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Pocket Guide to Insects

Bob Gibbons · Bloomsbury USA

This pocket-sized book is an essential guide to insects, providing comprehensive detail on around 240 of the most easily noticed British species, selected from a range of orders and families. Each species is divided into simple sections covering general information followed by its flight...
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Concise Butterfly & Moth Guide

Bloomsbury · Bloomsbury USA

This beautiful field guide covers more than 150 species, providing superb full-color illustrations detailing variation in color between male and female butterflies, as well as some of the most spectacular caterpillars.A concise written account covering size, description, habitat, flight...
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Concise Insect Guide

Bloomsbury · Bloomsbury USA

This beautifully illustrated pocket field guide is packed with information on the marvelous variety of insects that inhabits Britain and the near Continent. It includes more than 180 species, such as dragonflies, bees, wasps, beetles, bugs, and flies, all of which are illustrated with...
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Harlow & Sage

Brittni Vega · G.P. Putnam's Sons

“THE MOST ADORABLE BEST FRIENDS IN THE WORLD” -Buzzfeed Once upon a time, Harlow’s best friend was her older sister, Sage, a thoughtful and loving miniature Dachshund. Harlow and Sage had a shared love for many things, including Christmas presents and the legendary...
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T-Rex Trying and Trying: The Unfortunate Trials of a Modern Prehistoric Family

Hugh Murphy · Plume

From the author of the sleeper hit T-Rex Trying, a sweetly funny new collection of drawings of T-Rex and his family being stymied by the modern world—and their unfortunately short armsThousands of fans fell for Hugh Murphy’s first book, T-Rex Trying, which featured T-Rex trying...
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Almost Green: How I Saved 1/6th of a Billionth of the Planet

James Glave · Skyhorse Publishing

James Glave, a self-professed “child of suburbia” and SUV driver, has an ecological awakening and decides he wants to live a carbon-reduced lifestyle without dropping out of society, alienating his friends and family, or breaking the bank. Lacking the budget to build an environmentally...
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Blood of the Tiger: A Story of Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save a Magnificent Species

J. A. Mills · Beacon Press

Blood of the Tiger takes readers on a wild ride to save one of the world’s rarest animals from a band of Chinese billionaires.  Many people think wild tigers are on the road to recovery, but they are in greater danger than ever—from a menace few experts saw coming. There...
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Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels

Bill Adler, Jr. · Chicago Review Press

Bird-loving Americans share a common problem: squirrels! These fast, greedy, incredibly crafty, fluffy-tailed rodents pillage birdfeeders before owners' very eyes. For 25 years, Outwitting Squirrels has been leading the charge to help bird lovers defend their feeders. This classic...
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The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs

H. Alan Day · Bison Books; First Edition edition

He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that’s what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportunity...
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Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle

Douglas J. Emlen , · Henry Holt and Co.

The story behind the stunning, extreme weapons we see in the animal world--teeth and horns and claws--and what they can tell us about the way humans develop and use arms and other weaponsIn Animal Weapons, Doug Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where...
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