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Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey
STEPHEN KUUSISTO · Simon & Schuster Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.At the age of thirty-eight, Stephen Kuusisto - who has managed his whole life without... |
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The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions
Thomas McNamee · Hachette Books Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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Our feline companions are much-loved but often mysterious. In The Inner Life of Cats, Thomas McNamee blends scientific reportage with engaging, illustrative anecdotes about his own beloved cat, Augusta, to explore and illuminate the secrets and enigmas of her kind. As it begins, The Inner... |
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Train Your Dog Now!: Your Instant Training Handbook, from Basic Commands to Behavior Fixes
Jennifer L Summerfield · Adams Media Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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Presenting a new way to work with your dog, with simple step-by-step instructions and lists to help you teach your dog the most important and necessary skills.Take your dog from wild to well-behaved in just a few steps! Train Your Dog Now! takes the best dog training tips, advice, and instructions... |
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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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Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
Britt Wray · Greystone Books Pages: 293 Format: Hardcover
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Jurassic Park meets The Sixth Extinction in Rise of the Necrofauna, a provocative look at de-extinction from acclaimed documentarist and science writer Britt Wray.A captivating whirlwind tour through the birth and early life of the scientific idea known as "de-extinction." - Beth... |
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Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
Brenda Maddox · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pages: 254 Format: Paperback
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A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting... |
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Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
Chris D. Thomas · PublicAffairs Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Throughout history we've introduced species and infectious diseases to foreign shores; hunted slow-moving (and slower-reproducing) mammals to extinction; and polluted previously pristine tracts of land.... |
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My European Family: The First 54,000 Years
Karin Bojs · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family, and at her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As part of the healing process, she decided to use DNA research to learn more about herself, her family, and the interconnectedness of society. She went deep in search of her genealogy,... |
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The Lambs: My Father, a Farm, and the Gift of a Flock of Sheep
Carole Shelbourn George · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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"An enchanting book -- please read." -- Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE; Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of PeaceIn this touching memoir about the relationship between father, daughter, and animals, Carole explores life after adopting thirteen pet Karakul lambs.... |
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Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History
ULRICH RAULFF · Liveright Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover
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A surprising, lively, and erudite history of horse and man, for readers of The Invention of Nature and The Soul of an Octopus.Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build... |
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Rover: Wagmore Edition
ANDREW GRANT · Firefly Books Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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In 2009, Andrew Grant began photographing dogs, starting with two French bulldogs at an unrelated commercial "shoot". Then he discovered the sad fact that millions of lost or abandoned dogs enter animal shelters every year. And only a few leave, through rescue and adoption. The rest... |
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Dog Training 101: Step-by-Step Instructions for raising a happy well-behaved dog
KYRA SUNDANCE · Quarry Books Pages: 175 Format: Paperback
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Sit! Stay! It's easy with Dog Training 101Using a visually driven, playful presentation, Dog Training 101 offers step-by-step instructions every dog owner needs and wants to know as you care for and raise your canine best friend. From basic commands like sit, stay, and come to everything... |
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Shinrin Yoku: The Japanese Art of Forest Bathing
YOSHIFUMI MIYAZAKI · Timber Press Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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Experience the healing power of nature! Forest bathing, also known as shinrin-yoku, is the Japanese practice of connecting deeply with nature. It is a practice that involves all the senses and has extraordinary effects on health and happiness. The latest health and wellness trend, it has been... |
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Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir
Jennifer McGaha · Sourcebooks Pages: 368 Format: Paperback
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When life gets your goat, bring in the herdJennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and naming his doeling Merlene. She didn't expect to be buying organic yogurt for her chickens. She never thought she would be pulling camouflage carpet... |
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The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
William Atkins · Doubleday Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places.One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless,... |
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