Hardcovers: Nature & Environment

ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS

(dist. by PGW)

Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future (Oct., $18) by Tim Flannery argues for immediate global action.

AVERY BOOKS

A World Without Ice (Oct., $26) by Henry Pollack, foreword by Al Gore. The co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize lays out steps for avoiding the pending crisis. Author tour.

BLACK DOG & LEVENTHAL

Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper (Oct., $22.95) by C. Marina Marchese. The founder of Red Bee Honey, who abandoned the rat race for more meaningful pursuits, extols the virtues of beekeeping and honey entrepreneurship.

BRIGHT SKY PRESS

(dist. by IPG)

Bird Poop: Real Stories of Thirty-Five Years of Bird Rescues (Oct., $29.95) by Bebe McCasland, illus. by Don Collins, tells of the 84 birds saved by this federally licensed wildlife rescuer.

DK PUBLISHING

Prehistoric Life (Oct., $40) by DK editors goes back 3.8 billion years ago to chart hundreds of species.

DOWN EAST/FLY ROD & REEL BOOKS

Freshwater Game Fish of North America: An Illustrated Guide (Oct., $45) by Peter Thompson presents piscine images and info.

EARTH AWARE EDITIONS

(dist. by PGW)

Plundering Appalachia: The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining (Sept., $49.95) by Tom Butler examines strip mining and its threat to the environment.

FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process (Sept., $25) by Colin Beavan describes living a no-impact lifestyle for a year. 75,000 first printing. Author tour.

FIREFLY

The Migration of Birds: Seasons on the Wing (Sept., $40) by Janice M. Hughes explores migration mysteries; includes migration route maps and 70 color photos.

HODDER & STOUGHTON

(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)

Northern Wilderness (Jan., $29.95) by Ray Mears describes the author's journeys on foot, by canoe and by snowshoe through mountains, forests, tundra and ice.

ISLAND PRESS

Redesigning the Future (Oct., $26.95) by Elizabeth Grossman explores the development of green chemistry as an alternative to the synthetic chemicals found in many products.

KODANSHA INT'L.

Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan (Feb., $24.95) by Azby Brown looks at how Japanese during the Edo period felt satisfaction when the individual took “just enough” and no more.

LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. PRESS

Hurricanes of the Gulf of Mexico (Sept., $29.95) by Barry D. Keim and Robert A. Muller. Two climatologists interpret the region's hurricane and tropical storm history.

MIT PRESS

The Metamorphosis of Plants (Sept., $21.95) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This edition of Goethe's influential 1790 essay is illustrated with 60 color photos by Gordon L. Miller.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOKS

Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate (Dec., $28) by Stephen H. Schneider. A member of the team that shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore chronicles the struggles to gain attention for global warming.

NEW PRESS

The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply (Sept., $26.95) by Marie-Monique Robin exposes the disturbing practices of the agribusiness giant. 75,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

RODALE

100 Heartbeats: A Journey to Meet Our Planet's Most Endangered Animals and the Heroes Working to Save Them (Nov., $24.95) by Jeff Corwin. The Animal Planet host reports on creatures threatened by climate change. 75,000 first printing. Author tour.

SIERRA CLUB BOOKS

(dist. by PGW)

Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop-Removal Mining (Nov., $32), edited by Shirley Stewart Burns et al., gathers stories and images from Appalachia about this destructive mining practice.

ST. MARTIN'S/THOMAS DUNNE

The Elephant Whisperer (Nov., $24.99) by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence. A conservationist details his relationship with a rogue elephant herd and his experiences in the South African wilds.

UNIV. OF GEORGIA PRESS

William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (Feb., $44.95), edited by Thomas Hallock and Nancy E. Hoffman, contains previously unavailable documents and watercolors by the pioneering naturalist.

VANDERBILT UNIV. PRESS

The Shark and the Jellyfish: More Stories in Natural History (Sept., $24.95) by Stephen Daubert. The molecular scientist presents 26 tales of the mystery and immediacy of ecological processes.

WALKER & COMPANY

The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest (Nov., $26) by Susan Dworkin explains how Bent Skovmand and others preserved the world's wheat harvest.

YALE UNIV. PRESS

Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity (Oct., $30) by G.A. Bradshaw uses elephant behavior as a lens to view human-animal interactions.