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The Secret Language of Dogs: Unlocking the Canine Mind for a Happier Pet
Victoria Stilwell · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 151
Format: Print book
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The star of Animal Planet's It's Me or the Dog Victoria Stilwell reveals how to both interpret and "speak" the hidden language of dogs. Recent studies into the minds of canines show that they have a rich social intelligence and a physical and vocal language as complex and subtle... |
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PIG/PORK: Archaeology, Zoology and Edibility
PÃa Spry-Marqués · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Pigs unite and divide people, but why? Pig/Pork explores the love-hate relationship between humans and pigs through the lenses of archaeology, biology, history, and gastronomy, providing a close and affectionate look at the myriad causes underlying this multi-millennial bond. What is it that... |
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Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds
Rachelle Bergstein · Harper
Pages: 375
Format: Print book
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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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The Benevolent Bee: Capture the Bounty of the Hive through Science, History, Home Remedies and Craft - Includes recipes and techniques for honey, beeswax, propolis, royal jelly, pollen, and bee venom
STEPHANIE BRUNEAU · Quarry Books
Pages: 160
Format: Flexibound
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Get the buzz on bees, honey, hive behavior, and all the things you can make with bee products in The Benevolent Bee. A honeybee hive produces much more than honey; it also produces pollen, propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom. And humans have found uses for all these products.... |
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The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore
Robert Finch · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer's fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape.Those who have encountered Cape Cod -- or merely dipped into an account of its rich history -- know that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches: "No... |
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside
Tim Birkhead · Bloomsbury
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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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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Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca
Maria Goodavage · Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, true story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated... |
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Animals Strike Curious Poses
Elena Passarello · Sarabande Books
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty,... |
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Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
Charles Foster · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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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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Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them
David MacNeal · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our world is essentially run by bugs -- there are 1.4 billion for every human on the planet. In Bugged, journalist David MacNeal takes us on an off-beat scientific journey that weaves together... |
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Mushrooms of the Northeast : a simple guide to common mushrooms
Teresa Marrone · Adventure Publications
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Hundreds of full-color photos with easy-to-understand text make this a great visual guide to learning about more than 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Northeast. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms) are organized by shape, then by color, so you can identify... |
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Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy
Michael J. Tougias · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the "thrilling and perfectly paced" (BOOKLIST ) story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty - the tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty - which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with... |
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Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs
Steve Parker · Firefly Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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"Magnificent in its breadth and illustration." -- Booklist Dinosaurus was published in 2003 and went on to sell 15,000 in hardcover and more in paperback. Now 13 years have passed during which there have been dozens of discoveries. At the same price and fully revised, this... |
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The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
Lee Van der Voo · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Gulf Wild -- the first seafood brand in America to trace each fish from the sea to the table -- emerged after grouper, the star of fried fish sandwiches, fell off menus due to overfishing. The brand was born when the government privatized the rights to fish to fix the problem. Through... |
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