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Price: $36.95
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Sale: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Patrick J. Michaels
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73874072
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Publication Date: 2005-12-28
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming convincingly demonstrates the remarkable differences between what we commonly read about global warming and what is really happening. Nine chapters describe major problems with computer simulations of future climate that are the basis for wrenching policies being proposed by world leaders. Anyone who reads this book will come away with a new appreciation of the complexity of the climate issue and will question the need for expensive policies that are likely to have little or no detectable effect on the planet's temperature. Published in cooperation with the George C. Marshall Institute.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $14.83
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Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kurt Buhlmann::Tracey Tuberville::Whit Gibbons
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 597.920975
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Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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Reading Level: 264
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Description: Seventy-five percent of the turtle species in the United States can be found in the Southeast. In fact, the region is second only to parts of Asia in its number of native turtles. Filled with more than two hundred color photographs and written with a special focus on conservation, this guide covers forty-five species of this nonthreatening, ancient lineage of long-lived reptiles.
Heavily illustrated, fact-filled descriptions of each species and its habitat comprise the heart of the book. Species accounts cover such information as descriptions of adults and hatchlings; key identifiers including size, distinctive characters and markings; land, river, pond, and wetland habitats; behaviors and activities; food and diet; reproduction; predators and defense; and conservation issues.
Also included is a wealth of general information about the importance of turtle conservation and the biology, diversity, and life history of turtles. Discussed are distinguishing turtle characteristics; differences among turtles, tortoises, and terrapins; shell structure and architecture; reproduction and longevity; turtle predators and defense mechanisms; and turtle activities such as basking, hibernation, aestivation, and seasonal movement. Useful information about the interactions of humans and turtles is also covered: species that are likely to be commonly encountered, turtles as pets, and more.
Clearly written, cleanly designed, and fun to use, the guide will promote a better understanding of the habitat needs of, and environmental challenges to, this fascinating group of animals.
Features:
- In-depth descriptions of the forty-two native species
- Conservation-oriented approach
- More than two hundred color photographs
- Nearly forty distribution maps
- Clear descriptions of each species, including differences in the appearance of young and mature turtles
- "Did You Know?" sidebars of interesting turtle facts
- Size charts; key identifiers; and information about habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, reproduction, predators and defense, and conservation
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $8.94
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Manufacturer: Tide-Mark Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Calendar
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Publisher: Tide-Mark Press
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Edition: Wal Blg
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Price: $3.95
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Sale: $2.35
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Manufacturer: Nature Study Guild Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: May T. Watts
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Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582
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Publication Date: 1955-08
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Reading Level: 62
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.70
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Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nick Jans
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Publisher: Sasquatch Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.798
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Publication Date: 2002-01-07
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Over 130 images paired with essays from Nick Jans record the splendor of this great American wilderness. From intimate singular images to hauntingly beautiful landscapes, Alaska finds new expression under the artful lens of Art Wolfe. For more than 15 years Art Wolfe has been documenting Alaska, from the rainforests of the Southeast to snow-shrouded mountains to the northern expanses of the Brooks Range and beyond. Wolfe brings a painters sensitivity to light, pattern, and composition in his photography of landscape and wildlife, and Alaska is his personal vision of a truly awesome landscape.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.13
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Turtleback
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Author: NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
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Publisher: Knopf
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.79
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Publication Date: 1999-09-21
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States belongs in the home of every resident of the Southwest and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor. This compact volume contains:
An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more;
A complete overview of the southwestern region's natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns, and the night sky;
An extensive sampling of the area's best parks, preserves, mountains, forests, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on dozens of others.
The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color images include more than 1,300 photographs, 9 maps, and 16 night-sky charts, as well as more than 100 drawings explaining everything from geological processes to the basic features of different plants and animals.
For everyone who lives or spends time in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, or Utah, there can be no finer guide to the area's natural surroundings than the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $9.50
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Daniel Lord Smail
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 901
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Publication Date: 2007-11-15
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Reading Level: 286
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Description: When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. Daniel Lord Smail argues that in the wake of the Decade of the Brain and the best-selling historical work of scientists like Jared Diamond, the time has come for fundamentally new ways of thinking about our past. He shows how recent work in evolution and paleohistory makes it possible to join the deep past with the recent past and abandon, once and for all, the idea of prehistory. Making an enormous literature accessible to the general reader, he lays out a bold new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.57
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Doug Macdougall
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.701
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: "Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining radiocarbon (C-14) dating--the best known of these methods--and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, Macdougall unwraps the last century's advances, explaining how they reveal the age of our fossil ancestors such as "Lucy," the timing of the dinosaurs' extinction, and the precise ages of tiny mineral grains that date from the beginning of the earth's history. In lively and accessible prose, he describes how the science of geochronology has developed and flourished. Relating these advances through the stories of the scientists themselves--James Hutton, William Smith, Arthur Holmes, Ernest Rutherford, Willard Libby, and Clair Patterson--Macdougall shows how they used ingenuity and inspiration to construct one of modern science's most significant accomplishments: a timescale for the earth's evolution and human prehistory.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.38
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kirstin Dow::Thomas Downing
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.6
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Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Today's headlines and recent events reflect the gravity of climate change. Heat waves, droughts, and floods are bringing death to vulnerable populations, destroying livelihoods, and driving people from their homes.
Rigorous in its science and insightful in its message, this atlas examines the causes of climate change and considers its possible impact on subsistence, water resources, ecosystems, biodiversity, health, coastal megacities, and cultural treasures. It reviews historical contributions to greenhouse gas levels, progress in meeting international commitments, and local efforts to meet the challenge of climate change.
With more than 50 full-color maps and graphics, this is an essential resource for policy makers, environmentalists, students, and everyone concerned with this pressing subject.
The Atlas covers a wide range of topics, including:
* Warning signs
* Future scenarios
* Vulnerable populations
* Health
* Renewable energy
* Emissions reduction
* Personal and public action
Copub: Myriad Editions
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $4.36
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bernd Heinrich
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.43
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Publication Date: 2004-01-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter. From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter their environment to accommodate our physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions--i.e., radical changes in a creature's physiology take place to match the demands of the environment. Winter provides an especially remarkable situation, because of how drastically it affects the most elemental component of all life: water. Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren winter landscape to the chemical composition that allows certain creatures to survive, Heinrich's Winter World awakens the largely undiscovered mysteries by which nature sustains herself through the harsh, cruel exigencies of winters
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