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Heal the Beasts: A Jaunt Through the Curious History of the Veterinary Arts

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Report copyright infringementby Philipp Schott (Author)Heal the Beasts chronicles the history of veterinary medicine with an abundance of bizarre, funny, surprising, and heartwarming anecdotes "Schott's animated account moves at a fast clip, is full of colorful anecdotes, and will delight animal lovers of all stripes." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review Sharing the stories of 22 different animal healers and veterinarians from across eras and continents, Dr. Schott examines the always fascin...

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by Montana Hodges (Author)With this informative, fully updated and revised guide, you can explore the mineral-rich region of Montana. It describes the state's best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commercial sites as well as numerous little-known areas. This handy guide also describes how to collect specimens, includes maps and directions to each site, and lists rockhound clubs around the state. This is truly a complete guide to popular collecting sites in Montana and source-book bri...

Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees - Hardcover

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by Jared Farmer (Author)The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitatio...

Fungi: Discover the Science and Secrets Behind the World of Mushrooms - Hardcover

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by Lynne Boddy (Author), Ali Ashby (Author)A stunning, authoritative book on the fungal kingdom, uncovering the hidden world of more than 300 global species Discover the fascinating stories behind 300 species of fungi and understand the world of mushrooms like never before! Did you know that fungi put the fizz in champagne and the flavor in chocolate? Fungi is everywhere we look in a forest, under the sea, and in the kitchen. In this beautiful book, leading fungal biologists Lynne Boddy and A...

The History Trees: Extraordinary Tales of Trees Through Time

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Report copyright infringementby Colin Salter (Author) The ultimate photographic collection of the most historic trees on the planet. Uncover remarkable trees from around the world, many of which have borne witness to key moments in history or reached a scale and age that have allowed them to become a part of history themselves. "[A] rich history ... it contains some of the most extraordinary tales of trees through time" -- The Sunday PostFirst meet 'Methuselah', a bristlecone pine in the Whi...

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie Day (Author), Ed Bacon (Foreword by)Leslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin--a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side. In her heartfelt memoir, River, Day reveals how she fell in love with--and married--her neighbor, a biology professor at Brooklyn College, became a naturalist, educator, and author, and raised her son on the boat. As Day invites rea...

The Way Out: A True Story of Survival in the Heart of the Rockies

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Report copyright infringementby Devon O'Neil (Author)"On par with Into the Wild... Fast-paced, yet thoughtful and empathetic, all the way to its devastating conclusion, this psychological thriller will haunt me whenever I step off the pavement into the woods. I couldn't stop reading it, and I can't stop thinking about it." -- Bill Gifford, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of OutliveA harrowing, never-before-told story of life and death in the Colorado mountains--thirty hours that change...

Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter

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Report copyright infringementby E. B. Bartels (Author)"A wonderful, unusual, and healing book. . . Read this book to affirm that love never dies, and you are not alone."--Sy MontgomeryAn unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they've passed.E.B. Bartels has had a lot of pets--dogs, birds, fish, tortoises. As varied a bunch as they are, they've taught her one universal tr...

Green Grass in the Spring: A Cowboy's Guide to Saving the World - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Malmberg (Author)His hard-fought wisdom and keen observations are a gift to all of us and this book is true to everything I've known Tony to be: funny, raw, vulnerable, and real. His stark honesty helps us all reflect on ways we are often to blame for our biggest challenges. Holistic Management can unlock the potential for productivity and diversity on our land, but also living in a way where we can see and fulfill our own potential.--Cory Carman, fourth-g...

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Report copyright infringementby Kurtis Estes (Author), Lydia Nichols (Illustrator)No hurries, no worries! The miniature emotional support sloth is here to calm your stress and anxiety and help you live a more carefree life. Take a deep breath and enjoy the company of this helpful little buddy! Specifications: Includes a 3-inch tall emotional support sloth figurine that holds up 7 calming cue cards with encouraging phrases such as: Don't Hurry, Be Happy; Keep Calm and Hang On; Look Before ...

Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake: Life Lessons from Sixty Sea Creatures

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Report copyright infringementby Cara Giaimo (Author), Vlad Stankovic (Illustrator)Sixty bizarre and beautiful marine creatures offer affirmations for self-confidence, serenity, and fulfillment--drawn from real-life facts about our fascinating natural world. If you sometimes wish you could sink back into the depths of the ocean, great news--the strange little guys who still live down there will receive you with open arms (and fins, claws, and tentacles). But if you're not quite ready to take t...

