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Niagara Falls for Everybody: What to See and Enjoy-A Complete Guide
BARBARA LYNCH-JOHNT · Amherst Media
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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Niagara Falls is a top tourist destination for visitors worldwide. Dubbed the Honeymoon Capital of the World, The Mighty Niagara welcomes 12 million visitors per year. There's much to learn and see when you plan your visit to Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada,... |
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Cactus
DAN TORRE · Reaktion Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Cacti are full of contradictions. Although many are found in the driest and most barren environments on earth, some grow exclusively in the branches of the rainforest canopy. Many species bristle with ferocious-looking spines, while other varieties are perfectly smooth. And while they might... |
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The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero
Brett Favaro · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Our world is getting hotter, and it's our fault. Our addiction to fossil fuels is destroying not only our ancient planet, but our modern civilization. How can we protect our fragile ecosystems while preserving our way of life? How can we respond to climate change deniers who mock the fact... |
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The Benevolent Bee: Capture the Bounty of the Hive through Science, History, Home Remedies and Craft - Includes recipes and techniques for honey, beeswax, propolis, royal jelly, pollen, and bee venom
STEPHANIE BRUNEAU · Quarry Books
Pages: 160
Format: Flexibound
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Get the buzz on bees, honey, hive behavior, and all the things you can make with bee products in The Benevolent Bee. A honeybee hive produces much more than honey; it also produces pollen, propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom. And humans have found uses for all these products.... |
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Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America
Pete Dunne · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A visually stunning, comprehensive resource on North America's birds of prey Always a popular group of birds, raptors symbolize freedom and fierceness, and in Pete Dunne's definitive guide, these traits are portrayed in hundreds of stunning color photographs showing raptors up close,... |
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The Lives of Hawai'i's Dolphins and Whales: Natural History and Conservation
Robin Baird · University of Hawaii Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Ocean currents, winds, and rainfall all work together to create a marine oasis around the Hawaiian Islands, providing a home for many species of dolphins and whales normally found in the deep oceans of the world. The Lives of Hawai`i's Dolphins and Whales opens a window into the world... |
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Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals
Nathan H Lents · Columbia University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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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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Animal Ethics in Animal Research
Helena Röcklinsberg · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover
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The use of animals in research has always been surrounded by ethical controversy. This book provides an overview of the central ethical issues focusing on the interconnectedness of science, law and ethics. It aims to make theoretical ethical reasoning understandable to non-ethicists and provide... |
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In Full Velvet
Jenny Johnson · Sarabande Books
Pages: 72
Format: Print book
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Sinuous and sensual, the poems of In Full Velvet interrogate the nuances of desire, love, gender, ecology, LGBTQ lineage and community, and the tension between a body's material limits and the forms made possible by the imagination. Characterized by formal poise, vulnerability, and compassion,... |
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Butterflies of North America
Judy Burris · Willow Creek Press
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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This book is your golden key to unlock the mysterious world of butterfly life cycles.
Hundreds of gorgeous photos capture every intricate detail of these marvelous creatures.
Explore butterfly courtship, feeding habits, defense mechanisms and the diversity of design in their eggs,... |
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Mark Twain for Dog Lovers: True and Imaginary Adventures with Man's Best Friend
R. Kent Rasmussen · Lyons Press
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
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Mark Twain for Dog Lovers combines one of America's most beloved authors and dogs. Twain specialist R. Kent Rasmussen traces the history of dogs in Twain's life - from the ones he knew personally, like his daughter's dog which he took in after she died, to the foreign dogs he saw on his travels... |
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Scorpion
Louise M Pryke · Reaktion Books
Pages: 221
Format: Paperback
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No creature has quite the sting in our mythology and folklore as the scorpion. From the dawn of human civilization they have been a dangerous figure in our imaginations - poisonous, precise, and deadly quiet - but as Louise M. Pryke shows in this book, their bad reputation has overshadowed... |
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97 Ways to Make a Cat Like You
Carol Kaufmann · Workman Publishing
Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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From the publisher of B. Kliban's Cat, All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat, and Bad Cat, comes a new book that answers the question all cat lovers ask: How do I make my cat like me?97 Ways to Make a Cat Like You is the perfect interactive guide to these mysterious, fickle, seemingly... |
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