Nature, recreation and sports

Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America

by Kendall H. Brown & David M. Cobb

Quiet Beauty: Japanese Gardens of North America is an extraordinary look at the most beautiful—and serene—gardens in the United States and Canada. Most Japanese garden books look to the gardens of Japan. Quiet...

Feeling at Home

by Alexandra Stoddard

Most decorating books omit the most important element of the home: you. Does your home reflect who you really are? Feeling at Home focuses on this most essential aspect of decorating: creating a home that is...

Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha

by John Romaniello & Adam Bornstein

Are you a guy who's interested in building rock hard muscle, erasing your belly fat, boosting your testosterone, and having more mind-blowing sex than you thought possible?

If so, then Man 2.0: Engineering the...

The Big, Bad Book of Beasts

by Michael Largo

The world's wildest collection of animal knowledge and lore!

Lions, and tigers, and bears . . . and dinosaurs, dragons, and monsters. Oh my!

For hundreds of years, the most popular books in the Western world next...

Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods

by Christine Byl

A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work

Christine Byl first encountered the...

My Beloved Brontosaurus

by Brian Switek

One of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Spring Science Books

Selected by Apple’s iBookstore as one of the best books of April

Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly...

Kid Pickers

by Mike Wolfe, Lily Sprengelmeyer & Mike Right

The star of the hit show American Pickers shares his love of treasure-hunting with kids.

Mike Wolfe’s love for “picking” started with old bikes, cigar boxes, and other items people may have called “junk.”...

Wolves in the Land of Salmon

by David Moskowitz

Wolves. We love them, idolize them, and are fascinated by them. We also hate them, fear them, and blame them. The wolf's relationship with humans is complex and can be emotionally wrought, depending on whether...

Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France

by Christine A. Jones

French artisans began trials to reproduce fine Chinese porcelain in the 1660s. That challenge proved impossible, but inspired radical forms of experimentation. Potters invented artificial alternatives to Chinese...

The Basketball Draft Fact Book: A History of Professional Basketball's College Drafts

by Robert D. Bradley

The Basketball Draft Fact Book is the first detailed and comprehensive listing of all professional basketball drafts in the history of the sport since the first draft in 1947. Each season’s draft is summarized,...

Health and Nutrition for Dogs and Cats: A Guide for Pet Parents

by David G. Wellock & Jim Walker

If cats and dogs could write an instruction manual for their humans, Health and Nutrition for Dogs and Cats would be the result. While many cat and dog lovers want to feed and care for their pets as best they...

Foinavon: The Story of the Grand National's Biggest Upset

by David Owen

It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the...

Gardening in Pyjamas: Horticultural enlightenment for obsessive dawn raiders

by Helen Yemm

This is the perfect book for you if you are one of the many people who feel that gardening could be your ultimate pleasure if only you knew just that little bit more about it. The Daily Telegraph's much-loved...

Living with Kids and Dogs... Without Losing Your Mind, 2nd Ed.

by Colleen Pelar

Provides busy parents with simple, realistic advice to help ensure that the relationship between their kids and their dog is safe and enjoyable for all. You will learn how to help your child and dog develop...

Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now

by C. B. Bernard

Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C.B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48...

Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

by Mark R. Tercek & Jonathan S. Adams

A bold proposal to harness capitalism for the sake of environmentalism by a former investment banker and a conservation biologist

The Beautiful Game

by Jonathan Littman

Once nobody noticed Santa Rosa's Thunder. They were a ragtag team of girls who wanted to play soccer, and no one took them seriously. Their male coach expected little from his "ladies, " and their mediocre performance...

India's Special Forces- History and Future of Special Forces

by P C Katoch & Saikat Datta

Employment till now of our nascent Special Forces have been analyzed including whether our Special Forces have actually been employed or used as Special Forces or primarily used in counter insurgency operations...

Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation

by Maggie Oman Shannon & Mary Anne Radmacher

As our world has become increasingly dependent on technology, and our Western societies have become woefully “Crackberried”— to use the title of a recent documentary on the emotional and social pitfalls...

Creative Habitat Restoration: Comprehensive Planning, Implementation, and Long-Term Management

by Larry Lodwick

Creative Habitat Restoration provides guidance on the processes of rehabilitating natural systems of plant and animal communities. This book is an extended communication to novices and entry and mid-level environmental...