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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager.Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they're...
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today "A...
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Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

Dayton Duncan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today - a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo - our nation's official mammal - is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic...
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On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US (Speaker's Corner)

James LaRue - Fulcrum Publishing
Format: Paperback

In America, censorship surges in periods of demographic and political change. Its primary purpose is to silence challenges to an established elite or norm. Today, censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities, the better...
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Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

Carl Safina - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned screech owl, whose lasting friendship with the author illuminates humanity's relationship with the world.When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans...
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Compact World Atlas

DK - DK
Format: Paperback

Beautifully designed maps, flags and country profile data make this atlas an ideal source of information about our ever changing world.If you're interested in finding out more about the geography of the world we live in, then this world atlas book is perfect for you. Compact World Atlas...
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