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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $8.50
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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: 578.752
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Publication Date: 1997-04-14
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Reading Level: 704
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Description: In a wonderful weave of science, metaphor, and prose, David Quammen, author of The Flight of the Iguana, applies the lessons of island biogeography - the study of the distribution of species on islands and islandlike patches of landscape - to modern ecosystem decay, offering us insight into the origin and extinction of species, our relationship to nature, and the future of our world.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $5.95
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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: Dan White
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.9
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Publication Date: 2008-06-01
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White and his girlfriend announced their intention to hike it, Dan's parents—among others—thought they were nuts. How could two people who'd never even shared an apartment together survive six months in the desert with little more than a two-person tent and some trail mix? But when these addled adventurers, dubbed "the Lois and Clark Expedition" by their benevolent trail-guru, set out for the American wilderness, the hardships of the trail—and one delicious-looking cactus—test the limits of love and sanity.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.14
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 394.26630974
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Publication Date: 1996-11-01
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Based on interviews with families in the mountains of northeast Georgia, a book of recollections commemorates the holiday traditions of Appalachian families and offers instructions for recreating many of their ornaments, toys, and dishes. Reprint. UP.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $4.59
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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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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $8.38
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Manufacturer: Totem Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
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Publisher: Totem Books
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 2006-04-25
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Fractal geometry is the geometry of the natural world. It mirrors the uneven but real shapes of nature, the world as we actually experience it. Introducing Fractal Geometry traces the development of this revolutionary new discipline.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $29.87
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Manufacturer: Abrams Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Andy Goldsworthy
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Publisher: Abrams Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709
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Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Reading Level: 168
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Description: Since 1995, Andy Goldsworthy has created a series of artworks in Northwest England in sheepfolds: stone enclosures found across the countryside that have been used for assembling, sheltering, and washing sheep for hundreds of years. After working on and off for more than a decade, he completed thirty-five folds, often rebuilding them in the process; many of them can now once again serve their intended purpose. These form the core of Enclosure: they reflect Goldsworthy’s lifelong interest in the land, its history, and the people who work on it. They are accompanied by a rich collection of ephemeral work related in various ways to sheep, including a spectacular series of large sheep paintings—paintings made by the hoof-prints of sheep.
Enclosure, which joins the sublime tradition of the art and literature of the landscape of the British Isles, is an exciting addition to the series of eight bestselling books that Goldsworthy has already produced for Abrams.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Steinbeck
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.31641
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Publication Date: 1995-11-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Marie Winn
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.756097471
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Publication Date: 2008-06-24
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Love and loss, life and death, among the nighttime creatures of the city that never sleeps Like her bestseller Red-Tails in Love, Marie Winn’s Central Park in the Dark explores a once-hidden world in a series of interlocking narratives about the extraordinary denizens, human and animal, of an iconic American park. Her beguiling account of a city’s lakes and woodlands at night takes the reader through the cycle of seasons as experienced by nocturnal active beasts (raccoons, bats, black skimmers, and sleeping robins among them), insects (moths, wasps, fireflies, crickets), and slugs (in all their unexpected poetical randiness). Winn does not neglect her famous protagonists Pale Male and Lola, the hawks that captivated readers years ago, but this time she adds an exciting narrative about thirty-eight screech owls in Central Park and their lives, loves, and tragedies there. An eye-popping amount of natural history is packed into this entertaining book—on bird physiology, spiders, sunsets, dragonflies, meteor showers, and the nature of darkness. But the human drama is never forgotten, for Central Park at night boasts a floating population not only of lovers, dog walkers, and policemen but of regulars young and old who, like Winn, hope to unlock the secrets of urban nature. These “night people” are drawn into a peculiar kind of intimacy. While exploring the astonishing variety of wildlife in the city park, they end up revealing more of their inner lives than they expected.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $10.00
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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: Peter Alden::Rick Cech
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Publisher: Knopf
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.759
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Publication Date: 1998-05-26
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: With its colorful coral reefs, excellent birding, and tropical temperatures, Florida remains a popular vacation spot for the ecologically minded. In this concisely detailed volume you'll become acquainted with the state's geologic origins, natural history, and diverse habitats (salt marshes, mangrove swamps, prairies, and woodlands). A field guide assists in the identification of some of the region's wildflowers, trees, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, butterflies, mammals, and birds, including the elusive manatee, three species of dolphin, and the rare snail kite. An extensive sampling of the area's best parks, preserves, beaches, forests, islands, and wildlife sanctuaries, with thorough descriptions and visitor information on 50 destinations, is also included. For instance, the section on Everglades National Park includes information on wildlife viewing possibilities, driving directions, and popular touring attractions inside the park (such as Shark Valley, where a 15-mile loop via foot, rental bike, or tram affords close views of alligators, anhingas, and wading birds). Lesser-known areas such as Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge and Withlacoochee State Forest are also featured. More than 1,300 color photographs heighten the quality of this handy compilation.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $24.49
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Manufacturer: Abrams
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alex MacLean
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Publisher: Abrams
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.20973
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Publication Date: 2008-10-01
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: For more than 30 years, Alex MacLean’s aerial photographs have captured the evolution of the American landscape and the complex relationship between its natural and constructed environments. Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point is an ambitious and visually breathtaking catalogue of the extraordinary patterns and profound physical consequences brought about by natural processes and human intervention. Divided into sections on topics including automobile dependency, water consumption, and urbanization, MacLean’s powerful photographs and insightful text make it clear that maintenance of the current American lifestyle is incompatible with a planet of diminishing natural resources and a finite atmosphere. With an introduction by environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben, Over compels us all to reconsider our basic assumptions about how we live, work, and play, and reveals that while the challenges we face today are not insurmountable, the future depends on our collective vision, passion, and commitment. |
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Displaying records 81 through 90 of 4000
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