Noel GROVE Livres

More than two hundred photographs introduce songbirds, raptors, game birds, "specialists," shorebirds, and waterbirds

The Atlas of World History undertakes a fair-minded journey through the human story by mingling close-up looks at events with broader views of what was then happening elsewhere in the world. Each of this book's six sections, arranged chronologically, opens with a world map that shows developments at various points of the compass, along with an essay about what was happening and why. The text by author Noel Grove, a staff writer for 25 years with the National Geographic magazine, continues with a worldwide perspective usually ignored in works of history.

Provides a look at human civilization from the emergence of culture through such recent events as the breakup of the Soviet Union

John Muir called the Sierra Nevada ''the range of light'', and this volume explores the 400 mile long expanse of natural beauty, featuring snow-capped mountain peaks, shimmering alpine lakes, vast fir and pine forests, hot springs and a volcano.'