperation with Canyonlands Natural History Association, this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated trailside reference describes more than 270 plants and animals plus geology of an area that includes nine national parks and monuments in the Southwest. A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country is the essential tool for exploring the northern Colorado Plateau, that vast province that encompasses eastern Utah, far western Colorado, and sections of northern Arizona and New Mexico. With this fully updated and revised guide in hand, you will gain a sympathetic understanding of the desert ecosystems that make up the region.

This treasury of detailed, accurately rendered illustrations (including two double-page spreads) invites coloring book enthusiasts to bring over 40 species of butterflies to life in vivid color. Here are such delicately beautiful creatures as the black, salmon-orange, white and blue painted lady, the rapid-flying dogface butterfly, with wing markings that look like a poodle's profile, and a host of others: pipevine swallowtail, monarch, buckeye, white admiral, olive hairstreak, Milbert's tortoiseshell, great spangled fritillary, ruddy daggerwing, fiery skipper, mourning cloak, tiger swallowtail, red admiral, and many more, all of them found in the United States or Canada.
Fact-filled captions provide information about each species' coloration, range, habitat, special characteristics, and more. All are shown in full color on the covers. An excellent source of nature illustrations for artists and craftspeople, this delightful coloring book can also be used as an accurate, inexpensive nature identification guide.

Thru-hikers in America have some nice options for summer-long walks where they don't have to bushwhack or stress about navigating. The Appalachian and Pacific Crest trails allow that type of passage. Alaska also has a gravel pathway across the state that Ned Rozell and his dog have hiked twice, one time 20 years after the first. Here is his story about his most recent summer crossing of the largest state on the north-south running path of the trans-Alaska pipeline. As far as he knows, he is the only one to have covered that ground on foot.

Nestled in a sixty-mile stretch of the St. Lawrence River between Northern New York and Southeast Ontario is an area that has been known to the native people for many thousands of years as Manitoana, or Garden of the Great Spirit.

Later, it became known to the French explorers as Les Mille Isles, and today, it is simply called the Thousand Islands.

It is here, more than anywhere else along its 1200-mile journey to the sea, where the St. Lawrence reaches its pinnacle of achievement. It is wide, deep, clear and pristine, teeming with wildlife and scenery that rivals any river in the world.

It is an area of wondrous natural beauty and it captures the hearts of those who are fortunate enough to become its prisoner.

Journey with the author from the 1950s on and share in his enthusiasm of being raised on the River in Alexandria Bay, New York.

From the early fishing escapades as a young boy to eerie interludes with ghostly reminders of an ancient island past, you'll quickly feel a part of the excitement and wonder of growing up in and on the River.

The post-World War II years finds a once elite abode of the rich and famous struggling to find its new place among the emerging tourist destinations of the northeast.

Everyone should experience a dose of the River and Islands as an integral part of their earthly trek through life. If you haven't been there in years, it's time to go back. If you've never been there, this may be the harbinger of a tantalizing experience that waits for your call.

If you were raised on the River, you'll understand...and you'll quickly rekindle an appreciation of what the author brings to mind. Discover and rediscover the awe and wonder of the Garden of the Great Spirit.

See the beauty that transforms a backyard garden into a kaleidoscope of colors. Forty most important garden flowers -- morning glory, hyacinth, delphinium, iris, tulip, peony, marigold, and many others -- handsomely drawn by author Stefen Bernath. You provide the colors from your own imagination or observation. Caption for each drawing gives common and scientific names, usual colors, blooming season, whether annual, perennial, or biennial. Each flower is reproduced in natural colors on the covers.

An indispensable guide for teachers in the method of nature study that will inform their efforts to bring children in direct contact with things, to cultivate the habit of careful observation and discrimination, to create a living interest in the surroundings, and to encourage independent thought. Includes a full explanation of the benefits of nature study, the way to conduct nature lessons indoors and a full range of seasonal studies outside, as well as the preparation and management of valuable aids to the study of nature, such as the aquarium, the terrarium, the garden, and museum. Strongly recommended as a companion to Anna Botsford Comstock's The Handbook of Nature Study.

The author of the controversial bestseller Brain Trust brings his scientific expertise to the chilling true story of unexplained phenomena on Utah's Skinwalker Ranch -- and challenges us with a new vision of reality.

For more than fifty years, the bizarre events at a remote Utah ranch have ranged from the perplexing to the wholly terrifying. Vanishing and mutilated cattle. Unidentified Flying Objects. The appearance of huge, otherworldly creatures. Invisible objects emitting magnetic fields with the power to spark a cattle stampede. Flying orbs of light with dazzling maneuverability and lethal consequences. For one family, life on the Skinwalker Ranch had become a life under siege by an unknown enemy or enemies. Nothing else could explain the horrors that surrounded them -- perhaps science could.

Leading a first-class team of research scientists on a disturbing odyssey into the unknown, Colm Kelleher spent hundreds of days and nights on the Skinwalker property and experienced firsthand many of its haunting mysteries. With investigative reporter George Knapp -- the only journalist allowed to witness and document the team's work -- Kelleher chronicles in superb detail the spectacular happenings the team observed personally, and the theories of modern physics behind the phenomena. Far from the coldly detached findings one might expect, their conclusions are utterly hair-raising in their implications. Opening a door to the unseen world around us, Hunt for the Skinwalker is a clarion call to expand our vision far beyond what we know.

The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often collected natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdam-based pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665-1736) was unrivaled in his passion. His amazing collection of animals, plants, and insects from all around the world earned him international fame.

