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The World without Us
by Alan Weisman
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"Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd... ( read more)
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The World without Us
by Alan Weisman
Powells.com Staff Pick
"Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd... ( read more)
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by Al Gore
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Published to tie in to a documentary film of the same name, "An Inconvenient Truth" is Gore's battle cry about what needs to be done about global warming. 75 illustrations. (Environmental Studies)... ( read more)
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National Audubon Society Regional Guide to the Pacific Northwest (Audubon Society Regional Field Guides)
by National Audubon Soc
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A whole new way to look at your world: New England, Florida, California, and the Pacific Northwest are the first four subjects in a series of comprehensive field guides to the flora, fauna, landscape, and climate of specific geographic regions of North... ( read more)
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
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A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason... ( read more)
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
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One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in
years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at
home, and even in the mirror.
Recommended by Kyle, Powells.com... ( read more)
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
by Stacey Obrien
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On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he... ( read more)
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
by Terry Temp Williams
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As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a... ( read more)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Birds (77 Edition)
by National Audubon Society
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Regional guides to birds, animals, trees, wildflowers, insects, weather, nature preserves, and much more within these western states. Beautifully illustrated with 1,500 photographs, drawings, and maps. The essential guide to the West's natural world.... ( read more)
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A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by Aldo Leopold
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This special edition of the highly acclaimed A Sand County Almanac commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationists of our century. First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times... ( read more)
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen & Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.)
by Trevor Corson
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In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Revor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning... ( read more)
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American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
by Steve Rinella
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A hunt for the American buffalo--an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination. In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness... ( read more)
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Spell of the Sensuous : Perception and Language in a More-than-human World (96 Edition)
by David Abram
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David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural... ( read more)
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The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming
by Shreve Stockton
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When photographer and writer Shreve Stockton decided to move back to her beloved New York from San Francisco, she decided to take her time and make the trip on her Vespa. When she reached Wyoming, Shreve was captivated by the red dirt, the Bighorn... ( read more)
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My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
by David James Duncan
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I have sent my loyal and affectionate city dogs into a chorus of desperate howls by playing them a recording of baying wolves. I hear longing, danger, and a latent wildness in my dogs' responses. My Story as Told by Water resonates with just such a... ( read more)
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Good Rain (90 Edition)
by Timothy Egan
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A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.... ( read more)
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A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
by Aldo Leopold
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First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's... ( read more)
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My Family and Other Animals (04 Edition)
by Gerald Durrell
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This autobiographical work takes place on the island of Corfu when Durrell
was a boy. He was pretty much a wild English boy who ended up with a lot
of time on his hands, a lot of rugged land to explore, and as a result, a
lot of critter friends the... ( read more)
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Insects of the Pacific Northwest (Timber Press Field Guide)
by Peter Haggard
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With coverage from southwestern British Columbia to northern California, from the coast to the high desert, this invaluable field guide, featuring more than 600 superb color photographs, describes more than 450 species of common, easily visible insects... ( read more)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders (Audubon Society Field Guide)
by Lorus Milne
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Spiders, bugs, moths, butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and many other insects are detailed in more than 700 full-color photographs visually arranged by shape and color. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic... ( read more)
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