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Diamonds: The Antoinette Matlins Buying Guide-How to Select, Buy, Care for & Enjoy Diamonds with Confidence and Knowledge

Antoinette Matlins · Gemstone Pr
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

All the information readers need to buy beautiful diamonds with confidence, now updated and expanded!Whether buying for personal pleasure or for investment, in today's market -- of Internet auctions, new diamond cuts, new colors, new treatments and new frauds -- buyers need a source...
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Organic Dog Biscuit Cookbook

The Bubba Rose Biscuit Company · Cider Mill Press; Rev Upd edition

This updated and expanded edition of the original Organic Dog Biscuit Cookbook has more recipes, more variety, and more reasons your dog will be begging for another batch of these wholesome and healthy goodies.Your loyal companion deserves the best, and this cookbook includes over 100 recipes...
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The Quiet Extinction: Stories of North America's Rare and Threatened Plants

Kara Rogers · The University of Arizona Press
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

In the United States and Canada, thousands of species of native plants are edging toward the brink of extinction, and they are doing so quietly. They are slipping away inconspicuously from settings as diverse as backyards and protected lands. The factors that have contributed to their disappearance...
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Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals

Nathan H Lents · Columbia University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop...
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Texts From Mittens: A Cat Who Has an Unlimited Data Plan...and Isn't Afraid to Use It

Angie Bailey · Harlequin
Format: Hardcover

Texts from Mittens is a series of text message conversations between a snappy, self-absorbed housecat named Mittens and his long-suffering human, a single woman who works away from home during the day. Mittens relentlessly hassles his human all day long, while only taking breaks to watch...
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After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans

Ben A. Minteer · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos - to encircle nature with our protection, to keep...
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The Complete Naturalist

Nick Baker · Bloomsbury USA

Nick Bakers fascination with the natural world began at an early age, inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrells classic book The Amateur Naturalist. His The Complete Naturalist is an up-to-date, practical introduction to observing, understanding, and investigating the natural world around us. Whether...
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I Knead My Mommy: And Other Poems by Kittens

Francesco Marciuliano · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

Just when we all thought things couldn't get any cuter, from the author of the New York Times bestselling I Could Pee on This comes I Knead My Mommy, a book of confessional poems about the triumphs, trials, and daily discoveries of being a kitten. From climbing walls to claiming hearts,...
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The World We Create: A Message of Hope for a Planet in Peril

Frances Beinecke · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Since the dawn of the modern environmental movement, Frances Beinecke has been on its front lines, leading the charge for clean air, fresh water, healthy wildlife and fertile lands. As she prepares to retire as president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, The World We Create captures...
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An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar

Alan Rabinowitz · Island Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable...
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