Del Norte Public Library

Lavishly illustrated description of the physical features, wildlife and vegetation of the Sonoran Desert of the Southwestern United States.

A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column "This View of Life" from "Natural History" magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature.

"Long before men walked in Colorado, the land that would one day become the Centennial State, was already beginning to take shape. This book investigates the natural history of Colorado from the formation of the Rocky Mountains to the earliest flora and fauna. Using easy-to-follow text and full color photographs of Colorado's majestic landscape, the book will also consider the ways Colorado's human inhabitants have shaped and changed the environment...

Days before a massive exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being murdered. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. The museum's directors decide to go ahead with the bash in spite of the murders. Now museum researcher Margo Green must find out who or what is doing the killing. Does she have time to stop a massacre?

Simple text describes the Rocky Mountains and the animals and people that live there.

Text and illustrations describe the geography, points of interest, wildlife and vegetation of the wilderness area of the Ozark Mountains in Missouri and Arkansas.

One of the greatest experimental scientists of all time, Michael Faraday (1791–1867) developed the first electric motor, electric generator, and dynamo - essentially creating the science of electrochemistry. This book, the result of six lectures he delivered to young students at London's Royal Institution, concerns another form of energy - candlelight. Faraday titled the lectures "The Chemical History of a Candle," choosing the subject because,...

Includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, and sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.

Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has perfected the art of the essay in this brilliant new collection. These thirty-four essays, most originally published in Natural History magazine, exemplify the keen insight with which Dr. Gould observes the natural world and convey the infectious enthusiasm for fossils and evolutionary theory that has made his books award-winning, national best-sellers. In his latest musings on evolution...