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New Titles - Outdoors & Nature
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Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
QING LI · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happinessNotice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we suffer from nature deficit disorder,... |
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The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us
LUCY JONES · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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By the world-renowned seismologist, a surprising history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to comeEarthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--these all stem from the same forces that give our planet life. It is only when they exceed... |
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Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
TRISTRAM KORTEN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"An intense, immersive deep dive into a wild, dangerous, and unknown world, written with the pace and appeal of a great thriller. This is nonfiction at its very best." - Lee ChildThe true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite... |
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy... |
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The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
Brantley Hargrove · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A tale of obsession and daring. A contest between humankind and nature's fiercest phenomenon. The saga of the greatest storm chaser who ever lived.At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged... |
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The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species
Carlos Magdalena · Doubleday
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An impassioned memoir of saving extraordinary plants on the brink of extinction, by a scientist who has been called a "codebreaker" (Telegraph) and "an inspiration" (Jane Goodall) Carlos Magdalena is not your average horticulturist. He's a man on a mission... |
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Meet Your Dog
Kim Brophey · Chronicle Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Every dog owner knows that along with the joy can come the stress and frustration of behavioral problems, which are expensive to diagnose and treat. Enter Kim Brophey, award-winning canine behavior consultant. Using cutting-edge research, Brophey has developed a groundbreaking system that... |
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Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey
STEPHEN KUUSISTO · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.At the age of thirty-eight, Stephen Kuusisto - who has managed his whole life without... |
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