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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $4.66
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dale Peterson
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Publisher: Mariner Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 590.92
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Publication Date: 2008-04-10
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Reading Level: 768
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Description: This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall's accomplishments have been. Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting credentials, first sent her to Gombe to study chimpanzees. In this acclaimed work, Dale Peterson details how this young woman of uncommon resourcefulness and pluck would go on to set radically new standards in the study of animal behavior. He vividly captures the triumphs and setbacks of her dramatic life, including the private quest that led to her now-famous activism.
Peterson, a longtime Goodall collaborator, has a unique knowledge of his subject. Candid and illuminating, this work will be a revelation even to readers who are familiar with the public Goodall as presented in her own writing.
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alston Chase
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Publisher: Harvest Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.95160978752
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Publication Date: 1987-12-17
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: Chase asserts that Yellowstone is being destroyed by the very people assigned to protect it: the National Park Service. Named as one of “ten books that mattered” in the 1980s by Outside magazine and a book of continuing crucial relevance. Index; map.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.00
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
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Publisher: Knopf
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.795
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Publication Date: 1998-05-26
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: The Pacific Northwest is a cornucopia of extraordinary outdoor diversity. Pocket- and purse-friendly, this field guide covers habitats (subalpine meadows to rain forests to desert shrub to salt marshes) in addition to topography and geology (with explanations of the Oregon Dunes, Columbia Plateau Basalts, Mount St. Helens volcano, and a variety of minerals). Flora and fauna, however, make up the bulk of the book, with 1,000 of the most common species found in the Pacific Northwest. From mushrooms and algae to trees and wildflowers, fishes, frogs, flies, birds, and mammals, each species is identified with a color picture, short description, and notes on the habitat and season in which you'd encounter it. There's also an excellent chapter on Northwesterners' favorite topic of conversation--the weather--plus a guide to constellations and the night sky, for those evenings when it's clear. It behooves anyone who likes nature and lives in or visits the Pacific Northwest to carry the easy-to-use and beautifully put-together Audubon Society Field Guide at all times. --Stephanie Gold
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.51
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Manufacturer: Johnson Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James C. Halfpenny
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Publisher: Johnson Books
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 599
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Publication Date: 1986-05
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Animal tracks in the snow of the mountain forest, in the mud along a streambank, or in the sand of the desert are much more than footprints. James Halfpenny’s Field Guide will allow the nature lover to satisfy his or her curiosity by identifying the animal that left the prints. But identification is only the beginning of a fascinating activity: interpretation is the rewarding goal of this book. With it anyone can be a nature detective, able to reconstruct the behavior of mammals from mice to moose. Tracks tell stories and the user of this book can read them. Based on field research, much of it the author’s own, the book brings the amateur naturalist the latest information on animal gaits and the interpretation of scat.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.86
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Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen Whitney
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Publisher: Mountaineers Books
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Edition: 2 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.79132
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Publication Date: 1996-11
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Reading Level: 269
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Description: Comprehensive guide to Grand Canyon's natural history, including geology, and species illustrations on over 480 plants and animals.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $7.54
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Stansfield
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.870202
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Publication Date: 1996-09-01
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: "Schaum's Outlines" give students the information they need to know in a handy and succinct format without overwhelming them with unnecessary jargon. They get a complete overview of the subject and plenty of practice exercises to test their skills. Compatible with any classroom text, "Schaum's" let students study at their own pace and remind them of all the important facts they need to remember - fast! And, "Schaum's" is so complete, it's perfect for preparing for graduate or professional exams.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $5.22
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Muir
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Publisher: Mariner Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333
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Publication Date: 2001-08-20
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: During John Muir's extraordinary life as a conservationist, he traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is given major credit for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our generation a picture of an America still wild and unsettled only one hundred years ago. Edwin Way Teale has collected here the best of Muir's writing, selected from all of his major works, including MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA and TRAVELS IN ALASKA. THE WILDERNESS WORLD OF JOHN MUIR provides "reading that is often magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus Reviews).
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $5.50
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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: Gerald Durrell
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 500.94955
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Publication Date: 2004-06-29
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell’s dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Birds, Beasts, and Relatives is filled with charming observations, amusing anecdotes, boyhood memories, and childlike wonder.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.53
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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: William Beebe
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.8665
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Publication Date: 1988-05-01
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Reading Level: 442
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Description: More than 100 splendid illustrations enhance this fascinating firsthand account of a 1923 expedition to survey the wildlife of the Galápagos Islands. Beebe, a renowned biologist and explorer, combines literary skill with careful research to produce an exceptionally readable book. "High romance, exact science, fascinating history, wild adventure." — Nation.
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $61.83
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mary Jane West-Eberhard
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 578.4
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Publication Date: 2003-03-13
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Reading Level: 816
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Description: The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change. This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive synthesis in the past. It uses new concepts and specific examples to show how to relate environmentally sensitive development to the genetic theory of adaptive evolution and to explain major patterns of change. In this book development includes not only embryology and the ontogeny of morphology, sometimes portrayed inadequately as governed by "regulatory genes," but also behavioral development and physiological adaptation, where plasticity is mediated by genetically complex mechanisms like hormones and learning. The book shows how the universal qualities of phenotypes--modular organization and plasticity--facilitate both integration and change. Here you will learn why it is wrong to describe organisms as genetically programmed; why environmental induction is likely to be more important in evolution than random mutation; and why it is crucial to consider both selection and developmental mechanism in explanations of adaptive evolution. This book satisfies the need for a truly general book on development, plasticity and evolution that applies to living organisms in all of their life stages and environments. Using an immense compendium of examples on many kinds of organisms, from viruses and bacteria to higher plants and animals, it shows how the phenotype is reorganized during evolution to produce novelties, and how alternative phenotypes occupy a pivotal role as a phase of evolution that fosters diversification and speeds change. The arguments of this book call for a new view of the major themes of evolutionary biology, as shown in chapters on gradualism, homology, environmental induction, speciation, radiation, macroevolution, punctuation, and the maintenance of sex. No other treatment of development and evolution since Darwin's offers such a comprehensive and critical discussion of the relevant issues. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution is designed for biologists interested in the development and evolution of behavior, life-history patterns, ecology, physiology, morphology and speciation. It will also appeal to evolutionary paleontologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and teachers of general biology.
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