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Fantasy Seahorses Coloring Book for Adults: Zentangle Cats Coloring Book for Adults Line Art Cats Coloring Book zentangle flowers coloring book abstra

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Report copyright infringementby Monsoon Publishing (Author)★Fantasy Seahorses coloring book for adults★Beautiful seahorses in line art/zentangle style with corals for a beautiful underwater world. 52 pages 8,5x8,5 inch zentangle fantasy seahorses coral and other ocean animals A great cat coloring book for marine life fans and diver. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: February 14, 2024

Seashells of North Carolina, Revised and Expanded Edition

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Report copyright infringementby North Carolina Sea Grant (Author), Katie Mosher (Editor)Gathering seashells is one of the delights of a beach trip; everyone knows the feeling of spotting something beautiful among a seemingly infinite array of colors and shapes dotting the shoreline. Generations have trusted Hugh Porter's Seashells of North Carolina to help identify favorite shells. This revised and expanded edition from the experts at the North Carolina Sea Grant is the perfect beach companio...

Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence M. Page (Author), Brooks M. Burr (Author)There are nearly 1,000 species of freshwater fishes in North America alone, and identifying them can sometimes be a daunting task. In fact, in just the twenty years since publication of the first edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, the number of species has risen by almost 150, including 19 marine invaders and 16 newly established nonnative species. This second edition incorporates all of t...

Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey Into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Rosolie (Author)"An old-fashioned jungle adventure, one with rare immediacy and depth of feeling for the people and creatures [Rosolie] encounters." --Wall Street JournalFor fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie's extraordinary jungle adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon--a true adventure story of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and ...

Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World - Paperback

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by Seth M. Siegel (Author)New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller! As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions. The U.S. government predicts that forty of our fifty states-and 60 percent of the earth's land surface-will soon face alarming gaps between available water and the growing demand for it. Without action, food prices will rise, economic growth will slow, and political instability is likely...

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Report copyright infringementby John Wright Decker (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impor...

The Wild Herd: A Vanishing American Treasure

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Kalas (Author)On the surface, this is a stunning photo exploration of the wild horses living at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. But at a deeper level, it is also an illuminating study of the human-like interactions among the bands of horses, as they move through the seasons and colors of the year and through the natural flow of their life cycles as well.At the heart of The Wild Herds is a passionate love affair. At the age of 3, De...

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Report copyright infringementby United States National Park Service (Created by), Robert Sterling 1861- [From Ol Yard (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the bo...

Bird Mug Shots: A Unique Look at North America's Most Wanted Birds

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Report copyright infringementby Earl Orf (Photographer), Val Cunningham (Author)Bird Mug Shots reveals a whole new side to birds! You've never really truly seen a bird until you've viewed it from both the normal side view... and from the "mug shot" front view. Some of photographer Earl Orf's bird mug shots are hilarious, and some will have you saying, "Huh, I never knew they looked like that!" Val's natural history text will keep you flipping the pages for more. One hundred of North America's...

A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast: Including the Jersey Shore, Cape May, Delaware Bay, the Delmarva Peninsula, and the Outer Banks - Paperback

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by Patrick J. Lynch (Author)A beautifully illustrated field guide to the Mid-Atlantic region, from the Jersey Shore to Cape Hatteras The Outer Banks of North Carolina and the beaches of the Mid-Atlantic Coast are among the most popular tourist destinations in the United States. This book is a richly illustrated field guide that surveys the geology, environmental history, natural history, and human history of a region that spans the eastern seaboard, from Sandy Hook in New Jersey south to Cap...

The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Stewart (Author)Fifty vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees--written and charmingly illustrated by the New York Times bestselling author of The Drunken Botanist"I love everything Amy Stewart has ever created, but this book is my favorite yet. I'm giving this book to everyone I know. Because it, like its subject, is a gift."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love When Amy Stewart discovered...

