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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $7.00
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 552.075
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Publication Date: 1978-11-15
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Reading Level: 607
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Description: Practical, concise, and easy to use, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals contains everything that the rock and mineral enthusiast needs to know. This field guide is divided into two large sections -- one devoted to minerals and one to rocks, each prefaced by a comprehensive introduction that discusses formation, chemistry, and more. All 377 entries, beautifully illustrated with color photographs and helpful visual symbols, provide descriptions and practical information about appearance, classification, rarity, crystal formation, mode of occurrence, gravity of mineral, rock chemistry, modal classification fields, formational environments, grain sizes of rocks, and much more. Whether you are a serious collector or an information-seeking amateur, this incomparably beautiful, authoritative guide will prove an invaluable reference.
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Price: $25.99
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Sale: $18.24
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Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
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Edition: 10
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Dewey Decimal Number: 930.1
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Publication Date: 2001-03-26
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: 8 3/16 X 10 7/8 In, 232 Pp, 100 Black & < White Photographs, 150 Line Drawings < Have You Ever Longed To Return To A < Past Where Humanity's Greatest Concern < Was Survival, When Our Hands Created < Life's Necessities, When The Land's < Raw Provisions Were The Materials With < Which We Created Warmth, Shelter, Food, < and Tools--A Time Before We Lost Our < Bond With The Wilderness? Primitive < Technology Helps Build A Bridge Between < The Ancient Past and Our Modern Lives, < Putting Us In Touch Again With Nature < and Ourselves. < This Volume--A Selection of Articles < Within The Bulletin of Primitive < Technology--Portrays The History, < Philosophise, and Personal Journeys of < Authorities On Primitive Technology, < Imparting Skills That Built The Success < of Mankind. From Views On Primitive < Technology and "New" Archaeology To < Making Fire and Tools of Bone, This Book < Is Informative and Enlightening
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.00
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Manufacturer: Countryman
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Wessels
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Publisher: Countryman
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.30974
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Publication Date: 2005-09-20
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: An original portrait of New England's forests, tracing their evolution from precolonial days to the present through a study of the patterns we see today.
Landscape is much more than scenery to be observed or even terrain to be traveled, as this fascinating and many-layered book vividly shows us. Etched into the land is the history of how we have inhabited it, the storms and fires that have shaped it, and its response to these and other changes.
An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell the age of a beaver pond and determine if beavers still live there? Why are pine trees dominant in one patch of forest and maples in another? What happened to the American chestnut? Turn to this book for the answers, and no walk in the woods will ever be the same. 60 black & white illustrations, index.
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Price: $27.00
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Sale: $18.79
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Turtleback
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Author: Andy Swash::Rob Still
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 596.098665
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Publication Date: 2006-02-28
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Reading Level: 168
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Description: This simple-to-use, pocket-size volume offers a comprehensive guide to the unique wildlife of the Galápagos, encompassing all the birds, mammals, and reptiles a visitor to these extraordinary islands might encounter. The second edition corrects and amends plates and text, as well as adds six new photos of the whales.
Reviews of the first edition:
“The essential field companion for Galápagos visitors.”—The Quarterly Review of Biology
"I cannot conceive anyone going to the Galápagos without [this book] in hand." —Noble S. Proctor
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $8.00
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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: Lawrence Newcomb
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.130974
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Publication Date: 1989-04-13
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Reading Level: 490
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Description: An ingenious new key system for quick, positive field identification of wildflowers, flowering shrubs and vines in paperback for the first time. 1,075 drawings, 175 in color.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $13.16
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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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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.96
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Publication Date: 1995-10-03
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Reading Level: 992
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Description: The first and only field guide to offer comprehensive coverage of the African continent, this guide sends the reader on a virtual safari. All the birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects are brought to life, and the parks and reserves for which the continent is famous are described in thorough detail. This guide is packed with 577 stunning color photographs of African habitats and animals, and provides a wealth of information on more than 850 species compiled by veteran safari leaders and experts in African wildlife.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $18.81
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Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Lacinski::Michel Bergeron
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Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 693.997
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Publication Date: 2000-12-24
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Reading Level: 371
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Description: In 1994, when Chelsea Green published The Straw Bale House , the response from many people was a loud, "Huh?!" Those days are gone. With more than 100,000 copies sold, and straw bale projects underway in most regions of North America, we've entered a new era. Even building-code officials and insurance companies now look favorably upon straw bale buildings, with their extraordinary energy efficiency and wise use of agricultural waste for construction materials. Bergeron and Lacinski's new book is the first to look carefully at the specific design considerations critical to success with a straw bale building in more extreme climates-where seasonal changes in temperature, precipitation, and humidity create special stresses that builders must understand and address. The authors draw upon years of experience with natural materials and experimental techniques, and present a compelling rationale for building with straw-one of nature's most resilient, available, and affordable byproducts. For skeptics and true believers, this book will prove to be the latest word. Thorough explanations of how moisture and temperature affect buildings in seasonal climates, with descriptions of the unique capacities of straw and other natural materials to provide warmth, quiet, and comfort year-round. Comprehensive comparison of the two main approaches to straw bale construction: "Nebraska-style," where bales bear the weight of the roof, and framed structures, where bales provide insulation. Detailed advice-including many well-considered cautions-for contractors, owner-builders, and designers, following each stage of a bale-building process. This is a second-generation straw bale book, for those seeking serious information to meet serious challenges while adventuring in the most fun form of construction to come along in several centuries.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.65
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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: Nalini Nadkarni
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.16
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Publication Date: 2008-07-02
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich tapestry of personal stories, information, art, and photography, she becomes our captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads. Through her luminous narrative, we embark on a multifaceted exploration of trees that illuminates the profound connections we have with them, the dazzling array of goods and services they provide, and the powerful lessons they hold for us. Nadkarni describes trees' intricate root systems, their highly evolved and still not completely understood canopies, their role in commerce and medicine, their existence in city centers and in extreme habitats of mountaintops and deserts, and their important place in folklore and the arts. She explains tree fundamentals and considers the symbolic role they have assumed in culture and religion. In a book that reawakens our sense of wonder at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find entry to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in it.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $19.62
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Manufacturer: Penguin Audio
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Number of Items: 13
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Binding: Audio CD
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Author: Michael Pollan
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Publisher: Penguin Audio
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Edition: Unabridged
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Dewey Decimal Number: 394.12
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Publication Date: 2006-04-11
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Reading Level: 1
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Description: The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century.
Unabridged CDs -11 CDs, 13 hours
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.81
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Manufacturer: Picador
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pete Fromm
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Publisher: Picador
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 2003-10-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm’s account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West’s premier voices.
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