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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 340 Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your... |
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At the End of the Road
Nancy Peckinpaugh · Nancy Peckinpaugh Pages: 252 Format: Paperback
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Ezra tells his touching story of family love, laughter and loss while looking back to the years most influential in his young life. Living on a cattle ranch among Colorado's northern Rockies, his life in the 1950's unfolds as we are introduced to his two brothers, a sister, Gramps,... |
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Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
John Hargrove · Palgrave Macmillan Pages: 264 Format: Print book
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*Now a New York Times Best Seller*Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened,... |
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Bernd Heinrich · Harper Perennial; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals... |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · Broadway Books; 1st edition Format: Paperback
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One of the worlds most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country,... |
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A Good Horse Is Never a Bad Color: Tales of Training through Communication and Trust
Mark Rashid · Skyhorse Pages: 206 Format: Book
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In A Good Horse Is Never a Bad Color, Mark Rashid continues to share his talent for training horses through communication rather than force. Rashid uses humorous, feel-good stories to relate his techniques of teaching horses by examining their view of the world. This book is a must-have... |
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The Golden Shore: California's Love Affair with the Sea
David Helvarg · New World Library Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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From the first human settlements to the latest marine explorations, The Golden Shore tells the tale of the history, culture, and changing nature of California's coasts and ocean. David Helvarg takes the reader on both a geographic and literary journey along the state's 1,100-mile... |
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InDognito: A Book of Canines in Costume
Karen Ngo · Little Pages: 128 Format: Book
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Hilarious, charming, and inventive, INDOGNITO is Karen Ngo's visual treat for today's breed of dog lovers. A whimsical collection of stylishly photographed dog portraits, it affectionately embraces the quirky spirit of the primped pooch. Including humorous quotations, this book is sure... |
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Jonathan Balcombe · Scientific American/Farrar Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In "What a Fish Knows, " the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea,... |
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
Alexandra Horowitz · Scribner Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the lively, highly informative New York Times bestselling blockbuster Inside of a Dog, explains how dogs perceive the world through their most spectacular organ - the nose - and how we humans can put our under-used sense of smell to work in surprising ways.To... |
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