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There Is No Other: The Way to Harmony and Wholeness

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Report copyright infringementby Ram Dass (Author), Parvati Markus (Author), Parvati Markus (Introduction by)An essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features newly gathered teachings to abandon the idea there is an "other," bridging differences and cherishing our lives in the world, from beloved spiritual leader Ram Dass.With the world seeming to teeter between democracy and authoritarianism, between humanitarianism and individualism, Ram Dass's teachi...

Anna Maria Hussey's Mushroom Illustrations: The Art and Science of Britain's First Female Mycologist

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Maria Hussey (Author), Frances Reed (Illustrator), Emily Gillis (Editor)An extraordinary record of British fungi and female scientific achievement, this volume showcases the pioneering work of Anna Maria Hussey and her visionary approach to art and mycology. First published in the mid-nineteenth century, Hussey's seminal work, Illustrations of British Mycology (1847-55), is celebrated for its exquisitely detailed study of mushrooms native to Britain. Co-il...

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Report copyright infringementby Cristina Berna (Author), Eric Thomsen (Author)Fumio Fujita (1933 - ) is one of Japan's most well-known contemporary sosaku hanga artists. He was born in Handa City, Aichi Prefecture, about 40 km due south of Nagoya.Fumio Fujita studied at the Musashino College of Fine Arts and began creating woodblock prints in 1963. His subjects are nature based, and he is best known for his many images of trees, especially birch trees - a signature Fujita image. He simplifies...

Our Sea Turtles: A Practical Guide for the Atlantic and Gulf, from Canada to Mexico - Paperback

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by Blair Witherington (Author), Dawn Witherington (Author)Our Sea Turtles is the story of understanding, experiencing, and saving the sea turtle and helping them thrive in our oceans. Now in its second edition, Blair and Dawn Witherington's iconic book includes updated facts and figures, new photos, and new calls to action for saving the turtles. Well-organized sections that are full of photos, maps, and figures help readers get a sense of the various types of sea turtles and how they might b...

The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators - Hardcover

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by John Long (Author)From ancient megalodons to fearsome Great Whites, this book tells the complete, untold story of how sharks emerged as Earth's ultimate survivors, by world-leading paleontologist John Long. "Will keep you on the edge of your seat from its first page to its last page."--Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and SteelSharks have been fighting for their lives for 500 million years and today are under dire threat. They are the longest-surviving vertebrat...

California Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Evergreen Huckleberries to Wild Ginger - Paperback

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by Judith Larner Lowry (Author)"This book is an excellent deep dive into California's wild edibles, revealing a real affection for and intimate familiarity with our state's flora." --Iso Rabins, founder of ForageSF California offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with Judith Larner Lowry as your trusted guide you will learn how to safely find and identify an abundance of delicious wild plants. The plant profiles in California Foraging include clear, color photographs, identification tip...

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones - Hardcover

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by Hettie Judah (Author)Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this book is a beautifully designed collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared history The earliest scientists ground and processed minerals in a centuries-long quest for a mythic stone that would prolong human life. Michelangelo climbed mountains in Tuscany searching for the sugar-white marble that would yield his sculptures. Catherine the Great wore the wealth of Russia sti...

Sea Change: Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions

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Report copyright infringementby James Workman (Author), Amanda Leland (Author)Sea Change is the captivating, deeply-human tale of how fishermen-along with some unlikely allies-helped carry out the biggest conservation success story you've never heard of.Exploring a victory for the world's most vital ecosystem, Sea Change tells the story of unlikely partnerships and surprising solutions that are quietly revolutionizing the fishing industry. Like in other ocean areas, the Gulf Coast fisheries w...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Parkinson (Author)A charming guide to keeping beautiful chicken breeds, both common and rare, by one of Britain's best-selling garden writers. Gardener, artist, and writer Parkinson has kept flocks of happy chickens since childhood. In this wonderful collection, he distills everything he has learned about his feathered friends into one charmingly illustrated, bite-sized volume featuring his own watercolor portraits of nearly sixty breeds. Spotlighting bo...

Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests: Wild Gods, World Trees and Werewolves - Hardcover

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by Dee Dee Chainey (Author), Willow Winsham (Author)An entertaining and enthralling collection of myths, tales and traditions surrounding our trees, woodlands and forests from around the world. From the dark, gnarled woodlands of the north, to the humid jungles of the southern lands, trees have captured humanity's imagination for millennia. Filled with primal gods and goddesses, dryads and the fairy tales of old, the forests still beckon to us, offering sanctuary, mystery and more than a litt...

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by Ellyn Gaydos (Author)A New Yorker best book of 2022 - This captivating memoir is a "startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvesting plants and animals" (Anthony Doerr, best-selling author of All the Light We Cannot See), as an itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons of life, death, and rebirth. Pig Years catapults American nature writing into the 21st century, and has been hailed by Lydia Davis and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as ...

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Larzer Ziff (Editor), Larzer Ziff (Introduction by)An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than o...

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization - Paperback

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by Roy Scranton (Author)In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book.--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Roy Scranton's Learning to Die in the Anthropocene presents, without extraneous bullshit, what we must do to survive on Earth. It's a powerful, useful, and ultimately hopeful book that more than a...

National Geographic Backyard Guide to Edible Wild Plants

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Report copyright infringementby Mimi Prunella Hernandez (Author), Heather Wood Buzzard (Author)Forage more than 100 delicious edible plants straight from your backyard with this useful, engaging, beautifully illustrated guide. Nature-lovers, gardeners, and foodies can turn their backyard into a bounty with tips for identifying wild plants, advice for beginner and experienced harvesters, and more than 600 ideas and recipes to bring the wild into the kitchen. Joining National Geographic's long ...

The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature - Paperback

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by David George Haskell (Author)Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"Injects much-needed vibrancy into the stuffy world of nature writing." --Outside, "The Outdoor Books That Shaped the Last Decade"The biologist and author of Sounds Wild and Broken combines elegant writing with scientific expertise to reveal the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-sq...

Foraging the Rocky Mountains - Paperback

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by Liz Brown Morgan (Author)The Rocky Mountain region's diverse geography overflows with edible plant species. From salsify to pearly everlasting, currants to pine nuts, Foraging the Rocky Mountains guides you to 85 edible wild foods and healthful herbs of the region. This valuable reference guide will help you identify and appreciate the wild bounty of the Rocky Mountain states. This guide also includes:: detailed descriptions of edible plants and animals tips on finding, preparing, and usi...

In Winter's Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland - Paperback

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by Beth Dooley (Author)Beth Dooley arrived in Minnesota from her native New Jersey with preconceptions about the Midwestern food scene. Having learned to cook in her grandmother's kitchen, shopping at farm stands and making preserves, she couldn't help but wonder, "Do people here really eat swampy broccoli, iceberg lettuce, and fried chicken for lunch everyday?"These assumptions quickly faded as she began to explore farmers' markets and the burgeoning co-op scene in the Twin Cities, and event...

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by David Allen Sibley (Author)From the renowned author of the New York Times best seller The Sibley Guide to Birds, a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to identifying birds in the field. Sibley's Birding Basics is an essential companion for birders of all skill and experience levels. With Sibley as your guide, learn how to interpret what the feathers, the anatomical structure, the sounds of a bird tell you. When you know the clues that show you why there's no such thing as, for exa...

Whales: An Illustrated Celebration - Hardcover

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by Kelsey Oseid (Author)A gorgeously illustrated, entertaining, and educational guide to the wonderful whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the world. Some of the world's most fascinating and beloved animals, cetaceans have captivated the human imagination for centuries. Whales: An Illustrated Celebration explores the most interesting and illuminating facts about these marine mammals, from the enormous blue whale (which has a heart the size of a car ) to the Amazon river dolphin (which is pink ...

The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability - Hardcover

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by Annette Kehnel (Author)A fascinating blend of history and ecological economics that uncovers the medieval precedents for modern concepts of sustainable living. In The Green Ages, historian Annette Kehnel explores sustainability initiatives from the Middle Ages, highlighting communities that operated a barter trade system on the Monte Subiaco in Italy, sustainable fishing at Lake Constance, common lands in the United Kingdom, transient grazing among Alpine shepherds in the south of France,...

