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Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871 - Paperback

$63.98

by Nicole C. Dittmer (Author)Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early-to-mid Victorian Gothic of both canonical narratives and ephemeral penny bloods and dreadfuls, Dittmer identifies assumed "monstrous" women as monistic mind-body figurations, who reject social confines and reclaim nature.Author BiographyNicole C. Dittmer is lecturer at The College of New Jersey and proofreader/editorial board member at Studies in Gothic Fiction. Number of Pages: 238 Di...

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water - Hardcover

$184.00

by Ursula Kluwick (Author)Victorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well as on conceptualizations of gender roles. Drawing on the methodology of material ecocriticism, Ursula Kluwick's Haunting Ecologies argues that Victorian Britons were keenly aware of aquatic agency, rec...

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water - Paperback

$56.00

Rivers: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

$11.47

by Nick Middleton (Author)Rivers have acted as cradles for civilization and agents of disaster; a river may be a barrier or a highway, it can support trade and sediment, culture and conflict. This Very Short Introduction is a celebration of rivers in all their diversity. Geographer Nick Middleton covers a wide and eclectic range of river-based themes, from physical geography to mythology, to industrial history and literary criticism. Offering a truly global look at rivers, with examples from ...

Abby and the Enchanted Willow: A Story of Friendship and Acceptance - Hardcover

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by Ellen Elbe Jones (Author)Have you ever felt all alone, like you were different and try as you might, you just didn't fit in? Or have you ever felt invisible, like no one even noticed you were there? Being an outsider can be sad, but there is love and acceptance everywhere. This is the story of a lonely little girl named Abby. With the help of a magical tree, Abby discovers that she is lovable after all and when the animals, rocks and flowers accept her, she learns to love and accept hersel...

What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird - Hardcover

$22.06

by Sy Montgomery (Author)A charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, "one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world" (The New York Times). For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery--whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalist--has kept a flock of chickens in her backyard. Each chicken has an individual personality (outgoing or shy, loud or quiet, reckless or cautious) and connects with Sy in her ow...

The Backyard Beekeeper, 5th Edition: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden - Natural Beekeeping Techniques - New Varroa - Paperback

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by Kim Flottum (Author)Enjoy the time-honored tradition of beekeeping in your own backyard or urban rooftop with this accessible resource for beekeepers of all skill levels, now in its 5th edition. More than a guide to beekeeping, The Backyard Beekeeper features expert advice for: Setting up and caring for your own colonies Selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours The most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees Swarm control U...

Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species - Hardcover

$28.78

by Michael Fogden (Author), Marianne Taylor (Author), Sheri L. Williamson (Author)Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight dexterity, jewel-like color, and remarkably small size.This is the first book to profile all 338 known species, from the Saw-billed Hermit to the Scintillant Hummingbird.Every bird is shown life-size in glorious full-color photographs.Every species profile includes a flight map and key statistics, as well as informat...

Birds of Prey of the Midwest: Your Way to Easily Identify Raptors - Spiral

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by Stan Tekiela (Author)Quickly identify raptors with this tabbed booklet, organized by group and featuring photographs of all 34 Midwest species.At the cabin, on the lake, or on a hike, keep this tabbed booklet close at hand. Based on Stan Tekiela's best-selling bird field guides, the booklet features all 34 raptors found in the Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Species are...

Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song - Hardcover

$48.00

by Les Beletsky (Author)Renowned ornithologist Les Beletsky introduces you to 250 birds of North America, brought to life with colorful illustrations and a digital audio player that provides each bird's distinctive song. Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birds--including the rediscovered ivory-billed woodpecker--in a stunning format. Features include: A succinct descript...

Bird Nest Finder: Identifying Aboveground Bird Nests in Eastern North America - Paperback

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by Dorcas S. Miller (Author)Identify aboveground nests in eastern North America with this pocket-size guide.Whether you're hiking with your family, on a camping trip, or visiting a park, you're sure to notice a variety of bird nests. If you're curious about these nests--and which feathered friends built them--then Bird Nest Finder by Dorcas S. Miller is just what you need. With the handy, easy-to-use format, you can identify commonly seen bird nests--from bluebirds and cardinals to hummingbir...

Audubon Birdhouse Book, Revised and Updated: Building, Placing, and Maintaining Great Homes for Great Birds - Paperback

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by Margaret A. Barker (Author), Elissa Ruth Wolfson (Author), National Audubon Society (Author)The Audubon Birdhouse Book is the most authoritative book available for creating safe, sturdy, and easy-to-build homes for many of North America's favorite birds. This updated second edition includes important new and timely topics including impacts of climate change on birds, nestbox monitoring for community science, native plants, and how birders can help birds. Produced in association with the N...

When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals - Paperback

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by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Author), Susan McCarthy (Contribution by)This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall. The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People for his ground-breaking and fascinating study. Not since Darwin's The Expression of Emotions in...

Geophysics: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by William Lowrie (Author)Geophysics is the physics of the Earth. Central to the Earth Sciences today, it encompasses areas such as seismology, volcanism, plate tectonics, gravitational anomalies, and the Earth's magnetic field (present and past, as captured in rocks), all of which give clues to both the structure and the working of the Earth. In this Very Short Introduction, William Lowrie describes the internal and external processes that affect the planet, as well as the principles and met...

The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work - Paperback

$42.48

by Cara New Daggett (Author)In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of industrialized work. As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imper...

Empathetic Energetics: A Practioner's Primer to Animal Bodywork - Paperback

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by W. Bruce Bregenzer (Author)Most massage and bodywork texts focus on techniques and their application: the what and the how. This work is primarily concerned with intention, observation, cooperation, and the why. Using real-life experiences and examples from 20+ years as an animal massage/touch therapist and instructor, the author has developed a unique approach to helping animals in his book, Empathetic Energetics. The author explains a method that allows practitioners, caretakers, and oth...

Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants - Paperback

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by Katy Payne (Author)A natural history rich in observation of the animal world and how humans participate in it, Silent Thunder is also a passionate story of scientist Katy Payne's spiritual quest as she turns a keen eye on her role in this world. Starting with the story of her revolutionary discovery that elephants use infrasonic sounds--sounds below the range of human hearing--to communicate, Payne shares what she learned from her fascinating field research in Africa, research that reveals...

Messages from Islands: A Global Biodiversity Tour - Paperback

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by Ilkka Hanski (Author)From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, Messages from Islands is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands on which he performed fieldwork to convey key themes in ecology. By exploring the islands' biodiversity as an introduction to general issues, Hanski helps us to learn how species and communities interact in fragmented landsca...

A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers - Paperback

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by Ellen Wohl (Author)Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage says you can't step in the same river twice, and Ellen Wohl would agree--natural and synthetic change are so rapid on the world's great waterways that rivers are transforming and disappearing right before our eyes. A World of Ri...

Field Journal: The Explore the River Project - Paperback

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by Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (Author)The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' Field Journal (or Snqeymintn, "a place to write," in Salish) is a lavishly illustrated field notebook supplementing Bull Trout's Gift, the Tribes' publication for young readers. Bull Trout's Gift examines the sacred and natural significance of the bull trout and the Tribes' restoration project along the Jocko River of Montana, which courses through their reservation. Meant to inform students, natur...

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by William K. Medlin (Author)What kind of relationship between the human being and nature will best serve the interests of both? Using the Lassen Volcanic National Park in California as an example, the author explores these complex issues from early times, and gives an absorbing, controversial and ultimately tragic story. * * * * * William K. Medlin was raised in Northern California and spent most summers in the Lassen Volcanic National Park region which gave him a knowledge and appreciation ...

Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries, Revised Edition - Paperback

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by Duane a. Smith (Author)i>Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries is an engaging and artfully illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the southwestern corner of Colorado.Author BiographyDuane A. Smith is a professor of history at Fort Lewis College in Durango, and is the author or coauthor of more than fifty books on Colorado and the West. He also serves as chair of the Durango Parks and Forestry Board and on the Anima School House Museu...

The Gravity Theory of Mass Extinction: A new unified theory of mass extinction explains the rise and fall of the dinosaurs - Paperback

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by John Stojanowski (Author)The belief that some dinosaurs were so gigantic that they couldn't exist with today's gravity is a topic frequently discussed on internet websites. The opinion posted the most is that the Earth's mass must have changed significantly resulting in an alteration of surface gravity or that the Earth somehow expanded. Neither of these opinions have scientific support. The theory explained in this book, the GTME, does have that support. Readers familiar with basic rotat...

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by Carsten R. Jorgensen (Author)Located in Ontario's Near North and only 350 Km north of Toronto, Lake Nipissing is renowned for its world-class fishing. This is an angler's guide containing detailed descriptions of the fishes found in Lake Nipissing. Learn about what food each type of fish likes to eat, as well as tips on where to find them, and when is the best time to catch them.Author BiographyCarsten Jorgensen dedicated thirty years in studying and managing fisheries for the Ontario Mini...

The Mechanics Of Appalachian Structure (1894) - Paperback

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by Bailey Willis (Author)The Mechanics of Appalachian Structure is a comprehensive book written by Bailey Willis in 1894. The book is a detailed study of the geological structure of the Appalachian Mountains, particularly the mechanics behind the formation of the mountain range. Willis, a renowned geologist, presents a detailed analysis of the geology of the region, including the various rock formations, faults, and folds that make up the mountains.The book is divided into several chapters, e...

The Nature And Development Of Animal Intelligence (1898) - Paperback

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by Wesley Mills (Author)The Nature And Development Of Animal Intelligence is a book written by Wesley Mills in 1898. The book is a comprehensive study of the intelligence of animals and how it develops over time. It explores the different types of intelligence exhibited by various animals, including insects, birds, mammals, and fish. The book also discusses the factors that influence the development of animal intelligence, such as genetics, environment, and learning. Mills draws on a wide ran...

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by John Davidson (Author), Mendon Cottage Books (Editor), Rachel Smith (Author)Table of Contents Introduction What are octopuses? How do octopuses live? What do octopuses eat? Where do octopuses live? Cirrina versus Incirrina Blue-ringed octopuses Common octopus Mimic octopus Giant Pacific octopus Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction The octopus has long fascinated the human mind. They and their relatives are called 'cephalopods' which literally means 'head-foot' in Ancient Greek. The...

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by Donald MacKay (Author)This is definitive history of lumbering in Canada captures the vitality of the lumber camps and documents the evolution of a major industry.Author BiographyDonald MacKay has had a forty-year career as journalist, broadcaster and author. Descended from Pictou County settlers, and born and educated in Nova Scotia, he was a wartime merchant seaman, has been a reporter for Canadian Press, and covered major stories in a dozen countries for United Press International. He sp...

The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals - Paperback

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by Jenny Brown (Author)Jonathan Safran Foer meets Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason in a poignant, provocative memoir of survival, compassion, and awakening to the reality of our food system. Jenny Brown was ten years old when she lost a leg to bone cancer. Throughout the ordeal, her constant companion was a cat named Boogie. Years later, she would make the connection between her feline friend and the farm animals she ate, acknowledging that most of America's domesticated animals live on industrialize...

Fifty Years of Deer-Stand Reflections: A Memoir of a Michigan Master Deer Hunter - Paperback

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by Joe Lunkas (Author)Fifty Years of Deer-Stand Reflections, a Memoir of a Michigan Master Deer Hunter is the culmination of author Joe Lunkas' fascinating experiences over many years of hunting deer. Artfully presented, organized, and integrated, these stories strongly convey the messages, and their true meanings, derived from his outdoor journey of learning. This is a book that will ignite the flame in the hearts and minds of hunters, both newcomers and veterans of the sport, infusing a dee...

Wall Art Made Easy: Ready to Frame Vintage Seed Catalogue Cover Prints Vol 2: 30 Beautiful Illustrations to Transform Your Home - Paperback

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by Barbara Ann Kirby (Author)Wall Art Made Easy: Ready to Frame Vintage Seed Catalogue Cover Prints Vol 2 features thirty more beautiful illustrations of seed catalogue covers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Inside you will find thirty vibrant full color illustrations of plant, fruit, vegetable and seed catalogue covers ideal for any gardening enthusiast. If you love vintage Seed Catalogue Covers you're sure to find some that you'll love to want to display on your walls in all the...

Orders Heteromi (Notacanthiformes), Berycomorphi (Beryciformes), Xenoberyces (Stephanoberyciformes), Anacanthini (Gadiformes): Part 6 - Paperback

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by Daniel M. Cohen (Author), Alfred W. Ebeling (Author), Tomio Iwamoto (Author)The Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series, which began publication in the 1940s by Yale University's Sears Foundation for Marine Research, was from its beginnings conceived to synthesize and make accessible the wealth of information in widely scattered published accounts of the fish fauna of the region for both the layman and the specialist, presenting critical reviews rather than compilations. These referenc...