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Shaggy Dog Eats!: 30 Recipes for Easy, Delicious Dog Treats
Christy Bright - Sterling
Format: Print book
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Your dog's a member of your family - so doesn't he deserve the very best? These 24 treats are so simple to make and deliver big flavor to your four-legged friends. From Pumpkin Pupsicles and Peanut Butter Bones to Minty Chicken Jerky, all the recipes feature tasty, healthy, dog-safe... |
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Rover: Wagmore Edition
ANDREW GRANT - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 2009, Andrew Grant began photographing dogs, starting with two French bulldogs at an unrelated commercial "shoot". Then he discovered the sad fact that millions of lost or abandoned dogs enter animal shelters every year. And only a few leave, through rescue and adoption. The rest... |
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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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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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A Song for the River
Philip Connors - Cinco Puntos Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the last working fire lookouts comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season -- a story of calamity and resilience in the world's first Wilderness.A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness... |
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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Texas
Mark Lockwood - Scott & Nix
Format: Print book
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A complete guide to the many birds of the Lone Star State Texas is one of the best places for birding in North America as the diversity of habitats and shear breadth of the state means that birdwatchers can see birds of the western deserts and scrublands; the eastern woodlands, hills,... |
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Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey
STEPHEN KUUSISTO - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.At the age of thirty-eight, Stephen Kuusisto - who has managed his whole life without... |
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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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Medicinal Plants of the Western Mountain States
Charles W Kane - Lincoln Town Press
Format: Paperback
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Exploring the most significant plant medicines of the Mountainous West, the following reference presents a working model of how to best apply the region's therapeutic plant life.Inhabitants of the greater Rocky Mountain Corridor (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana)... |
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Drawing Trees and Leaves: Observing and Sketching the Natural World
Julia Kuo - Quarto Publishing Group USA
Format: Print book
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Capture the essence of the forest with Drawing Trees and Leaves.Trees are a perennially inspiring subject for artists. Think of their beautiful multicolored leaves in the fall, or the way the snow settles on their branches in the winter. Start by learning how to identify trees and leaves,... |
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The Mammals of Texas
David J Schmidly - The University of Texas Press
Format: Print book
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From reviews of previous editions:"This is the standard reference about Texas mammals." - Wildlife Activist"A must for anyone seriously interested in the wildlife of Texas." - Texas Outdoor Writers Association News"[This book] easily fills the role of both a field... |
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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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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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Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Vol. II: The Invisible Pyramid, The Night Country, Essays from The Star Thrower
Loren Eiseley - Library Of America
Format: Print book
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An eminent paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was among the twentieth century's greatest inheritors of the literary tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, and John Muir, and a precursor to such later writers as Stephen Jay Gould,... |
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The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
Merlin D Tuttle - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared. From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect... |
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Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
JAMES CHESHIRE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Where the Animals Go is beautiful and thrilling, a combination of the best in science and exposition, and a joy to study cover to cover." -- Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityFor thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints.... |
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Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
Teresa E Masear - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A heartwarming account of the trials and triumphs a hummingbird rehabber encounters while caring for her tiny, fragile patients Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air,... |
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
Nicholas Pyenson - Viking
Format: Book
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Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and travel entire ocean basins. Whales... |
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Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction
Helen Pilcher - Bloomsbury SIGMA
Format: Print book
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Helen Pilcher is uniquely qualified to explain the cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real possibility, while acknowledging the serious and humorous aspects of giving a deceased animal a second chance to live. If you could bring back to life a person... |
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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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Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North
ADAM WEYMOUTH - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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One man's thrilling and transporting journey by canoe across Alaska in search of the king salmonThe Yukon river is 2,000 miles long, the longest stretch of free-flowing river in the United States. In this riveting examination of one of the last wild places on earth, Adam Weymouth canoes... |
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Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth
Charles Massy - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In Call of the Reed Warbler, Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. It is the story of how a grassroots revolution -- a true underground insurgency -- can save the planet, help reduce and reverse climate change, and build... |
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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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Hummingbirds: A Life-size Guide to Every Species
Marianne Taylor - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight dexterity, jewel-like color, and remarkably small size.This is the first book to profile all 338 known species, from the Saw-billed Hermit to the Scintillant Hummingbird.Every bird is shown... |
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The Dog Encyclopedia
DK Publishing - DK Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Covering the history, breeds, care, health, and positive training of dogs - all in one easy reference - The Dog Encyclopedia is a fully illustrated encyclopedia of all things canine. With an extensive photographic catalog of more than 400 dog breeds, organized by to FCI groupings, each... |
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Field Guide to Common Texas Grasses
Stephan L Hatch - Texas A&M University Press
Format: Print book
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Covering 172 species of the most significant common grasses growing in Texas, this complete update of the now-classic Common Texas Grasses: An Illustrated Guide contains range maps and color images of the inflorescences and spikelets of each species along with the detailed, black-and-white... |
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The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals
Donald R. Prothero - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses. Here is the ultimate... |
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The Beekeeper's Handbook
Diana Sammataro - Comstock Publishing Associates
Format: Paperback
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Since 1973, tens of thousands of first-time and experienced beekeepers alike have relied on The Beekeeper's Handbook as the best single-volume guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping. Featuring clear descriptions and authoritative content, this handbook provides step-by-step... |
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Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowat - Perfection Learning
Format: Hardcover