Taking Action Online for the Environment, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Rogers (Author), Helen Clark (Foreword by)Taking Action Online for the environment, social justice and sustainable development connects the many dots in the social media universe and provides step-by-step advice on how to raise funds, build communities and inspire action for the results we need to create the world we want. Number of Pages: 306 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 24, 2021

Dinosaurs On-Line: A Guide to the Best Dinosaur Sites on the Internet

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Report copyright infringementby R. L. Jones (Author), Kathryn Gabriel (Author)Here is a book containing information about more than 500 Web sites about dinosaurs. Sites are rated for quality and cross-referenced by type, level of complexity, and availability of special features. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 30, 2000

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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring - Paperback

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by Richard Preston (Author)Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained-the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, fo...

The Japanese Art of Living Seasonally: An Invitation to Celebrate Every Day - Hardcover

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by Natalie Leon (Author)Written by Japanologist Natalie Leon, this beautiful guide unlocks the secrets of Japan's seasonal culture to help you relish the seasons wherever you are. Relish every day with the secrets of Japan's seasonal culture In traditional Japanese culture, people eat, sleep and wear the seasons, from kimono motifs to petal-shaped sweets, and festivals dedicated to nature's spectacular displays. This mindful celebration of nature leads to a deep awareness of the seasons, call...

The Survival of the Bark Canoe - Paperback

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by John McPhee (Author)In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose...

Mushrooms of Cascadia, Second Edition: An Illustrated Key to the Fungi of the Pacific Northwest - Paperback

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by Michael Beug (Author)An illustrated key to identifying the mushrooms of the Cascadian bioregion, stretching from coastal Alaska to central California and Idaho, featuring nearly 1,100 full-color photographs and more than 3,000 species. In this unique and comprehensive field guide, mycologist Dr. Michael Beug helps mushroom hunters of all levels navigate an often bewildering array of species by clearly identifying features that separate one cluster from another. By answering simple question...

Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of the Great Lakes Region - Paperback

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by Burton V. Barnes (Author), Warren H. Wagner (Author)Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees has been, since it was first introduced in 1913, the must-have reference book for anyone who wants to know about the trees of this unique North American region.In this new and updated edition, several new species have been added to the lineup, as well as sections on tree ecology and fall color. Written and illustrated in a style that appeals at once to academic botanists and armchair ...

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America - Paperback

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by David Allen Sibley (Author)COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED: From renowned birder, illustrator, and New York Times best selling author David Sibley, the most authoritative guide to the birds of the West, in a portable format that is perfect for the field. Compact and comprehensive, this guide features 715 bird species, plus regional populations, found west of the Rocky Mountains. Entries include stunningly accurate illustrations--more than 5,046 in total--with descriptive captions pointing o...

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Report copyright infringementby A. I. Root (Author), E. R. Root (Author)The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture is a comprehensive guide to beekeeping written by A. I. Root. The book covers all aspects of beekeeping, including the history of beekeeping, bee biology, hive management, honey production, and diseases and pests that affect bees. The book is divided into two sections: the ABC section, which covers the basics of beekeeping, and the XYZ section, which covers more advanced topics. The book is ...

Wildflowers of Michigan Field Guide - Paperback

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by Stan Tekiela (Author)Learn to identify wildflowers in Michigan with this handy field guide, organized by color. With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make wildflower identification simple, informative, and productive. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of wildflowers that don't grow in Michigan. Learn about 200 of the most common and important species found in the state. They're organized by color and then by size for ease o...

The Plants of the Appalachian Trail: A Hiker's Guide to 398 Species - Paperback

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by Kristen Wickert (Author)Identify an amazing range of plants along the Appalachian Trail with this guide to flowers, trees, and other vegetation you could experience on your next nature hike. Quickly find, identify, and learn about the amazing range of plants and fungi growing along the Appalachian Trail. It's easy with this guide, organized by type, color, and trail section. With hundreds of color photos and lively, accessible descriptions, there's so much you can learn. Keep an eye out f...