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A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk
Drew Harvell · University of California Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover |
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It started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell's eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking team of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, the octopus belonged to a menagerie of unusual marine creatures that had been packed... |
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Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants
Christopher Nyerges · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 337
Format: Paperback |
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An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, foragers, or anyone interested in living closer to the earth. Written by a leading expert on wild foods and a well-known teacher of survival skills, Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants is more than a listing of plant types--it... |
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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
Alan Weisman · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A powerful investigation into the chances for humanitys future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanitys constant pressures.... |
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Jonathan Balcombe · Scientific American/Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In "What a Fish Knows, " the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea,... |
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World's Ugliest Dogs
Vicki Dearmon · Globe Pequot Press; First Edition edition |
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This book, filled with jaw-dropping photos as well as short, humorous profiles of the dogs and their owners, captures the wacky and wonderful spirit of the contest just in time for its 25th year. |
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