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Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job
H.H. Shugart · Columbia University Press |
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"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?" God asks Job in the "Whirlwind Speech," but Job cannot reply. This passage -- which some environmentalists and religious scholars treat as a "green" creation myth -- drives renowned ecologist H. H. Shugart's... |
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Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer
Matthew Gavin Frank · Liveright; 1 edition
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Memory, mythology, and obsession collide in this strikingly original and enigmatic account of the first man to photograph a giant squid. Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over... |
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Will Harlan · Grove Press |
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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built herself in an island wilderness. She’s had three husbands and many lovers, one of whom she shot and killed in self-defense.... |
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Extinct for a Reason: A Field Guide to Failimals and Evolosers
Scott Cooney · Gallery Books; Original edition |
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Before there was Darwin, before there was man’s best friend, there were . . . Failimals. The Royal Failimal Society presents the Unchameleon, Bipolar Bear, Emo Emu, and other Darwin-defiant animals that, though fascinating, have clearly become extinct for a reason. The culmination... |
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