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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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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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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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How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
Scott D Sampson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Format: Print book
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From the beloved host of PBS Kids' Dinosaur Train, an easy-to-use guide for parents, teachers, and others looking to foster a strong connection between children and nature, complete with engaging activities, troubleshooting advice, and much more American children spend four to seven... |
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Every Dog: A Book of Over 450 Breeds
Nancy J Hajeski - Firefly Books Format: Paperback
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Every Dog: A Book of Over 450 Breeds packs in a lot of information. Illustrations, text, charts, tables and icons make it an ideal reference for all dog lovers, who will enjoy flipping through the pages. The over 450 breeds are thoroughly researched and represent canines from... |
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Water: Exploring the Blue Planet
Markus Eisl - Firefly Books Format: Print book
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Water is in crisis. We are in crisis. All life depends on water and we are running out of it, but where exactly is the water and where is it going? This book provides new insight into the world of water and contributes to a wider understanding of the current predicament. Water: Exploring... |
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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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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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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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Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat
Barbara J King - The University of Chicago Press Format: Print book
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In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes, elephants, and dolphins have not just... |
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Jonathan Balcombe - Scientific American/Farrar Format: Print book
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Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In "What a Fish Knows, " the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea,... |
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Shop Cats of New York
Tamar Arslanian - Harpercollins Format: Book
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Humans of New York meets The French Cat in this carefully cultivated, gorgeous full-color collection featuring New York's iconic felines and the stories behind them.
They inhabit New York City's most legendary and coziest spots - the Algonquin Hotel, a whiskey distillery,... |
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Modern Dog Parenting: Raising Your Dog or Puppy to Be a Loving Member of Your Family
Sarah Hodgson - St. Martin's Griffin Format: Print book
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You and your dog are a lot alike. By several behavioral measures, your dog's mental abilities are equivalent to those of a two to three and a half-year-old toddler. Dogs can learn up to 250 words, count from one to five and understand basic arithmetic. Your dog can imitate and understand... |
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Whats Really Happening to Our Planet?: The Facts Simply Explained
Tony Juniper - DK Format: Paperback
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Accelerated climate change has put our planet in a dire situation - explore the records of the past and discover how we can change the future.Whats Really Happening to Our Planet? reviews the current state of our planet and how our unchecked human activity could change the world forever.... |
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Future arctic : field notes from a world on the edge.
Edward Struzik - Island Press Format: Hardcover
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[Struzik's] travel companions, from wildlife scientists to military strategists to indigenous peoples, share diverse insights into the science, culture and geopolitical tensions of this captivating place. With their help, Struzik begins piecing together an environmental puzzle: How might... |
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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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House Guests, House Pests: A Natural History of Animals in the Home
Richard Jones - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Format: Print book
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Today we live in snug, well-furnished houses surrounded by the trappings of a civilized life. But we are not alone--we suffer a constant stream of unwanted visitors. Our houses, our food, our belongings, our very existence are under constant attack from a host of invaders eager to take... |
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Doug the Pug: The King of Pop Culture
Leslie Mosier - St. Martin's Griffin Format: Print book
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Doug the Pug is the King of Pop Culture. Over 7 million adoring fans on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat can't get enough of him. Doug spreads love everywhere he goes, and now with his literary debut, he's coming to living rooms around the world.It's hard to find a more... |
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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 Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Florence Williams - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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An intrepid investigation into nature's restorative benefits by a prize-winning author.For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; and Nikola Tesla... |
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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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Conures
Carol Frischmann - T.F.H. Publications Format: Book
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Learn how to care for these lovable birds, including feeding, housing, grooming, and fun activities that appeal to their playful nature. T.F.H. has teamed up with Animal Planet the only television network devoted to the unique bonds between humans and animals, to present an exciting new series... |
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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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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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What Is a Dog?
