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The Encyclopedia of Animal Predators: Learn about Each Predator's Traits and Behaviors; Identify the Tracks and Signs of More Than 50 Predators; Protect Your Livestock, Poultry, and Pets
Janet Vorwald Dohner · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 279
Format: Hardcover
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Learn to identify threatening species through tracks, scat, and the damage they leave behind. Fascinating profiles of more than 50 predatory mammals, birds, and reptiles teach farmers, ranchers, homesteaders, and backyard-animal raisers how to prevent their livestock, poultry, and pets... |
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Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan
DAVID SUZUKI · Greystone Books
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
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Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it. So, what do we do, and is there hope for humanity? The problem itself is complex, and there's no single solution. But by understanding the barriers to resolving global warming... |
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The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
Annie Dillard · Ecco, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself."A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through... |
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Jill Jonnes · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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A celebration of urban trees and the Americans - presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds - whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented the nation's cities, from Jefferson's day to the present Nature's largest... |
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Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York
Ted Steinberg · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US History A fascinating, encyclopedic historyof greater New York City through an ecological lens Publishers Weekly, starred review—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth. Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds... |
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Last Chain On Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top
Carol Bradley · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Carol Bradleys Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to conquer... |
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On Trails: An Exploration
Robert Moor · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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"The best outdoors book of the year" - Sierra Club "Stunning ... A wondrous nonfiction debut" - Departures "Moor's book is enchanting" - The Boston Globe "A wanderer's dream" - The Economist From a brilliant new literary voice comes a groundbreaking... |
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American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood
Paul Greenberg · Penguin Books
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS Book Award, Finalist 2014"Greenberg's breezy, engaging style weaves history, politics, environmental policy, and marine biology." --New Yorker In American Catch, award-winning author Paul Greenberg takes the same skills that won him acclaim... |
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Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
JAMES CHESHIRE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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"Where the Animals Go is beautiful and thrilling, a combination of the best in science and exposition, and a joy to study cover to cover." -- Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityFor thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints.... |
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Autumn
Karl Ove Knausgaard · Penguin Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons28 August. Now, as I write this, you know nothing... |
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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
Brian M Fagan · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 308
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author of The Attacking Ocean Brian Fagan shows how the powerful bond between Homo sapiens and other species has shaped our civilization and our character.From the first wolf to find companionship in our prehistoric ancestors' camp, to the beasts who bore... |
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Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
Lydia V Pyne · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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An irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestorsOver the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most... |
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