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Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
Carl Safina · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned screech owl, whose lasting friendship with the author illuminates humanity's relationship with the world.When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans... |
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Ben Goldfarb · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager.Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they're... |
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Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth
NANCY MARIE BROWN · Pegasus Books
Format: Book
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In exploring how Icelanders interact with nature - and their idea that elves live among us - Nancy Marie Brown shows us how altering our perceptions of the environment can be a crucial first step toward saving it.Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy... |
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Moon Observer's Guide
Peter Grego · Firefly Books
Format: Book
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Since publication of the first edition of this book, we have enjoyed more than a decade of new readings and images taken by shuttles, rovers, and the Hubble Telescope. Each time they have passed by, orbited, and landed on the Moon we have accumulated an incredible amount of data about... |
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The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
Leakey, Meave · HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
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Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir--written with her daughter Samira--encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field. |
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Supercharge Your Brain: How to Maintain a Healthy Brain Throughout Your Life
James Goodwin · Pegasus Books
Format: Book
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The definitive guide to keeping your brain healthy for a long and lucid life, by one of the world's leading scientists in the field of brain health and ageing.The brain is our most vital and complex organ. It controls and coordinates our actions, thoughts and interactions with the world... |
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What If We Get It Right?
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · One World
Format: Book
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Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future?. Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.. Through... |
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When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
Antonio Zadra
Format: Book
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A comprehensive, eye-opening exploration of what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and why we have them.Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exciting today as when nineteenth-century scientists first attempted... |
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