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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $4.79
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Quammen
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Publisher: Scribner
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 1998-02-16
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: As he examines everything from species survival on islands to vegetarian piranhas, Quammen's funny and offbeat essays offer a unique glimpse of the natural world and, at the same time, clarify the larger biological issues and their effect on humankind.
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $7.53
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Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William W. Warner
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Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 639.542
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Publication Date: 1994-03-21
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Reading Level: 352
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $8.38
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Manufacturer: Williamson Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Williamson Publishing Company
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 1996-08-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Description: Shore to desert, country to city,exciting nature activities await discovery from beneath th smallest rock to the vast sky above.
With a full year of "nature-nurturing" activities, Milord lauches kids on a lifelong love affair with the natural world.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $24.44
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Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ronald Rael
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Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 721.0442
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Publication Date: 2008-11-03
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Dirtóas in clay gravel sand silt soil loam mudóis everywhere and it's free. The ground we walk on and grow crops in also just happens to be the most widely used building material on the planet. Civilizations throughout time have used it to create stable warm low-impact structures. The world's first skyscrapers were built of mud brick. Paul Revere Chairman Mao and Ronald Reagan all lived in earth houses at various points in their lives and several of the buildings housing Donald Judd's priceless collection at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa Texas are made of mud brick.
Currently it is estimated that one half of the world's populationóapproximately three billion people on six continentsólives or works in buildings constructed of earth. And while the vast legacy of traditional and vernacular earthen construction has been widely discussed little attention has been paid to the contemporary tradition of earth architecture. Author Ronald Rael founder of Eartharchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth in the modern era focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use rammed earth mud brick compressed earth cob and several other interesting techniques. Earth Architecture presents a selection of more than 40 projects that exemplify new creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet.
Rael's engaging narrative addresses the misconceptions associated with earth architecture. Many assume that it's only used for housing in poor rural areasóbut there are examples of airports embassies hospitals museums and factories that are made of earth. It's also assumed that earth is a fragile ephemeral material while in reality some of the oldest extant buildings on the planet are made of earth. Rael also touches on many topics that pervade both architecture and popular media today such as the ecological benefits and the politics of building with earth particularly in developing nations where earth buildings are often thought of as pre-modern or backward. With engaging discussion and more than 300 images Earth Architecture showcases the beauty and simplicity of one of humankind's most evolved and sophisticated building technologies.
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Price: $15.99
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Sale: $4.58
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Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dick Bass::Frank Wells::Rick Ridgeway
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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522
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Publication Date: 1988-11-01
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Dick Bass was a successful entrepreneur. Frank Wells was a Hollywood studio president. Together they set out to accomplish what no one else ever had: climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. The fact that both men had so little climbing experience turned out to be their greatest strength: since they had no idea what they were in for, they never considered their task out of reach. Rick Ridgeway, an accomplished climber in his own right, chronicles their journey, allowing readers to decide if these adventures are the result of midlife crisis or simply about men pursuing a dream with unshakeable resolve. Whatever the case, Ridgeway's fast-paced adventure provides gripping descriptions of the world's tallest peaks. We see the logistical nightmares of Antarctica's Mt. Vinson, the unpredictable weather of McKinley, and the extreme altitude of Everest's 8,848 meters. Ridgeway continues up Aconcagua, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, and Kosciusko with lively accounts that capture the day-to-day operations of expedition life, and more intriguingly, the growing bond between two driven men. --Ben Tiffany
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $10.85
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Manufacturer: New Leaf Distributing Company
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vladimir Megré
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Publisher: New Leaf Distributing Company
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 158
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Publication Date: 2008-06-15
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: "The Space of Love," the third book of the Ringing Cedars Series, describes author's second visit to Anastasia. Rich with new revelations on natural child-rearing and alternative education, on the spiritual significance of breast-feeding and the meaning of ancient megaliths, it shows how each person's thoughts can influence the destiny of the entire Earth and describes practical ways of putting Anastasia's vision of happiness into practice. Megre shares his new outlook on education and children's real creative potential after a visit to a school where pupils build their own campus and cover the ten-year Russian school programme in just two years. Complete with an account of an armed intrusion into Anastasia's habitat, the book highlights the limitless power of Love and non-violence.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $39.96
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Manufacturer: Island Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Herman E. Daly::Joshua Farley
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Publisher: Island Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7
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Publication Date: 2003-11-01
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Reading Level: 488