Radiance of the Ordinary: Essays on Life, Death, and the Sinews That Bind

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Report copyright infringementby Tara Couture (Author)From the author of the popular Slowdown Farmstead Substack: a raw, poignant collection of essays about cultivating authenticity in this age of great pretend. When she was young, Tara Couture had a deep fear of death. In her twenties, determined to manifest her long-time dream of owning a farm, she worked alongside a cattleman whose perspectives on life and death would come to transform her own. When she found herself in the passenger seat o...

Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, and Wonder

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Marsden (Author)Discover the wonders and perils of the earth's precious metals--what they have offered us as humans, and how they've forever changed our relationship with the world around us The ground beneath our feet is full of riches: the ocher that allowed prehistoric humans to paint on cave walls; the tin that drove the early Industrial Revolution; radium, the source of Marie Curie's wonder; and lithium, the essential mineral of modern life found in...

From the Millpond to the Sea: One River, Three Tributaries, Four Dams

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Report copyright infringementby Akiko Busch (Author)A personal narrative that considers the ecological, social, and human interests around dams in New York's Hudson River Valley.Sixty-seven tributaries flow into the Hudson River watershed, and over half are impeded by some sixteen-hundred-plus dams. Vestiges of early American infrastructure, most have outlived their purposes. Today, they restrict biodiversity; obstruct fish migration; raise the temperature of impounded water; and trap sedimen...

Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees

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Report copyright infringementby Jared Farmer (Author)The epic, "fascinating" (Wall Street Journal) story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient sp...

Maple Syrup: A Short History of Canada's Sweetest Obsession

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Kuitenbrouwer (Author)The captivating story behind Canada's beloved sweet treat From the quiet beauty of sugar maple forests to the high-tech, high-stakes world of syrup production, this book takes you on a remarkable journey into one of Canada's most cherished traditions. Led by Peter Kuitenbrouwer, a forester with a deep appreciation for the land, this beautifully illustrated narrative uncovers the rich Indigenous heritage of maple syrup, explores its c...

Ten Thousand Central Parks: A Climate-Change Parable

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Report copyright infringementby David Brown Morris (Author)A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate action Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods displacing millions, many wonder: What can I do? Ten Thousand Central Parks challenges the despair of inaction, using the history of Central Park as an unlikely yet urgent environmental parable. Created in the years immediatel...

Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Worster (Author)A groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo sapiens sapiens to show how human nature, especially the drive for food and sex, has responded to environmental conditions throughout history. Examining how this process led from foraging to the agrarian revolution and then to a capitalist way...

Protecting the Ontario Niagara Escarpment: Environmental Activism and Goverment Stewardship

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Report copyright infringementby Donald H. Avery (Author)Protecting the Ontario Niagara Escarpment explores the intersection of politics and conservation, business and public interests, and government and not-for-profit organizations over more than six decades to protect what is today a UNESCO World Biosphere. Reflecting on both environmental activism and government stewardship, author Donald H. Avery captures an important period in Canadian environmental history. Starting with an overview of ...

Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal

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Report copyright infringementby Bob Wyss (Author)Coal's central role in America's history and its ongoing threats in the climate crisis. For decades coal has been crucial to America's culture, society, and environment, an essential ingredient in driving out winter's cold, cooking meals, and lighting the dark. In the coalfields and beyond, Bob Wyss describes how this magical elixir sparked the Industrial Revolution, powered railroads, and built urban skylines, while providing home comforts fo...

Walking Chicago's Coast: A 63-Mile Journey to the Indiana Dunes

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Report copyright infringementby Michael McColly (Author)Blending travelogue, memoir, and environmental reportage, Walking Chicago's Coast takes readers on an urban journey. Michael McColly begins his walk at his far-North Side Chicago apartment and proceeds for two long days along the shore of Lake Michigan to the Indiana Dunes National Park. As he walks, McColly reflects on the layers of history, the constructed magnificence, and the troubling divides in this polyglot mecca of the Midwest. F...

Civil War Cavalry: Waging Mounted Warfare in Nineteenth-Century America

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Report copyright infringementby Earl J. Hess (Author)The Civil War produced the largest cavalry force ever raised in American history. In Civil War Cavalry, Earl J. Hess examines that force comprehensively and from new perspectives, challenging standard views of the war's mounted arm. Hess surveys the organization, training, administration, arming, and mounting of cavalry units and examines mounted troops' tactical formations and maneuvers. He addresses the nature of cavalry operations, disc...

