Contains the answers to over 500 questions about American natural history including how do hibernating animals know when to wake up, how were the Great Lakes fo

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transfor

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which A

Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman

Charts the multiple histories of American nature religion and explores the moral and spiritual responses the encounter with nature has provoked throughout Ameri