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Southern Rivers: Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity

R. Scot Duncan - University Alabama Press
Format: Paperback

Explores the Southeast's imperiled river systems and solutions for preserving them in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and extinction Southern Rivers, by award-winning nature writer and biologist R. Scot Duncan, is a thoroughly crafted exploration of the perilous state of the Southeast's...
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Ultimate Guide to Hobby Farm Animals: Raising Beef Cattle, Chickens, Ducks, Goats, Pigs, Rabbits, and Sheep (CompanionHouse Books) Everything a Hobby Farmer Needs to Know for Small-Scale Farming

Sue Weaver - CompanionHouse Books
Format: Paperback

Learn everything a hobby farmer needs to know about farm animals!7 popular farm animals - beef cattle, chickens, ducks, goats, pigs, rabbits, and sheep - with extensive sections for each, including information on breeds and varietiesDetailed how-to on the care, handling, feeding, health,...
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Toward a Holy Ecology: Reading the Song of Songs in the Age of Climate Crisis

Ellen Bernstein - Monkfish Book Publishing
Format: Paperback

"Reading Ellen Bernstein's Toward a Holy Ecology is to partake in a garden of delights. She refreshes our reading of the Song by enlivening all of our senses." - Rabbi Nancy Flam, Co-founder National Center for Jewish Healing, and The Institute for Jewish SpiritualitySong...
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On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

Abrahm Lustgarten - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

"On the Move explains how we got here and where we're headed. It's crucial guide to the world we are creating." -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth ExtinctionA vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know...
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Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America

Jonathan Vigliotti - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, a character-driven and shocking up-close look at the way climate change is affecting America, right now, and a call to action to protect the people and places we stand to lose if nothing is done to preserve our planet.. Discussion of the climate...
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Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

Harry Cliff - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening account of the inexplicable phenomena that science has only recently glimpsed, and that could transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality.. Something strange is going on in the cosmos....
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Matt Strassler - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey - found in "no other book" (Science) - to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: "If you want to know what's really going on in the realms of relativity and particle physics,...
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The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change

Meghan Elizabeth Kallman - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Kallman and Ferorelli provide a compelling and compassionate framework for working through seemingly insoluble dilemmas, beginning with the decision to have a child, but not ending there. The book ends with a commonsense guide on how to make change happen. -- Amitav Ghosh, author of The Nutmeg's...
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