Ecological And Environmental Turns: (Re)mapping China's Sociocultural Landscape through Ecocinema

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Report copyright infringementby Shuqin Cui (Author)Ecological and Environmental Turns: (Re)mapping China's Sociocultural Landscape through Ecocinema offers an essential new perspective on one of today's most urgent global concerns: the relationship between humans and the environment. As climate change and culture, pandemics, and ecological crises reshape the world, this groundbreaking study explores how ecocinema and environmental film can transform environmental awareness. Bridging ecocritic...

New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area - Paperback

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by Edward Barnard (Author)If you're not a tree lover now, this pocket-sized gem--dedicated to the idea that every species of tree has a story and every individual tree has a history--will make you one. Produced in consultation with the City's Parks and Recreation department and the New York Tree Trust, this book is a reference to the stories of New York City's trees, complete with photographs, tree silhouettes, leaf and fruit morphologies, and charming and informative explanatory texts. It is...

The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America - Paperback

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by Bill Thompson III (Author)Covering 300 of the most common birds in all of the United States and Canada, The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America is loaded with color photographs, drawings showing typical behaviors, range maps, an easy-to-use checklist, fun facts, and authoritative information about each bird, its vocalizations, and its habitat. While other field guides might overwhelm kids who are new to birding, The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America was created with...

The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic Cycles

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Report copyright infringementby Seth Long (Author)A reflection on the evolution of physical media into metaphor, through the history of music curation. Obsolescence makes the heart grow fonder, at least in the case of the mixtape. Not all technologies are so lucky. Some (say, wax cylinders) fade almost completely from cultural memory. A lucky few pass into metaphor: we still "hang up" our smartphones, "cut" film, and "patch" computer code. As digital streaming completes the obsolescence of p...

50 Plants That Changed the World - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen A. Harris (Author)The world as we know it would not exist without plants. Have you ever stopped to think about how your morning cappuccino came to be? From the coffee bush that yielded the beans to the grass for the cattle, or perhaps the soya, that produced the milk, plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. Beginning with some of the earliest uses of plants, Stephen A. Harris takes us on an exciting journey through history, identifying f...

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Report copyright infringementby Brett Bannor (Author)Why did Thomas Jefferson write that he would be happy if all dogs went extinct? What economic opportunity did attorney John Lord Hayes envision for the newly emancipated during Reconstruction? What American workers were mocked by Theodore Roosevelt as "morose, melancholy men"? What problems with revenue collection did Congressman James Beauchamp Clark mention when proposing an income tax? Why did Harley O. Gable of Armour & Company reco...

Reflections on Goose Pond: Stories of a Berkshire Mountain Lake

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Report copyright infringementby David E. Cohen (Author)Nestled high in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, Goose Pond is surrounded by a deeply forested tranquillity that belies the many murmuring voices eager to tell its stories - stories stretching back hundreds, thousands, and yes, even millions of years. This delightful volume reveals the stories behind the abandoned paper mills, the old cabins, the founding families, the dams, the floods, the Appalachian Trail, the teaming ...

Bush Friends All Around - Mark Robinson, Algonquin Park Ranger, 1917-1924

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Klages (Author)From 1907 through to 1936, author, naturalist, and soldier Mark Robinson served as an Algonquin Park Ranger. His service included working twice as Chief Ranger, as well as twice as Acting Park Superintendent. Throughout these years, Robinson scrupulously maintained a daily diary, documenting early life in the Park. These diaries are an essential, evocative record of Canada's environmental, social, and military history during a time of unp...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Kabat (Author)"Jennifer Kabat's Nightshining sifts a riveting expos? of the Cold War technocratic fantasy-state through lyrical family memoir. Her superb investigation calls to mind those of Rebecca Solnit and Errol Morris, among others."--Jonathan Lethem A propulsive, layered examination of the conflict between the course of nature and human legacies of resistance and control. Floods, geoengineering, climate crisis. Her first year in Margaretville, Ne...

The Bears of Grand Teton: A Natural and Cultural History

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Consolo-Murphy (Author)The Bears of Grand Teton is the first comprehensive history of bears, black and grizzly, and their interactions with people in Grand Teton National Park and the surrounding area of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It is also a personal account by Sue Consolo-Murphy, who spent thirty years as a wildlife manager for the National Park Service. Consolo-Murphy focuses on the natural, cultural, and administrative histories of bears in and around Gra...