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The Guinea Pig Handbook (Barron's Pet Handbooks)

Sharon Vanderlip D.V.M. · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Barron's Pet Handbooks are written, designed, and illustrated in much the same attractive style as Barron's best selling Complete Pet Owner's Manuals. However, Handbooks have a larger page-count and with it, more extensive and detailed coverage of each title's subject pet....
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The Secret Life of Flies

Erica McAlister · Firefly Books
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

Stories and science about nature's most complex, crucial and highly adaptive insect. The Secret Life of Flies takes readers into the hidden world of snail killers, con artists, crazy sex and a great many silly names. It dispels common misconceptions about flies and reveals how truly...
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Part Wild: One Woman's Journey with a Creature Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs

Ceiridwen Terrill · Scribner; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Part Wild is the unforgettable story of Ceiridwen Terrill's journey with a creature whose heart is divided between her bond to one woman and her need to roam free. When Terrill adopts a wolfdog—part husky, part gray wolf—named Inyo to be her protector and fellow traveler,...
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Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist

Bill McKibben · Times Books
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planetBill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer...
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Acadia: The Complete Guide: Mt Desert Island & Acadia National Park

James Kaiser · Destination Press; Third Edition edition
Format: Book

Updated with essential travel information, this gorgeous guidebook reveals the hidden gems of Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island. From outdoor adventures such as hiking, biking, sea kayaking, and sailing to the top local restaurants, this in-depth guide puts the best of Acadia...
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The New Holistic Way for Dogs and Cats: The Stress-Health Connection

Paul McCutcheon · Celestial Arts; 1 edition
Format: Book

Stress. It's the single, universal cause of both wellness and illness. While this theory is widely supported in the human medical community, it's still controversial among veterinarians. Dr. Paul McCutcheon examines the all-important health-stress connection while drawing upon the latest...
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Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide

Charles Foster · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

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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Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World

Susan Brind Morrow · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 125
Format: Print book

Susan Brind Morrow brings her singular sensibility as a classicist and linguist to this strikingly original reflection on the fine but resilient threads that bind humans to the natural world. Anchored in the emblematic experiences of a trapper and a beekeeper, Wolves and Honey explores...
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Pukka's Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs

Ted Kerasote · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author who offers the most utterly compelling translation of dog to human I have ever seen Jeffrey Masson, a joyful chronicle of a dog that is also a groundbreaking answer to the question How can we give our dogs the happiest, healthiest lives? When Ted Kerasote was ready...
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Chasing Science at Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts

Ellen J Prager · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 162
Format: Hardcover

To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, living in tropical paradises. But ocean scientists who go to sea will tell you that it is no vacation. Creature comforts are few and the obstacles...
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Great White Shark: Myth and Reality

Alexandrine Civard-Racinais · Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive new look at the great white shark. The 1975 film Jaws tragically and erroneously marked the great white shark as a savage man-eating monster. Three decades later conservationists are still trying to dispel that myth. Great White Shark returns the creature to its proper...
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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal

Vicki Croke
Format: Book

Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely
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