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by Dominic Couzens (Author), Gail Ashton (Author)A fascinating, beautifully illustrated compendium of stories and facts about the insects in our world. Fascinating and richly illustrated stories of insects in 366 daily entries, from dancing honeybees to the largest spider webs in the world. Entomologists Dominic Couzens and Gail Ashton present an insect for every day of the year in this beautifully produced guide. Readers are invited on a captivating journey through insect behavior, migration...

Mauled: Lessons Learned from a Grizzly Bear Attack - Paperback

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by Crosbie Cotton (Author), Jeremy Evans (With)An inspiring true-life survival story set in the remote backcountry of the Canadian Rockies. In August 2017, 32-year-old Jeremy Evans endured multiple ferocious attacks by a protective female grizzly bear while hunting in the Alberta wilderness. Jeremy's injuries were massive, his scalp and face destroyed, an eye and his jaw dangling down. The tendons on one leg had been fully severed during the mauling. His hands were damaged where he had physic...

Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews - Paperback

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by Deatra Cohen (Author), Adam Siegel (Author)The definitive guide to the medicinal plant knowledge of Ashkenazi herbal healers--from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Until now, the herbal traditions of the Ashkenazi people have remained unexplored and shrouded in mystery. Ashkenazi Herbalism rediscovers the forgotten legacy of the Jewish medicinal plant healers who thrived in Eastern Europe's Pale of Settlement, from their beginnings in the Middle Ages through the modern era. Including t...

The Time Nature Keeps: A Visual Guide to the Cycles and Time Spans of the Natural World - Hardcover

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by Helen Pilcher (Author)With stunning infographics on every page, this riveting visual guide reveals the mind-bending marvels of nature's timescales both large and minuscule "This work broadens our perception of time by looking at it through natural cycles . . . . The visuals seamlessly enhance the text, making for an impactful learning experience."--Booklist starred review Take a visual journey of discovery through the animal and plant kingdoms--and uncover the extraordinary rhythms of nat...

The New Plant Collector: The Next Adventure in Your House Plant Journey - Paperback

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by Darryl Cheng (Author)Darryl Cheng, bestselling author of The New Plant Parent, is back with the first book for indoor gardeners who want to step up from basic plant care to creating rewarding plant collections. The world of indoor gardening is exploding with desirable new and unusual plants. Thanks to the resources of the internet and social media, finding amazing varieties has never been easier--but knowing how to get maximum enjoyment from this enticing world is not so easy. In The New...

Why Some Babies Do Not Sleep Well: How to Fix Your Newborn to 6 Month Baby's Sleep Problems for Good - Paperback

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by Beth Miller (Author)Why do some babies not sleep well? This is a common question that many parents ask. Understandably so, because babies have a silent language unknown to adults. As a result, the parent cannot understand the baby's unspoken cues. Thus, the parent cannot meet the baby's needs effectively. This communication gap results in an overstimulated, overtired baby that has a has a difficult time falling asleep or staying asleep. This is very frustrating and overwhelming for a paren...

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places - Hardcover

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by Christopher Brown (Author)A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society. A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect. During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property--abandoned and full of litter and debri...

Reading Water: Lessons from the River - Paperback

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by Rebecca Lawton (Author)2002 FINALIST, FOREWORD INDIE Nature Book of the Year" [A] seasoned depiction of the nomadic culture, empty canyons, and wild western rivers that define and haunt her. Honest in her assessment of the psychological costs of a gypsy life, artful in her understanding of currents and seasons, Lawton depicts the rivers taking away as well as giving . . . " - David James Duncan, author, The River Why and My Story as Told by WaterYou've read about famed explorers and early ...

Dinosaurs: Profiles from a Lost World - Hardcover

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by Riley Black (Author), Riccardo Frapiccini (Illustrator)Who isn't fascinated by dinosaurs? These strange reptiles have awed us ever since their fossils were first identified as the bones of creatures from the distant past.For millions of years, dinosaurs ruled the prehistoric world. And now, millions of years after their mass extinction, they continue to rule our imaginations.But how did dinosaurs live, what did they eat, how did they move about, and what were the differences between their ...

Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: The FBI vs. the Earth Liberation Front - Paperback

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by Craig Rosebraugh (Author), Tamsin Omond (Foreword by)A harrowing, captivating firsthand history of the rise of the radical environmental movement the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Since 1997, the ELF has inflicted over $100 million in damages on entities they believe to be causing environmental destruction, mostly through brazen arson attacks on timber companies, ski resorts, and car dealerships. Former ELF spokesperson Craig Rosebraugh charts the history and ideology of the ELF and explor...

Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights - Paperback

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by Sue Donaldson (Author), Will Kymlicka (Author)Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of moral theory and applied ethics to the realm of political theory, focusing on the relational obligations that arise from the varied ways that animals re...

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by Sabrina Imbler (Author)Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a small book that tackles large, wholly human questions-what it means to live and date under white supremacy, to never know if one is loved or fetishized, how to navigate fierce desires and tectonic heartbreak through the rise and eventual eruption of a first queer love."When ...

A Land Made from Water: Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions - Paperback

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by Robert R. Crifasi (Author)A Land Made from Water chronicles how the appropriation and development of water and riparian resources in Colorado changed the face of the Front Range--an area that was once a desert and is now an irrigated oasis suitable for the habitation and support of millions of people. This comprehensive history of human intervention in the Boulder Creek and Lefthand Creek valleys explores the complex interactions between environmental and historical factors to show how tho...

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by Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn (Author)An arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family's desperate wait for a miracle that never came. Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a twelve-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, whose evangelical family eschewed public education for homeschooling, and wove improbable scientific theories into literal interpretations of the Bible. Then her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer a...

Fragile: Birds, Eggs and Habitats - Hardcover

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by Colin Prior (Author), Des Thompson (With)Birds' eggs are true wonders of the natural world: they are strong enough to protect the embryo as it grows and to withstand incubation by the parent, yet sufficiently fragile to allow the chick to hatch. Little wonder that the enormous diversity of avian eggs - the amazing range of shapes, sizes, colours, textures and patterns - has long fascinated us. Since boyhood, the renowned landscape photographer Colin Prior has had a passion for wild birds. ...

American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood - Paperback

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by Paul Greenberg (Author)INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS Book Award, Finalist 2014 "A fascinating discussion of a multifaceted issue and a passionate call to action" --Kirkus From the acclaimed author of Four Fish and The Omega Principle, Paul Greenberg uncovers the tragic unraveling of the nation's seafood supply--telling the surprising story of why Americans stopped eating from their own waters in American Catch In 2005, the United States imported five billion pounds of seafood, n...

The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients - Paperback

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by Lucy H. Spelman (Editor), Ted Y. Mashima (Editor)A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia...A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris...A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother's death...This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of wild animals and the doctors who care for them. Here pioneering zoological veterinarians--men and women on the cutting edge of a new medical frontier--tell real-life tale...

The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal - Paperback

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by Vicki Croke (Author)Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine Croke gives us the remarkable account of Ruth Harkness and her extraordinary journey, and restores Harkness to her rightful place a...

The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years - Paperback

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by Outside Magazine (Author)The man-eating proclivities of Komodo dragons. The complicated art of being a cowgirl. A picaresque ramble with a merry band of tree-cleaners. The big-wave crusaders of the world's best surfers. For the past twenty years, Outside magazine has set the standard for original and engaging reports on travel, adventure, sports, and the environment. Along the way, many of America's best journalists and storytellers--including such writers as Jon Krakauer, Tim Cahill, E. A...

A Swift Guide to Butterflies of North America: Second Edition - Paperback

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by Jeffrey Glassberg (Author)A thoroughly revised edition of the most comprehensive and authoritative photographic field guide to North American butterflies This is a revised second edition of the most detailed, comprehensive, and user-friendly photographic field guide to the butterflies of North America. Written by Jeffrey Glassberg, the pioneering authority on the field identification of butterflies, the guide covers all known species, beautifully illustrating them with 3,500 large, gorgeou...