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Report copyright infringementby Kim And Cindy Risen (Author)The authors scoured the buggy biomes in search of North Woods' orchids. The result is this handy book that makes field identification a snap. Learn about all 53 orchid species found in the North Woods, complete with photos, range maps and more. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.2 x 4.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 13, 2010 Award: Northeastern M...

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Report copyright infringementby Ivan D. Matthews (Author)Oceans of ripe wheat bending in the wind, the smell of fresh cut alfalfa, and the thought of juicy strawberries on shortcake are things that go with living in Fort Hickok. The strip mall may suggest an old time frontier fort, but beneath this facade is a realistic planned development of shops and services to the patrons that go there. People thirst for new experiences and forms of entertainment, and some of the most delightful and educa...

Florida Wild Flowers: And Roadside Plants

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Report copyright infringementby C. Ritchie Bell (Author), Bryan J. Taylor (Author)Florida boasts an extremely diverse flora, ranging from tropical species in the south to Appalachian Mountain remnants in the panhandle. Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside Plants is a helpful guide to identifying 500 species of Florida plant life, including rare as well as common wild flowers and characteristic trees, shrubs, vines, and ferns. Each description includes both common and scientific names, a range ma...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Cook (Author)From its small headwaters in Hall County, Georgia, the North Oconee winds nearly seventy miles, tumbling over granite outcroppings at Hurricane Shoals and on to Athens, where it meets the Middle Oconee. From there, the Oconee courses 220 miles through east-central Georgia to meet the Ocmulgee convergence near Lumber City, forming the Altamaha River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean. As the Oconee's importance as a recreational amenity has grow...

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Report copyright infringementby David Rothenberg (Author)David Rothenberg is one of our most eloquent observers of the interplay between nature, culture, and technology. These nineteen pieces exemplify what has been called Rothenberg's "amiable" mix of interests, styles, and approaches. In settings that range from wildest Norway to his own front porch in upstate New York, Rothenberg discusses the Hudson River School of painters, the hazy provenance of Chief Seattle's famous speech, ecoterrori...

Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Cerulean (Author), David Moynahan (Photographer)Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands. Both a field guide to a beloved and impermanent Florida landscape and a call for its protection, Susan Cerulean's memoir chronicles the uniquely beautiful coast as it once was, as it is now, and as it may be as the sea level rises. For decades, Cerulean has kayaked, hiked, and counted birds on and around Dog, the St...

Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Hurd (Author)Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in the natural world. As in Hurd's other books, the previously unknown or the barely known becomeless mysterious but stil...

Wings of Paradise: Birds of the Louisiana Wetlands

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Report copyright infringementby Charlie Hohorst (Author)Located at the narrow end of the funnel-shaped Mississippi flyway zone, south Louisiana serves as a seasonal stopover for wintering birds from all across North America as well as for some neotropical birds from Central America. Many other bird species make the region their permanent home. For more than fifty years Charlie Hohorst, an avid outdoorsman, hunted ducks in the marshes of south Louisiana. Now he shoots waterfowl with his camera...

Downstream Toward Home: A Book of Rivers

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver A. Houck (Author)American rivers are among the most diverse and challenging in the world, and for many the excitement and escape they offer develops into a lifelong pursuit. In Downstream Toward Home, Oliver A. Houck recounts his six decades exploring America's waterways, from unnamed creeks and Louisiana swamps to the rivers of western canyons and the Alaskan tundra. This engaging travelogue leads readers down over thirty-two rivers found across the cou...

Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ellen Bellanca (Author)Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As prescientific worldviews ceded to a more materialist outlook informed by an explosion of factual knowledge, lovers of nature both famous and obscure began to use daily composition as a quest for information about and a celebration of their surroundings. A central si...

What's Bugging You?: A Fond Look at the Animals We Love to Hate

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur V. Evans (Author)We are told from the time we are children that insects and spiders are pests, when the truth is that most have little or no effect on us--although the few that do are often essential to our existence. Arthur Evans suggests we take a closer look at our slapped-at, stepped-on, and otherwise ignored cohabitants, who vastly outnumber us and whose worlds often occupy spaces that we didn't even know existed.What's Bugging You? brings together ...

Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land

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Report copyright infringementby Rinda West (Author)In western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human "nature." Our increasing lack of intimacy with the land has led to a decreased capacity to access parts of the psyche not normally valued in a capitalist culture. In Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land, Rinda West uses Jung's idea of the shado...

Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Roux (Author)From the creator of Floriography and the Woodland Wardens Oracle Deck comes this beautifully illustrated exploration of the folklore, mythology, and history surrounding our favorite winged companions. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ILLUSTRATOR Birds have inspired us since the dawn of time: their elegance in flight, captivating colors, and delicate mannerisms spark hope, joy, and delight. Cultures around the world have historically looked to bi...

Air Plants: Epiphytes and Aerial Gardens

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Report copyright infringementby David H. Benzing (Author)Often growing far above the ground, "air plants" (or epiphytes) defy many of our common perceptions about plants. The majority use their roots only for attachment in the crowns of larger, usually woody plants--or to objects such as rocks and buildings--and derive moisture and nutrients from the atmosphere and by collecting falling debris. Only the mistletoes are true parasites. Epiphytes are not anomalies and there are approximately 28,...

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Report copyright infringementby Steve N. G. Howell (Author), Ian Lewington (Author), Will Russell (Author)The first comprehensive illustrated guide to North America's vagrant birds Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different regions--the Old World, the New World tropics, and the world's oce...

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Report copyright infringementby Jillian Cowles (Author)A richly illustrated and up-close look at the secret lives of spiders and other arachnids The American Southwest is home to an extraordinary diversity of arachnids, from spitting spiders that squirt silk over their prey to scorpions that court one another with kissing and dancing. Amazing Arachnids presents these enigmatic creatures as you have never seen them before. Featuring a wealth of color photos of more than 300 different kinds of ...

265 Images of Northern Rocky Mountains Wildflowers: From the Mountains of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nearby Places

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Report copyright infringementby A. Scott Earle (Author), Jane Lundin (Author)This handy, laminated, fold-out wildflower guide is perfect for carrying in your back pocket or your daypack. It features 265 color photographs of plants that are native to the lower Northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and includes the common name and scientific name for each. For ease of use, flowers are organized by color. (4 1/8" x 9, folds out to 24 3/4" x 17 3/4")Front JacketThis handy, lami...

Observing the Night Sky with Binoculars: A Simple Guide to the Heavens

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen James O'Meara (Author)- Informal, story-telling approach - Star charts, photos, and illustrations - Interesting anecdotes, mythologies, and histories about the stars and constellations - Brightest and best stars, star clusters and asterisms, nebulae, galaxies, variable stars and more! Month by month, star by star, object by object, Stephen James O'Meara takes readers on a celestial journey to many of the most prominent stars and constellations visible ...

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Report copyright infringementby Clive Oppenheimer (Author)What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption 73,000 years ago? Did they contribute to the ebb and flow of ancient empires, the French Revolution and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 19th century? These are some of the claims made for volcanic cataclysm. Volcanologist Clive Oppen...

Vet at the End of the Earth: Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Hollins (Author)The passionate story of a vet's care for all creatures great and small in the colorful, diverse, and distinctive South Atlantic islands. The role of a resident vet in the remote islands of the Falklands, St. Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha encompasses many wonderful complexities: caring for the world's oldest living land animal (a 200-year-old giant tortoise, denizen of the St. Helena governor's lawn); pursuing mystery creatures...

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Report copyright infringementby Heimo Mikkola (Author) The superlative identification guide to 268 species of owl, now in paperback. Praise for the first edition: "A native of Finland, the author is the world's best-known owl expert, having visited the birds in 128 countries over the past 40 years. Here he describes all of the world's 249 species of owls in copious detail with tips on identification, habitat, calls, and status and distribution. The text is enhanced by 750 color photographs ...