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Theres No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Moms Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)

Linda Åkeson McGurk - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this "fascinating exploration of the importance of the outdoors to childhood development" (Kirkus Reviews) from a Swedish-American mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia...
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What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience

Gregory Berns - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner-completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different...
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The Hidden Life of Wolves

Jim Dutcher - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Detailing the emotional and social lives of the Sawtooth Pack, the authors recount wolf behavior rarely documented: grief at the death a pack mate; exuberant play and friendships; excitement over the birth of pups; and the shared role of raising young pack members, teaching them needed...
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An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar

Alan Rabinowitz - Island Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable...
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Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

Kimberly K. Arcand - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

A lavish coffee-table book featuring spectacular images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-Ray telescope ever builtTake a journey through the cosmos with Light from the Void, a stunning collection of photographs from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's two decades...
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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

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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A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind, and Water

David Gessner - ?Torrey House Press
Format: Paperback

Bestselling author David Gessner asks what kind of planet his daughter will inherit in this coast-to-coast guide to navigating climate crisis. The world is burning and the seas are rising. How do we navigate this new age of extremes? In A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World, David...
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Puppy steps : practical training for your new best friend

Libby Rockaway - Clovercroft Publishing ; Nicholasville
Format: Print book

Aimed at youth and the young at heart, this 180-page book offers an easy to follow, comprehensive training system for new puppy owners. Direct thought expression, light dry humor, and hundreds of colorful photos, charts, and comic sketches of the main characters - Libby and Fido - keep...
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They CommunicateDiscoveries From a Secret World

Peter Wohlleben - David Suzuki Institute
Format: Print book

A forester's fascinating stories, supported by the latest scientific research, reveal the extraordinary world of forests and illustrate how trees communicate and care for each other. In "The Hidden Life of Trees, " Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains...
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