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Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms
TED ANTON - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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We live in a time of unprecedented scientific knowledge about the origins of life on Earth. But if we want to grasp the big picture, we have to start small - very small. That's because the real heroes of the story of life on Earth are microbes, the tiny living organisms we cannot see with... |
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers... |
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Secrets of the Snout: The Dog's Incredible Nose
Frank Rosell - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dogs and humans have worked side by side for thousands of years, and over the millennia we've come to depend upon our pooches as hunters, protectors, and faithful companions. But when it comes to the extraordinary quality of man's best friend which we rely on most, the winner is clear... |
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Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
ELIZABETH RUSH - Milkweed Editions
Format: Book
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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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The Man Who Climbs Trees
James Aldred - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A professional tree climber encounters gorillas, snakes, spiders, and birds of prey, as well as answers and perspective, hundreds of feet up, all over the world Every child knows the allure of climbing trees. But how many of us get to make a living at it, spending days observing nature... |
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Al Gore - Rodale Books
Format: Paperback
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The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient TruthAn Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is a daring call to action, exposing the reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and groundbreaking information on what you can do now.Vice... |
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The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Abigail Tucker - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A lively adventure through history, natural science, and pop culture in search of how cats conquered the world, the Internet, and our hearts.House cats rule back alleys, deserted Antarctic islands, and our bedrooms. Clearly, they own the Internet, where a viral cat video can easily be viewed... |
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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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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Horizon
Barry Lopez - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped an extraordinary life.Taking us nearly from pole to pole--from... |
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Fossils: The Key to the Past
Richard Fortey - Comstock Publishing
Format: Paperback
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"Richard Fortey is without peer among science writers." -- Bill BrysonIn his accessible introduction to the study and meaning of fossils, the world-renowned paleontologist Richard Fortey provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of fossils and their use in reconstructing the history... |
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
Craig Childs - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, tracing the arrival of the First People in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people... |
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Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
NOAH STRYCKER - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world's 10,000 species of birds in one year. In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world's birds in one year.... |
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Cat Body Language: 100 Ways to Read Their Signals
Trevor Warner - Collins & Brown
Format: Paperback
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Find out what your cat is thinking with a guide to the 100 most common feline behavioral traits! From raking the dirt and kneading their paws to chattering their teeth at birds and meowing when you open a can of food, Cat Body Language looks at the postures cats adopt in and around the home,... |
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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays
PAUL KINGSNORTH - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in "an age of ecocide"Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist -- an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring... |
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Niagara Falls for Everybody: What to See and Enjoy-A Complete Guide
BARBARA LYNCH-JOHNT - Amherst Media
Format: Paperback
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Niagara Falls is a top tourist destination for visitors worldwide. Dubbed the Honeymoon Capital of the World, The Mighty Niagara welcomes 12 million visitors per year. There's much to learn and see when you plan your visit to Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada,... |
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How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say
MELISSA CAUGHEY - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback
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Best-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favorite pet - fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky, irresistible guide packed with firsthand insights into how chickens communicate and interact,... |
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The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
Jack E Davis - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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The tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic.When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented... |
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This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
Christopher Ketcham - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild placesThe public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains.... |
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Magdalena: River of Dreams
Wade Davis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating new book from Wade Davis that brings vividly to life the story of the great Ro Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and futureTravelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade... |
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After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens
Eric Wagner - University of Washington Press
Format: Hardcover
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On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed.Ecologists thought they would have to wait years,... |
