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The Beekeeper's Problem Solver: 100 Common Problems Explored and Explained
James E. Tew · Quarry Books |
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While keeping bees certainly isnt rocket science, doing it properly does involve decent levels of understanding, commitment, and attention to detail. Getting the basics right is essential, and this demands a solid appreciation of important areas such as hives management, breed choice, and health... |
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Hummingbirds: A Life-size Guide to Every Species
Marianne Taylor · Harper Design
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight dexterity, jewel-like color, and remarkably small size.This is the first book to profile all 338 known species, from the Saw-billed Hermit to the Scintillant Hummingbird.Every bird is shown... |
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Ultimate Guide to Farm Mechanics: A Practical How-To Guide for the Farmer
Fred D. Crawshaw · Skyhorse Publishing
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A reference and instruction guide to the mechanics of working the land.The Ultimate Guide to Farm Mechanics combines three classic farming texts for the first time, compiling knowledge from the best sources published as far back as 1884. A comprehensive reference book that belongs in any farming... |
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Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved
Darren Naish · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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Dinosaurs are one of the most spectacular groups of animals that have ever existed. Many were fantastic, bizarre creatures that still capture our imagination: the super-predator Tyrannosaurus, the plate-backed Stegosaurus, and the long-necked, long-tailed Diplodocus. Dinosaurs: The Ultimate... |
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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide
Julie Cornthwaite · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Penguins are perhaps the most beloved birds. On land, their behavior appears so humorous and expressive that we can be excused for attributing to them moods and foibles similar to our own. Few realize how complex and mysterious their private lives truly are, as most of their existence takes... |
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Einstein: The Life of a Genius
Walter Isaacson · Carlton Books; Slp edition
Format: Hardcover |
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From his remarkable theory of relativity and the famous equation Emc2 to his concept of a unified field theory, no one has contributed as much to science in the last century as Albert Einstein. Drawing on new research and reproducing documents only recently made available, Einstein reveals... |
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Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
Dr. Emily Monosson PhD · Island Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans... |
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman... |
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