Nature Books

The Buffalo Flows: The Story of Our First National River, Foley, Larry ISBN: 9781557289049

Folk singer Jimmy Driftwood called the Buffalo River aArkansasas gift to the nationaAmericaas gift to the world.a It was the first national river to be designated in the United States (1972). The Buffalo Flows is a one-hour documentary film written and produced by two-time Emmy awardawinning filmmaker Larry Foley, professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas. Academy Award winner Ray McKinnon narrates. Internationally known as an outstanding canoe stream, this 135-mile river, free of dams, is so much more, and the film captures what is protected. The story is about the bluffs and the trees, the flowers and the birds, and the giant elk. Itas about hiking and floating and camping and fishing. And itas also about the people who make their homes in Buffalo River country year round, and have for generations. Driftwood describes it as a apainting that hangs on a mountain, glimmering there in the sun, to show that the people have won.a The film will premiere on AETN in winter 2009. Later in the year it will be shown in conjunction with Ken Burnsas aThe National Parks: Americaas Best Idea.a Bonus features: music video with an original song and aBuffalo River, a a film by Neil Compton, the man who led the fight to save the Buffalo as a free-flowing stream.

Animal Architecture, Arndt, Ingo ISBN: 9781419711657

Stunning images by acclaimed nature photographer Ingo Arndt reveal how animals build structures with intricate and beautiful designs.

Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History, Gould, Stephen Jay ISBN: 9780393311396

Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould does the wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays his sixth since Ever Since Darwin Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestral generations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates."

The Song of the Ape: Understanding the Languages of Chimpanzees, Halloran, Andrew R. ISBN: 9780312563110

Traces the individual histories of five chimpanzees and examines how their histories led to the lexicon of the group. This book also details the history of scientists attempting - and failing - to train apes to use human grammar and language.