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  • Coast to Cactus: The Canyoneer Trail Guide to San Diego Outdoors

    • ASIN: 194138420X
    • ISBN: 194138420X
    • Manufacturer: Sunbelt Publications

    Coast to Cactus: The Canyoneer Trail Guide to San Diego Outdoors is much more than a hiking guide. It is a field guide too. Written by citizen scientists trained by the San Diego Natural History Museum Canyoneers, it is the new bible for really getting to know and appreciate the county's biodiversity while exploring firsthand. The guide has 245 hik... [Read More]

  • Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles

    • ASIN: 1604697105
    • ISBN: 1604697105
    • Brand: Timber Press
    • Size: 1 EA
    • Manufacturer: Timber Press

    “Put on your hiking shoes, pack your binoculars, and rediscover the City of Angels.” —Westways Magazine Los Angeles may have a reputation as a concrete jungle, but in reality, it's full of amazing wildlife. You just need to know where to find it!  Equal parts natural history, field guide, and trip planner, Wild LA has something for everyo... [Read More]

  • A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert

    • ASIN: 0520287479
    • ISBN: 0520287479
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    The landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region varies dramatically from parched desert lowlands to semiarid tropical forests and frigid subalpine meadows. Covering southeasternmost California, much of southern and central Arizona, most of Baja California, and much of the state of Sonora, Mexico, it is home to an extraordinary variety of plants and ani... [Read More]

  • Windows on Nature: The Great Habitat Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History

    • ASIN: 0810959402
    • ISBN: 0810959402
    • Brand: Brand: American Museum of Natural History/Harry N. Abrams
    • Manufacturer: American Museum of Natural History/Harry N. Abrams

    New York City's American Museum of Natural History is a national treasure, attracting four million visitors annually. Its dioramas-a dazzling mixture of nature, science, and art-have inspired young and old alike, and are world-renowned examples of the unique diorama craft: art in the service of science. Now, in the only book of its kind, readers ge... [Read More]

  • Our Solar System (Science for Toddlers)

    • ASIN: 1454914181
    • ISBN: 1454914181
    • Manufacturer: Sterling Children's Books

    The youngest astronomers can go forth and journey into outer space in this fun, basic introduction to the solar system. The unique format presents our sun and each planet in order with graduated flaps—turn each flap to reveal fascinating facts on each celestial body, and even the Milky Way!

  • Sharks (Science for Toddlers)

    • ASIN: 1454921285
    • ISBN: 1454921285
    • Manufacturer: Sterling Children's Books

    Created in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, this beautiful board book lets you dive in and take a bite out of SHARKS!   More than 400 shark species swim in the Earth’s oceans: some live in shallow waters, others far below, and some are fast while others are slow. Sharks introduces nine different sharks to your budding m... [Read More]

  • The Case of the Haunted History Museum (Museum Mysteries)

    • ASIN: 1434296911
    • ISBN: 1434296911
    • Manufacturer: Stone Arch Books

    Capitol City's Natural History Museum is haunted - or at least that's what someone wants people to think. But Wilson Kipper, son of the museum's head paleontologist, knows better. When the mysterious occurrences go from spooky to dangerous, the museum is forced to close its doors. Can Wilson and his friends get to the bottom of things, or will the ... [Read More]

  • ABC Dinosaurs (AMNH ABC Board Books)

    • ASIN: 1402777159
    • ISBN: 1402777159
    • Manufacturer: Sterling

    From Apatosaurus to Zupaysaurus, the 26 dinosaur friends in this oversized board book will enchant preschoolers and help them learn their ABCs. Developed in conjunction with paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History, it features extra-large letters; bright, detailed illustrations of the dinos (many on display in the museum); informa... [Read More]

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

    • ASIN: B01MAWT2MO
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold.The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaime... [Read More]

  • The Lost Florida Manuscript of Frank Hamilton Cushing (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)

    • ASIN: 0813028035
    • ISBN: 0813028035
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Florida

    "The late 19th century was a time of great intellectual flowering, and Frank Hamilton Cushing bloomed along with his contemporaries. His genius and scholarship are apparent once again with the publication of this lost manuscript. How fortunate for Florida that Cushing arrived on the Gulf Coast in the 1890s and recorded everything that 'his eyes beh... [Read More]

