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The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs
H Alan Day · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 243
Format: Print book |
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He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that's what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportunity... |
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Trevor J Cox · W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Pages: 331
Format: Print book |
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"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening. . . . Anyone who has ever clapped, hollered or yodeled at an echo will delight in [Cox's] zestful curiosity." -- New York Times Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers... |
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Rare Birds of North America
Steve N. G. Howell · Princeton University Press
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover |
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Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different regions--the Old World, the New World... |
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The Extreme Life of the Sea
Stephen R Palumbi · Princeton Univ Pr
Pages: 225
Format: Hardcover |
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The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world--the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. It dives into the icy Arctic and boiling... |
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The Galápagos: A Natural History
Henry Nicholls · Basic Books
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover |
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Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas" - the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galápagos is the most pristine archipelago... |
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Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent
Mandy Aftel · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover |
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The “Alice Waters of American natural perfume” (indieperfume.com) celebrates our most potent sense, through five rock stars of the fragrant world. Mandy Aftel is widely acclaimed as a trailblazer in natural perfumery. Over two decades of sourcing the finest aromatic ingredients... |
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The Dictionary of Science for Gardeners: 6000 Scientific Terms Explored and Explained
Michael Allaby · Timber Press (OR)
Pages: 556
Format: Hardcover |
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This must-have reference will help you navigate the complex world of science. It defines more than 6,000 words from 16 branches of science that are of particular interest to gardeners, from abscission (a plant's rejection of an organ) to zoochary (the dispersal of seeds by animals).... |
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Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration
Buzz Aldrin · National Geographic
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover |
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"Any time an Apollo-era astronaut steps forward with ideas for our future in space, it's time to stop what whatever we're doing and pay attention. Buzz Aldrin, one of the first moonwalkers, has no shortage of these ideas. And in Mission to Mars he treats us to how, when,... |
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Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional—and What That Means for Life in the Universe
David Waltham · Basic Books a Member of Perseus Books Group
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover |
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Humankind has long fantasized about life elsewhere in the universe. And as we discover countless exoplanets orbiting other stars - among them, rocky super-Earths and gaseous Hot Jupiters - we become ever more hopeful that we may come across extraterrestrial life. Yet even as we become aware... |
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