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The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions
Thomas McNamee · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Our feline companions are much-loved but often mysterious. In The Inner Life of Cats, Thomas McNamee blends scientific reportage with engaging, illustrative anecdotes about his own beloved cat, Augusta, to explore and illuminate the secrets and enigmas of her kind. As it begins, The Inner... |
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Animals Strike Curious Poses
Elena Passarello · Sarabande Books
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty,... |
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American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Nate Blakeslee · Crown
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s.... |
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Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild
Michael Forsberg · University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected ecosystem in North... |
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Penguins of America
James Patterson · Little
Pages: 64
Format: Print book
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A lavishly illustrated, humorous book from the world's #1 bestselling writer and his son that shows how humans and penguins really aren't that different after all. Penguins--our lovable, cute, flightless friends who are constantly dressed for a formal occasion--have always fascinated... |
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Born To Be Wild: Hundreds of free nature activities for families
Hattie Garlick · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Want to save cash, your child's imagination, and possibly even the planet? This is the book you need. Packed with great photos of real families in the outdoors, Born to Be Wild contains easy-to-follow instructions for activities that require nothing more sophisticated than a child's imagination... |
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
KATHRYN MILES · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It's a road trip full of surprises. Earthquakes.... |
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Gem
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 440
Format: Print book
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A dazzling visual guide to precious and semiprecious stones, organic gems, and precious metals, Gem showcases beautiful, specially commissioned images as well as science, natural history, mythology, and true stories of adventure and discovery.From diamonds to sapphires to obsidian, this... |
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Water Planet: The Culture, Politics, Economics, and Sustainability of Water on Earth
Camille Gaskin-Reyes · ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Pages: 450
Format: Hardcover
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Every culture and ecosystem on earth depends on water. As the world's climate changes, human culture is increasingly threatened by the seemingly opposite problems of having too little clean, potable water and "having too much water" e. g. , flooding, melting polar ice caps,... |
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Secret Service Dogs : the heroes who protect the president of the united states
Maria Goodavage · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In an age fraught with terrorism, United States Secret Service canine teams risk their lives to safeguard the president, vice president, their families, visiting heads of state, and a host of others. Unprecedented access to these heroic dog teams has allowed a fascinating first-time-ever... |
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The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Abigail Tucker · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A lively adventure through history, natural science, and pop culture in search of how cats conquered the world, the Internet, and our hearts.House cats rule back alleys, deserted Antarctic islands, and our bedrooms. Clearly, they own the Internet, where a viral cat video can easily be viewed... |
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Natural Resource Conflicts
M. Troy Burnett · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 910
Format: Hardcover
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The Rwandan genocide, the Sudanese civil war, and perpetual instability in the Middle East and Africa: each of these crises have arguably been instigated and maintained by natural resource disputes. China has undertaken a Herculean task to plant hundreds of millions of trees along its margins... |
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Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
JAMES CHESHIRE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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"Where the Animals Go is beautiful and thrilling, a combination of the best in science and exposition, and a joy to study cover to cover." -- Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityFor thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints.... |
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