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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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The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great & Small and Why They Matter
Richard Girling · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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Taking as its narrative engine the hunt for an animal that is legendarily rare, Richard Girling writes an engaging and highly informative history of humankind's interest in hunting and collecting - what prompts us to do this? what good might come of our need to catalog all the living... |
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The Great Grisby: Two Thousand Years of Exceptional Dogs
Mikita Brottman · Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A scholar, psychoanalyst, and cultural critic explores the multifaceted role dogs play in our world in this charming bestiary of dogs from literature, lore, and life.While gradually unveiling her eight-year love affair with her French bulldog, Grisby, Mikita Brottman ruminates on the singular... |
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Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life
Niles Eldredge · Firefly Books Ltd.
Pages: 256
Format: Book
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"This book is a splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution. Eldredge has cleverly combined our knowledge of living organisms with instructive insights into the fossil record to convincingly... |
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Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves
Brenda Peterson · Da Capo Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated... |
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Paul Greenberg · The Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal... |
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A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic
P Wadhams · Oxford University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Based on five decades of research and observation, a haunting and unsparing look at the melting ice caps, and what their disappearance will mean.Peter Wadhams has been studying ice first-hand since 1970, completing 50 trips to the world's poles and observing for himself the changes... |
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The Cat Whisperer: Why Cats Do What They Do--and How to Get Them to Do What You Want
Mieshelle Nagelschneider · Bantam Books
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
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Who says you can't train a cat? Just when you thought you had reached the end of your ball of twine, one of America's most popular cat behaviorists comes to the rescue of perplexed cat owners everywhere, providing practical and effective strategies for solving every feline behavior... |
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Naturally Bug-Free: 67 Nontoxic Recipes for Repelling Mosquitoes, Ticks, Fleas, Ants, Moths & Other Pesky Insects
Stephanie L. Tourles · Storey Publishing
Pages: 175
Format: Print book
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Protect yourself, your children, your pets, and your home from bugs - without using harsh or toxic chemicals! Herbalist Stephanie Tourles offers 75 simple recipes for safe, effective bug repellents you can make at home from all-natural ingredients. For protection from mosquitos, ticks,... |
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Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park
Matthew Gilbert · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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OFF THE LEASH is a group portrait of dog people, specifically the strange, wonderful, neurotic, and eccentric dog people who gather at Amory Park, overlooking Boston near Fenway Park. And its about author Matthew Gilberts transformation, after much fear and loathing of dogs and social groups,... |
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside
Tim Birkhead · Bloomsbury
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary. As she grows into adulthood, only a few of her eggs mature, are released into the oviduct, and are fertilized by sperm... |
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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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