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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
Miriam Horn · W W Norton
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The story of a huge, largely hidden, and entirely unexpected conservation movement in America.Many of the men and women doing today's most consequential environmental work -- restoring America's grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans -- would not call themselves environmentalists;... |
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
Julie Dunlap · Trinity University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom... |
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
Alexandra Horowitz · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the lively, highly informative New York Times bestselling blockbuster Inside of a Dog, explains how dogs perceive the world through their most spectacular organ - the nose - and how we humans can put our under-used sense of smell to work in surprising ways.To... |
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Will's red coat : a story of friendship, faith, and one old dog's choice to live again
Tom Ryan · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times bestseller Following Atticus.Drawn by an online post, Tom Ryan adopted Will, a frightened, deaf, and mostly blind elderly dog, and brought him home... |
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Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise
David Rothenberg · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the spring of the cicadas in the Northeastern United States will yet again emerge from their seventeen-year cycle--the longest gestation period of any animal Those who experience this great sonic invasion compare their sense of wonder to the arrival of a comet or a solar eclipse This... |
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Find Momo Coast to Coast: A Photography Book
Andrew Knapp · Quirk Books
Format: Print book
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Momo loves to hide - and you'll love looking for him! In this follow-up to the New York Times best seller Find Momo, the canine Instagram superstar (and his best buddy, Andrew Knapp) travel across the United States and Canada, visiting iconic landmarks and unique off-the-map marvels.... |
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The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts
Philip Kitcher · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A landmark work of environmental philosophy that seeks to transform the debate about climate change.As the icecaps melt and the sea levels rise around the globe -- threatening human existence as we know it -- climate change has become one of the most urgent and controversial issues of our time.... |
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Overview: A New Perspective of Earth
Benjamin Grant · Amphoto
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A stunning and unique collection of satellite images of Earth that offer an unexpected look at humanity, derived from the wildly popular Daily Overview Instagram account.Inspired by the "Overview Effect"--a sensation that astronauts experience when given the opportunity to look... |
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Jill Jonnes · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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A celebration of urban trees and the Americans - presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds - whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented the nation's cities, from Jefferson's day to the present Nature's largest... |
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