A tattered copy of an old Argentine cowboy fable of dusty death gives this lively novel its borrowed title, but its code of male fighting honor has a vernacular homeboy sound. This code is very much at home in both Chicago’s rich... Read More

Descriptions of nature as competitive (Charles Darwin) and “red in tooth and claw” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) shaped the way people perceive it today. "Sweet in Tooth and Claw" debunks such concepts to reveal that, in fact, cooperation... Read More

Everything is connected, says wildlife journalist Douglas Chadwick in "Four-Fifths a Grizzly". From the minuscule to the large scale, the book explores how knowledge of these connections can help us to reverse the land degradation and... Read More

Mark Kurlansky’s "Salmon" makes the species an ecological poster child and a microcosm of the environmental challenges we face. More than an environmental book about overfishing, the text includes a comprehensive natural and cultural... Read More

Following upon the success of Training for the New Alpinism and based on hundreds of thousands of hours of racing, training, and coaching experience, this book provides a rigorous, scientific, and individualized approach to training and... Read More

A series of serendipitous events, a generous mentor, and lots of hard work made it possible for young Liz Clark to fulfill her childhood dream of sailing and surfing around the world. But sailing "Swell" out of San Diego and watching her... Read More

This is strong nature writing—descriptive and thorough, and helped by Spencer’s obvious devotion to his task. For years, from May to November, Lee Spencer has stood guard over the population of wild steelhead salmon in the same... Read More

“In a remote and pitiless desert on the other side of the world from North America lives a bear that science understands only poorly so far and the general public isn’t aware of at all,” writes wildlife biologist Douglas Chadwick.... Read More