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Compassion in Action: An Animal Activist's Dangerous Crusade to Save Lives
Scotlund Haisley · Skyhorse Publishing Pages: 228 Format: Print book |
The founder and president of Animal Rescue Corps, former head of the Humane Society of the United States' Animal Rescue Team, and former CEO of the Washington Animal Rescue League, Scotlund Haisley has spent more than twenty five years saving the lives of animals and inspiring compassion.... |
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Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds
Rachelle Bergstein · Harper Pages: 375 Format: Print book |
From the author of Women from the Ankle Down comes a lively cultural biography of diamonds, which explores our society's obsession with the world's most brilliant gemstone and the real-world characters who make them shine."A diamond is forever." Who among us doesn't recognize... |
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Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home
Pauls Toutonghi · Knopf Publishing Group Pages: 272 Format: Print book |
The true story of a lost dog's journey and a family's furious search to find him before it is too late. Saturday, October 10, 1998. Fielding Marshall is hiking on the Appalachian Trail. His beloved dog - a six-year-old golden retriever mix named Gonker - bolts into the woods. Just like... |
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Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
Lydia V Pyne · Viking Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
An irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestorsOver the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most... |
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The man who made things out of trees
Rob Penn · W.W. Norton & Company Pages: 240 Format: Print book |
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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Complete Cat Care
DK Publishing · DK Publishing Pages: 96 Format: Paperback |
Combining everything you need to know about cats, from choosing a kitten or cat and day-to-day advice on nutrition and grooming, to guidance on behavior, play, and health and diseases, Complete Cat Care will help readers provide the best possible care for a cat at every stage of its life. |
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Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
Judith D Schwartz · St Martin'S Press Pages: 256 Format: Print book |
Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide... |
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Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
Frederic C Rich · W.W. Norton & Company Pages: 361 Format: Print book |
"The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals that the environment is one of the two things about which Republicans and Democrats disagree most. Congress has not passed a landmark piece of environmental legislation for a quarter-century. As atmospheric CO2 continues... |
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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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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside
Tim Birkhead · Bloomsbury Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary. As she grows into adulthood, only a few of her eggs mature, are released into the oviduct, and are fertilized by sperm... |
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