Grizzly Bear Science and the Art of a Wilderness Life: Forty Years of Research in the Flathead Valley - Paperback

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by Bruce McLellan (Author)In all scientific disciplines, there is an expanding gap between what is known by the general public and what is known by scientists. In this book, Dr. Bruce McLellan tries to bridge that gap. Coexisting with grizzly bears into the future will be an increasing challenge and require a deep understanding of these large carnivores and what factors make their populations tick. Based on perhaps the longest uninterrupted wildlife research project done by one individual, th...

Hawaii: Interlink Traveller's Wildlife Guide - Paperback

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by Les Beletsky (Author), Pratt (Illustrator)All the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Hawaii's unique land animals and magnificent sea life can be found in this convenient easy-to-carry guide. Travellers to Hawaii go for sun, sand, and surf, but increasingly leave the beach for part of their stay to explore the islands' incredible natural attractions: stunning mountain scenery, wonderful hiking trails, glimpses of birds--many of them highly endangered--that occur nowhe...

Jane Austen on Nature: The Novels as Pastoral Literature - Paperback

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by Mary Jane Curry (Author) Jane Austen's heroines respond to the power of the natural world, seeking comfort in nature's calm or referencing "verdure"--meaning fresh greenness and fertility--in relation to their awakening sexuality. This book focuses on the interactions between Austen's heroines and the uncontrollable, wild world. Femininity and nature are interwoven; male characters often exploit nature as they exploit women. In the fragment _Sanditon_, Austen satirizes resort developers w...

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by Tyler E. Bagwell (Author)Since the 1940s, Jekyll Island has gone through a transformation from an exclusive private club where America's wealthiest families vacationed to a state-owned resort enjoyed by thousands of visitors each year. The changes that came to Jekyll brought bothdisappointments and triumphs, and involved people from all walks of life--the former employees of the Jekyll Island Club who remained after its closing in 1942, the military servicemen who were stationed on the isl...

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by Kathleen Jamie (Author)" Kathleen Jamie's] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over -- not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth's, maybe our own, pointing to new paths forward through the forest." --Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, "By the Book" in The New York Times Book Review. An immersive exploration of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning...

The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds - Paperback

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by John Muir Laws (Author)John Muir Laws's guide to drawing birds is itself winged, soaring between a devotion not only to art but also to the lives, forms, and postures of the birds themselves.Here, artistic technique and the exquisite details of natural history intertwine, and drawing becomes the vehicle for seeing. As Laws writes, "To draw feathers, you must understand how feathers grow, overlap, and insert into the body. To create the body, you must have an understanding of the bird's ske...

Florida Natural Springs: A History - Paperback

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by Holly Sprinkle (Author)Author Holly Sprinkle unveils the secrets hidden within Florida's aquatic wonders. Florida's springs swirl a spectrum of greens and blues with a crystal clarity seen nowhere else in Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: October 14, 2024

Something in the Woods Loves You - Hardcover

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by Jarod K. Anderson (Author)An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature's crucial role in our emotional and mental health Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The CryptoNaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the shift in perspective that comes from paying a new kind of attention to nature. Something in the Woods Loves You tells th...

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization - Paperback

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by Steven Solomon (Author)"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century ...

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America - Paperback

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by Douglas Brinkley (Author)From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America's conservation movement.In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more...

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by Wayne Pacelle (Author)"If the animals knew about this book they would, without doubt, confer on Wayne Pacelle, their highest honor."--Jane Goodall"The Bond is the best overall book on animals I have ever read. Brilliant and moving."--John Mackey, CEO and Co-founder of Whole Foods Market"The Bond is at once heart-breaking and heart-warming. No animal escapes Wayne Pacelle's attention; nor should his book escape any human animal's attention."--Alexandra Horowitz, New York Times Bestselling A...

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions - Paperback

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by Peter Brannen (Author)One of Vox's Most Important Books of the DecadeNew York Times Editors' Choice 2017Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangero...