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Butterflies of the Northeast: Identify Butterflies with Ease - Spiral

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by Jaret C. Daniels (Author)Your Quick Guide to Identifying Butterflies in the Northeast At the park, in the garden, or on a walk, keep this tabbed booklet close at hand. Based on Jaret C. Daniels' best-selling butterfly field guides, Butterflies of the Northeast features only species seen in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is organized by color for quick and easy identification. Narrow you...

Fascinating Fungi of New England - Paperback

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by Lawrence Millman (Author)Let author Lawrence Millman escort you on a journey into the history of over 150 fungi species. Learn how to make spore prints, discover which species are edible, find out which mushroom the Vikings ate before their raids and more. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.3 x 5.9 x 8 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 25, 2011

Botanical Shakespeare: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright - Hardcover

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by Gerit Quealy (Author), Sumie Hasegawa Collins (Author), Helen Mirren (Foreword by)A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, accompanied by their companion quotes from all of his plays and poems. With a foreword by Dame Helen Mirren--the first foreword she has ever contributed.In this striking compilation, Shakespeare historian Ger...

The Mushroom Hunter's Kitchen: A Culinary Homage to Wild and Cultivated Mushrooms - With 120 Recipes

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Report copyright infringementby Chad Hyatt (Author)Whether you get your mushrooms from the supermarket or straight from the forest floor, The Mushroom Hunter's Kitchen will help you make the most of your haul.Because the right cooking method can transform a mushroom from meh to mouthwatering, professional chef and mushroom foraging expert Chad Hyatt starts by sharing the best techniques to use for dozens of varieties, from the humble button mushroom to the revered morel, the common oyster mus...

Edible Plants of the Pacific Northwest: A Visual Guide to Harvesting and Cooking with 40 Common Species

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Report copyright infringementby Natalie Hammerquist (Author)A detailed guide to the most abundant and tasty edible wild plants in the Pacific Northwest Overviews of 40 edible plants with history, common names, and subspecies Beginner-friendly resource explores native, non-native, and invasive plants with detailed listings, recipes, plus a seasonal harvest calendar Full-color ID photos with detailed close-ups, as well as contextual photos of plants in the wild A foraging guide that emphasi...

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by Judy Breckling (Author), Barry Breckling (Author)Yosemite is one of the crown jewels of our national park system. Although the park is most famous for its magnificent peaks, domes, and waterfalls, it is also a treasure trove of wildflowers due to its incredible diversity of plant habitats and its extensive elevation range. This is the first comprehensive Yosemite wildflower guide that's small enough to fit in a book bag. The guide was designed to help people identify almost all the wildflo...

Portrait of an Oyster: A Natural History of an Epicurean Delight

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Report copyright infringementby Andreas Ammer (Author), Falk Nordmann (Illustrator), Ren?e Von Paschen (Translator)A beautifully illustrated celebration of the biology, culture, art, and taste of oysters--a perfect gift for the foodie or the artist in your life. Everyone recalls eating their first oyster, just like they remember their first kiss ... Portrait of an Oyster delves beyond the shucked shell to reveal the rich and surprising world of the oyster and the artists, philosophers, explor...

Sisters of the Jungle: The Trailblazing Women Who Shaped the Study of Wild Primates

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Report copyright infringementby Keriann McGoogan (Author)Sisters of the Jungle explores the history of primatology, a rare scientific discipline led primarily by women, from pioneers like Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey to author Keriann McGoogan's own adventurous field studies.Since the 1970s, the science of primatology has been dominated by women--a unique reversal, as men usually outnumber women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.Today, one of those women is primatolog...

Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species

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Report copyright infringementby Bridget A. Lyons (Author) What can octopuses' nine brains teach us about climate resilience? How can great horned owls' keen hearing illuminate relationship dynamics? Does playing with kelp cultivate respect for the value of life? What can our 8.7 million "more-than-human" neighbors teach us about life? Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species explores these questions through a collection of fourteen original essays by Bridget A. Lyons, a wildernes...

A Year of Birds: Writings on Birds from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau - Paperback

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by Geoff Wisner (Editor), Barry Van Dusen (Illustrator), Peter Alden (Foreword by)A work of art as well as a work of literature, A YEAR OF BIRDS will be welcomed by nature lovers, art lovers, and birders. With 150 color illustrations by renowned bird artist Barry Van Dusen and a foreword by celebrated naturalist Peter Alden, the author of numerous Audubon Field Guides, Henry David Thoreau's writings on birds are arranged by the day of the year, emphasizing the relationship of birds with their...

Eco-Spirituality in the 21st Century: Revisioning Nature, Community, and Connection for a Better Tomorrow

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Report copyright infringementby Dana O'Driscoll (Author), Nate Summers (Author)Eco-Spirituality offers a new vision for nature spirituality both by drawing upon ancient, ancestral connections and by visioning human-nature-spirit connections for a brighter future. The authors combine their collective skill sets in druidry, wilderness survival skills, permaculture, and more, to create this new framework for engaging in an eco-centric spiritual practice and lifestyle in the 21st century. This ...

The Wisdom of the Hive: What Honeybees Can Teach Us about Collective Wellbeing

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Cassandra Johnson (Author), Amy Burtaine (Author), Jacqueline Freeman (Foreword by)Potent and timely lessons on healing and connection―both individually and collectively―through the wisdom and magic of honeybees. We've heard the refrain to save the bees, but what if the bees can save us too? Beloved equity educators, authors, and beekeepers Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine invite us to contemplate this question deeply. By looking at bees as ...

The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman's Heart

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn Wilder (Author)Told from the unique perspective of a woman, mother, environmentalist, cowboy, and rancher, this work of literary nonfiction conveys the joys, challenges, heartbreaks, and qualms of contemporary ranching in the American West. On nineteen thousand acres of combined public and private land in southwest Colorado, Kathryn Wilder and her son, with the help of additional family members, run Criollo cattle, a heritage breed that originated in S...

Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen Hoover

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Report copyright infringementby David Hakensen (Author)The biography of one of Minnesota's most beloved nature writers, from her career in the city to her rustic cabin on Gunflint Lake During the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Helen Hoover's stories and essays of life in the wilderness on northern Minnesota's Gunflint Lake, published in popular magazines and several bestselling books (including The Gift of the Deer in 1966 and A Place in the Woods in 1969), found millions of fans and e...

Woodland Wonderland: A Tranquil Coloring Retreat - A Calming Coloring Book of Flowers and Forest Animals for Adults - Paperback

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by Rachel Reinert (Author) Adelightful coloring journey into the magical world of forest flowers andcreatures Special features: ArtistCreated: 46 original coloring designshand-drawn especially for this book by artist Rachel ReinertA Coloring Experience You Will Love: Printed on premium heavyweight paper--no bleed through with markers! The sewn binding lets you open the book flat.Your Own Frame-Worthy Art: Coloring images are printed on one side of the page only so they can be easily r...

Birds of Massachusetts Field Guide - Paperback

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by Stan Tekiela (Author)Identify Massachusetts birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.Make bird-watching in Massachusetts even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This handy book features 132 species of Massachusetts birds organized by color for ease of use. F...

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Report copyright infringementby John James 1785-1851 Audubon (Author), John T. Ca 1801-1856? Bowen (Created by)"The Birds of America," Volume 3, is a landmark work by John James Audubon, showcasing his unparalleled depictions of North American bird species. This volume, part of the complete series, features meticulously detailed illustrations drawn from Audubon's own observations in the United States and its territories. Audubon's artistry, combined with John T. Bowen's lithography, brings th...

The Witch's Yearbook: Spells, Stones, Tools and Rituals for a Year of Modern Magic - Paperback

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by Clare Gogerty (Author)Unleash your inner enchantress and discover a world of magic and possibilities.Immerse yourself in a spellbinding journey, exploring themes of ancient rituals, mystical techniques, and empowering discoveries, and uncover the secrets of spellcasting, potion-making, divination, and enchantments.You will learn: The art of crafting powerful spells that manifest your desires.How to harness the energy of the moon phases for spellwork.Secrets of herbal magic and creating pot...

Plant Collecting in Another Planet: E. H. Wilson in Australia 1920-21

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Grose (Author)Ernest H. Wilson (1876-1930), trained at Kew Gardens, became Harvard's most famous plant collector in the early decades of the twentieth century, and established his fame through travels in China and his superb photography. In 1920-21 Wilson collected in Australia, where he was astounded by the plants he found and thought them so different to anything in the Northern Hemisphere that it was like collecting in 'another planet.'Wilson's Aust...

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by Kirsten McKnight Ward (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), R. Rohrer Joseph (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), B. McKnight Karl (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Dimensions: 0.4 x 9 x 4 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2022

Flora: The Secret Language of Plants in Art

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Report copyright infringementby Hope Werness (Author)Piet Mondrian's chrysanthemums, Faith Ringgold's sunflowers, Georgia O'Keefe's black iris, Salvador Dalí's narcissus, Yayoi Kusama's pumpkin ...these are just a few of the many exemplary pairings that can offer a unique, artistic interpretation of a plant's essence. Beautifully designed and visually captivating, Flora is arranged thematically by the trees, flowers, fruit, vegetables, spices, grasses, grains, and vines which have served as a...

The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Prema Arasu (Author)A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and never abating the gluttony of their terrible maw.' Pliny the Elder This absorbing exploration of the sea monster in all its tentacular forms is a deep dive into the world of sirens, mermaids, Scylla and kraken from 3C BCE to the modern day. Told throug...

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Taylor (Author)When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the "first" ichthyosaur, and over the next seventy-five years--as the science of paleontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited radical new theories of evolutionary biology, and ...

No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Engelhard (Author)Beyond Sled Dogs and GoldSomewhere between myths and hard facts you find Nome, poised also between yesterday and tomorrow. Drawing on his background in anthropology and an equal passion for history, Michael Engelhard surveys the seam that links two neighboring continents through the lens of one pivotal city. The region's legacy of millennia shines on pages enriched by this writer's recollections-from mammoths to Cold War monuments, fro...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard H. Holm (Author) Number of Pages: 442 Dimensions: 0.98 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2025

Woven Roots: Recovering the Healing Plant Traditions of Jews and Their Neighbors in Eastern Europe

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Report copyright infringementby Deatra Cohen (Author), Adam Siegel (Author)A comprehensive guide to the medicinal plants and folk healers of Eastern Europe's Pale of Settlement--mapping ancestral folkways, herbal traditions, and shared legacies of Ashkenazi Jews and their neighbors Includes a materia medica of healing plants and their traditional applications A companion guide to Ashkenazi Herbalism, Woven Roots explores the rich history of plant-based medicine and folk healing traditions of...

Wild in Seattle: Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature

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Report copyright infringementby David Williams (Author), Elizabeth Person (Illustrator) More than 40 essays dive into the geology, animals, plants, and architecture that shape Seattle Fully illustrated by celebrated local artist Elizabeth Person Fun and fascinating sidebars explore regional vocabulary, scientific terms, and Indigenous language phrases For award-winning natural history writer David B. Williams, to be connected to a place you need to pause and look deeply at it. Wild in Seattl...

The Fabulous Ordinary: Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South

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Report copyright infringementby Georgann Eubanks (Author)Georgann Eubanks offers readers a tour of the seasonal joys of ecosystems in the Southeast. The ordinary destinations and events she explores are scattered across seven states and include such wonders as a half-million purple martins roosting on an island in a South Carolina lake, the bloom of thirty acres of dimpled trout lilies in a remote Georgia forest, gnat larvae that glow like stars on the rock walls of an obscure Alabama canyon,...

Between the Tides in Washington and Oregon: Exploring Beaches and Tidepools - Paperback

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by Ryan P. Kelly (Author), Terrie Klinger (Author), John J. Meyer (Author)A spectacular variety of life flourishes between the ebb and flow of high and low tide. Anemones talk to each other through chemical signaling, clingfish grip rocks and resist the surging tide, and bioluminescent dinoflagellates--single-celled algae--light up disturbances in the shallow water like glowing fingerprints.This guidebook helps readers uncover the hidden workings of the natural world of the shoreline. Richly ...

Garden Bugs & Insects of the Northeast: Identify Pollinators, Pests, and Other Garden Visitors - Spiral

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by Jaret C. Daniels (Author)This tabbed booklet features Northeast garden bugs and insects, so you can identify them and learn how to better attract or repel them.Author BiographyJaret C. Daniels, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Entomology at the University of Florida and Director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History, specializing in insect ecology and conservation. He has authored numerous scientific papers, popular articles, an...

The Nature of Yosemite: A Visual Journey - Hardcover

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by Robb Hirsch (Photographer), John Muir Laws (Foreword by)This beautifully produced deep dive into Yosemite National Park features stunning photography by Robb Hirsch and fascinating natural history from knowledgeable contributors. Yosemite is like nowhere else on Earth.Within its vast expanses are spectacular granite mountains, glacially carved valleys, thundering waterfalls, delicate meadows, grand trees, and charismatic wildlife. From his years of exploring and studying California's Sierr...

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by Merrill A. Peterson (Author)This field guide sets a new standard for insect identification, making it an indispensable resource to naturalists, educators, gardeners, and others. Engaging and accessible, Pacific Northwest Insects features detailed species accounts, each with a vivid photograph of a living adult, along with information for distinguishing similar species, allowing the reader to identify more than 3,000 species found from southern British Columbia to northern California and as...