In 1731, after decades of collecting, Seba commissioned careful and often scenic illustrations of every specimen. With these meticulous drawings, he arranged for the publication of a four-volume catalog, covering the entire collection from strange and exotic plants to snakes, frogs, crocodiles, shellfish, corals, birds, and butterflies, as well as creatures that are now extinct.

Taken from a rare hand-colored original, the best-selling collection features an introduction that contextualizes the fascinating tradition of natural collections to which Seba's curiosities belonged.

Who says you need to drive hours out of town to take a walk in the woods? Chicago's robust network of public transit means that the region's forest preserves, rivers, swamps, dunes, and even just the lakefront trail are all within easy reach. Featuring more than thirty hikes easily accessible by CTA, Metra, or the South Shore Line, Lindsay Welbers's Chicago Transit Hikes is a unique guidebook that aims to answer the most common questions an aspiring transit hiker might have, from How do I use Metra? to What's the most remote spot I can hike to in Cook County? Whether you want to explore the length of the Des Plaines River Trail or just take a day trip to the Skokie Lagoons, this book offers everything you need to plan ahead, so that you can spend your days outdoors, rather than sitting in traffic.

I am your ambassador to the outdoors, the Sportsman's consigliere representing our interests to the masses of uninformed and confused. A free-range outdoor nomad, I roam from the mountains to the sea, by whatever means necessary in search of adventure. I speak my mind, stand my ground, and stick up for the little guy. I wear flip-flops and a cowboy hat and run a backwater ghost named the Honey Badger. I am the Saltwater Cowboy. These are my stories.

Includes previews of two upcoming novels based on the adventures of Capt. Max Dean:

Beautiful Day - A fishing guide with a clandestine past is forced to confront a long ago tragedy and stop an escaped death row inmate from exacting revenge on himself and others. Beautiful Day follows Captain Max Dean from his home in Marco Island, Florida, to the swamps of Southern Mississippi in this tale of adventure on and off the high seas.

DEAD RIVER - What if the epicenter of the Covid pandemic wasn't Wuhan, China, but Fort Myers, Florida, and the symptoms weren't flu like but were neurological? Imagine the carnage should sixty percent of the population be under varying degrees of psychosis. When a virus spawned from the toxic blue-green algae bloom in the form of a neurotoxin, the Upper Caloosahatchee Waterway became a DEAD RIVER.

BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO BUSH CRAFT

MASTER THESE 9 SKILLSETS AND THRIVE!

If you're a beginner who wants to start learning bushcraft, then this is the

book for you!

In my years of bushcraft, I've concluded that there are

9 skillsets that you need to be proficient at in order to be safe, prepare for emergencies,

Find food, and have a great time.

In this book, I've dedicated a chapter to each of these 9 which are:

Skill set #I: Outdoor Emergency First Aid

Skillet #2: Water Sourcing and Purification in the Wilderness

Skillet #3: Creating Shelter

Skill set #4: Campcraft Skills

Skillset #s: Foraging: Edible or Deadly?

Skillset #6: Outdoor Cooking, Safety and Ethics

Skillet #7: Navigating

Skillset #8: S.O S. and Morse Code

Skillset #9: Fishing, Hunting, and Trapping

I've spent years learning these skills, and done my best to relay them to you in

an easy to-understand way.

Get this guide.

Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are--and have long been--using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil--as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.

Another Last Summer is Jaque Reed's third collection of poetry. Inspired by her summers spent in the Nicolet National Forest since childhood, continuing to present day. Now in her 90s Reed has spent a lifetime observing and engaging with the world around her. Being immersed in nature continues to influence Reed's writings. Reed constructs her experiences into verses that celebrate the beauty and complexity of nature. Whether it be the lakes and

Forests of Wisconsin or the birds and flowers in her own California backyard.

Family continues to be a central theme in Reed's works. Reflecting love, loss and the bonds that tie generations together. In Another Last Summer, Reed embraces the intimate process of aging offering insights on memories, resilience and the acceptance of life's final chapters. Her spirituality and religious beliefs are woven throughout the book offering a view of her connection to the world and the divine.

In addition to poetry Another Last Summer includes two short stories. The first tells of an imaginary relationship between a deer and a lonely princess. Their bond endures their entire lives, focusing on themes of companionship, survival and unyielding love. The second story is a childhood memory of an adventure to the movies with the Reed's family's domestic help and her cousin. The adventure opens her eyes to life beyond her immediate environs where they encounter a treasure that left a lifelong impression on Reed.

Reed and her family celebrated the 100th year of their summers in Wisconsin in 2019, proving there will always be Another Last Summer.

Reed's other works include Gardens of the Heart, a lifelong compilation of poetry about nature, loved ones and spirituality. Also Pathways -A Journey Through Isolation, written during the Covid Pandemic.

From the giant cedar of the rainforest came a wealth of raw materials vital to the way of life, art and culture of the early First Nations people of the Northwest Coast.

All parts of the cedar tree had many uses. From the wood, skilled men made ocean-going canoes, massive post-and- beam houses, monumental carved poles that declared history, rights and lineage, and powerful dance masks. Women dextrously wove the inner bark into mats and baskets, plied it into ocordage and netting or processed it into soft, warn, water-repellent clothing. They also made the strong withes into heavy-duty rope and wove the roots into watertight baskets.

Hilary Stewart explains, through her vivid descriptions, 550 detailed drawings and 50 photographs, the tools and techniques used, as well as the superbly crafted objects and their uses--all in the context of daily and ceremonial life. Anecdotes, oral history and the accounts of early explorers, traders, missionaries and native elders highlight the text.