Nature

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Egan (Author)The Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening r...

The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe Through the Sky's Most Brilliant Stars

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Schaaf (Author)"Fred Schaaf is one of the most experienced astronomical observers of our time. For more than two decades, his view of the sky-what will be visible, when it will be visible, and what it will look like-has encouraged tens of thousands of people to turn their eyes skyward."-David H. Levy, Science Editor, Parade magazine, discoverer of twenty-one comets, and author of Starry Night and Cosmic Discoveries"Fred Schaaf is a poet of the stars. He br...

A Creek Runs Through This Driftless Land: A Farm Family's Journey Toward a Land Ethic

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Cates (Author)Richard (Dick) and his wife Kim co-own the Cates Family Farm LLC in Wyoming Township Iowa County with their son Eric and his wife Kiley and their daughter Shannon and her husband Dan. Dick is a life-long farmer who grew up working on his family's beef cow-calf farm a neighbor's dairy farm Montana ranches and in large-scale dairy forage and grain crop production overseas.Dick pursued professional studies in soil science and agronomy and ear...

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Report copyright infringementby David Sibley (Author), David Sibley (Illustrator)Written and illustrated by David Allen Sibley, America's most widely respected bird illustrator and ornithologist, this FoldingGuide offers instant access to just what backyard birdwatchers need to know. 78 land bird species are covered, including multiple illustrations, descriptive captions, size, range, and seasonal presence. The Mid-atlantic region region includes southern New York (incl. Long Island), Pennsyl...

The Biophilia Effect: A Scientific and Spiritual Exploration of the Healing Bond Between Humans and Nature

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Report copyright infringementby Clemens G. Arvay (Author), Victoria Goodrich Graham (Translator), Marc Bekoff (Foreword by)Did you know that spending time in a forest activates the vagus nerve, which is responsible for inducing calm and regeneration? Or that spending just one single day in a wooded area increases the number of natural killer cells in the blood by almost 40 percent on average?We've all had an intuitive sense of the healing power of nature. Clemens G. Arvay's new book brings us...

Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress - Hardcover

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by Henry S. Salt (Author)"...it is ourselves, our own vital instincts, that we wrong, when we trample on the rights of the fellow-beings, human or animal, over whom we chance to hold jurisdiction."Henry Stephens Salt was a noted ethical vegetarian, socialist, humanitarian and pacifist. It was Salt who influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism and non-violent protest. He is credited with being the first writer to argue explicitly in favor of animal rights. He was way ahead of his time in his ...

The Complete Dog Breed Book, New Edition

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Report copyright infringementby DK (Author)Find your ideal dog - and learn how to look after it - in this stunning guide to all things canine. Combining breeds, behavior, care, and training advice, this book contains everything you need to know to help you choose and look after a dog, from the tiny Chihuahua to the towering Great Dane. Find the perfect pet using Q&A selector charts that help you find the best breed to suit your lifestyle. Fully updated to reflect the latest dog breeds, T...

Ostara: Traditional Magic, Recipes, and Tales for the Spring Equinox

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Report copyright infringementby Wyrd Books (Author), Lizzie Stoddart (Editor)This magical guide to Ostara will help you celebrate the Spring Equinox, honouring ancient ways and blending practical magic with age-old traditions. The night and day are of equal length, and we can start sowing the first seeds for the bounty that will nourish us in the Summer, celebrating the Earth as it reawakens. Featuring age-old traditions and rituals, seasonal recipes and crafts, and powerful spells and charms...

Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks: Third Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Elizabeth Murie (Author)Roger Tory Peterson's unique identification system explains exactly what features to look for to tell one species from another. In each Peterson Field Guide, an author with expertise in the subject and an experienced artist work closely with the editors to ensure that both text and illustrations are accurate. This edition includes 100 color photographs of tracks and signs, more than 1,000 line drawings, and nomenclature for all ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Muir (Author)John Muir, famous for his naturalist essays and books, was over 70 years old when he wrote "The Yosemite" as a reflection on the beauty of the national park. Muir was a naturalist, so he was highly invested in describing the landscape, flora, and fauna of Yosemite National Park. He even said that "no temple with manmade hands can compare with Yosemite." Muir knew the terrain well, having hiked and climbed Cathedral Peak, Mount Dana, and the ol...

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Report copyright infringementby Dirk Kotze (Author), Suzette O'Connell (Contribution by)Denmark is a delight for bird lovers.It lies on the main migration routes betweencontinental Europe and the rest of Scandinavia. In spring and autumn, a massive migration of birds takes place, some stop off, some even spend the winter.We would like to invite you to enjoy photographs of 130 of the most common (and some not so common) species that can be seen in Denmark.This coffee table book is more than a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Zalasiewicz (Author)Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on weathered debris derived from rocks, and we obtain nearly all of the raw materials with which we found our civilization from rocks. From the Earth's crust to building bricks, rocks contain our sense of p...

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Report copyright infringementby Suzanne E. Court (Author)Working with horses as equal partners in the equine-assisted space while respecting their intuitive wisdom leads to life-changing psycho-spiritual understandings, learning and healing. Soul Connection with Horses: Healing the Mind and Awakening the Spirit through Equine Assisted Practice introduces concepts of awakening and spaciousness as understood in many spiritual traditions and demonstrates that horses effectively model awakening f...

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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...

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Report copyright infringementby Cheryl Batavia (Author)Life on the Blue Planet by Cheryl Batavia is a collection of poems about life, love, family, and nature. It's the third book in a series that includes Life in Inspiring Places and Earthly Days. Through her poems, Cheryl shares meaningful moments from her life and invites readers to reflect on their own.The book is filled with colorful photos and poems that are easy to enjoy. Some are fun and light, while others are deep and thoughtful. Ch...

The Mockingbird Chronicles: The Early Days of a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Lee (Author) This book is a collection of true stories about my personal experiences with wildlife before and after I founded the South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Inc. in Lubbock Texas, in 1988.It all started when a neighbor brought me a mockingbird nestling four years earlier, and I had no idea what to do with it, but this chance encounter would literally change my life forever. If that bird had not survived, there would likely not be a wildl...

The Guardian of the Gorillas: The Story of Adrien Deschryver

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Report copyright infringementby Robert E. Whitehead (Author)This book recounts the life of Adrien Deschryver, Belgian born, who grew up in the Belgian Congo and was one of the few colonials to stay on when post-independence violence erupted throughout the country. Deschryver was at times a planter, elephant hunter, bush pilot, and one-time government military officer who gradually moved into conservation and established the first site on the continent where tourists could visit and view wild ...

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy S. Moore (Author)Mountain Ramblings is a lyrical and contemplative journey through the Southern Appalachian region, blending personal memoir, theological reflection, poetic rhythm, and travelogue. Timothy S. Moore, a minister and educator shaped by the mountains and their people, explores the seasons of life and landscape through essays, reminiscences, poems, and recommendations of beloved trails and vistas. With echoes of Wendell Berry and a deep rever...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Wolf (Author)Arthur Carhart (1892-1978), America's first champion of wilderness, the first Forest Service landscape architect, and the most popular conservation writer of mid-century America, never won the titan status of his contemporary, Aldo Leopold. A political maverick, he refused to side with any major advocacy group and none has made him its saint. Carhart was a grassroots thinker in a top-down era. Arthur Carhart, the first biography of this Republi...

Pass the Ox-Tail (Before the World Ends)

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Report copyright infringementby Bowen Craig (Author), Kelbourne Kelly Codling (Author)Philosophy and Fun, that was the idea behind this book of two modern Athenian philosophers, the Athens in Georgia, not that lesser Greek one. Neither Bowen nor Kelly knew that the world would go crazy in the middle of their talks. These two philosophers opine on human nature, religion, politics, lies, big lies, and even bigger lies, nature, hate, music and love. Number of Pages: 148 ...

Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River

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Report copyright infringementby Max McCoy (Author)The upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Max McCoy embarked on a trip of 742 miles in search of the river's unique story. Part adventure and part reflection, steeped in the natural and cultural history of the Arkansas Valley, Elevations is McCoy's account of that journey. Going by kayak when h...