  • American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America

    • ASIN: 1465443991
    • ISBN: 1465443991
    • Brand: DK Publishing Dorling Kindersley
    • Manufacturer: DK

    Updated to reflect all the latest taxonomic data, American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America is the complete photographic guide to the 657 species of birds found in the United States and Canada.Ideal for the armchair bird enthusiast or dedicated bird watcher, this book includes stunning full-color photographs revealing 657 individual... [Read More]

  • Build Your Own Dinosaur Museum (Lonely Planet Kids)

    • ASIN: 1788681282
    • ISBN: 1788681282
    • Brand: Lonely Planet Kids
    • Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Kids

    Calling all dinosaur experts! We need your help. We have just received a crate of dinosaur fossils – and they need assembling! Fast! Can you find the right room for each skeleton and build them in time for the museum’s big opening? There are five pop-up dinosaurs to put back together, including a Triceratops, Stegosaurus and T-rex. It’s going... [Read More]

  • Botanicum: Welcome to the Museum

    • ASIN: 0763689238
    • ISBN: 0763689238
    • Brand: BIG PICTURE
    • Manufacturer: Big Picture Press

    Discover more than 160 exhibits in this virtual museum, open all hours.The 2017 offering from Big Picture Press's Welcome to the Museum series, Botanicum, is a brilliantly curated guide to plant life. With artwork from Katie Scott of Animalium fame, Botanicum gives readers the experience of a fascinating exhibition from the pages of a beautiful boo... [Read More]

  • I Am NOT a Dinosaur!

    • ASIN: 1454914912
    • ISBN: 1454914912
    • Manufacturer: Sterling Children's Books

    Way back in time, astonishing creatures lived on our planet. But they weren’t all dinosaurs! In this fun, fascinating book, you’ll meet some of these amazing prehistoric creatures, from a very big fish with 7-inch teeth to a flying reptile. Based on specimens in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, I Am NOT a Dinosaur! use... [Read More]

  • Fort Center: An Archaeological Site in the Lake Okeechobee Basin (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)

    • ASIN: 0813012988
    • ISBN: 0813012988
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Florida

    "An excellent publication on an important southeastern site. . . .  This book is a superb archaeological report."--Popular Archaeology"A landmark publication by one of the great American archaeologists, it should be read not only by southeastern specialists but by all concerned with agriculture and ceremonial life in the precolumbian New World."--... [Read More]

  • Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History

    • ASIN: 0231135297
    • ISBN: 0231135297
    • Manufacturer: Columbia University Press

    Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford have spent the past 20 years studying the evolutionary history of the family Canidae. Both are well known for having established the modern framework for the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their research with Mauricio Antón's impeccable reconstructions of both extinct and extant species, Wang an... [Read More]

  • Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History

    • ASIN: 0312104561
    • ISBN: 0312104561
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    Dinosaurs in the Attic is a chronicle of the expeditions, discoveries, and scientists behind the greatest natural history collection every assembled. Written by former Natural History columnist Douglas J. Preston, who worked at the American Museum of Natural History for seven years, this is a celebration of the best-known and best-loved museum in t... [Read More]

  • Photographing Big Bend National Park: A Friendly Guide to Great Images (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series)

    • ASIN: 1603448179
    • ISBN: 1603448179
    • Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press

    With its combination of desert and mountain landscapes, the dramatic canyons of the Rio Grande, ancient pictographs, and remnants of pioneer ranch life, Big Bend National Park presents a wealth of subjects to the photographic eye. Add early morning and late evening sunlight, summer thunderstorms, and clear, star-spattered night skies, and the oppor... [Read More]

  • Masterpieces of the Mineral World: Treasures from the Houston Museum of Natural Science

    • ASIN: 0810967510
    • ISBN: 0810967510
    • Brand: Brand: Harry N. Abrams
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    The collection of natural mineral crystals housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is the finest and best known in the world. Now the treasures of this singular collection are shown in resplendent photographs that will seduce both the connoisseur of beauty and the student of natural history.

  • The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

    • ASIN: B074DGMF88
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

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