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Horse Hoof Care

Cherry Hill · Storey Publishing, LLC; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Cherry Hill, America's most trusted equine expert, teams up with Richard Klimesh, a professional farrier and her frequent writing partner, to address the twin topics of hoof care and horseshoeing. Proper hoof care is one of the most important contributors to a horse's health and well-being....
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Nature Guide: Rocks and Minerals

DK Publishing · DK ADULT
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The new DK Nature Guides form a comprehensive, accessible, and informative series of illustrated reference books that tackle key natural history subjects in DK's uniquely visual style. Produced in collaboration with expert consultants at the Smithsonian Institution, each guide is expertly...
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America

Jon L Dunn · National Geographic
Pages: 431
Format: Print book

New enthusiasts are flocking in record numbers to the fascinating pastime of birding. National Geographic has been meeting their need for clear and accurate information for 25 years with our million-selling Field Guide to the Birds of North America. Now, to better serve the expanding market,...
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My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor

Brendan McDonough · Hachette Books
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

A gripping first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict...
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Will's red coat : a story of friendship, faith, and one old dog's choice to live again

Tom Ryan · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times bestseller Following Atticus.

Drawn by an online post, Tom Ryan adopted Will, a frightened, deaf, and mostly blind elderly dog, and brought...

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ASPCA Complete Guide to Dogs

Sheldon L Gerstenfeld · Chronicle Books
Pages: 511
Format: Paperback

The ultimate resource for dog lovers, the ASPCA Complete Guide to Dogs is the authoritative volume on selecting and caring for any kind of dog. In the ASPCA tradition, this book has a strong focus on mixed breeds - a major difference from most other dog books, which describe only purebreds....
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Aquarium Fish: A Definitive Guide To Identifying And Keeping Freshwater And Marine Fishes

Mary Bailey · Southwater
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

A comprehensive practical guide to setting up all types of aquaria, with 700 step-by-step photographs.
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees of the World: The ultimate reference and identification guide to more than 1300 of the most spectacular, ... illustrations, maps and photographs

Tony Russell · Lorenz Books; Ill edition
Format: Hardcover

This beautifully illustrated book is an identification guide to the worlds best-known trees, from huge redwoods to small garden trees, with expert detailed descriptions.,
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18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather

Christopher Dewdney
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of Acquainted with the Night comes a brilliant and witty look at our favourite topic - weather We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5, 200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth's atmosphere is smeared onto its surface...
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.

Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal) , Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about...

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Ponds and Small Lakes: Microorganisms and Freshwater Ecology

Brian Moss · Pelagic Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Ponds and small lakes support an extremely rich biodiversity of fascinating organisms. Many people have tried pond-dipping and encountered a few unfamiliar creatures, such as dragonfly nymphs and caddisfly larvae. However, there is a far richer world of microscopic organisms, such as diatoms,...
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Smithsonian Handbooks: Birds of North America: East

Fred Alsop · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 751

The winning photo-encyclopedic formula of the DK Handbook series, which have sold over five million copies, is taken to new heights in these comprehensive guides to the birds of North America. Created in association with one of America's leading learning institutions, the Smithsonian,...
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America

Craig Childs · Pantheon
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, tracing the arrival of the First People in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.

This book upends our notions of where these...
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National Geographic Pocket Guide to Insects of North America

Arthur V Evans · National Geographic Soc, 2016.
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

Handy, authoritative, and easy-to-read, this field guide to the insects of North America is part of the growing National Geographic Pocket Guide series. This guide provides spot-on descriptive information, authoritative photography and illustrations, and key facts in a handy, easy-to-reference...
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