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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by Al Gore
Publisher Comments
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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Creature
by Andrew Zuckerman
Powells.com Staff Pick
My copy is wrecked from being pawed by houseguests young and old. But that's okay, because it's fun to watch them turning the pages, deciding on a favorite creature. The hummingbird? The chimp? What's yours?
Recommended by Dave, Powells.com... ( read more)
List Price $60.00
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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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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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Why We Run: A Natural History
by Bernd Heinrich
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.... ( 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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We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Changed Their Lives Forever
by Benjamin Mee
Synopsis
In the tradition of "Marley & Me" comes an unforgettable memoir about the mysteries of the animal kingdom, the power of family, and the triumph of hope over tragedy. 8-page photo insert.... ( read more)
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Birds of Oregon: Field Guide
by Stan Tekiela
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- Organized by color
- State-specific range map
- Flight, juvenile and morph insets
- Stan's Notes include "gee-whiz" facts
- Full page photos with corresponding full-page descriptions
- Contains state-specific species
Our... ( read more)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Western Region (Audubon Field Guide)
by Audubon
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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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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 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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The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics)
by Peter Matthiessen
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When Peter Matthiessen set out with the field biologist George Schaller from Pokhara, in northwest Nepal, their hope was to reach the Crystal Mountain — a foot journey of 250 miles or more across the Himalaya — in the Land of Dolpo, on the... ( read more)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Region
by Elbert L. Little
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All 933 identification pictures are full-color photos of significant details of virtually all native trees and many cultivated species as you see them in their natural habitat.... ( read more)
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by Aldo Leopold
Publisher Comments
"We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the... ( read more)
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The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)
by Timothy Egan
Publisher Comments
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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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
by Ralph Helfer
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Raised together in a small German circus town, Modoc, the elephant, and Bram, his faithful boyhood companion and later trainer, formed a bond that lasted their entire lives. It was an extraordinary friendship that was tested time and again until, in the... ( read more)
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Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees
by Nalini Nadkarni
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World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich... ( read more)
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Birds of the Willamette Valley Region
by Harry Nehls
Publisher Comments
Birds of the Willamette Valley Region is an identification guide for the birds of the greater Willamette Valley area.
The Species Account pages provide color photographs of over 200 local birds and have a companion page with key information about... ( read more)
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by Richard Dawkins
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"Despite my qualms with the 'Canterbury' chapter and Dawkins's general emphasis on heredity over organismal biology, The Ancestor's Tale is still an engaging history of life on our backwater planet....The pilgrimage metaphor describes the book well. Like... ( read more)
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by Richard Dawkins
Publisher Comments
The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years.--E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction. Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book... ( read more)
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