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Description: Conventional economics is increasingly criticized for failing to reflect the value of clean air and water, species diversity, and social and generational equity. By excluding biophysical and social reality from its analyses and equations, conventional economics seems ill-suited to address problems in a world characterized by increasing human impacts and decreasing natural resources. Ecological Economics is an introductory-level textbook for an emerging paradigm that addresses this fundamental flaw in conventional economics. The book defines a revolutionary "transdiscipline" that incorporates insights from the biological, physical, and social sciences, and it offers a pedagogically complete examination of this exciting new field. The book provides students with a foundation in traditional neoclassical economic thought, but places that foundation within a new interdisciplinary framework that embraces the linkages among economic growth, environmental degradation, and social inequity. Introducing the three core issues that are the focus of the new transdiscipline -- scale, distribution, and efficiency -- the book is guided by the fundamental question, often assumed but rarely spoken in traditional texts: What is really important to us? After explaining the key roles played by the earth’s biotic and abiotic resources in sustaining life, the text is then organized around the main fields in traditional economics: microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics. The book also takes an additional step of considering the policy implications of this line of thinking. Ecological Economics includes numerous features that make it accessible to a wide range of students: - more than thirty text boxes that highlight issues of special importance to students
- lists of key terms that help students organize the main points in each chapter
- concise definitions of new terms that are highlighted in the text for easy reference
- study questions that encourage student exploration beyond the text
- glossary and list of further readings
An accompanying workbook presents an innovative, applied problem-based learning approach to teaching economics. While many books have been written on ecological economics, and several textbooks describe basic concepts of the field, this is the only stand-alone textbook that offers a complete explanation of both theory and practice. It will serve an important role in educating a new generation of economists and is an invaluable new text for undergraduate and graduate courses in ecological economics, environmental economics, development economics, human ecology, environmental studies, sustainability science, and community development."
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $5.85
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Colin Fletcher
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.91320453
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Publication Date: 1989-05-14
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Colin Fletcher is a self-described "compulsive walker." It is not unusual for him to pick up a map, drive to an area that intrigues him, and then start walking. It should come as no surprise then that a detour from U.S. 66 to visit the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1963 inspired Fletcher to walk the length of the Canyon below the rim. In The Man Who Walked Through Time Fletcher recounts his amazing journey. For two months Fletcher struggled against heat and cold, lack of water and dwindling supplies. The terrain was, at times, nearly impassible, yet despite the physical hardships, Fletcher came away from his experience with a new awareness of how humans fit into the vast scheme of things. He writes, for example, of meeting a rattlesnake on Beaver Sand Bar: "Now I am no rattlesnake aficionado. The first rattler I met scared me purple, and killing it seemed a human duty.... Yet by the end of that California summer I no longer felt an unreasoning fear of rattlers.... Instead, I accepted them as organisms with a niche in the web of life. Accepted them, that is, as fellow creatures." The Man Who Walked Through Time is a remarkable account of a journey both physical and spiritual. It is also a record of the Grand Canyon as it was before the massive influx of tourism. Fletcher's descriptions of the spectacular geography, the wildlife, and the remnants of much older cultures serve to remind us that the Grand Canyon has been around longer than humankind and may well outlast us.
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Price: $24.99
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Sale: $15.67
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Manufacturer: Quarry Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: L.K. Ludwig
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Publisher: Quarry Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 745.593
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Publication Date: 2008-01-01
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: A step-by-step technique book for creating beautiful imagery and journals inspired by the natural world. Nature has been inspiring artists of all ages since the dawn of history, however, most books on nature journaling focus exclusively on drawing and watercolor painting, and therefore are intimidating or irrelevant to artists who don't feel confident in their drawing or painting skills. This book offers artists and crafters a wide range of experimental techniques for creating beautiful nature journals that primarily use imagery and themes from the natural world, but go way beyond mere drawing and painting. Creative twists on leaf rubbings, plant pressings, non-traditional printmaking, using patina solutions on brass or copper mesh, colorful photo manipulations, layering techniques, and clever ways of incorporating three-dimensional natural objects are just a few of the techniques that are explored. - Inspirational writings, thematic sidebars, and related conceptual exercises all help readers create artwork that will resonate on a deeper personal level
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $31.86
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jürgen Tautz
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 595.799
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Publication Date: 2008-06-27
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Reading Level: 284
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Description: With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs and an easy understandable text The Buzz about Bees tells the story of honeybees in a new perspective. Based on the latest data, notably from his own research group, Jürgen Tautz provides a wonderful insight into the realms of bees. In contrast to the view of bee colonies as perfect societies of selfless individuals ruled by a queen, Tautz introduces them as a "superorganism", a self organizing and complex adaptive system based on a network of communication; a fascinating result of evolution, a mammal in several bodies. The entire range of astonishing bee activities is described. Remarkable action photographs never shown before present bees busy with cell cleaning, caring for the brood, serving in the queen's court, visiting flowers, receiving nectar, producing honey, comb building, entrance guarding, heating and cooling. Spotlights include bees grooming, swarming, fighting, telephoning, sleeping and communicating by high-toned beeping, scents and dances.
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