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The Philosophy of Gardening: Essays - Paperback

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by Blanka Stolz (Editor), Karen Caruana (Translator)For philosophizing gardeners and anyone who likes to pick up a spade and get their hands dirty Gardeners discover a new world every year--whether they're cultivating heirloom vegetables, foraging for wild herbs, creating a small permaculture garden on a city balcony, or maintaining a plot for self-sufficiency. But why garden at all? These personal essays by writers, designers, and master gardeners dig into gardening's philosophical dimension...

The New Birder's Guide to Birds of North America

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Thompson III (Author)"I love this book. It is fun to read, beautifully laid out, and accompanied by exquisite illustrations. The sections called 'Wow' and 'Remember' on each page will elicit 'I never knew that!' from many readers. This is a winner for the new birder from four to one hundred and four."--Jane Alexander, actress and former board member of the American Birding Association What a new birder needs is a field guide that shows most of the birds he...

Creative Haven Autumn Inspirations Color by Number - Paperback

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by George Toufexis (Author)Immerse yourself in the heartwarming colors of autumn with 46 rustic vistas and lush farmlands bursting with fall foliage as well as pumpkins, gourds, grazing cows, curious cats, and more. Follow the simple color key filled with glowing oranges, yellows, reds, and other seasonal shades or follow your own artistic instincts. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Autumn Inspiratio...

A Weaver's Garden: Growing Plants for Natural Dyes and Fibers

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Report copyright infringementby Rita Buchanan (Author)Long before the invention of pottery, men and women wove baskets from plant fibers. Today, craftworkers creating textiles and other products make use of many of these same resources and methods. Thoroughly researched and charmingly written, this practical guide by a veteran botanist and horticulturist provides weavers and gardeners alike with a wealth of information on growing plants for use in weaving and dyeing projects. Beginning with t...

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by Ross Piper (Author)A beautifully illustrated look at the lives and mind-boggling behaviors of insects What Insects Do, and Why takes you on an unforgettable tour of the insect world, presenting these amazing creatures as you have never seen them before. This stunningly illustrated guide explores how insects live, ranging from elegant displays of courtship to brutal acts of predation, and provides insights into the marvelous diversity of insects all around us. Along the way, Ross Piper disc...

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Report copyright infringementby John Lust (Author)"I have an old copy of this book that I've had for years and would never let go of, no matter how many times I moved and thinned out my books. This is a re-release and I'm really happy to see it back in print. Part two of the book is the real treasure. It is an alphabetical list of herbs that gives detailed information about their properties, including any cautions required." -- Lora's Rants & ReviewsAlso known as "The Natural Remedy Bible...

Amazing Facts about Baby Animals: An Illustrated Compendium

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Report copyright infringementby Maja Säfström (Author)A whimsically illustrated collection of fascinating, surprising, and funny facts about baby animals and their parents, from the author of The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts. Who doesn't love baby animals? Amazing Facts About Baby Animals is an adorable celebration of all kinds of fuzzy, fluffy, scaly, and feathery animal babies and their parents. This charming collection by beloved Swedish artist Maja Säfström is full of in...

A Peterson Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Hobbs (Author), Steven Foster (Author)The most complete guide ever written on the medicinal plants of western North America.Peterson Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs offers the best information in the world on the current popular and traditional uses of the nearly 500 species covered--much of it available for the first time.This comprehensive guide contains more than 530 color photographs that illustrate the plants and their flowers...

A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and North-Central United States and Southeastern and South-Central Canada

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Report copyright infringementby Roger Tory Peterson (Author)All the wild trees, shrubs, and woody vines in the area north to Newfoundland, south to North Carolina and Tennessee, and west to the Dakotas and Kansas are described in detail. Accounts of 646 species include shape and arrangement of leaves, height, color, bark texture, flowering season, and fruit. Clear, accurate drawings illustrate leaves, flowers, buds, tree silhouettes, and other characteristics. Number of Pages: 4...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Safran Foer (Author)Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name. Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary choices but once he started...

Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds: Eastern Region

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Stokes (Author), Lillian Q. Stokes (Author)From America's foremost authorities on birds, this pocket-size, brilliantly colorful, simple-to-use guide is an ideal introduction to the birds of the Eastern United States. Is that butterfly outside your window a Monarch or a Giant Swallowtail? What's the best kind of feeder for attracting birds to your backyard? This pocket-size, brilliantly colorful, simple-to-use guide is an ideal introduction to the birds o...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author), Jeffrey S. Cramer (Author)The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book."--Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed This is the authoritative edition of an American literary classic: Henry David Thoreau's Walden, an elegantly written rec...

Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless

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Report copyright infringementby Tamara Dean (Author)Living mindfully with nature during a time of uncertainty In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the Driftless area of Wisconsin, a region untouched by glaciers, marked by steep hills and deeply carved valleys, capped with forests and laced with cold, spring-fed streams. There, she confronted, in w...

The Big Here and the Long Now: From Global Uniformity to the New Diversities

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Author)'Truly an inspiration. Only someone of Eriksen's stature could write this call to action with such authority and lucidity' Caroline Knowles, author of Serious MoneyFor thousands of years, humanity's story was one of diversification. Across centuries and continents, our species proliferated new approaches to family and community life; to agriculture, economics, religion, artistic expression, and self-understanding. Today, this proc...

Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast: The Pacific Northwest and British Columbia

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Report copyright infringementby Collin Varner (Author) A new edition of the best-selling field guide to plants and fungi that grow wild throughout the regionThe coastal Pacific Northwest of North America is home to a multitude of edible and medicinal plant species, edible mushrooms, and marine plants--from Black Gooseberry to Western Tea-Berry, from Golden Chanterelle to Yellow Morel Mushroom, and from Sea Asparagus to Winged Kelp. Now revised and updated with additional species and recipes, ...

The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time

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Report copyright infringementby Lance Grande (Author)The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than fifty million years ago, it was a subtropical lake, surrounded by volcanoes and forests and teeming with life. Buried within the sun-baked limestone is spectacular evidence of the lush vegetatio...

Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America

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Report copyright infringementby John Foster (Author), David L. Meyer (Author)This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex an...

Conservation Drones: Mapping and Monitoring Biodiversity

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Report copyright infringementby Serge A. Wich (Author), Lian Pin Koh (Author)Increasing numbers of ecologists and conservation biologists have begun to explore the use of drone technology to obtain accurate and up-to-date data on the distribution and density of species, as well as the threats to their habitats, in their ongoing attempts to conserve and monitor biodiversity. Conservation drones are low-cost, autonomous, and operator-friendly unmanned aerial vehicles that can be used for survey...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas S. Schulenberg (Author), Douglas F. Stotz (Author), Daniel F. Lane (Author)The best guide to the birds of Peru--now in a revised paperback edition Birds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse, neotropical landscape. It features every one of Peru's 1,817 bird species and shows the distinct plumages of each in 307 superb, high-quality color plates. Concise descriptions and color distribution maps are located opposite the...

Wildflowers of Texas: Your Way to Easily Identify Wildflowers

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Report copyright infringementby George Oxford Miller (Author)This tabbed booklet focuses on Texas wildflowers, with detailed photographs--organized by color--to help you easily identify the wildflowers you see. At the cabin, in the park, or on a hike, keep this tabbed booklet close at hand. Created by noted botanist and travel writer George Oxford Miller, the booklet features only wildflowers of Texas. When you see a wildflower in nature, open the corresponding colored tab and view photograph...

Asia's Wildlife: A Journey to the Forests of Hope (Proceeds Support Birdlife International) - Hardcover

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by Fanny Lai (Author), Bjorn Olesen (Author), Hih Princess Takamado (Foreword by)"Close-up views of endangered fauna in their natural habitats are difficult enough to obtain, but the breathtaking artistic quality of the photography in this valuable documentation of Asia's disappearing forest habitats makes this book highly recommended for both scientists and nature lovers alike." --Robert Stuebing, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Author of A Field Guide to the Snakes of Borneo A...

My Season on the Kenai: Fishing Alaska's Greatest Salmon River

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Report copyright infringementby Lew Freedman (Author)The Kenai is a world-class salmon river that attracts fishermen from all over the world, but is also the "everyman" river of the great fishing paradise of Alaska because of its accessibility.The Kenai River is special not only because world-record salmon are caught in its stunning green waters, but because it is on the road system and thus can be accessed by the average fisherman, not merely the well-to-do who pay huge sums to fish in remot...

Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World {10th Anniversary Edition} - Paperback

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by Candace Savage (Author)A treasure trove of stories, poems, and information on the brainy, black-feathered bird that's rich in insight and humor.This revised and expanded edition of Candace Savage's best-selling book about ravens and crows is enhanced by additional paintings, drawings, and photos, as well as a fascinating selection of first-person stories and poems about remarkable encounters with crows. In one story, a pack of crows brilliantly thwarts an attack by a Golden Eagle; in anoth...

The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening; Attract and Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, and - Paperback

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by Kim Eierman (Author)The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment--the steep decline of pollinators. The Pollinator Victory Garden offers practical solutions for winning the war against the demise of these essential animals. Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. Pollinators include not just ...

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Report copyright infringementby Foxfire Fund Inc (Author), Eliot Wigginton (Editor)First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions. This second Foxfire volume include...

Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy Morton (Author)Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls "hyperobjects"--entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensi...

National Geographic Stargazer's Atlas: The Ultimate Guide to the Night Sky - Hardcover

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by National Geographic (Author)Richly illustrated with luminous photographs and informative maps and graphics, this expansive book is the perfect guide for everyone discovering the wonders of the night sky, from those just learning the constellations to dedicated telescope observers. Combining science, exploration, and storytelling, National Geographic Stargazer's Atlas invites readers to roam the night sky for constellations, planets and moons, eclipses, comets and meteor showers, auroras, a...

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by Paul H. Humann (Author), Ned Deloach (Author)The long-awaited, 500-page reference detailing 1,600 animals with 2,000 photographs and descriptive text is not only the most comprehensive visual field guide to marine invertebrate life inhabiting the waters from Thailand to Tahiti, but also a pictorial tour de force skillfully bridging science and the aesthetic. For the past five years the two authors/photographers have delved deep into uncharted waters, not only visually documenting numerous ...

Handbook of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the World - Paperback

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by Mark Carwardine (Author)The most authoritative reference guide to every cetacean species and subspecies in the world Handbook of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to these popular mammals. With nearly 1,000 accurate color illustrations--complete with detailed annotations pointing out significant field marks--this outstanding book covers all 90 species and every subspecies of cetaceans around the globe. Leading cetacean biologists ha...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author)Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Henry Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne,...

The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds - Paperback

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by Leigh Calvez (Author)"You'll come away from this riveting book blessed with owl wisdom that will enlarge your world forever." --Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology and The Soul of an Octopus In this New York Times bestseller, Leigh Calvez explores the night forest to uncover the secret lives of owls in this illuminating book for birders, animal lovers, and readers of H is for Hawk. Join a naturalist on her adventures into the world of owls, owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest-...

Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountain Region

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Report copyright infringementby Denver Botanic Gardens (Author)Featuring more than 1245 stunning color photographs, this comprehensive field guide is the must-have portable reference for the wildflowers the Rocky Mountain Region. Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountain Region is a comprehensive field guide for anyone wishing to learn about the amazingly diverse wildflowers of the region. Organized by flower color and shape, and including a range map for each flower described, the guide is as user-f...