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Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
Charles Foster - Metropolitan Books
Format: Print book
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A passionate naturalist explores what it's really like to be an animal -- by living like themHow can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans,... |
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Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds
Rachelle Bergstein - Harper
Format: Print book
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From the author of Women from the Ankle Down comes a lively cultural biography of diamonds, which explores our society's obsession with the world's most brilliant gemstone and the real-world characters who make them shine."A diamond is forever." Who among us doesn't recognize... |
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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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Meerkats
Grant M Mc Ilrath - Reed New Holland Publishers
Format: Print book
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This lavishly illustrated title offers unique insight into the world of the muchloved Meerkat. It is unique since it is the first book on the subject written by a professionally qualified nature conservationist - one who has over two decades' worth of experience in wild Meerkat research... |
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Sleeps with Dogs: Tales of a Pet Nanny at the End of Her Leash
Lindsey Grant - Seal Press
Format: Book
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Go behind closed doors and discover the secret lives of some of the most devoted pet owners, whether they're serving their dogs filtered water or leaving Animal Planet on all day to keep their pets company.As a round-the-clock animal nanny, Lindsey Grant spent her nights with countless... |
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What Have Plants Ever Done for Us?: Western Civilization in Fifty Plants
Stephen Harris - Bodleian Library
Format: Print book
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Plants are an indispensable part of our everyday lives. From the coffee bean that gets roasted for our morning brew to the grasses that feed the animals we eat to the rubber tree that provides the raw materials used in the tires of our cars, we depend on plants for nearly every aspect of our lives.... |
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One With the Tiger: Sublime and Violent Encounters Between Humans and Animals
Steven Church - Soft Skull Press
Format: Print book
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On September 21, 2012, twenty-five year old David Villalobos purchased a pass for the Bronx Zoo and a ticket for a ride on the Bengali Express Monorail. Biding his time, he waited until the monorail was just near the enclosure of a four hundred pound Siberian tiger named Bashuta before... |
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Men With Cats: Intimate Portraits of Feline Friendship
David Williams - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover
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Countless books and blogs have extolled the virtues of the Cat Lady - now photographer David Williams celebrates cat-owning men and the precious kitties who have stolen their hearts. His subjects represent a cross-section of American society - musicians and artists, soldiers and CEOs, truck... |
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability - at the level... |
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Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
Judith D Schwartz - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide... |
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National Geographic Complete National Parks of the United States, 2nd Edition
Mel White - National Geographic Society
Format: Print book
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From recreation areas and trails to historic sites, from nature hikes to seashores, this comprehensive travel guide and reference to the United States National Parks has been completely revised and updated, with a brand-new cover, more than 30 new photos, and 15 new properties that have... |
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A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk
Drew Harvell - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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It started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell's eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking team of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, the octopus belonged to a menagerie of unusual marine creatures that had been packed... |
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Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home
Pauls Toutonghi - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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The true story of a lost dog's journey and a family's furious search to find him before it is too late. Saturday, October 10, 1998. Fielding Marshall is hiking on the Appalachian Trail. His beloved dog - a six-year-old golden retriever mix named Gonker - bolts into the woods. Just like... |
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The PDQ
Donna Klein - HP Books
Format: Book
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More than 240 healthy and easy no-prep recipes for creating delicious meals-in 30 minutes or less.No chopping, peeling, slicing, coring, seeding, whipping, or blending required!From appetizing hors d'oeuvres to impressive desserts, from casual weeknight suppers or elegant dinner parties,... |
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America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake
Ted Levin - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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There's no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It's a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out. Yet most of us have never seen a timber rattler.... |
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When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out in California
Beth Pratt-Bergstrom - Heyday ; Reston
Format: Print book
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Wildness beats in the heart of California's urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one lonely mountain lion named P-22. Porpoises cavort in San Francisco Bay again because of a grassroots... |
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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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Tipping Point for Planet Earth: How Close Are We to the Edge?
