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Landmarks
Robert Macfarlane · Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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#1 bestseller on the UK Sunday Times list, from the acclaimed author of The Old Ways Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary... |
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Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
E.G. Vallianatos · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic... |
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Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
Michael Kodas · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant exploration of the rising phenomenon of megafires - forest fires of alarming scale, intensity, and devastation - that captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to the most dangerous and remote... |
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Autumn
Karl Ove Knausgaard · Penguin Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons28 August. Now, as I write this, you know nothing... |
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A Million Years with You: A Memoir of Life Observed
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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One of our greatest literary naturalists turns her famed observational eye on herself in this captivating memoir. How is it that an untrained, self-taught observer and writer could see things that professional anthropologists often missed? How is that a pioneering woman, working in male-dominated... |
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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
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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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The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs: Second Edition
Gregory S Paul · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 360
Format: Print book
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The best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated large-format edition features some 100 new dinosaur... |
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Call of the Cats: What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony
Andrew Bloomfield · New World Library
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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When Andrew Bloomfield moved into a modest bungalow in Southern California he was only vaguely aware that a colony of feral cats inhabited the deep foliage behind his new home. After one particularly poignant experience, he felt he had no choice but to intercede. So began the saga of Andrew's... |
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National Geographic Backyard Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America
Arthur V Evans · National Geographic
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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An accessible visual guide to the top 150 insects and spiders, this guide combines readable text, representative photographs, and explanatory illustrations to highlight key features of body shape, life cycle, and behavior. Organized by scientific taxonomy, the book offers navigational devices... |
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The Goat Handbook (Barron's Pet Handbooks)
Ulrich Jaudas · Barron's Educational Series; Rev Tra edition
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Goats are economically valuable animals, but owners need basic information about their care, housing, breeding, and upkeep. Here is expert advice in non-technical language. Barron’s popular line of Pet Handbooks resembles Barron’s Pet Owner’s Manuals series, but are larger,... |
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American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Nate Blakeslee · Crown
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s.... |
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Hail of Fire: A Man and His Family Face Natural Disaster
Randy Fritz · Trinity University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Every year people watch in shock as homes are destroyed and communities devastated by natural disasters. As the media arrives, the information that is reported is mainly statistical. The horror of living through and recovering from the experience is rarely told because almost no one has the emotional... |
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