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Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
LEILA PHILIP - ?Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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BEAVERLAND reveals the natural wonder and largely unsung story of the beaver-its long-term impact on American history and landscapes, and its importance in restoring balance and biodiversity amidst the ongoing climate crisis. In the rich naturalist tradition of H is for Hawk and The... |
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100 Great American Parks
Stephanie Pearson - ?National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Discover diverse and breathtaking natural landscapes in this beautifully illustrated collection of America's 63 national parks, as well as 37 state, recreational, and city parks and green spaces.Nowhere in the world is there a park system like America's. The National Park System... |
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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 Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Nichola Raihani - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It's how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation states. But given what we know about the mechanisms of evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle.... |
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Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond
Alexandra Horowitz - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From Alexandra Horowitz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, an eye-opening, informative, and wholly entertaining examination and celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike.We keep dogs and are kept by them.... |
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Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth
Tony Hiss - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning in the vast North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent, from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest, from the Appalachian Trail to a ranch in Mexico, Tony Hiss sets out on a journey to take stock of the "superorganism"... |
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The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums
Amy Leach - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Are you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categories of alliance, but brings everybody together into one clattering, sometimes discordant... |
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A Cloud a Day:
Gavin Pretor-Pinney - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Cloudspotter and bestselling author Gavin Pretor-Pinney delivers a moment of calm atmospheric contemplation to members of his Cloud Appreciation Society by sharing a cloud image and story every day. A Cloud a Day urges all of us to keep our heads in the clouds with 365 fascinating formations... |
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