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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $12.89
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Manufacturer: Oregon State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher::Wendell introduction by Berry
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Publisher: Oregon State University Press
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Edition: 0
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.71185
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Publication Date: 1999-11
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Reading Level: 338
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $39.93
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Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John T. Curtis
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.9775
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Publication Date: 1959-11-15
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Reading Level: 704
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Description: One of the most important contributions in the field of plant ecology during the twentieth century, this definitive survey established the geographical limits, species compositions, and as much as possible of the environmental relations of the communities composing the vegetation of Wisconsin.
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Price: $37.50
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Sale: $7.25
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Dirk (ed.) Frankenberg
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.756
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Publication Date: 2000-05-01
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: North Carolina boasts a natural environment of exceptional richness and diversity. From the mountains to the coast, the state is home to an extraordinary variety of publicly accessible sites that showcase aspects of its ecology, geology, biology, and natural history. This book leads the reader on thirty-eight field trips to some of the most interesting and instructive of these natural landscapes. Written by leading naturalists from across the state, this collection of "eco-tours" includes excursions to each of its four major regions: the coast, the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, and the mountains. Each trip traces a thirty- to seventy-mile driving route that connects preserved areas, hiking trails, scenic overlooks, nature trails, and other sites of interest. All entries provide a map of the route, describe what can be seen and learned along the way, and discuss especially noteworthy features. An essential resource for anyone who treasures North Carolina's natural heritage, this book will inspire and inform travelers throughout the Tar Heel state.
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Price: $5.95
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Sale: $2.80
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Manufacturer: Periplus Editions
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Warren::Luca Invernizzi Tettoni
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Publisher: Periplus Editions
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Dewey Decimal Number: 745
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Publication Date: 2004-03-15
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Reading Level: 64
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Description: Features the most brilliant blooms and blossoms from the tropics and includes scientific, family and common names of each flower in Indonesian, Malay and Thai.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $11.61
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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: Arthur V. Evans::James N. Hogue
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 595.7609794
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Publication Date: 2006-11-15
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Reading Level: 362
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Description: With perhaps 8,000 different species, beetles are easily the largest group of animals in California and can be found virtually everywhere in the state. They grapple over flower heads, lurk in pantries, paddle through pristine mountain streams, amble over dunes, and buzz about porch lights on warm evenings. But until now, there was no single resource for identifying the most commonly encountered beetles in California's mountains, valleys, and deserts. This valuable field guide, a companion volume to Introduction to California Beetles published in 2004, identifies more than 500 of the state's more conspicuous and colorful species, with the majority presented in stunning color photographs. Written and designed for amateur naturalists, students, and field biologists, it is chock-full of what every beetle watcher wants to know, including suggestions for finding beetles, starting a beetle collection, and keeping beetles in captivity. The informative, accessibly written species accounts include information on beetle identification, natural history, and distribution.
* Features 300 color photographs, 110 drawings, and 2 maps
* Covers 569 species in 56 families
* Lists California's sensitive, threatened, and endangered species
* Provides resources and web sites for further study of California beetles
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $17.97
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Dian Fossey
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Dewey Decimal Number: 599.88460451
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Publication Date: 1983-08-25
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Reading Level: 326
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Description: In 1963, an occupational therapist from Kentucky, in uncertain health and spirits, traveled to central Africa in the quixotic hope of seeing a mountain gorilla in its natural habitat. Dian Fossey had read everything she could about the reclusive and much-feared animal, and she returned from her trip convinced that most of the books were wrong. During her seven-week stay in Africa, Fossey had a chance encounter with the famed primatologists Mary and Louis Leakey, who encouraged her to follow her dream of living among the mountain gorillas and learning their ways. In 1967 she did just that, setting up a camp on the slopes of the 14,000-foot Virunga Volcanoes of Rwanda and studying four gorilla families there. Although it took them some time to accept Fossey's presence among them, she was immediately impressed by their peaceful nature and by their generous, guileless behavior--so unlike the images found in popular culture. But, Fossey discovered, despite their peaceable way of life, the gorillas had many enemies in the form of poachers who hunted them for their hands, skins, and heads--ghastly remains sold to the tourist market. Much of Fossey's thoughtful but often rightly angry memoir Gorillas in the Mist is a well-reasoned plea for the protection of the gorillas and the suppression of the poachers' black market. That argument found a wide audience when her book was published in 1983, but Fossey's work remains unfinished: she was murdered, probably by those very poachers, in 1985, and today there are fewer than 650 mountain gorillas in the wild. To read Gorillas in the Mist is a first step for anyone concerned with their preservation, and that of other wild species everywhere. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $9.50
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Manufacturer: Random House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michele Strutin
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Publisher: Random House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.77
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Publication Date: 1996-08-13
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Reading Level: 284
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Description: More than 180 full-color photographs and text describe the natural wonders of the Great Lakes region, from national parks to wilderness preserves and private sanctuaries, detailing the rich wildlife, scenic vistas, and other natural treasures. 35,000 first printing.
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $27.79
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Manufacturer: Zed Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Maria Mies::Vandana Shiva
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Publisher: Zed Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 1993-10-15
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Two of Zed's best-known authors, one an economist, the other a physicist and philosopher, come together in this book on a controversial environmental agenda. Using interview material, they bring together women's perspectives from North and South on environmental deterioration and develop and new way of approaching this body of knowledge which is at once practical and philosophical.
Do women involved in environmental movements see a link between patriarchy and ecological degradation? What are the links between global militarism and the destruction of nature? In exploring such questions, the authors criticize prevailing theories and develop an intellectually rigorous ecofeminist perspective rooted in the needs of everyday life. They argue for the acceptance of limits, the rejection of the commoditization of needs, and a commitment to a new ethics.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $3.01
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Harrison
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 1993-09-07
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: Harrison argues that population growth, rising consumption and damaging technologies have combined to bring on the biggest environmental crisis in human history. Just as crisis spurred the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions, so it may the third revolution that is needed to achieve sustainable development. Harrison provides a bulletin on the state of the planet and the process of destruction, and a blueprint for the third revolution. Harrison is author of "Inside the Third World" and was the 1988 recipient of the UNEP Global 500 award for outstanding services to the environment. The book is being made into a TV documentary to coincide with publication.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $2.99
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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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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 779
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Publication Date: 2004-11-22
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: The most hilarious, whimsical, shocking outdoor moments ever captured on film, from the editors of Outside magazine.
Brace yourself for more take-your-breath-away images from Outside's famed, back-page "Parting Shot" photo feature. Each of these seventy-one shots will surprise you, wow you, and make you chuckle if you don't laugh out loud. Hip-Hop Hares brings you more of what you loved in The Polar Bear Waltz. It's another zany, eye-popping collection that celebrates the pratfalls and bizarre coincidences of outdoor life—the comic circumstances of relatively tame mammals (us) spending more and more time closer and closer to wild animals. It's a rare chance to look into the wide world outside and laugh at both ourselves and that infinitely wondrous, entertaining, three-ring circus we call the universe. 71 four-color photographs.
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