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In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World

Lauren E. Oakes - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming worldSeveral years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species...
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The Trees of North America: Michaux and Redoute's American Masterpiece

David Allen Sibley - Abbeville Press Publishers
Format: Print book

Franois Andr Michaux (1770-1855) was a French botanist whose work on the trees of North America gave the world's first illustrated account of American trees east of the Mississippi. From 1841 to 1849 the English botanist and one of the greatest plant explorers of North America, Thomas...
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The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals

Donald R. Prothero - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book

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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Family Camping: Everything You Need to Know for a Night Outdoors with Loved Ones

Charlie Ess - Falcon Guides
Format: Paperback

The ultimate camping handbook - whether you're with family or friends, camping or in your backyard - Family Camping has everything you need for a perfect experience. Part inspiration, part practical knowledge, this book is a whole lot of fun. Family Camping offers up food and drink...
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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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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell

Alexandra Horowitz - Scribner
Format: Print book

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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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

Ben Rawlence - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover


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The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers

ADAM NICOLSON - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall,...
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The man who made things out of trees

Rob Penn - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it. Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied...
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Your labrador retriever puppy : month by month

Terry Albert - Alpha
Format: Print book

"Your Labrador Retriever Puppy Month-by-Month" provides new puppy owners with everything you need to know and do at each stage of development to make sure your playful, energetic puppy grows into a happy, healthy, and well-adjusted companion. Expert authors Terry Albert, vet Deb Eldredge,...
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