John O Janovy

Today a basic understanding of environmental issues has become essential to our daily lives. A professor of biological sciences and author of the American ecology classic Keith County Journal, John Janovy, Jr. provides a primer in environmental issues. In 20 ten-minute lessons Janovy gives readers p...

Conversations deals with what God calls The Ultimate Problem, namely, why people throughout the universe are killing one another in His name. The book iis subtitled: Held during October, 2004, at the Crescent Moon Coffee House in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, Earth, Milky Way. During a two-week "coffee da...

OUTWITTING COLLEGE PROFESSORS is the book that will make your college experience a rich and rewarding one, eliminate most of the obstacles students encounter, and make you stand out from your fellow students in a way that pays long-term benefits. The advice is from an insider: a distinguished prof w...

This textbook is designed especially for the upper-division courses in general parasitology. It emphasizes principles, illustrating them with material on the biology, physiology, morphology, and ecology of the major parasites of humans and domestic animals. Other parasites are included as well, when...

Teaching in Eden provides any teacher with powerful and virtually free tools that he or she can use to alter the fundamental nature of the educational experience. The tools are simple instructional devices that require only a teacher's time, and the courage to break out of the existing constraints t...

“We share a common bond with even the most bizarre beetle of the Peruvian rain forest,” asserts John Janovy Jr. “A belief in that common bond might, in fact, be the most fundamental characteristic of a biologist.” And biologists see the worth of a plant or an animal not in monetary terms but in its ...

To learn from nature, not about nature, was the imperative that took John Janovy Jr. and his students into the sandhills, marshes, grasslands, canyons, lakes, and streams of Keith County in western Nebraska. The biologist explores the web of interrelationships among land, animals, and human beings. ...

Natural History, Nebraska, Keith County