The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines,...
264 pages
6 x 9
One 8-page color insert, 28 photos and illustrations
Against the Domestication of Earth
Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated, an...
248 pages
6 x 9
Coexisting with and Conserving North America's Predators
What would it be like to live in a world with no predators roaming our landscapes? Would their elimination, which humans have sought with ever greater urgency in recent times, bring about a pastoral, peaceful human civilization? Or in fact is...
328 pages
6 x 9
15 photos, 28 illustrations
and How We Are Causing Them
Epidemiologists are braced for the big one: the strain of flu that rivals the pandemic of 1918-1919, which killed at least 20 million people worldwide. In recent years, we have experienced scares with a host of new influenza viruses: bird flu,...
264 pages
5.5 x 8.25
Part 3: From the Adirondack Mountains to the Gaspé Peninsula
This E-ssential is a three-part series that covers John Davis's epic journey from Florida to Maine. In 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles in 10 months from Florida to Maine by foot, bicycle, skis, and canoe...
100 pages
6 x 9
18 photos, 1 illustration
Part 1: From the Florida Peninsula to the Coastal Plain
This E-ssential is a three-part series that covers John Davis's epic journey from Florida to Maine. In 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles in 10 months from Florida to Maine by foot, bicycle, skis, and...
100 pages
6 x 9
20 illustrations
On the trail of tigers and snow leopards
With their elusive and solitary nature, tigers and snow leopards are a challenge for even the most seasoned field biologists to track and study. Yet scientist and conservation leader Eric Dinerstein began his career in the heart of Nepal’s...
53 pages
6 x 9
When you look out your window, why are you so much more likely to see a robin or a sparrow than a Kirtland's warbler or a California condor? Why are some animals naturally rare and others so abundant? The quest to find and study seldom-seen...
312 pages
6 x 9
19 illustrations
Natural History and Conservation
Forgotten Grasslands of the South is a literary and scientific case study of some of the biologically richest and most endangered ecosystems in North America. Eminent ecologist Reed Noss tells the story of how southern grasslands arose and...
320 pages
7 x 10
One 16-page color insert, 42 illustrations
A Naturalist's Journeys on the Roof of the World
As one of the world’s leading field biologists, George Schaller has spent much of his life traversing wild and isolated places in his quest to understand and conserve threatened species—from mountain gorillas in the Virunga to pandas...
384 pages
6 x 9
Two 8-page color inserts, 32 photos, 9 illustrations
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