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Price: $28.12
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Sale: $17.06
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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: Henry David Thoreau::Scot Miller
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 818.303
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Publication Date: 2004-08-11
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: In August 1854, Houghton Mifflin"s predecessor, Ticknor & Fields, published a book called Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by a little-known writer named Henry Thoreau. At the time the book was largely ignored, but it has gone on to become one of the most widely read and influential works ever published, not only in this country but throughout the world. In August 2004 Houghton Mifflin, in association with the Walden Woods Project, will proudly publish a special 150th anniversary edition, beautifully illustrated with Scot Miller's spectacular color photographs, which are accompanied by historic black-and-white photographs and drawings. In the spirit of Thoreau, the book will be sensibly priced at $28.12, half a cent less than he spent building his cabin at Walden Pond.
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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: $14.95
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Sale: $5.95
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jerry Dennis
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 2004-06-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: If fresh water is to be treasured, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. One of them, Superior, is the largest lake on earth, and the five lakes together contain a fifth of the world's supply of standing fresh water. Their ten thousand miles of shoreline bound seven states and a Canadian province and are longer than the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. Their surface area of 95,000 square miles is greater than New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island combined. People who have never visited them -- who have never seen a squall roar across Superior or the horizon stretch unbroken across Michigan or Huron -- have no idea how big they are. They are so vast that they dominate much of the geography, climate, and history of North America. In one way or another, they affect the lives of tens of millions of people.
The Living Great Lakes is the most complete book ever written about the history, nature, and science of these remarkable lakes at the heart of North America. From the geological forces that formed them to the industrial atrocities that nearly destroyed them, to the greatest environmental success stories of our time, the lakes are portrayed in all their complexity. The book, however, is much more than just history. It is also the story of the lakes as told by biologists, fishermen, sailors, and others whom the author grew to know while traveling with them on boats and hiking with them on beaches and islands.
The book is also the story of a personal journey. It is the narrative of a six-week voyage through the lakes and beyond as a crewmember on a tallmasted schooner, and a memoir of a lifetime spent on and near the lakes. Through storms and fog, on remote shores and city waterfronts, the author explores the five Great Lakes in all seasons and moods and discovers that they and their connecting waters -- including the Erie Canal, the Hudson River, and the East Coast from New York to Maine -- offer a surprising and bountiful view of America. The result is a meditation on nature and our place in the world, a discussion and cautionary tale about the future of water resources, and a celebration of a place that is both fragile and robust, diverse, rich in history and wildlife, often misunderstood, and worthy of our attention.
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Price: $6.95
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Sale: $3.07
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Manufacturer: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George K. Reid
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Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
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Edition: Rev Upd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 578.763097
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Publication Date: 2001-04-14
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: This guide describes and illustrates, in full color, the plants and animals that live in or near ponds, lakes, streams, and wetlands. It includes surface-dwelling creatures as well as those of open water, the bottom, and the shore and tells how various animals and plants live together in a community. Plus suggestions for:Where and when to lookObserving and collecting specimensMaking exciting discoveries
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $17.13
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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: Peter Annin
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Publisher: Island Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.91630977
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Publication Date: 2006-08-16
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic?
Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this globally significant resource.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $8.88
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Manufacturer: Countryman Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tim Matson
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Publisher: Countryman Press
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Edition: 2 Rev Exp
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Dewey Decimal Number: 627.86
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Publication Date: 1991-05
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Reading Level: 152
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Description: There is nothing like a pond! What else can simultaneously increase your aesthetic pleasure, offer recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase the value of your land? This is the recognized standard on ponds, now expanded to include a comprehensive guide to living happily with your completed pond and keeping it perpetually healthy. Here is everything you need to know about planning, digging, sculpting, and maintaining your pond.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $21.46
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Manufacturer: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: J. Reese Voshell Jr.
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Publisher: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 592.176097
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Publication Date: 2002-04-19
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Reading Level: 456
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Description: Popular interest in the observation and study of freshwater invertebrates is increasing. A Guide to Common Freshwater Invertebrates of North America meets the needs of this growing audience of naturalists, environmentalists, anglers, teachers, students, and others by providing substantive information in easy-to-understand, nontechnical language for many groups of invertebrates commonly found in the streams, lakes, ponds, and other freshwater environments of North America. Section I provides background information on the biology and ecology of freshwater organisms and environments and explains why and how invertebrates can be studied, simply and without complex equipment, in the field and the laboratory. Section II describes nearly 100 of the most common groups of invertebrates, and for each group a whole-body color illustration is provided along with brief text pointing out the most important features that identify members of the group. Section III contains in-depth descriptions of the life history, behavior, and ecology of the various invertebrate groups, and explains their important ecological contributions and relationships to humans. The Guide is broad in scope, geographically and taxonomically, and it is written at a substantive yet easily accessible level that will appeal to both novices and those with more advanced knowledge of the subject. It also contains more than 100 specially commissioned color illustrations by the well-known scientific illustrator Amy Bartlett Wright that will greatly facilitate the easy and rapid identification of specimens.
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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $6.56
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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: Janisse Ray
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Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.758
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Publication Date: 2005-04-30
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Reading Level: 155
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Description: Janisse Ray, award-winning author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and Wild Card Quilt, writes an evocative paean to wildness and wilderness restoration with an extraordinary journey into southern Georgia’s Pinhook Swamp. Pinhook Swamp is a vital watershed and wildlife corridor linking the great southern wildernesses of Okefenokee Swamp and Osceola National Forest. Together Okefenokee, Osceola, and Pinhook form the largest expanse of protected wild land east of the Mississippi River. This is one of America’s last wild places, and Pinhook takes us into its heart. Ray comes to know Pinhook intimately as she joins the fight to protect it, spending the night in the swamp, tasting honey made from its flowers, tracking wildlife, and talking to others about their relationship with the swamp. Ray sees Pinhook through the eyes of the people who live there—naturalists, beekeepers, homesteaders, hunters, and locals at the country store. In lyrical, downhome prose, she draws together the swamp’s need for restoration and the human desire for wholeness and wildness in our own lives and landscapes.
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $8.94
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Eugene H. Kaplan
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.75
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Publication Date: 1999-02-01
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: With more than 750 illustrations, including 300 color photographs, this guide covers more than 1,000 species, such as shoreside plants, clams, shrimps, crabs, corals, seaweeds, sponges, and sea urchins, as well as all of the common seashore communities found from Cape Hatteras to the Gulf Coast, Florida, and the Caribbean.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $7.00
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Manufacturer: Thunder Bay Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert J. Hemming
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Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 1997-03-24
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Reading Level: 248
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