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Report copyright infringementby Milton Love (Author), Jessica Eggers (Illustrator)What is Gonzo Ichthyology?Is it a personal, non-objective, view of fishes?Is it idiosyncratic art that is the love child of M. C. Escher and Aubrey Beardsley?Or is it both of these things - a remarkable melding of art and science?Frankly, we neither know, nor do we particularly care.But seriously, and if we can just have a little heart-to-heart here, this book is kind of like a petty bourgeois croissant stuffed ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jørgen Bruhn (Editor), Ida Bencke (Author)Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices is a speculative endeavor asking how we may represent, relay, and read worlds differently by seeing other species as protagonists in their own rights. What other stories are to be invented and told from within those many-tongued chatters of multispecies collectives? Could such stories teach us how to become human otherwise?Often, the human is defined as the sole creatur...

How to Draw Dinosaurs: Everything you ever wanted to know about drawing dinosaurs, landscapes, mammals, and reptiles

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Rockeman (Author)Dinosaurs are the subjects of movies, books, and more museum dioramas and gift shops than you could ever wish to encounter. They conquer the snows, to the deserts, to the tropics, only to curiously vanish from the face of the earth. In these pages, an artist will be taken through feet to feathers, from scales to sauropods, along with useful tips and tutorials for creating prehistoric creatures and their surroundings in the Triassic, Ju...

How to Draw Horses, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Drawing Horses, Hardware, History, and Mythology: Horsepower from 2000BCE-1500CE

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Rockeman (Author)Everything you ever wanted to know about drawing horses, hardware, history, and mythology. How to Draw Horses shows you how to draw dynamic horses using step by step guides and tutorials. Rockeman shows you how to draw brilliant equines from around the globe along with clear, step-by-step instructions and handy tips to help you become a better artist. Packed with information and illustrations on anatomy, tack, costumes, perspectives, ca...

The Snow Leopard: (Penguin Orange Collection)

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Matthiessen (Author)Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin's iconic book design with twelve influential American lit...

Send a Ranger: My Life Serving the National Parks

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Habecker (Author)Send a Ranger is the true story of one man's dream to live and work as a ranger in our national parks. Author Tom Habecker began his 32-year career with the National Park Service as a student intern at Gettysburg National Military Park while earning a degree in park administration at Penn State University. The book details Tom's progression from novice to journeyman park ranger, working in Yosemite, Glacier, and Denali National Parks. The b...

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Burch (Calligrapher)Pack up your colored pencils and come along to a trip to paradise!You'll find dolphins, turtles, herons, and more as you travel through natural Florida with this beautiful selection of drawings by Julie Burch. Each illustration features some of Florida's most fascinating plants and animals, with a brief scientific explanation on the facing page so you can learn while you color. Rest and relaxation are only a page flip away.Some illustr...

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Report copyright infringementby Euell Gibbons (Author)Fifty years ago an unknown writer named Euell Gibbons (1911-1975) presented a book on gathering wild foods to the New York publisher David McKay Co. Together they settled on the title, Stalking the Wild Asparagus. No one expected that this iconic title would become part of the American language, nor did they anticipate the revival of interest in natural food and in environmental preservation in which this book played a major role. Euell Gi...

My Best Shot: Living the Montana Conservation Ethic

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Pozewitz (Author)Jim Posewitz has fought for Montana's wildlife and wild places all his life. During his 32-year career with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Posewitz created and led the ground-breaking Ecological Services Division that helped protect the Rocky Mountain Front and many other vitally important lands and waters. In one of his major conservation successes, Posewitz joined the growing list of Montanans who, through the years, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Roorbach (Author)Into Woods is an exuberant, profound, and often wonderfully funny account of ten years in the life of author Bill Roorbach. A paean to nature, love, family, and place, it begins with his honeymoon on a wine farm in France's Loire Valley and closes with the birth of his daughter and he and his wife's return to their beloved Maine. These essays blend journalism, memoir, personal narrative, nature writing, cultural criticism, and insight into...

Hunt for Justice: The True Story Of An Undercover Wildlife Agent

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Report copyright infringementby Lucinda Schroeder (Author)NOW IN PAPERBACK! "A true story that reads like a mystery."-Tony Hillerman"A suspenseful page-turner and a tale of true courage."-Ted Kerasote, author of Bloodties "Schroeder illuminates an unusual, insular world with unflinching grit."-Publishers WeeklyFor thirty years Lucinda Delaney Schroeder held an unusual government position: She was one of a handful of women special agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In August 1992 ...