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The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human

John Bradshaw · Basic Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover


The bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why living with animals has always been a fundamental aspect of being human

Pets have never been more popular. Over half of American households share their home with either a cat or a dog, and many contain...
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Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science

John J. McKay · Pegasus Books
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating saga of solving the mystery of this ancient animal who once roamed the north country -- and has captivated our collective imagination ever since.

Today, we know that a mammoth is an extinct type of elephant that was covered with long fur and lived in the north country...
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake · Random House
Pages: 368
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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The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life

Doug Bock Clark · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brink
Extraordinary praise from a chorus of New York Times bestselling authors:
"I absolutely loved this magnificent book." --Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm....
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Project Fire: Cutting-Edge Techniques and Sizzling Recipes from the Caveman Porterhouse to Salt Slab Brownie S'Mores

Steven Raichlen · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A modern approach to grilling from Steven Raichlen, America's "master griller" (Esquire) . With 100 recipes, Project Fire shows how to put the latest grilling methods to work - from spit-roasting to salt-grilling - using favorite ingredients and adding a dash of daring in flavors,...
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Canada rocks : the geological journey

Nick Eyles · Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pages: 450
Format: Print book

For anyone curious about the geological history of our country, Canada Rocks is a marvelous portrait of what the authors describe as the incredible 4 billion year 'construction project' that gave shape to the continents, mountains, and oceans of planet Earth, and created the world's...
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Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves

Brenda Peterson · Da Capo Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

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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National Audubon Society Trees of North America

National Audubon Society · Knopf
Format: Kindle Edition

This handsome volume is the result of a collaboration among leading scientists, scholars, taxonomic and field experts, photo editors, and designers. An indispensable reference, it covers more than 540 species, with nearly 2,500 full-color photographs--including images of the bark, fruit,...
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Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

Britt Wray · Greystone Books
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover

Jurassic Park meets The Sixth Extinction in Rise of the Necrofauna, a provocative look at de-extinction from acclaimed documentarist and science writer Britt Wray.A captivating whirlwind tour through the birth and early life of the scientific idea known as "de-extinction." - Beth...
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

David George Haskell · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees

"At once lyrical and informative, filled with beauty." - Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

David Haskell's award-winning...
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