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Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Emily Monosson - ?W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi -- and how to avert further loss across species, including our own.Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease...
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The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

Manjula Martin - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record.Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire...
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Improving Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach

Temple Grandin
Format: 3rd Edition

Praise for previous editions: "(There) sometimes appear publications which are worthy of specific attention... (they) stimulate, instruct and present new concepts. Among such books belongs the reviewed book... we can only hope that this successful work gets to the hands of those...
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Moon Camino de Santiago: Sacred Sites, Historic Villages, Local Food & Wine (Travel Guide)

Beebe Bahrami - Moon Travel
Format: Paperback

Over 1,200 years old, 500 miles long, and rich with tradition, history, and inspiration: Embark on the trip of a lifetime with Moon Camino de Santiago. Inside you'll find:Strategic trekking advice for walking the Camino, including where to start to get the Compostela certificate and excursions...
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Bluebird Seasons: Witnessing Climate Change in My Piece of the Wild

Mary Young - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

In this A Sand County Almanac for the twenty-first century, nature writer and zoologist Mary Taylor Young tells the story of the growing effects of climate change on her land in the pine-covered foothills of southern Colorado. Climate change wasn't yet on the public radar when Young...
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Dinosaurs: A Smithsonian Coloring Book

Smithsonian Institution
Format: Paperback

Dinosaurs come to life--with your help! The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and IDW Publishing present a fascinating new coloring book that provides a beautiful and informative tour through the prehistoric world of dinosaurs.Withthis exquisitely designed coloring book,...
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The Secret Language of Flowers: The Historical Symbolism and Spiritual Properties of Flowers Throughout Time (DK Gifts)

DK - DK
Format: Hardcover

Discover the uses and symbolic meanings of flowers over the centuries and across the globe.. Flowers have been depicted as objects of beauty and wonder in countless paintings and poems, exchanged as tokens of love and affection, and displayed as symbols of both celebration and remembrance...
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Bushcraft Whittling: Projects for Carving Useful Tools at Camp and in the Field

Rick Wiebe
Format: Paperback

An easy and fun introduction to the essential outdoor skill of bushcraft whittling.Bushcraft whittling -- the art of shaping improvised campsite and hiking implements -- requires no special tools or complex techniques, and you can practice on just about any wood that comes to hand. Plus,...
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Complete Guide to Winter Camping

Kevin Callan - Firefly Books; Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Format: Paperback

With careful planning, tenting during the year's coldest months can be safe and fun. Complete Guide to Winter Camping offers advice on selecting a four-season tent and constructing other types of shelter, maintaining personal hygiene, cooking in the cold, choosing a sleep system and getting...
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Desert Jewels: Cactus Flowers of the Southwest and Mexico

John P. Schaefer - ?Sentinel Peak Books
Format: Hardcover

Cactus flowers are jewels of the desert - they add brilliant pops of color to our arid surroundings. In this book, renowned Tucson photographer John P. Schaefer brings the exquisite and unexpected beauty of the cactus flower to the page. Hundreds of close-up photographs of cactus flowers...
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