Raymond Coppinger - The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Format: Print book
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Of the world's dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are five times as many dogs who are their own masters - neighborhood dogs, dump dogs, mountain dogs. They are dogs,... |
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The Conure Handbook
Anne Watkins - Barron's Educational Series; Reissue edition Format: Print book
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Titles in Barrons popular series of Pet Handbooks present comprehensive information and helpful advice from breeders, veterinarians, and other pet experts. These full-color books instruct on housing, feeding, healthcare, and more. In The Conure Handbook, prospective and current conure owners... |
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Pumpkin: The Raccoon Who Thought She Was a Dog
Laura L Young - St. Martin's Griffin Format: Print book
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As a baby, Pumpkin the Raccoon was abandoned by her parents after falling out of a tree and breaking her leg. Taken in by a family with two rescue dogs, Toffee and Oreo, Pumpkin gained a new set of "parents" and a life of luxury in the Bahamas.Pumpkin: The Raccoon Who Thought... |
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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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Some Useful Wild Plants: A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine From Nature
Dan Jason - Harbour Format: Paperback
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With over forty years since its original printing, and over 30,000 copies sold, this bestselling guide still remains a trusted and much-consulted reference for those interested in identifying, foraging and growing wild plants for food and medicine. Now Some Useful Wild Plants is back in print... |
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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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Barbara Sykes' Training Border Collies
Barbara Sykes - The Crowood Press Format: Print book
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A new, practical guide to training your Border Collie, by a highly esteemed trainer and author Drawing upon her popular Thinking Like Canines training method and other established approaches, Barbara Sykes' Training Border Collies is an essential resource for understanding and training... |
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The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
Lester R. Brown - W W Norton Format: Paperback
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The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy,... |
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The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches from a Vanishing World
Alex Shoumatoff - Beacon Press Format: Print book
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Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of BorneoIn this wide-ranging narrative, seasoned travel and environmental writer Alex Shoumatoff takes readers on a journey from the woods of rural New York to the rain forests... |
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After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans
Ben A. Minteer - University of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos - to encircle nature with our protection, to keep... |
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ASK ANNA: Advice for the Furry and Forlorn
Dean R Koontz - Center Street Format: Print book
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Dean Koontz is one of the world's biggest selling authors. Anna Koontz is Dean's remarkable dog who is poised to follow in her dad's footsteps with her first advice book for canines. She will soon become canine columnist to the world! With her superior intellect, sharp wit,... |
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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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Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
Lydia V Pyne - Viking Format: Print book
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An irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestorsOver the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most... |
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Outsmart Waste: The Modern Idea of Garbage and How to Think Our Way Out of It
Tom Szaky - Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., Format: Paperback
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Ever-expanding landfills, ocean gyres filled with floating plastic mush, endangered wildlife. Our garbage has become a massive and exponentially growing problem in modern society. Eco-entrepreneur Tom Szaky explores why this crisis exists and explains how can we solve it by eliminating... |
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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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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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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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Love Is All You Need: The Art and Science of Non-Training Your Dog
Jennifer Arnold - Spiegel & Grau Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Through a Dog's Eyes - the inspiration for the PBS documentary - a paradigm-shifting approach to living with and loving our dogsThere are few people who understand dogs better than Jennifer Arnold. Twenty-five years after she founded... |
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside
Tim Birkhead - Bloomsbury Format: Print book
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Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary. As she grows into adulthood, only a few of her eggs mature, are released into the oviduct, and are fertilized by sperm... |
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Edward O Wilson - Liveright Format: Paperback
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"An audacious and concrete proposal ... Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson's valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." -- Jedediah Purdy, New RepublicIn his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist... |
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Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves
Brenda Peterson - Da Capo Press Format: Hardcover
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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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The Enigma of the Owl: An Illustrated Natural History
Mike Unwin - Yale University Press Format: Print book
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A rare invitation into the mysterious lives of owls around the world, with spectacularly revealing photographs and fascinating details Perhaps no other creature has so compelling a gaze as the owl. Its unblinking stare mesmerizes; its nocturnal lifestyle suggests secrets and mystery. This... |
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
Alexandra Horowitz - Scribner Format: Print book
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Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the lively, highly informative New York Times bestselling blockbuster Inside of a Dog, explains how dogs perceive the world through their most spectacular organ - the nose - and how we humans can put our under-used sense of smell to work in surprising... |
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Tropical Fruits and Other Edible Plants of the World: An Illustrated Guide
Rolf Blancke - A Zona Tropical publication Format: Print book
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Tropical fruits such as banana, mango, papaya, and pineapple are familiar and treasured staples of our diets, and consequently of great commercial importance, but there are many other interesting species that are little known to inhabitants of temperate regions. What delicacies are best... |
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A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
Tony Weis - PM Press Format: Book
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The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to marry quite explicitly concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet.... |
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101 Things for Kids to Do on a Rainy Day
Dawn Isaac - Firefly Books Format: Print book
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In 101 Things for Kids to Do Outside Dawn Isaac presented a diverse collection of activities designed to inspire kids to get out of the house and play. Rainy days are a different matter. Knowing that it can be particularly challenging to pull kids off the couch, Isaac created 101 activities... |
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The Pit Bull Life: A Dog Lover's Companion
Deirdre Franklin - W W Norton Format: Print book
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Everything you need to know about adopting, owning, and loving a pit bull All dogs are special, but living with a pit bull really is different. You know how loyal and lovable your dog is, but your life can be affected by the breed's undeserved reputation. The Pit Bull Life celebrates the everyday... |
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Indiana's Wabash River Valley
MARSHA WILLIAMSON MOHR - Mt Pub Company Inc Format: Hardcover
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9 x 12 inches, dust jacket, all color content and 184 gloss pages Indiana's Wabash River Valley has taken Marsha Mohr miles and years to collect the library of over 500 images. This book highlights the whole Wabash River from it's beginning at Fort Recovery, Ohio, to it's terminus... |
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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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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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Holy the Firm
Annie Dillard - Harper Perennial Format: Paperback
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In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy... |
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