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The Best Cat Book Ever: Super-Amazing, 100% Awesome
Kate Funk · St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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What's more super-amazing, more awesome than a cat dressed up as:- A Unicorn- A Lumberjack- The Abominable Snowman - A Ninja...Nothing--that's what! The Best Cat Book Ever features the super-amazing, 100% awesome AC the cat in tons of purrrrfectly hilarious costumes. But really,... |
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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
Mike Shanahan · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers ... rainforest royalty ... more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps and Stranglers tells their amazing story. Fig trees fed our pre-human... |
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The man who made things out of trees
Rob Penn · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it. Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied... |
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Agates: Treasures of the Earth
Roger K Pabian · Firefly Books
Pages: 184
Format: Print book |
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"Superbly done ... should be high on everyone's 'must have' list." --Rock and Gem Agates, the first popular guide to the brilliantly banded and highly prized gemstones, sold 7,000 copies in hardcover, no doubt for the glorious color photographs that capture collectors'... |
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Every Dog: A Book of Over 450 Breeds
Nancy J Hajeski · Firefly Books
Pages: 536
Format: Print book |
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"Every Dog: A Book of 500 Breeds" packs in a lot of information. Illustrations, text, charts, tables and icons make it an ideal reference for all dog lovers, who will enjoy flipping through the pages. The 500 breeds are thoroughly researched and represent canines from around... |
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The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
James Rebanks · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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The New York Times bestseller and International Phenomenon"It's bloody marvelous." - Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H IS FOR HAWK"Captivating... A book about continuity and roots and a sense of belonging in an age that's increasingly about mobility... |
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Making Sense of Weather and Climate: The Science Behind the Forecasts
Mark Denny · Columbia University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Print book |
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How do meteorologists design forecasts for the next day's, the next week's, or the next month's weather? Are some forecasts more likely to be accurate than others, and why? Making Sense of Weather and Climate takes readers through key topics in atmospheric physics and presents a cogent... |
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Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles
Dan Ariely · Harper Perennial
Format: Print book |
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Three-time New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely teams up with legendary The New Yorker cartoonist William Haefeli to present an expanded, illustrated collection of his immensely popularWall Street Journal advice column, Ask Ariely.Behavioral economist Dan Ariely revolutionized... |
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Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
Charles Foster · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A passionate naturalist explores what it's really like to be an animal -- by living like themHow can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans,... |
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Sharing the Common Pool: Water Rights in the Everyday Lives of Texans
Charles R Porter Jr. · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 247
Format: Print book |
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If all the people, municipalities, agencies, businesses, power plants, and other entities that think they have a right to the water in Texas actually tried to exercise those rights, there would not be enough water to satisfy all claims, no matter how legitimate. In Sharing the Common Pool:... |
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Jonathan Balcombe · Scientific American/Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In "What a Fish Knows, " the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea,... |
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The Secret Language of Dogs: Unlocking the Canine Mind for a Happier Pet
Victoria Stilwell · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book |
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Explore the Inner World of DogsRecent studies into the minds of canines show that they have a rich social intelligence and a physical and vocal language as complex and subtle as our own. In The Secret Language of Dogs, world-renowned trainer and star of Animal Planet's It's Me or the Dog Victoria... |
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