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Living with Chickens: Everything You Need To Know To Raise Your Own Backyard Flock
JAY ROSSIER - Lyons Press
Format: Paperback
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A revised and updated bestseller Revised in coordination with the American Poultry AssociationCovers all the essentials of raising and keeping chickens.More than 75 color photographs and illustrations.People across the country are raising chickens, whether for food or companionship. You can,... |
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The Beekeeper's Field Guide
David Cramp - Robinson
Format: Paperback
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This guide is a diagnostic tool and an aide memoire for the hobbyist and for the professional beekeeper, who may know what to do but will at times need the information close to hand. It includes: - A troubleshooting guide to problems with colonies and queen bees - A guide to the field diagnosis,... |
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
KATHRYN MILES - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It's a road trip full of surprises. Earthquakes.... |
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Backyard Guide to the Night Sky
Andrew Fazekas - National Geographic
Format: Paperback
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Explore the star-studded cosmos with this fully updated, user-friendly skywatcher's guide, filled with charts, graphics, photographs, and expert tips for viewing -- and understanding -- the wonders of space.Stargazing's too much fun to leave to astronomers. In these inviting pages, "Night... |
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Leaving the Wild: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Horses
GAVIN EHRINGER - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A thought-provoking and surprising book that explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and domesticated animals. The domestication of animals changed the course of human history. But what about the animals who abandoned their wild existence in exchange for our care and protection?... |
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Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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"In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be." So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which... |
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Supernavigators: The Astounding New Science of How Animals Find Their Way
David Barrie - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover
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A globetrotting voyage of discovery celebrating the navigational gifts of animals; from whales and lobsters to birds and beetles - and many more! In Supernavigators, award-winning author David Barrie takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge science of animal navigation, where scientists... |
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Bear: Myth, Animal, Icon
Wolf D. Storl - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
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Since the beginning of human history, bears have been regarded as animals of great power. Ethnobotanist and cultural anthropologist Wolf Storl, who spent years in the wilderness with bears, explores the fascinating relationship between bears and humans, including the history, mythology,... |
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.The Great Lakes -- Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior -- hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens... |
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Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes
Curt Stager - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world, from Walden Pond to the Dead Sea.More than a century and a half have passed since Walden was first published, and the world is now a very different place. Lakes are changing rapidly, not because we are separate from nature but because... |
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The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
Meredith May - Park Row
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature's most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care... |
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Encyclopedia of Animals
David Alderton - Amber Books
Format: Hardcover
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With more than 1,600 photographs and artworks, this appealing, accessible encyclopedia explores the world of animals. From the big cats and apes to the whales and dolphins that roam the world's oceans, Encyclopedia ofAnimals profiles more than 400 of the world's most fascinating... |
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Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond
Alexandra Horowitz - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From Alexandra Horowitz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, an eye-opening, informative, and wholly entertaining examination and celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike.We keep dogs and are kept by them.... |
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Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits, 5th Edition: Breeds, Care, Housing
Bob Bennett - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback
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The fifth edition of this best-selling handbook features the same detailed approach that has made it the trusted source for raising healthy, productive rabbits - plus a total redesign with color photos and graphics. Whether you're interested in raising rabbits for show, meat, fur,... |
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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
Christopher Skaife - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The first behind-the-scenes account of life with the legendary ravens at the world's eeriest monumentThe ravens at the Tower of London are of mighty importance: rumor has it that if a raven from the Tower should ever leave, the city will fall. The title of Ravenmaster, therefore, is a serious... |
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Bones in the White House: Thomas Jefferson's Mammoth
Ransom, Candice - DOUBLEDAY & CO
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A little-known, fascinating story about Thomas Jefferson and his obsessive quest to find America's first complete mastodon skeleton. Thomas Jefferson: Third president of the United States. Author of the Declaration of Independence. Obsessive prehistoric mammal hunter It's true In this... |
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The Trainable Cat: A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat
JOHN BRADSHAW - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Bestseller"I have to hand it to Bradshaw and Ellis: Once you suss out their basic cat-training philosophy, their methods totally work." --SlateWe often assume that cats can't be trained, and don't need to be. But in The Trainable Cat, bestselling anthrozoologist... |
