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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Falcon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Seymour
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Publisher: Falcon
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917
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Publication Date: 2002-05-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: From beach peas to serviceberries, hen of the woods to Indian cucumber, ostrich ferns to sea rocket, this guide uncovers the edible wild foods and healthful herbs of the Northeast. Helpfully organized by environmental zone, the book is an authoritative guide for nature lovers, outdoorsmen, and gastronomes.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $25.00
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Manufacturer: Firefly Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Roger Phillips
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Publisher: Firefly Books
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 579.6097
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Publication Date: 2005-09-22
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: The ultimate illustrated handbook on mushrooms. More than 1,000 handsome color photographs by Roger Phillips illustrate this comprehensive guide to mushrooms and other fungi of North America, in all their astonishing variety. Amateur collectors, expert mycologists and armchair naturalists will welcome the reissue of this valuable reference. Each photograph has a neutral background to eliminate distractions. The specimens are arranged to show the cap, stem, gills, spines, and a cross section, usually in various stages of growth. The information on each mushroom variety includes: - Dimensions of cap, gills and stem - Color and texture description of flesh - Description of odor and taste - Habitat and growing season - Description of spores - Categorization of edibility. Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America also includes useful tips and helpful advice on collecting specimens and identifying them. This book is the ideal introduction to mycology.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.65
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Manufacturer: Fox Chapel Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: The North House Folk School
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Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 736.4
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Publication Date: 2007-11-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: With its graceful silhouette and distinctive white bark, the birch tree has been important to people wherever it has grown. This book covers all aspects of the North's most versatile tree—from its biology and ecology to its different uses, craft applications, and legends. Some of the lore revealed includes birch's role as a Welsh token of love and its mysterious connection with witches' brooms. In addition to learning about how the wood is used in baskets, shoes, and wood coverings, readers can also make more than 15 craft projects from instructions in the book, including folded bark baskets, carved ornaments, and turned wooden bowls. |
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $6.95
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Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Allen J. Coombes
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Publisher: DK ADULT
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.16
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Publication Date: 2002-08-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Authoritative text, clear photography, and a systematic approach make the Smithsonian Handbook of Trees the most comprehensive guide to a wide range of species from around the world. Packed with over 1,000 full--color photographs of more than 500 trees, it is designed to cut through the complex process of identification, enabling you to recognize a species instantly. Identification Made Easy: For beginners and established enthusiasts alike, the Smithsonian Handbook of Trees explains what a tree is, how trees are classified, and how to keep a record of trees you have seen. To help you in the initial stages of identification, the book provides a visual key that shows you the difference between conifers, broadleaves, and palms, identifies each genus by leaf type, and guides you to the correct species entry. A concise glossary defines technical and scientific terms. Photo--Encyclopedic Approach: Expertly written and thoroughly authenticated, each species entry combines a precise description with annotated photographs to highlight each tree's chief characteristics and distinguishing features. A full--color illustration, showing the spread, height, and leaf persistence of the species, as well as color--coded bands providing at--a--glance facts for quick reference, complete every entry.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $28.98
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Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: J. D. Vertrees::Peter Gregory
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Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.977378
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Publication Date: 2001-05-15
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Reading Level: 300
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Description: The book is the flagship of Timber Press. It is among the first books we published more than two decades ago and it continues to be one of our signature bestsellers. A comprehensive source of information on the culture, identification, and nomenclature of Japanese maples, it describes each of the 320 cultivars of Acer palmatum and 60 cultivars of other Japanese maple species, plus briefly mentions another 150 cultivars that may prove to be promising new plants. The index lists every cultivar name published, so that Japanese Maples will continue to be the foremost reference book on this wonderfully versatile collection of ornamental plants. In this fully revised and updated third edition, we have added important new maple cultivars (approximately 100) that have been introduced since the last revision by Vertrees in 1987. This brings to nearly 400 the total number of plants described. We have updated nomenclature to conform to current standards, included more photos, (approx. 25% more, 313 vs. 252), and improved a number of photos. We have also arranged cultivar descriptions in alphabetical order irrespective of their group, so replacing the original format of alphabetical arrangement by groups. 313 color photos, 8 1/2 x 11"
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $7.45
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Vaillant
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333
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Publication Date: 2006-05-29
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth. "Absolutely spellbinding."—William Grimes, New York Times
As vividly as Jon Krakauer put readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest, where trees grow to eighteen feet in diameter, sunlight never touches the ground, and the chainsaws are always at work.
