The Nature Watch Collection - Book One

by Gerald Rising, Harold Stiver (Photographer)

Overview

For over twenty years Dr. Gerry Rising has been writing a weekly "Nature Watch" column for The Buffalo News. The columns are now available in eBook format. Harold Stiver, the superb Canadian nature photographer, has agreed to join Dr. Rising in this eBook publishing project and almost all of the photographs that accompany the columns are his. For those of you as yet unfamiliar with Dr. Rising's work, you have a real treat ahead when reading this eBook.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014954662
Publisher:	William R. Parks
Publication date:	06/06/2012
Series:	The Nature Watch Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dr. Gerald R. Rising Sr., the Gerry Rising of these columns, is State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo. His “day job” at the university was working with school mathematics teachers and teaching mathematics and computer science. Rising is the author of over a dozen mathematics texts, the most recent About Mathematics, written for college liberal arts students, as well as several hundred journal articles about mathematics.

Not a professional biologist, Professor Rising seeks to communicate to his readers his own love of nature. Professor Rising lives with his wife Doris in Amherst, New York, a Buffalo suburb. He has two children, four grandchildren and a great granddaughter.

Harold Stiver is a partner in a financial services company who lives with his wife Elaine in Paris, Ontario. He has two daughters and one grandson whom he spoils relentlessly. He has long had a fascination with the natural world and has traveled widely exploring and photographing it. You can see more of his images at He is the author of a series of eBook Guides for Photographers and Explorers covering subjects like Waterfalls, Old Mills and Covered bridges. They are available at Amazon and other popular distributors.