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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $4.50
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Olivia Judson
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7
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Publication Date: 2003-05-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Finally, a how-to guide, in the guise of a Q&A advice column, for marching, flying, or slithering into the battle of the sexes, whatever your species. In this entertaining and informative book, evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson presents "letters" from sexually frustrated animals, birds, and insects who ask "Dr. Tatiana" to explain some sexual oddity. For example, "Don't Wanna Be Butch in Botswana" writes, "I'm a spotted hyena, a girl. The only trouble is, I've got a large phallus. I can't help feeling that this is unladylike. What's wrong with me?" Each question leads Dr. T. into a fascinating explanation about the sex life of this species, sprinkled with sprightly stories about other species with similar attributes or behavior. You'll learn why one stick-insect copulation lasts for 10 weeks (to prevent other males from gaining access to the fertile female) and why the black-winged damselfly's penis has bristles (to scrape out his rival's sperm). You'll learn that male and female orangutans masturbate with sex toys fashioned from leaves and twigs, that slugs are hermaphrodites with penises on their heads, and that females in more than 80 species eat their lovers before, during, or after sex. You'll also ponder human sexuality when you learn that "monogamy is one of the most deviant behaviors in biology" (although jackdaws, chinstrap penguins, California mice, and some termites swear by it) and "natural selection, it seems, often smiles on strumpets." Highly recommended--you'll read this through just for the fun of it and have plenty of odd facts with which to dazzle your dinner companions. --Joan Price
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $5.90
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Hawken
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.72
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Publication Date: 2008-04-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change
Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media.
Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries of hidden history. A culmination of Hawken’s many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire all who despair of the world’s fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $5.78
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Annie Dillard
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Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.9755792
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Publication Date: 2007-06-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.86
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Manufacturer: New Society Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bob Ramlow::Benjamin Nusz
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Publisher: New Society Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 697.78
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Publication Date: 2006-06-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Heating water with the sun is almost as old as humankind itself, and it is done all over the world. Yet there are strangely few resources on the topic in North America. Solar Water Heating fills this gap. It reviews the history of solar water and space heating systems from prehistory to the present, then presents the basics of solar water heating, including an introduction to modern solar energy systems, energy conservation and energy economics. Drawing on the author's experience as an installer of these systems, the book goes on to cover: - Types of solar collectors, solar water and space heating systems and solar pool heating systems, including their advantages and disadvantages
- System components, their installation, operation, and maintenance
- System sizing and siting
- Choosing the appropriate system.
Since people often get turned off by the up-front cost, the book focuses especially on the financial aspects of solar water or space heating systems, clearly showing that such systems can save significant costs in the long run. Well-illustrated, the book is designed for a wide readership from the curious to the student or professional. Bob Ramlow is the solar thermal consultant for the Wisconsin Focus on Energy Program. The owner of a renewable energy company, he has over 30 years experience with solar energy systems and is a founder and director of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA). Benjamin Nusz currently works as a solar water heating consultant and site assessor in Wisconsin.
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Price: $13.99
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Sale: $4.98
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Brand: Stokes
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Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donald Stokes::Lillian Stokes
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598.899
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Publication Date: 1989-09-19
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Reading Level: 89
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Description: Copiously illustrated with maps, line drawings, and full-color photographs, each of these large-format (8 1/2 x 10 7/8) paperback books contains the essential information that backyard nature enthusiasts want and need -- to attract, identify, and understand birds and butterflies, and to grow and identify beautiful wildflowers at home.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $14.41
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Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Les Beletsky
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598.1594
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Publication Date: 2007-09-20
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Discover two hundred of the world's most spectacular birds in Bird Songs from Around the World, the follow-up to the national best-seller Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song. Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, this stunning book features a sleek, built-in digital audio player that showcases each bird's song, as well as illustrated portraits and brief descriptions emphasizing the exceptional vocalizations. From the brilliantly plumed Lilac-breasted Roller in Africa to the flamboyant North American Roseate Spoonbill to Asia's Red Avadavat, Bird Songs from Around the World combines approachable information, beautiful art, and high-quality sound in a distinctive, elegant package. Listen here
White Bellbird (South America)
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush (Asia)
Greater Potoo (North America)
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Price: $13.99
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Sale: $8.39
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Manufacturer: Abrams Calendars
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Calendar
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Author: Stephen Green-Armytage
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Publisher: Abrams Calendars
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Edition: Wal
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Publication Date: 2008-08-01
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Reading Level: 24
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Description: A perennial favorite, this bestselling calendar features all-new photographs of the world's most extraordinary chickens.
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Price: $28.00
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Sale: $17.01
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Gustave Speth
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7
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Publication Date: 2008-03-28
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in. Of course human activities are not holding at current levels—they are accelerating, dramatically—and so, too, is the pace of climate disruption, biotic impoverishment, and toxification. In this book Gus Speth, author of Red Sky at Morning and a widely respected environmentalist, begins with the observation that the environmental community has grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to decline, to the point that we are now at the edge of catastrophe. Speth contends that this situation is a severe indictment of the economic and political system we call modern capitalism. Our vital task is now to change the operating instructions for today’s destructive world economy before it is too late. The book is about how to do that. |
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $11.29
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Manufacturer: Artisan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Yann Arthus-Bertrand::Jean-Louis Gouraud
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Publisher: Artisan
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 778
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Publication Date: 2008-03-01
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: The most visually stunning book ever produced about horses, in a portable new format.
This sumptuous tribute to the earth's most beautiful animal has been redesigned in a new mini format that is 100 pages longer than the original. Renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand—master of light and shadow, angle and exposure—etches these magnificent creatures and their human partners in photographs shot on location and around the globe, from Montana to Russia, central Asia to Argentina, Mongolia and Cameroon, and points in between. Each moment captured offers a glimpse of the breath of humanity, and man's powerful and moving relationship with the horse. Full of tribal costume, local color, and panoramic scenery—accompanied by the text of equine expert Jean-Louis Gouraud—Horses is a project of unparalleled ambition and scope.
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $4.00
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: James Herriot
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Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 636.089092
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Publication Date: 1998-07-15
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Reading Level: 440
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Description: Readers adored his tales as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful-- now James Herriot treats us to another delightful volume of memoirs rich with his own brand of humor and wisdom.
In the midst of World War Two, James is training for the Royal Air Force, while going home to Yorkshire whenever possible to see his very pregnant wife, Helen. Musing on past adventures through the dales, visiting with old friends, and introducing scores of new and amusing characters-- animal and human alike-- Herriot enthralls us once again with his uncanny ability to spin a most engaging and heartfelt yarn.
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