Celebrate Italian cooking with this authoritative and engaging tributeAuthor Michele Scicolone offers simple recipes for delicious classics such as lasagne, minestrone, chicken cutlets, and gelato, plus many more of your favorites; a wealth of modern dishes, such as grilled scallop salad; and a trav..
A photoessay focusing on the Least Tern journeys to a beach in Maine that has become a wildlife refuge for the endangered seabird and examines the possibility for successful survival of a species that must live side by side with humans. Author: McMillan, Bruce Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bi..
Selected by a Nobel Prize-winning poet, a collection of the world's greatest poetry from the past two thousand years brings together five hundred great pieces by more than two hundred poets, along with commentary by the editor. Author: Milosz, Czeslaw Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Binding: Ha..
Bill Jordan's life changed forever the day a stray cat nesting under his bougainvillea bit him on the hand. A reformed biologist, Jordan had no particular love for animals and felt vaguely contemptuous of those who did - until the cat, beckoning with a wink and a yawn, led him on a journey to exotic..
Take a journey back in time to an era of simplicity where no telephones or electricity exists in order to experience the Christmas celebrations of one family in a rural town where sleigh rides, family stories, and moonlight skating on an ice pond are cherished elements of their special holiday tradi..
With this audio guide, you can learn to identify your favorite birds by their songs and calls alone. Backyard Bird Song includes 28 of the most common backyard birds, such as the American Robin, the Song Sparrow, and the Downy Woodpecker, arranged in groups with similar vocalizations. Author: Lawson..
A detailed guide brings to life the beauty, inhabitants, and various kinds of trees and plants of the Sierra Nevada forests, the California forests, the Pacific Northwest forests, and the boreal forests of Canada and Alaska. Original. Author: Kricher, John C. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bin..
Product DescriptionIdentifies North American forest fauna and floraFrom Library JournalThis latest edition to the "Peterson Field Guide" series seeks to train the reader to recognize patterns that define a woodland. Calling his book a "field guide to ecology," Kricher introduces basic ecological con..
With more than 130 color photographs and 170 drawings, this book shows how to read geological history: plate movements, earthquakes, glaciers, rivers, seas, and other forces that have shaped the earth over millions of years. Each geological region of eastern North America is described vividly and il..
Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated with 1,300 drawings and 142 superb color paintings. Illustrations - which use the unique Peterson Identification System to distinguish one insect from another - include size lines to show the actual length ..
Describes the calls, range, and male and female markings of more than one thousand species Author: Edward L. Chalif Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0395171296 ISBN-13: 9780395171295..
With more than 700 color paintings arranged by families for quick comparison of similar species, and with detailed information on range, habitat, size, and voice, this field guide describes and illustrates 1,038 species of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador. Author: Chalif, Edward L. Publish..
More than 600 species are described in detail, with more than 525 illustrations. This is the guide for quick, reliable identification of fishes that you'll encounter while fishing, snorkeling, diving, or even strolling along a Pacific Coast beach. Author: Herald, Earl S. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin ..
Accompanied by vivid illustrations and photographs, a valuable guide covers the Great Plains, South Texas, Rocky Mountain habitats, and Southwest habitats, including the riparian forest and the giant saguaro cactus forest. Original. Author: Kricher, John C. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bindi..
With more than 750 illustrations, including 300 color photographs, this guide covers more than 1,000 species, such as shoreside plants, clams, shrimps, crabs, corals, seaweeds, sponges, and sea urchins, as well as all of the common seashore communities found from Cape Hatteras to the Gulf Coast, Flo..
Supplies practical tips on collecting beetles and discusses the habits and identifying characteristics of the different types of beetles Author: White, Richard E. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0395318084 ISBN-13: 9780395318089..
Blending the steadfast observations of a scientist with the creativity of an artist and writer, a definitive field guide, featuring the renowned Peterson identification System, collects more than sixty years of observations, paintings, and writings in aBlending the steadfast observations of a scient..
All the birds of Texas and most of those found in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana are illustrated here in 60 plates that show key features. Descriptions of 542 species, silhouttes, and comparisons of similar species help with accurate identification. Author: Peterson, Roger Tory Publis..
Describes the different kinds of forests found in the Western United States, and identifies and describes plants and animals found in each type of habitat Author: Kricher, John C. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 039546725X ISBN-13: 9780395467251..
A combined field and travel guide, this comprehensive introduction to the wildlife and flora of the prairie also includes advice on where to hike and camp in the Great Plains to find the most accessible and yet flourishing vistas of the natural wonders this region affords. Simultaneous. Author: Cush..
The first comprehensive field guide to North American warblers describes all 60 species in detail, from field marks and vocalizations to mating habits and preferred habitats. The 32 color paintings use the unique Peterson Identification System to indicate what distinguishes one bird from another. 14..
Explanatory text show the novice birder how to locate and identify the nests and eggs of species indigenous to the western United States Author: Harrison, Hal H. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0395276292 ISBN-13: 9780395276297..
"The Birders Bible" for more than 60 years, Roger Tory Petersons classic Field Guide to Western Birds includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. Featuring the unique Peterson Identification System, Western Birds contains 165 full-color paintings that ..