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How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
Akiko Busch - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning... |
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Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero
McDougall, Christopher - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America.When Chris McDougall agreed to take in a donkey from an animal hoarder, he thought it would be no harder than the rest of the adjustments he and his family had made after moving from... |
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Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats (4th Edition)
Richard H Pitcairn - Rodale
Format: Paperback
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For more than 30 years, Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats has been the go-to resource for health-conscious animal lovers. This fourth edition is updated with the latest information in natural pet health, including groundbreaking research on the benefits... |
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How to Stay Alive: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Any Situation
Bear Grylls - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In the spirit of the multi-million copy bestselling SAS Survival Handbook comes the ultimate survival guide for the 21st century, from world-famous adventurer and former SAS soldier Bear Grylls.For more than a decade, Bear Grylls has introduced TV viewers to the most dramatic wilderness... |
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Shooters Bible Guide to Deer Hunting: A Master Hunters Tactics on the Rut, Scrapes, Rubs, Calling, Scent, Decoys, Weather, Core Areas, and More
Peter J Fiduccia - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback
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Expert advice on calls, scents; strategy, shot placement and much more! As a seasoned hunter, host of a hunting television show, and acclaimed author and editor, Peter J. Fiduccia has amassed prodigious experience in pursuit of the whitetail.... |
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Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes
Heather Shumaker - Painted Turtle
Format: Paperback
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Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes heartland. The story spans more than forty years, following the fate of a magnificent sand dune on Lake Michigan and the people... |
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Fertile Edges: Regenerating Land, Culture and Hope
Maddy Harland - Permanent Publications
Format: Paperback
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Maddy Harland, the editor of Permaculture magazine, offers a unique, frontline take on the environmental successes and challenges facing this planet and its people over 25 years. She explores the rise of permaculture globally, from its origins in Australia in the 1970s to its current activities... |
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Pam Houston - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons,... |
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Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
Jason M Colby - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to care about killer whales in the first... |
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Pam Houston - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons,... |
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Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy
Zazie Todd - Greystone Books
Format: Paperback
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"Zazie Todd does dogs the immeasurably good favor of taking their happiness seriously. Todd is dialed in to the science of dogs and a thoughtful trainer of dogs. Everything she writes about, you want to know. Wag is a welcome addition to the books geared to helping you help your dog."... |
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How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic
Bill Hayes - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A bookstore where readers shout their orders from the street. A neighborhood restaurant turned to-go place where one has a shared drink-on either end of a bar-with the owner. These scenes, among many others, became the new normal as soon as the world began to face the COVID-19 pandemic.In... |
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The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World
Stephen Nicol - Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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Krill-it's a familiar word that conjures oceans, whales, and swimming crustaceans. Scientists say they are one of most abundant animals on the planet. But when pressed, few people can accurately describe krill or explain their ecological importance. Antarctic krill have used their extraordinary... |
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Penguin the Magpie: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family
Cameron Bloom - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Penguin the Magpie is the extraordinary true story of recovery, hope, and courage as one injured bird and her human family learn to heal and celebrate life, featuring the gorgeous photography of Cameron Bloom and a captivating narrative by New York Times bestselling author... |
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The Dogs of Camelot: Stories of the Kennedy Canines
Margaret Reed - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Before that tragic day on November 22, 1963, the Kennedy years were filled with hope and promise. As the White House gardener put it, they were also filled with children and dogs. The Dogs of Camelotilluminates the inside story of the Kennedys' lifelong love of dogs and the unparalleled... |
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The Perfect Puppy
Gwen Bailey - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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Highly regarded dog behaviorist Gwen Bailey shares her proven system of training a puppy. Gwen Bailey's bestselling puppy care guide has helped hundreds of thousands of owners throughout the world raise a problem-free dog. It is now updated with the latest findings in canine behavior... |
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Dog Training 101: Step-by-Step Instructions for raising a happy well-behaved dog
KYRA SUNDANCE - Quarry Books
Format: Paperback
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Sit! Stay! It's easy with Dog Training 101Using a visually driven, playful presentation, Dog Training 101 offers step-by-step instructions every dog owner needs and wants to know as you care for and raise your canine best friend. From basic commands like sit, stay, and come to everything... |
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Cattiness: Some Cats Are Jerks
MARGARET CIOFFI - Blue River Pr
Format: Paperback
