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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships... |
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The New Rules of the Roost: Organic Care and Feeding for the Family Flock
ROBERT LITT · Timber Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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New from Robert and Hannah Litt - the owners of the Urban Farm Store and the authors of the bestselling A Chicken in Every Yard - comes a hardworking guide to backyard chicken keeping that goes beyond the basics. The New Rules of the Roost addresses the read problems that crop up when keeping... |
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Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Joseph J Romm · Oxford University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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"This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change." - New York Magazine"The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane." - The Daily Beast"A must-read." - The GuardianThe essential primer... |
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
Mark Sundeen · Riverhead Books
Pages: 324
Format: Print book
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The radical search for the simple life in today's America. On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound... |
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How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
Tristan Gooley · The Experiment
Pages: 393
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller Read the sea like a Viking and interpret ponds like a Polynesian - with a little help from the "natural navigator"! In his eye-opening books The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs and The Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley helped readers reconnect... |
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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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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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National Geographic Traveler Costa Rica 5th Edition
CHRISTOPHER P BAKER · National Geographic
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Travel to Costa Rica to enjoy white-water rafting, the pristine beaches of Guanacaste, vibrant San Jose, and the Nicoya Peninsula--with National Geographic as your trusted guide.This dazzling guidebook, written by Central America travel expert Christopher P. Baker, covers all the main cities,... |
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North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring
BRUCE M BEEHLER · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The story of an ornithologist's journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the heartland and into Canada.In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo four-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward... |
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