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The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast

Blum, Andrew · Ecco
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour through the global network that predicts our weather, the people behind it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planetThe weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It's a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones,...
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Travel with Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism

Blumenfeld, Jeff · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Imagine yourself in a schoolroom in one of the most remote regions of one of the most hard-to-reach countries on earth. Nepal. The Lower Mustang region to be exact. To reach it takes a 14-hour flight from New York to Doha, Qatar. Then four hours by air to Kathmandu. Transfer at one of the world's...
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National Wildlife Federation: Attracting Birds, Butterflies & Other Wildlife to Your Backyard, 2nd Edition

Mizejewski, David · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Make your backyard more bird-friendly by providing natural habitats for a wide variety of wildlife!From the National Wildlife Federation, the largest U.S. nonprofit conservation organization, with 6 million members and 51 state and territorial affiliated organizationsMore than a dozen step-by-step...
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Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

Andrews, Bryce · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Andrews' wonderful Downfrom the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts...Welcome and impressive work." - Barry Lopez The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what...
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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

Gertner, Jon · Random House
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet...
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