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We all love cats. Well maybe not all of us, probably about half the population, or a bit less, like maybe a quarter of the population loves cats, maybe not quite that many, but a bunch of people love cats. There's something about cats that folks who love them find very catty and cute,... |
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition
JON L DUNN - National Geographic
Format: Paperback
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This fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling North American bird field guide is the most up-to-date guide on the market. Perfect for beginning to advanced birders, it is the only book organized to match the latest American Ornithologists' Union taxonomy.With more than... |
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Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals
Nathan H Lents - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book
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Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop... |
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Nature's Giants: The Biology and Evolution of the World's Largest Lifeforms
Graeme D. Ruxton - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully illustrated exploration of the science behind the awe-inspiring giants of past and present The colossal plants and animals of our world - dinosaurs, whales, and even trees - are a source of unending fascination, and their sheer scale can be truly impressive. Size is integral... |
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The New Rules of the Roost: Organic Care and Feeding for the Family Flock
ROBERT LITT - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover
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New from Robert and Hannah Litt - the owners of the Urban Farm Store and the authors of the bestselling A Chicken in Every Yard - comes a hardworking guide to backyard chicken keeping that goes beyond the basics. The New Rules of the Roost addresses the read problems that crop up when keeping... |
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The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us
LUCY JONES - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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By the world-renowned seismologist, a surprising history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to comeEarthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--these all stem from the same forces that give our planet life. It is only when they exceed... |
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The Firefly Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Gems
Rupert Hochleitner - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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Step-by-step Questions and Answers with detailed color photographs for easy identification. The Firefly Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Gems is designed for easy and reliable identification of minerals, gems and rocks. The identification process begins with the stone's streak color,... |
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Eat Mesquite and More: A Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Foods and Living
Desert Harvesters - Rainsource Press
Format: Paperback
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Eat Mesquite and More celebrates native food forests of the Sonoran Desert and beyond with over 170 recipes featuring wild, indigenous foods, including mesquite, acorn, barrel cactus, chiltepin, cholla, desert chia, desert herbs and flowers, desert ironwood, hackberry, palo verde, prickly... |
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Birder on Berry Lane: Three Acres, Twelve Months, Thousands of Birds
Robert Tougias - Imagine
Format: Hardcover
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"Birder on Berry Lane weaves a remarkably rich tapestry, describing many birds' lives around a single place and showing just how connected to them we can become. Robert Tougias proves that if we look, we can see so much more than we think, even in our own backyards." Brian... |
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The Meaning of Birds
SIMON BARNES - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeously illustrated and enchanting examination of the lives of birds, illuminating their wondrous world and our connection with them. One of our most eloquent nature writers offers a passionate and informative celebration of birds and their ability to help us understand the world we live... |
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Stephen Brusatte - William Morrow
Format: Book
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In this ambitious and engrossing narrative history that spans nearly 200 million years, Stephen Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering ten new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies - tells the complete... |
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Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
Paige Embry - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover
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All the buzz about North America's bees Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America's native bees - an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies - is just as crucial. Our Native Bees is the result of Paige Embry's yearlong quest... |
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal - W. W. Norton & Company
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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A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
William E Glassley - Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback
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"Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful set of observations. This is a remarkable book." -- Bill McKibben, author of The... |
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My Patients and Other Animals: A Veterinarian's Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope
SUZANNE FINCHAM-GRAY - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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A moving memoir of a life spent in the company of animals - a veterinarian sheds light on the universal experiences of illness, healing, and how we care for loved ones. The pursuit of a childhood dream has taken Suzy Fincham-Gray on a journey in veterinary medicine from pastoral farms... |
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Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
Martin Lee Mueller - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In search of a new story for our place on earth Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture's tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon -- weaving together key narratives about the Norwegian salmon industry as well as wild salmon... |
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A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
Kenn Kaufman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment. Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes... |
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