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The Jeweler's Directory of Gemstones: A Complete Guide to Appraising and Using Precious Stones from Cut and Color to Shape and SettingsFor goldsmiths, collectors, jewelry-makers, investors, retailers and consumers. The trade of gemstones is a highly specialized and often secretive business. Using The Jeweler's Directory of Gemstones, written by an expert gemstone dealer and designer, will provide any consumer with the insider knowledge needed to...
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Dinosaurs--The Grand Tour, Second Edition: Everything Worth Knowing about Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to ZuniceratopsBigger and Better, Updated and Expanded We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery--on average, we find one new dinosaur species per week. The most fascinating among them take their place in this updated edition of Dinosaurs--The Grand Tour; from Aardonyx, a lumbering...
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Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception Into the Dreaming of EarthA manual for opening the doors of perception and directly engaging the intelligence of the Natural World - Provides exercises to directly perceive and interact with the complex, living, self-organizing being that is Gaia - Reveals that every life form on Earth is highly...
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Alaska's Wild Plants, Revised Edition: A Guide to Alaska's Edible and Healthful HarvestWith bright color photographs and completely up-to-date information, this authoritative guidebook introduces adventurers and harvesters to more than 80 of Alaska's most common wild edible plants.Alaska's Wild Plants is the perfect guide to tuck in your backpack as you explore Alaska's lands. Now reorganized...
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Planktonia: The Nightly Migration of the Ocean's Smallest CreaturesWhen people hear the word "migration," they think of animals that move from a feeding area to a breeding area and back each year. But the greatest migration on Earth happens twice every night. The movement is largely vertical and performed by plankton followed...
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The Naturalist's Companion: A Field Guide to Observing and Understanding WildlifePractical guidance on how to achieve a deeper level of nature observation From the co-founder of Primitive Pursuits, renowned nature awareness program Provides concrete tools for improving the depth and quality of outdoor experiences The Naturalist's Companion fills an important void in outdoor education...
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Baby Bird Identification: A North American GuideBaby Bird Identification is a comprehensive illustrated guide for distinguishing hundreds of North American bird species in their early stages of life. From the just hatched to the fledgling, Linda Tuttle-Adams walks readers through the process of identifying baby birds that they may encounter...
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The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of BalancePhosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it's also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for billions of people. In this major...
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The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental ProtectionIn this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of...
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Eastern Coastal Birds: A Waterproof Folding Guide to Familiar SpeciesShorebirds and seabirds found on the east coast are truly world globetrotters with migration routes that span oceans and continents. Eastern Coastal Birds is the ideal reference guide for the seasonal visitor or resident to identify commonly seen birds along the coast of eastern...
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The Sacred Balance, 25th Anniversary Edition: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature"The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit."--E.O. WilsonWith a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times-bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass--and an afterword from Bill McKibben--this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part of nature,...
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Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary WorldFrom the creators of the Academy Award-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher, an immersive journey into the underwater world that inspired it--and holds transformative lessons for us all Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck regularly dive together in the awe-inspiring kelp forests off South Africa, without...
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Trees of Michigan Field GuideLearn to identify Michigan trees with this handy field guide, organized by leaf type and attachment. With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree identification simple, informative, and productive. There's no need to look through dozens...
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The Princeton Field Guide to PterosaursThe most up-to-date and authoritative illustrated guide to the marvelous flying reptiles that dominated the skies of the Mesozoic for 160 million years Once seen by some as evolutionary dead-enders, pterosaurs were vigorous winged reptiles capable of thriving in an array of habitats and...
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The Kissing of KissingIn this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse--a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent--Hannah Emerson's poems keep, dream, bring, please, grownd, sing, kiss, and listen. They move with and within the beautiful nothing ("of buzzing light") from which, as she...
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Canopy: PoemsA long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from "a contemporary master"*--a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment *Los Angeles Review of Books Linda Gregerson's long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by...
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Northwest Foraging: The Classic Guide to Edible Plants of the Pacific Northwest* Suitable for novice foragers and seasoned botanists alike* More than 65 of the most common edible plants in the Pacific Northwest are thoroughly described*Poisonous plants commonly encountered are also includedOriginally published in 1974, Northwest Foraging quickly became a wild food classic. Now fully...
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Wise Trees"The photographers sought out 'inspirational trees--ones that had witnessed history, survived calamities, or were the focus of spiritual veneration' and found over 60 examples from around the globe." --Los Angeles Times Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees--a stunning photography...
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In the Shadow of ManWorld-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Dr. Goodall's adventure began when the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey suggested that a...
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Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in UtahThe author of the controversial bestseller Brain Trust brings his scientific expertise to the chilling true story of unexplained phenomena on Utah's Skinwalker Ranch -- and challenges us with a new vision of reality.For more than fifty years, the bizarre events at a remote...
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