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"Originally published in hardcover by Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1963"--T.p. verso. |
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
Chip Jacobs - Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book
Format: Hardcover
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Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative examination of China's ecological calamity already imperiling a warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete needlessly kills as many as died in the 9/11... |
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Birds of a Feather: A True Story of Hope and the Healing Power of Animals
LORIN LINDNER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The inspiring story of how one woman's vision helped create a unique healing communityLee Woodruff: "This true story will twist your heart like a sponge and renew your faith in the world."Vicki Myron: "A heartwarming book." Animal lover though she was, Lorin Lindner... |
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Note to Self
Connor Franta - Atria/Keywords Press
Format: Print book
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In his New York Times bestselling memoir, A Work in Progress, Connor Franta shared his journey from small-town Midwestern boy to full-fledged Internet sensation. Exploring his past with humor and astounding insight, Connor reminded his fans of why they first fell in love with... |
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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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The Best Dog Tricks on the Planet: 106 Amazing Things Your Dog Can Do on Command
Babette Haggerty - Page Street Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Featured on the Today show!Not only does training your dog new tricks give you something to show-off at parties, but it also keeps your dog engaged and moving, and helps you become closer and more in-tune with your pet. And who better to learn from than the pros? Babette Haggerty has trained... |
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A Dog Called Hope: A Wounded Warrior and the Service Dog Who Saved Him
Jason Morgan - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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Lone Survivor meets Marley & Me in this inspiring buddy memoir of an extraordinary service dog whose enduring love brought a wounded soldier back to life.A decade ago, Special Forces warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle on an anti-narcotics... |
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The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
MARTIN DOYLE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How rivers have shaped American politics, economics, and society from the beginnings of the Republic to today. In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment -- over... |
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Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear
Bryce Andrews - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"Andrews' wonderful Downfrom the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts...Welcome and impressive work." - Barry Lopez The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs,... |
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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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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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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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Always By My Side: Life Lessons from Millie and All the Dogs I've Loved
Edward Grinnan - Howard Books
Format: Print book
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The editor-in-chief of Guideposts magazine shares the heartwarming story of Millie, his beloved golden retriever, and how she taught him to be a more compassionate person, deepened his faith, and inspired him on his long-term path of recovery from addiction.From the moment his new golden... |
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Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life
Matin Durrani - Bloomsbury SIGMA
Format: Print book
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The principles of physics lie behind many of the ways animals go about their daily lives. Scientists have discovered that the way cats and dogs lap up liquids can be explained by the laws of surface tension, how ants navigate is due to polarized light, and why pistol shrimps can generate... |
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Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved
Darren Naish - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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Dinosaurs are one of the most spectacular groups of animals that have ever existed. Many were fantastic, bizarre creatures that still capture our imagination: the super-predator Tyrannosaurus, the plate-backed Stegosaurus, and the long-necked, long-tailed Diplodocus. Dinosaurs: The Ultimate... |
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Robert Macfarlane - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal) , Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections... |
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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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Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
KAREN AUVINEN - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen MacDonald's H Is for Hawk, a stunning, inspirational memoir from an award-winning poet who ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life's big questions and finds her way back after losing everything she thought... |
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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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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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Poisonous Plants: A Guide for Parents & Childcare Providers
Elizabeth A Dauncey - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Format: Paperback
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This handy guidebook is the result of a sixteen-year collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital Poisons Unit. Written with both botanical and toxicological authority, the book offers concise details of the 130 most poisonous plants... |
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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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To Catch a Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me
Heather Green - Berkley Books
Format: Print book
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A heartfelt, funny memoir about how a kitten rescue project changed one cynic's life ... Journalist Heather Green was finally putting down roots: in shiny, buzzing Manhattan. She loved her work and threw herself into sixty-hour weeks - once walking into a subway pole, getting a concussion,... |
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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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Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
Michael Kodas - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant exploration of the rising phenomenon of megafires - forest fires of alarming scale, intensity, and devastation - that captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to the most dangerous... |
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
R D E MacPhee - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth.Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller -- including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more -- roamed the earth. These... |
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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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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Bill Schutt - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A masterful and compulsively readable book that challenges our preconceived notions about a behavior often sensationalized in our culture and, until just recently, misunderstood in the scientific world." - Ian Tattersall, Curator Emeritus, American Museum of Natural History,... |
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A Marriage in Dog Years
Nancy Balbirer - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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When Nancy Balbirer learns her beloved eleven-year-old beagle has kidney failure, she's devastated. She and her husband had gotten Ira as a puppy - a wedding gift to each other, and their first foray into "parenthood." Now, her dog is terminal, her marriage is on life support,... |
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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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A Rock between Two Rivers: The Fracturing of a Texas Family Ranch
Hugh Fitzsimons III - Trinity University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A Rock between Two Rivers is the story of a man coming to terms with the environmental legacy of his family's ranch in Dimmitt County, Texas, and reckoning with the birthright he'll leave for the generations who follow. What began for Hugh Fitzsimons as a mission to expose local... |
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Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything
Helen Scales - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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Seventy per cent of the earth's surface is covered by water. This vast aquatic realm is inhabited by a multitude of strange creatures and reigning supreme among them are the fish. There are giants that live for centuries and thumb-sized tiddlers that survive only weeks; they can be pancake-flat... |
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Client Earth
James Thornton - Scribe US
Format: Paperback
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Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope. Who will stop the planet from committing... |
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No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies: 1
WILLIAM T VOLLMANN - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A timely, eye-opening book about climate change and energy generation that focuses on the consequences of nuclear power production, from award-winning author William T. VollmannIn his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important... |
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Return of the Grizzly: Sharing the Range with Yellowstone's Top Predator
Cat Urbigkit - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The Yellowstone grizzly population has grown from an estimated 136 bears when first granted federal protection as a threatened species to as many as 1,000 grizzlies in a tri-state region today. No longer limited to remote wilderness areas, grizzlies now roam throughout the region -- in state... |
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Penguins of America
James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book
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A lavishly illustrated, humorous book from the world's #1 bestselling writer and his son that shows how humans and penguins really aren't that different after all. Penguins--our lovable, cute, flightless friends who are constantly dressed for a formal occasion--have always fascinated... |
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Sharing the Common Pool: Water Rights in the Everyday Lives of Texans
Charles R Porter Jr. - Texas A&M University Press
Format: Print book
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If all the people, municipalities, agencies, businesses, power plants, and other entities that think they have a right to the water in Texas actually tried to exercise those rights, there would not be enough water to satisfy all claims, no matter how legitimate. In Sharing the Common... |
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The Secret Life of Cows
Rosamund Young - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animalsAt her famous Kite's Nest Farm in Worcestershire, England, the cows (as well as sheep, hens, and pigs) all roam... |
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The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
William Atkins - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places.One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless,... |
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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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Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon
Bronwen Dickey - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly the most dangerous of dogs - and what role humans have played in the transformation. When Bronwen Dickey brought her new dog home, she saw no traces of the infamous viciousness in her affectionate,... |
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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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National Geographic The Photo Ark: One Mans Quest to Document the Worlds Animals
Joel Sartore - National Geographic; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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The lush and unique photography in this book represents National Geographics Photo Ark, a major initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the worlds animals - especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion,... |
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Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
Frederic C Rich - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, there is much to admire in this book, which reminds us that the stewardship of nature is an obligation shared by all Americans." -- U.S. Senator Angus S. King Jr.The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals... |
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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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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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A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
Adam Briggle - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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From the front lines of the fracking debate, a "field philosopher" explores one of our most divisive technologies.When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative... |
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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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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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The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
Brantley Hargrove - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A tale of obsession and daring. A contest between humankind and nature's fiercest phenomenon. The saga of the greatest storm chaser who ever lived.At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American... |
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Strays: A Lost Cat, a Drifter, and Their Journey Across America
BRITT COLLINS - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Strays is a compelling true story of a man who rescues a stray, injured cat and how they save each other.Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading... |
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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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Visionary Women
Andrea Barnet - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Four influential women we thought we knew well - Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters - and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movementThis is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women - linked not by friendship... |
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Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang, Americas Horse
DAVID PHILIPPS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's history of wild horses in America -- and an eye-opening story on their treatment in our time.Wild horses -- also known as mustangs -- live in a strange twilight. They are deeply American but not native; they are free-born symbols of liberty but tightly... |
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Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Vol. I: The Immense Journey, The Firmament of Time, The Unexpected Universe, Uncollected Writings
Loren Eiseley - Library Of America
Format: Print book
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An eminent paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was among the twentieth century's greatest inheritors of the literary tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, and John Muir, and a precursor to such later writers as Stephen Jay Gould,... |
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Costa Rica: The Complete Guide: Ecotourism & Adventure in Costa Rica
James Kaiser - Destination Press
Format: Paperback
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Costa Rica has it all! From pristine beaches and jungle waterfalls to high-altitude coffee plantations, Costa Rica: The Complete Guide puts the best of Costa Rica at your fingertips.Blending detailed travel tips with beautiful photography, this guidebook offers so much more than just restaurant... |
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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 Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack
Jim Dutcher - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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From the world-famous couple who lived alongside a three-generation wolf pack, this book of inspiration, drawn from the wild, will fascinate animal and nature lovers alike.For six years Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived intimately with a pack of wolves, gaining their trust as no one has before.... |
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National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Weather of North America
Jack Williams - National Geographic
Format: Paperback
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Everybody talks about the weather but how many really understand it? This little book is a basic reference on storms, sky phenomena, global patterns of wind and pressure, weather forecasting techniques, interpreting cloud formations, and extreme weather safety. Each one of 144 featured... |
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The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
Jim Robbins - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating investigation into the miraculous world of birds and the powerful - and surprising - ways they enrich our lives and sustain the planetOur relationship to birds is different from our relationship to any other wild creatures. They are found virtually everywhere and we love to watch... |
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