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The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors

Richard Crossley · Princeton University Press

Part of the revolutionary Crossley ID Guide series, this is the first raptor guide with lifelike scenes composed from multiple photographs--scenes that allow you to identify raptors just as the experts do. Experienced birders use the most easily observed and consistent characteristics--size,...
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Puppy steps : practical training for your new best friend

Libby Rockaway · Clovercroft Publishing ; Nicholasville
Pages: 178
Format: Print book

Aimed at youth and the young at heart, this 180-page book offers an easy to follow, comprehensive training system for new puppy owners. Direct thought expression, light dry humor, and hundreds of colorful photos, charts, and comic sketches of the main characters - Libby and Fido - keep...
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Complete Cat Care

DK Publishing · DK Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Combining everything you need to know about cats, from choosing a kitten or cat and day-to-day advice on nutrition and grooming, to guidance on behavior, play, and health and diseases, Complete Cat Care will help readers provide the best possible care for a cat at every stage of its life.
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What Happens to Rover When the Marriage is Over?: And Other Doggone Legal Dilemmas

Patti Lawson · W W Norton
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Here is an engaging, informative, and no-nonsense look at the everyday situations and issues - and their legal consequences - that affect dogs and their owners. Dished up with a good deal of humor, heart, and pragmatic counsel, every chapter covers a different issue that dogs and their...
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World's Ugliest Dogs

Vicki Dearmon · Globe Pequot Press; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

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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Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World

Judith D Schwartz · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide...
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Adventures in Edible Plant Foraging: Finding, Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Native and Invasive Wild Plants

Karen Monger · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Purchasing vegetables and leafy greens can become rather pricy. Moreover store-bought greens often contain unhealthy pesticides and chemicals that can be harmful to your health. Foraging for wild plants is a cost effective and healthy alternative. Harvested wild plants are cheaper, and much...
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The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb

Samuel Avery · Ruka Press
Format: Paperback

This thoroughly researched and wholly engaging book investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline—a project so controversial it has inspired the largest expression of civil disobedience since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s....
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The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food

Michelle Bamberger · Beacon Press
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover

A pharmacologist and a veterinarian pull back the curtain on the human and animal health effects of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" Across the country, fracking - the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing - is being touted as the nation's answer to energy independence...
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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

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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