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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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Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
Martin Lee Mueller · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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In search of a new story for our place on earth Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture's tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon -- weaving together key narratives about the Norwegian salmon industry as well as wild salmon... |
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Island Home: A Landscape Memoir
Tim Winton · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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"I grew up on the world's largest island. " This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped him and his writing. For over... |
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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
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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 him home... |
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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
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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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Tamed By a Bear: Coming Home to Nature-Spirit-Self
PRISCILLA STUCKEY · Counterpoint
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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In an age of materialism, language of spirit or spirits seems at best suspect and at worst alien or naïve. When Priscilla Stuckey begins hearing Bear's voice, she is a writer and religious studies professor in her fifties. Though she enjoys communing with trees and birds and the land,... |
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Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction
Helen Pilcher · Bloomsbury SIGMA
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Helen Pilcher is uniquely qualified to explain the cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real possibility, while acknowledging the serious and humorous aspects of giving a deceased animal a second chance to live. If you could bring back to life a person... |
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Loyal: 38 Inspiring Tales of Bravery, Heroism, and the Devotion of Dogs
Rebecca Ascher-Walsh · National Geographic
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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This treasury features heartwarming photographs and touching stories of dedicated working dogs who have gone above and beyond the call of duty and proven themselves as true heroes.This special collection of dog stories and photographs features four-legged heroes who have worked side by side... |
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Asteroid Hunters
Carrie Nugent · Simon & Schuster/ TED
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, scientists could have the knowledge to prevent a natural disaster epic in scale - an asteroid hitting the earth and in this exciting, adventuresome book, Carrie Nugent explains how.What are asteroids, and where do they come from? And, most urgently: Are they going to hit the Earth?... |
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Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Kevin T Dann · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of Thoreau's life as a mystic,... |
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The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Abigail Tucker · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A lively adventure through history, natural science, and pop culture in search of how cats conquered the world, the Internet, and our hearts.House cats rule back alleys, deserted Antarctic islands, and our bedrooms. Clearly, they own the Internet, where a viral cat video can easily be viewed... |
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