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Meerkats
Grant M Mc Ilrath · Reed New Holland Publishers Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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This lavishly illustrated title offers unique insight into the world of the much‑loved Meerkat. It is unique since it is the first book on the subject written by a professionally qualified nature conservationist - one who has over two decades' worth of experience in wild Meerkat research... |
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Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon
Michael Engelhard · University of Washington Press Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis. Eight thousand years... |
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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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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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Senior Dogs Across America: Portraits of Man's Best Old Friend
Nancy Levine · Schiffer Publishing Pages: 128 Format: Print book
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Anyone who has ever loved a dog, young or old, will warm to this stirring tribute to our best animal friends. Award-winning photographer Nancy LeVine has traveled the length and breadth of America -- from Kauai to Martha's Vineyard, from Seattle to Natchez -- to meet and photograph... |
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Talking to Animals: How You Can Understand Animals and They Can Understand You
Jon Katz · Atria Books Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz offers us a deeper understanding of the inner and outer lives of animals and teaches us how we can more effectively communicate with them, made real by his own remarkable research and experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small.Eighty... |
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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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Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
Kevin N Laland · Princeton University Press Pages: 450 Format: Print book
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Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and language to science and technology. How did the human mind--and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture--evolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin's Unfinished Symphony presents... |
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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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Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life
Matin Durrani · Bloomsbury SIGMA Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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The principles of physics lie behind many of the ways animals go about their daily lives. Scientists have discovered that the way cats and dogs lap up liquids can be explained by the laws of surface tension, how ants navigate is due to polarized light, and why pistol shrimps can generate... |
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How to Toilet Train Your Cat: 21 Days to a Litter-Free Home
Paul Kunkel · Workman Publishing Company Pages: 144 Format: Paperback
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Follow this foolproof 21-day program and you can teach any litter-trained cat to use a toilet instead of a box. Discover a better way: Now cat owners everywhere can put down their scoops, stop ferrying backbreaking sacks of litter, enjoy a fresh-smelling home, and save hundreds of dollars... |
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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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