New Releases by National Audubon Society

A guide to medicinal plants showing how to identifying 500 plants. Information on where the plants are found and detailed descriptions of all their known uses.

A portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. The National Audubon Society Pocket Guide: Insects and Spiders is the essential pocket-size guide to 80 of the most abundant and colorful insects and spiders in North America. Small enough to fit in your back pocket and featuring stunning full-color photographs and concise descriptions, this handy guide is the ideal companion for any outdoor excusion, and perfect for beginners and experts alike.

A portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This National Audubon Society Pocket Guide gives full coverage to 80 of the most common and distinctive mammals in North America, from the Arctic to the Mexican border, and from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. An additional 30 important mammals are included under the heading "Similar Species," raising to 110 the total number of mammals described in this guide.

Shows and describes frogs, toads, turtles, lizards, skinks, salamanders, newts, alligators, and snakes.

A portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This streamlined volume identifies 80 of the most frequently encountered birds east of the Rocky Mountains. It includes detailed photographs and diagrams, regional maps depicting nesting and winter ranges, and a complete overview of birdwatching. Whether your home is in a remote countryside or in a populous city, you will derive hours of pleasure observing and learning about birds, and the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Birds of North America: East is an excellent and convenient reference guide to accompany any bird-lover.

Covers eighty of the most common and frequently encountered tree species.

This guide covers 80 of the most frequently encountered and abundant birds of the West.

Text and 156 photographs explore the lives and activities of insects, featuring the most interesting and important insects, etc. Organized by major groups, each with a common ancestry or lifestyle.

An advanced field handbook to the birds of North America: text by 61 key experts, with their personal secrets for identifying particular species with hundreds of color photographs and paintings. The first guide based on the new classification of the American Ornithologist''s Union.

1,025 photographs, 583 in full color, illustrate this all-inclusive survey ofthe entire animal world.

With more than 700 mushrooms detailed with color photographs and descriptive text, this is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to the mushrooms of North America. The 762 full-color identification photographs show the mushrooms as they appear in natural habitats. Organized visually, the book groups all mushrooms by color and shape to make identification simple and accurate in the field, while the text account for each species includes a detailed physical description, information on edibility, season, habitat, range, look-alikes, alternative names, and facts on edible and poisonous species, uses, and folklore. A supplementary section on cooking and eating wild mushrooms, and illustrations identifying the parts of a mushroom, round out this essential guide.

Nearly 6000 alphabetical entries and cross-references provide information on the life histories of 847 birds.

A comprehensive field guide to all native and introduced amphibians and reptiles found in North America.

Perfect for mountain climbers, hikers, and geology enthusiasts, this valuable reference covers more rocks and minerals in North America than any other available guide. Featuring a durable vinyl binding and nearly 800 full-color identification photographs, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals is the perfect companion for any expedition. This portable guide depicts all the important rocks, gems, and minerals -- in many variations of color and crystal form -- and the natural environments in which they occur, and includes written descriptions of field marks, similar rocks and minerals, environment, areas of occurrence, and derivation of names. Includes a guide to mineral collecting and a list of rock-forming minerals.

A comprehensive guide to identifying more than 600 species of wildflowers from the eastern region of North America.