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, towing a chainsaw. When his night's work was done, a unique Sitka spruce, 165 feet tall and covered with luminous golden needles, teetered on its stump. Two days later it fell.
The tree, a fascinating puzzle to scientists, was sacred to the Haida, a fierce seafaring tribe based in the Queen Charlottes. Vaillant recounts the bloody history of the Haida and the early fur trade, and provides harrowing details of the logging industry, whose omnivorous violence would claim both Hadwin and the golden spruce. 16 pages of illustrations.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.57
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Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
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Number of Items: 3
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jason King
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Publisher: Ten Speed Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 778
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Publication Date: 2007-04
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: The CANNABIBLE mothership has landed! For the first time, the stickiest, ickiest buds from the best-selling series have been rolled together into a single mind-blowing package. Renowned pot connoisseur and photographer Jason King has selected his favorite marijuana strains from the coffee shops of Amsterdam to the mountains of Afghanistan to the volcanoes of Hawaii, each one illuminated by stunning photos and enlightened commentary. Housed in a gorgeous slipcase box, THE CANNABIBLE COLLECTION is the most indulgent gift you can give the pot lover in your life--except for the herb itself.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.22
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Manufacturer: Greystone Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Suzuki::Wayne Grady
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Publisher: Greystone Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 585.2
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Publication Date: 2007-02-22
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: “Only God can make a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story, authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a “biography” of this extraordinary — and extraordinarily important — organism. A story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions but focuses on a single tree, a Douglas fir, Tree describes in poetic detail the organism’s modest origins that begin with a dramatic burst of millions of microscopic grains of pollen. The authors recount the amazing characteristics of the species, how they reproduce and how they receive from and offer nourishment to generations of other plants and animals. The tree’s pivotal role in making life possible for the creatures around it — including human beings — is lovingly explored. The richly detailed text and Robert Bateman’s original art pay tribute to this ubiquitous organism that is too often taken for granted.
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $12.09
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Roger Caras::Steven Foster
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.650973
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Publication Date: 1998-09-15
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: This essential guide to safety in the field features 90 venomous animals and more than 250 poisonous plants and fungi. The 340 line drawings make identification fast and simple; 160 species are also illustrated with color photographs.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.82
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Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John N. Maclean
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Publisher: Washington Square Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.379
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Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Colorado and its neighboring states battle thousands of wildfires every year, scrub and sagebrush blazes often ignited by lightning strikes in the dry, hot days of summer. A vast, intertwined firefighting infrastructure combining local resources with agencies like the Forest Service and the BLM, reacts to these flare-ups as if going to war--and in theory, the coordination and communication ensures that fires are fought in the most efficient and safe manner possible. But while most wildfires in Colorado end up costing just over $60,000 on average with no loss of life, the catastrophic South Canyon fire of 1994 burned for 10 days, at the ultimate cost of $4.5 million and the lives of 14 firefighters. OSHA would later describe the coordinated action flatly as a "management failure," and concurrent investigations would reveal a tangled web of jealous rivalries, bureaucratic bungling, and severe morale problems. (One of the early on-scene supervisors would later tell investigators, "Leadership in this state sucks.") John Maclean (son of Norman Maclean, who wrote both A River Runs Through It and an award-winning account of Montana's deadly 1949 Mann Gulch fire) skillfully unfolds that summer's foreboding blow-by-blow. Fire on the Mountain weaves together a tense narrative of almost cinematic action, starring ballsy cowboy smokejumpers, frustrated federal middle managers, seasoned "hotshots" flown in like commandos, pissed-off tanker pilots, and well-intentioned but spin-wary politicians. Maclean's well-sketched personalities bring the action on the ground convincingly to life--and knowing up front that many of his main characters won't survive South Canyon makes this tragic tale that much more compelling. --Paul Hughes
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