Anthony D Barnosky - St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Tipping Point for Planet Earth explains why Earth is headed for a tipping point, a change so fast, dramatic, and unexpected that humanity will reel at the consequences.Midway through this century, there will be more than nine billion people on the planet. Already we are using most of the arable... |
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
David Hone - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Print book
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'Gripping and wonderfully informative' Tom Holland, New Statesman Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, Triceratops or velociraptors in Jurassic... |
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The Secret Language of Dogs: Unlocking the Canine Mind for a Happier Pet
Victoria Stilwell - Ten Speed Press
Format: Print book
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The star of Animal Planet's It's Me or the Dog Victoria Stilwell reveals how to both interpret and "speak" the hidden language of dogs. Recent studies into the minds of canines show that they have a rich social intelligence and a physical and vocal language as complex and subtle... |
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Mythical Zoo: Animals in Life, Legend, and Literature
Boria Sax - Overlook Hardcover
Format: Book
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From Aesop's Fables to Mockingjay, animals have always played a pivotal role in human culture. Even today, animals wield symbolic powers as varied as the cultures that embrace them. Sacred cows, wily serpents, fearsome lions, elegant swans, busy bees, and sly foxes--all are caricatures... |
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On Trails: An Exploration
Robert Moor - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"The best outdoors book of the year" - Sierra Club "Stunning ... A wondrous nonfiction debut" - Departures "Moor's book is enchanting" - The Boston Globe "A wanderer's dream" - The Economist From a brilliant new literary... |
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Esther the Wonder Pig: Changing the World One Heart at a Time
Steve Jenkins - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FARUnlikely pig owners Steve and Derek got a whole lot more than they bargained for when the designer micro piglet they adopted turned out to be a full-sized 600-pound sow In the bestselling tradition of pet memoirs such as Oogy,... |
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
Miriam Horn - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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Now a feature-length documentary on the Discovery channel narrated by Tom Brokaw.. "Lush, gorgeously written ... A profoundly hopeful book." -- Tina Rosenberg, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardA Kirkus Best Book of 2016Many of the men and women doing todays... |
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Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Butterfly Delight
Peter Marren - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Like fluttering shards of stained glass, butterflies possess a unique power to pierce and stir the human soul. Indeed, the ancient Greeks explicitly equated the two in a single word, psyche, so that from early times butterflies were not only a form of life, but also an idea. Profound and deeply... |
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
Karen Piper - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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“There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.”... |
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Landmarks
Robert Macfarlane - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways - a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather,... |
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Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants
Christopher Nyerges - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, foragers, or anyone interested in living closer to the earth. Written by a leading expert on wild foods and a well-known teacher of survival skills, Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants is more than a listing of plant types--it... |
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Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
E.G. Vallianatos - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic... |
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Jill Jonnes - Viking
Format: Print book
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A celebration of urban trees and the Americans - presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds - whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented the nation's cities, from Jefferson's day to the present Nature's largest... |
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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer
Peter P Marra - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have... |
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The man who made things out of trees
Rob Penn - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it. Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied... |
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The World We Create: A Message of Hope for a Planet in Peril
Frances Beinecke - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Since the dawn of the modern environmental movement, Frances Beinecke has been on its front lines, leading the charge for clean air, fresh water, healthy wildlife and fertile lands. As she prepares to retire as president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, The World We Create captures... |
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A Vegan Ethic: Embracing a Life of Compassion Toward All
Mark Hawthorne - Changemakers Books
Format: Print book
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"If veganism is about doing your best to not harm any sentient life, we must logically extend that circle of compassion to human animals as well," writes Mark Hawthorne in this practical, engaging guide to veganism and animal rights. Along with proven advice for going and staying... |
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Lucky Dog Lessons: Train Your Dog in 7 Days
Brandon Mcmillan - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The celebrity dog trainer and Emmy-winning star of the CBS show Lucky Dog shares his training system to transform any dog - from spoiled purebred puppy to shelter-shocked rescue - into a model companion in just seven days.Each week on Lucky Dog, Brandon McMillan rescues an untrained, unwanted,... |
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The Killer Whale Who Changed the World
Mark Leiren-Young - Greystone Books
Format: Print book
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The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale - a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save themKiller whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer... |
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