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Searching for Seashells: An Artist's Guide to Treasures on the Beach

Jessie King Regunberg - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated collection of all sorts of seashells, complete with interesting facts, history, and more.. Celebrate the amazing mollusk - and the timeless joy of walking along the seashore and picking up a treasure of a shell. A personal, passionate pocket field guide, infused...
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A mind-bending journey into the hidden world of fungi that will change your understanding of life on earth "A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book . . . I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world--the secrets of which modern science is only now beginning to fathom." - Robert...
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Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

ELIZABETH RUSH - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover

Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant -- and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable...
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Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America

Nathan Pieplow - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Paperback

The first comprehensive guide to the sounds of eastern North American birds, featuring an innovative visual index that allows readers to quickly look up unfamiliar sounds in the field. Bird songs and calls are just as important as visual field marks in identifying birds. But until now,...
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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

Jon Gertner - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet...
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The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa

Jonathan B. Losos - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The past, present, and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover.. The domestic cat - your cat - has, from its evolutionary origins in Africa, been transformed in comparatively little time into one of the most successful...
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Insects of North America: A Field Guide to Over 300 Insects

David M., PhD Phillips - Falcon Guides
Format: Paperback

Insects of North America presents over 300 insect species of North America, including dominant species and insects most likely noticed. With information about distinguishing less common species from those that are more widespread, this guide is sure to please entomologists and more serious...
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Happily Ever Esther: Two Men, a Wonder Pig, and Their Life-Changing Mission to Give Animals a Home

Steve Jenkins - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter, had their lives turned upside down when they adopted their pig-daughter Esther--the so-called micro pig who turned out to be a full-sized commercial pig growing to a whopping 600 pounds--as they describe in their bestselling memoir Esther the Wonder Pig....
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The Guinea Pig Handbook

Sharon Lynn Vanderlip DVM - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback

Barron's Pet Handbooks are written, designed, and illustrated in much the same attractive style as Barron's best-selling Complete Pet Owner's Manuals. However, Handbooks have a larger page count and with it, more extensive and detailed coverage of each title's subject...
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

Jonathan Balcombe - Scientific American/Farrar
Format: Print book

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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