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Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future

Daniel Lewis - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that represent the challenges facing our planet, and the ways that scientists are working urgently to save our forests and our future. The world today is undergoing the most rapid environmental...
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Ernst Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature: A Visual Masterpiece of the Natural World

Ernst Haeckel - Art Meets Science
Format: Paperback

In a beautiful celebration of the natural world, Ernst Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature is a masterful union of science and art. This volume is comprised of 100 illustrated plates, featuring stunning watercolour paintings and pencil sketches.First published in 1904, under the German title...
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BOOK!

Jason Hendrickson - POW! Kids Books
Format: Hardcover

Young Readers take part in an interactive, humorous journey of twists and turns to the end of the book with Willard the octopus, his friend Mallard ...and a swarm of B's? The Narrator asks the Reader to flip, shake, and talk to BOOK! all while our interjecting animal friends keep the Reader...
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Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age

Caroline Paul - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age. Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes...
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The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai--Earth-based pathways to ancestral stewardship and belonging in diaspora

Layla K. Feghali - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

A profound and searching exploration of the herbs and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Cana'an - a vital invitation to re-member our roots and deepen relationship with the lands where we live in diaspora. Tying cultural survival to earth-based knowledge, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty...
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Moon Olympic Peninsula: With Olympic National Park: Coastal Getaways, Rainforests & Waterfalls, Hiking & Camping (Travel Guide)

Jeff Burlingame - Moon Travel
Format: Paperback

Charming small towns, verdant rainforests, rocky coastline, and mountain meadows: experience the surreal beauty and endless adventure of the Pacific Northwest with Moon Olympic Peninsula. Inside you'll find:. Flexible itineraries, from a weekend in Olympic National Park to a weeklong...
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Moon Azores: Best Beaches, Diving & Kayaking, Natural Wonders (Travel Guide)

Carrie-Marie Bratley - Moon Travel
Format: Paperback

Experience the breathtaking and unspoiled islands that await just a short hop from mainland Portugal with Moon Azores. Inside you'll find:Strategic, flexible itineraries for exploring individual islands or combining them into a longer trip, with coverage of Porto and Lisbon The top outdoor...
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Coyotes Among Us: Secrets of the City's Top Predator

Stanley D. Gehrt PhD - Flashpoint
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening volume of research and photographs exploring one of North America's most persistent - and misunderstood - predators. The coyote. Even its image conjures up more myth than fact. From its depictions as the "trickster" in ancient fables to its portrayal as a threat...
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Cast-Iron Cooking For Dummies

Antwon Brinson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Become a cast-iron chef, thanks to this friendly Dummies guideCast-Iron Cooking For Dummies will teach you everything you need to know to start using the classic cookware that chefs have loved for thousands of years. You'll learn how to pick the right cast iron tools for your needs,...
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The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

Ludovic Slimak - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species' unique form of intelligence.. What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other...
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