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Price: $3.99
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Sale: $0.95
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Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pat Relf
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Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.16
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Publication Date: 1996-02-01
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Reading Level: 32
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Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Description: A class trip to the beach becomes an underwater lesson about food chains when Arnold and Keesha are challenged to discover what a tuna fish sandwich and some smelly green pond scum have in common.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.77
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lewis Thomas
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301.3101
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Publication Date: 1978-02-23
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Reading Level: 160
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $8.15
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Manufacturer: Williamson Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Williamson Publishing Company
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 1996-08-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Description: Shore to desert, country to city,exciting nature activities await discovery from beneath th smallest rock to the vast sky above.
With a full year of "nature-nurturing" activities, Milord lauches kids on a lifelong love affair with the natural world.
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Price: $142.00
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Sale: $58.00
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Manufacturer: Garland
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bruce Alberts::Alexander Johnson::Julian Lewis::Martin Raff::Keith Roberts::Peter Walter
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Publisher: Garland
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 571.6
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Publication Date: 2002-03
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Reading Level: 1616
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Description: Molecular Biology of the Cell is the classic in-depth text reference in cell biology. By extracting the fundamental concepts from this enormous and ever-growing field, the authors tell the story of cell biology, and create a coherent framework through which non-expert readers may approach the subject. Written in clear and concise language, and beautifully illustrated, the book is enjoyable to read, and it provides a clear sense of the excitement of modern biology. Molecular Biology of the Cell sets forth the current understanding of cell biology (completely updated as of Autumn 2001), and it explores the intriguing implications and possibilities of the great deal that remains unknown.
The hallmark features of previous editions continue in the Fourth Edition. The book is designed with a clean and open, single-column layout. The art program maintains a completely consistent format and style, and includes over 1,600 photographs, electron micrographs, and original drawings by the authors. Clear and concise concept headings introduce each section. Every chapter contains extensive references. Most important, every chapter has been subjected to a rigorous, collaborative revision process where, in addition to incorporating comments from expert reviewers, each co-author reads and reviews the other authors' prose. The result is a truly integrated work with a single authorial voice.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $18.44
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Kate Jackson
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 597.96096724
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Publication Date: 2008-04-30
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall trap, but she never imagined the physical and cultural difficulties that awaited her. Culled from the mud-spattered pages of her journals, Mean and Lowly Things reads like a fast-paced adventure story. It is Jackson’s unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisis—coping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest. The reptile fauna of the Republic of Congo was all but undescribed, and Jackson’s mission was to carry out the most basic study of the amphibians and reptiles of the swamp forest: to create a simple list of the species that exist there—a crucial first step toward efforts to protect them. When the snakes evaded her carefully set traps, Jackson enlisted people from the villages to bring her specimens. She trained her guide to tag frogs and skinks and to fix them in formalin. As her expensive camera rusted and her Western soap melted, Jackson learned what it took to swim with the snakes—and that there’s a right way and a wrong way to get a baby cobra out of a bottle. (20080415)
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $8.34
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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: John J. Rowlands
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Publisher: Countryman Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.713
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Publication Date: 1998-09
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Maine to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days he came upon the lake of his boyhood dreams. He never left. He named the place Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer - timber for a cabin; fish, game and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without. This book exemplifies the American notion that what is most worth finding lies far from the tracks of civilization, and that what is most worth doing demands resourcefulness and wit. Here is folklore and philosophy, but most of all wisdom about the woods and the incentiveness and self-reliance they demand. The author explains how to make moccasins, barrel stoves, lean-to-shelters, outdoor bake ovens, sailing canoes, and other useful gadgets.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $29.96
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Aldo Leopold
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.73
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Publication Date: 2001-11-15
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Reading Level: 194
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Description: Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $4.79
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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: 508
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Publication Date: 1998-02-16
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: From the award-winning author of "The Song of the Dodo" comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. This book contains tales of vegetarian piranha fish, voiceless dogs, and a scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.41
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ernst Haeckel
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.0222
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Publication Date: 1974-06-01
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Reading Level: 100
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Description: Multitude of strangely beautiful natural forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Ciliata, diatoms, calcareous sponges, Siphonophora, star corals, starfishes, Protozoa, flagellates, brown seaweed, jellyfishes, sea-lilies, moss animals, sea-urchins, glass sponges, leptomedusae, horny corals, trunkfishes, true sea slugs, anthomedusae horseshoe crabs, sea-cucumbers, octopuses, bats, orchids, sea wasps, seahorse, a dragonfish, a frogfish, much more. |
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $7.50
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Hanson Mitchell
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.74461
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Publication Date: 2008-08-15
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: In 1614, explorer John Smith sailed into what was to become Boston Harbor and referred to the wild lands and waters around him as "the Paradise of all these parts." Within fifteen years, the Puritans were developing the tadpole-shaped Shawmut Peninsula, as members of the Massachusett tribe fled. Now, nearly four hundred years later, one must wonder what remains of John Smith's "Paradise."
