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Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of SurvivalIn 1937, Mount Lucania was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. Located deep within the Saint Elias mountain range, which straddles the border of Alaska and the Yukon, and surrounded by glacial peaks, Lucania was all but inaccessible. The leader of one failed...
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Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet's Biggest ProblemsThis call to climate action examines ways we can leverage the growing power of smartphones and other technologies to become effective environmental stewards to protect threatened species, reduce the risk from climate change, and stop ocean plastic. Personal technologies are creating what the Environmental...
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Water Talks: Empowering Communities to Know, Restore, and Preserve Their WatersAuthor: Betsy DamonPublisher: Portal BooksPublished: 04/01/2022Pages: 228Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.20h x 5.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781938685385This title is not returnable
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El Perro de la PraderaAuthor: Valerie BoddenPublisher: Creative PaperbacksPublished: 01/17/2023Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.00h x 9.10w x 0.20dISBN: 9781682771464Audience: Ages 9-12
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El ZorrilloAuthor: Valerie BoddenPublisher: Creative PaperbacksPublished: 01/17/2023Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.00h x 9.10w x 0.30dISBN: 9781682772539Audience: Ages 9-12
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Rocky Mountain Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Rocky Mountain TreesEasily Identify the Trees You Find in the Rocky Mountains Enjoy learning to identify trees with this guide from authors Tom Watts and Bridget Watts. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of trees in no time. And...
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Dear Mad'mDear Mad'm is the autobiographical story of Stella Walthall Patterson of her experience living alone, after age 80, with her dog Vicki on her mining claim on the Klamath River in the Siskiyou Mountains, near Happy Camp, California. She had until then lived a...
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Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First DogsHow did the dog become man's best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species. Dogs and humans have been inseparable for more than 40,000 years. The relationship has proved to be a...
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. HelensFor months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings from Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington State. Still, no one was prepared when a cataclysmic eruption blew the top off of the mountain, laying waste to hundreds of square...
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The Control of NatureThe Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction...
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Basin and RangeThe first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world--a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who...
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A Pelican Book: Object-Oriented OntologyWhat is reality, really?Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive?How does this change the way we understand the world?We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by...
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Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about BirdsIn this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert...
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A Guide to the Wildflowers of South CarolinaA comprehensive and indispensable reference for identifying and appreciating native flora From its summits to its shores, South Carolina brims with life and unparalleled beauty thanks to its abundant array of native and naturalized flora, all carefully documented in this revised and expanded edition...
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The Lives of Moths: A Natural History of Our Planet's Moth LifeA richly illustrated look at the natural history of moths Moths are among the most underappreciated insects on the planet, yet they make up the majority of some 180,000 known species of Lepidoptera. Filled with striking images, The Lives of Moths looks at the...
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Common Native Bees of the Eastern United States: Your Way to Easily Identify Bees and Look-AlikesGet this handy booklet to common bees (and their look-alikes) of the eastern USA, and learn how to identify them.Bees are beloved garden visitors and are essential to a healthy ecosystem. We welcome their arrival and celebrate their vital work as pollinators, supporting the...
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Outdoor Minimalist: Waste Less Hiking, Backpacking and CampingWe love the outdoors. We want to take care of it and we want to enjoy it. But with an excess of packaged food, single-use disposables and convenient consumables, are we loving the land to death? Outdoor enthusiasts are more galvanized than ever to...
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How to Create a Wildlife Garden: Encouraging Birds, Bees and Butterflies Into Your Outside SpaceBringing nature in: what to plant where This inspiring and accessible hands-on book shows how simple gardening techniques can provide a dazzling plant display while helping the native wildlife. This new updated edition of the award-winning book (Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the...
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Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River ThamesThe international bestseller that mesmerizingly charts quixotic journeys through London's past, Mudlark thrills Anglophiles and history lovers alike. Long heralded as a city treasure herself, beloved "Mudlark" Lara Maiklem tirelessly treks along the Thames' muddy shores, unearthing a myriad of artifacts and their stories--from...
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Rice & DucksRice & Ducks is the story of South Carolina's coastal lowlands and those who owned them and prospered. It is about the people who harnessed the tides and engineered an intricate system that produced an extremely lucrative agricultural enterprise. It is an account expressed...
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