The talon digs deeply into my heart: A collection of poems, 1958-1971

Brattstrom, Bayard H

Windy Row Press

Rhinos are interesting, fun to watch, and endangered of becoming extinct. This book is first about how scientists study rhinos, and then information is presented on rhino taxonomy, distribution, ecology, fossil history, behavior, reproduction, and conservation, including poaching. But there is a lot more to rhinos than just the above, there are also sections on rhinos in history, rhinos in art, rhino companies, logos, and products, as well as lists of rhino books, toys, and conservation organizations. For ages 12-100, for scientists, ecologists, conservationists, art historians animal lovers, and people who just like rhinos.

How to Study Rhinos

Children's Books

Brattstrom, Martha A

Shipman, Mary E

Animals

Outskirts Press

"Lizard Tales, People and Events in the Life of a Naturalist" consists of stories that I told in my ecology, evolution, ornithology, herpetology, natural history, and general biology classes or around campfires, and includes many that have never been told to anyone until now. The book is autobiographical and geographic: Chicago, Hollywood, San Diego, UCLA, Cal. Tech., New York, Arizona and also Australia, Mexico, and Central America. The stories are about animals, fieldwork, people, and weird or exciting events. Because I have met and interacted with many people, there are personal stories about Debbie Reynolds, Natalie Wood, John Steinbeck, Margaret Meade, Cellist Gregory Piatagorsky, Charles Richter (Earthquake Scale), U.S. Grant IV, The Emperor of Japan, and artist Charles Russell! Some of the fun stories include: Playing badminton with the world's champion, Cobras getting loose at UCLA, Nobel Laureates in my class, How I invented the stent, Origin of the first elephant race in human history, Why salamanders helped Custer lose the Battle of Little Big Horn, The girl that peed with rattlesnakes, Sliding off the side of a whale, Drinking beer with the Emperor of Japan, Can lizards predict earthquakes, Three gringos and a dead horse (Costa Rica), and Attempted murder using a rattlesnake.

Lizard Tales: People and Events in the Life of a Naturalist

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Rants or Words of Wisdom? You Choose This book consists of statements, sayings, questions, opinions and essays based on the author's 88 years of living, exploring, traveling, watching, teaching, thinking, reading, feeling, and experiencing. Questions answered: Why do flying fish fly? Is that third topping on your pizza the same size as the first? Are all religions really just based on guilt? Is marriage just legalized prostitution? Does crowding affect people's behavior and physiology? Were all of the dinosaurs extinct before that asteroid hit the earth? Are cobras affecting Palm Oil harvesting in Southeast Asia? Other essays are on: Successful women, political monies, car accidents, weather reporters, desert rats, parks, religion, art, TV, newspapers, miracles, color of bird's heads, jumping frogs, Phoenix Lights, lizards on rocks, schools, questions that nobody will ask the Presidential candidates, how to detect corruption, Lolita, ET's, Sacred Land, Borneo, home schooling, zoo news, CNN, and more

Flying Fish, Pizza, Religion, & Sex: A Naturalist's View of Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Essays and opinions on TV ads, fast sloths, non-white Caucasians, wildfires, dinosaurs, and volcanos, and lots of things in between.

Odds & Ends: And Lots of Things In Between

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

We want the world to be and feel like ourselves. We believe in those things that are like us and reject everything else. But there are a lot of groups of "us" who believe in other things. So, the world is not like you WANT it to be. It is not even like you THINK it is. We have to grasp what the real world is like, if we are collectively going to survive on earth by solving problems of overpopulation, such as: Poverty, Pandemics, Climate Change. This book contains a series of number-facts of serious and sometimes funny ways about how the world really is. For example: 100 people in the U.S. die from lightening strikes each year; While in 2000-2010 time period, 33 people were killed by cows and 15 by sharks; 36 of U.S. nuclear power plants have flood safety problems like those that faced Fukushima, Japan; 50% of all teenage drivers will get into accidents before they leave high school; 3 million American students, mostly poor, do not have internet service in their homes; 3.6% of the continuous U.S. state's land is in cities, but 80% of Americans live in those cities; 100 million donuts were sold in the U.S. in 2017; 20 billion chickens live on earth; 7.3 billion people do; 1 copy of Beatrix Potter's book, "Peter Rabbit: is sold somewhere around the world every second; 1000 California Condor chicks have been hatched in captivity; 800 have been released into the wild.

The World Is Not The Way You Think It Is

Reference

Words of Wisdom: From an Old Professor Sitting on a Hill

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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