Equipped with wit, intellect, and an innate curiosity about people and places, John Hanson Mitchell strolls through Boston's streets, chronicling the nonhuman inhabitants and surprisingly diverse plant life, as well as the eccentric characters he meets at various turns. Using his modern observations as a starting point, he tells the fascinating stories of the tribal leaders, naturalists, community activists, and organizations who worked to preserve nature in the city over generations, from the Victory Gardens of the Fenway to the expansive woods of Franklin Park.
But much of the history is in the land itself. As he battles traffic on notorious Route 128, Mitchell considers the ancient origins of the rocks that line the highway and those that form the city's foundation. A walk across Boston Common calls to mind the Tremount Hills, flattened by seventeenth-century newcomers; only Beacon Hill remains. A stroll through the Back Bay allows Mitchell to imagine the Charles River, so polluted by sewage that it became a public nuisance and was partially covered over with a massive nineteenth-century landfill. With this natural history in mind, Mitchell explores both ancient and new green space from Chelsea to South Boston, including the greenway formed by the Big Dig.
Endlessly readable and full of personality, The Paradise of All These Parts offers Boston visitors and residents alike a whole new perspective on one of America's oldest cities.
"Hands-on and eloquent – a lover's rhapsody."
—Edward Hoagland
"A wonderful, surprising, and gracefully written exploration of Boston's true nature. If you love this city, you will love this book."
—Eric Jay Dolin, author of LEVIATHAN: The History of Whaling in America
"A wonderful piece of work: lively, thought-provoking and totally absorbing. The city of Boston has been chopped to pieces, riddled with tunnels, and surrounded by fill, but as Mitchell reveals in The Paradise of All These Parts, it is still a place of wonder."
—Nathaniel Philbrick, author of MAYFLOWER: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"Like Vladimir Nabokov, John Hanson Mitchell is a writer with an eye for nature's curious details, rather than a naturalist who practices writing. His new natural history of Boston is actually more a history of naturalists, explorers, conservationists and others at play on nature's grand stage with lots of juicy subplots and a large cast of engaging eccentrics. Irresistible."
—Christopher W. Leahy, Gerard A. Bertrand Chair of Natural History and Field Ornithology, Massachusetts Audubon Society, and author of The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife, Peterson First Guide to Insects of North America, and more
"The history of urban areas is often framed as the march of human mastery: culture replacing nature tree by tree. John Hanson Mitchell tells the story of how geology, nature, Natives and new arrivals have continually made and remade the place we call Boston. His amiable tale rambles easily from rocks to rivers to red light districts, interweaving natural and human history in a way that's quietly but deeply meaningful."
—Ginger Strand, author of Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
"There is plenty of history, natural and otherwise, in The Paradise of All These Parts, but there is also wit, narrative, and vision. Like Thoreau, Mitchell has a genius for sauntering, and I can't imagine a better rambling companion. As we stroll through Boston with him, he points out the place's deep history, its returning wildness, its migrating birds and flowering plants, and of course, since this is Mitchell, its quirky characters. The journey is a grand success, and John Hanson Mitchell proves once again that he is one of our very finest writers about place."
—David Gessner, author of Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond
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