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The Life and Love of the Sea
Lewis Blackwell · Abrams, in association with PQ Blackwell, 2015.
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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Showcasing cutting-edge underwater photography from the world's leading marine and nature photographers, The Life & Love of the Sea is a breathtaking visual tour of the ocean's great diversity. Readers will experience land meeting sea with images of dramatic coastlines, barrier... |
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This I Can Leave You: A Woman's Days on the Pitchfork Ranch
Mamie Sypert Burns · Texas a & M Univ Pr
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover
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When D Burns arrived at the mighty Pitchfork Ranch as the new manager in 1942, he walked straight into the hostility of a lot of longtime hands who did not want to take orders from an outsider. Gradually, though, D and his wife, Mamie, won allies and made a place for themselves on the historic... |
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Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
Mark Bittman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning champion of culinary simplicity who gave us the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian comes Food Matters, a plan for responsible eating that's as good for the planet as it is for your weight and your health.We are finally starting... |
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Basic Texas Birds: A Field Guide
Mark Lockwood · University of Texas Press
Pages: 403
Format: Paperback
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Finding all the birds in Texas can be a lifetime pursuit. Basic Texas Birds, an easy-to-use field guide, will help you identify over 180 species of birds that are found across the state, including a selection of the rarer "Texas specialties" that draw birders to Texas from around... |
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Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
Amina Khan · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money. Humans are animals too, and animals are incredibly... |
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Texas Quails: Ecology and Management
Leonard A Brennan · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 491
Format: Hardcover
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Nothing is more evocative of the Texas outdoors than the whistled call of the bobwhite. While the familiar two-note greeting is now just a memory for most of us who live in the state's growing urban sprawl, this bird is an economic commodity on par with crops and livestock in some regions... |
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Whitetail Country
Daniel J Cox · Northword Pr
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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Describes the physical characteristics, nutrition, behavior, habitat, adaptive abilities, and range of the white-tailed deer, and discusses the environmental and man-made dangers that they face |
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The Nueces River: Río Escondido
Margie Crisp · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 284
Format: NOOK Book
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First appearing on early Spanish maps as the Río Escondido, or hidden river, and later named Río de las Nueces after the abundant pecan trees along its banks, the Nueces today is a stream of seeming contradictions: a river that runs above and below ground; a geographic reminder of a history... |
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The Vanishing Cowboy
Jim Bertoglio · Tate Publishing
Pages: 115
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever dreamed of being a cowboy? Who of us hasn't? The mere mention of it brings to mind images of boots and saddles, horses and cattle, and being in the great outdoors. This much is true, cowboy stories never cease to hold our attention, and The Vanishing Cowboy is an especially... |
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Backyard Astronomy: Your Guide to Starhopping and Exploring the Universe
Robert Burnham · Time Life Education
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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BACKYARD ASTRONOMY guides you through the mysteries of the universe and tells you everything you need to know about becoming a proficient backyard astronomer. Chapters included are: Exploring the Universe; Skywatching Tools; Sun and Moon; The Planets; Other Lights in the Sky; and Starhopping... |
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
Craig Childs · Pantheon
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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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 people came... |
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