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Vivi Loves Science: Sink or FloatVivi loves science! In this STEM-themed Level 3 I Can Read! title, Vivi and her friends visit the aquarium and are introduced to the concepts of density and buoyancy. A great choice for aspiring scientists, emerging readers, and fans of Andrea Beaty's Ada Twist,...
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Birds of Northern CaliforniaDesigned for beginning and experienced birders. David Quady and his nationally acclaimed fellow authors have written text for the over 390 species of birds that are found from Monterey County to the northern border of California in our best-selling format: Description, Similar Species, Seasonal...
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Song of the Open RoadWalt Whitman's poem was first published in the 1856 collection Leaves of Grass.Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: American RootsPublished: 06/15/2023Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781429096386
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Cascadia Revealed: A Guide to the Plants, Animals, and Geology of the Pacific Northwest Mountains"A love poem to the living things that inhabit the mountains and rivers of Washington, coastal Oregon, and southwestern British Columbia." --Saul Weisberg, executive director, North Cascades Institute More than just a field guide, Cascadia Revealed is the essential trailside reference for naturalists, hikers,...
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Happy Sloth Day!Take a stunning sloth's-eye view of the world in this beautiful and informative photographic nonfiction picture book from award-winning author and photographer April Pulley Sayre. Come meet sloths in the rainforest canopy where these slow, gentle creatures live and see what they eat, how...
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal...
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The Misadventures of a Cross-America KayakerThe Misadventures of a Cross-America Kayaker is the story of an old man on what would probably be his final adventure. Over a span of seven years, Hank Landau paddled and portaged over 4,700 miles on nineteen waterways and rivers, six of them going...
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Trees to Know in Oregon and WashingtonFor 70 years, people have turned to one book to learn about Northwest trees: Trees to Know in Oregon. This new edition, retitled Trees to Know in Oregon and Washington, expands its scope to cover more territory and include more trees. The book was...
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Love Poems to No One: Romantic PoetryI won't tell you how love is supposed to be because the truth is, love is many things, least of all predictable. It is feeling things we shouldn't and not feeling things we should. It is unexplainable at times leaving us at a loss...
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Storm Cloud: A Weather Predicting Instrument (Weather Predictor, Fun Cloud-Shaped Barometer)In the 1800s, during his voyage with Charles Darwin, Admiral Robert Fitzroy used and later popularized the storm glass, which promised to predict the weather. A beautiful twist on this classic device, the Storm Cloud is a fun way of seeing what the weather...
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The Curanderx Toolkit: Reclaiming Ancestral Latinx Plant Medicine and Rituals for HealingA practical guide to understanding and using Mexican healing traditions in everyday life Arranging ofrendas. Brewing pericón into a healing tea. Releasing traumas through baños and limpias. Herbalist and curandera Atava Garcia Swiecicki spent decades gathering this traditional knowledge of curanderismo, Mexican folk healing,...
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Rocks & Minerals of Washington and Oregon: A Field Guide to the Evergreen and Beaver StatesGet this must-have guide for Washington and Oregon, featuring full-color photographs and information to help you identify rocks and minerals. Identify and collect rocks and minerals with the perfect guide to the Pacific Northwest! With this famous field guide by Dan R. Lynch and...
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Parasites: The Inside StoryAn exciting look at the essential roles that parasites play in Earth's ecosystems This book looks at the weird and wonderful world of parasites, the most abundant form of life on Earth. Parasites come in all forms and sizes and inhabit every free-living organism....
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Dyke (geology)Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a small book that tackles large, wholly human questions-what it means to live...
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Tropical PacificThe long-awaited, 500-page reference detailing 1,600 animals with 2,000 photographs and descriptive text is not only the most comprehensive visual field guide to marine invertebrate life inhabiting the waters from Thailand to Tahiti, but also a pictorial tour de force skillfully bridging science and...
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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to LongevityA Sunday Times (UK) Best Book of the Year - This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" (Dr. Kris Verburgh) scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality-and the lessons they hold for us all. Recent...
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Midwest Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 109 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness"This comprehensive, accessible, full-color guide includes plant profiles, step-by-step instructions for essential herbal remedies and seasonal foraging tips." --Natural Awakenings Chicago In Midwest Medicinal Plants, Lisa Rose is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 120 of the region's most powerful wild...
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[To] the Last [Be] Human[To] The Last [Be] Human collects fourextraordinary poetry books--Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway--byPulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. From the introduction by Robert Macfarlane: The earliest of the poems in this tetralogy were written at373 parts per million of atmospheric CO2, and the most...
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Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas--Public Advocate and Conservation ChampionU.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was a giant in the legal world, even if he is often remembered for his four wives, as a potential vice-presidential nominee, as a target of impeachment proceedings, and for his tenure as the longest-serving justice from...
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Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi BayFrom award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman -- a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds. "[A] lyrical, passionate, and deeply researched...
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