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Millennial Homesteading: Tips, Tricks, and Lists For Our Dystopian FutureA How-To on starting your own backyard homestead! Showing that sustainable living can be done with the average backyard and a little bit of know how. You provide the yard, I'll provide the know how, in this no nonsense guide to growing, preserving, and...
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A Literary Field Guide to Southern AppalachiaGetting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth....
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The California Naturalist HandbookThe California Naturalist Handbook provides a fun, science-based introduction to California's natural history with an emphasis on observation, discovery, communication, stewardship and conservation. It is a hands-on guide to learning about the natural environment of California. Subjects covered include California natural history and geology,...
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about OurselvesMama's Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like it--from dogs "adopting" the injuries of their companions, to...
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Last Chance to SeeNew York Times bestselling author Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures. Join them as they encounter the animal kingdom in its stunning beauty, astonishing variety, and imminent peril: the giant Komodo dragon of...
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Birds of Louisiana (The Birding Pro's Field Guides)The Birding Pro's Field Guide series introduces a number of innovative, never-before-seen features to the birding field guide scene. This highly accessible field guide gives the most complete description available for each species' daily life and behavior, and each entry also includes a month-by-month...
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Rouge River Revived: How People Are Bringing Their River Back to LifeThe Rouge River is a mostly urbanized watershed of about 500 square miles populated by nearly 1.4 million people. While not geographically large, the river has played an outsized role in the history of southeast Michigan, most famously housing Ford Motor Company's massive Rouge...
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Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild SalmonPNBA BESTSELLER - "A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr's mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read."--Ian Frazier, author of Travels in SiberiaEditors' Choice: The New York Times Book Review - Outside Magazine...
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Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by SquirrelsBird-loving Americans share a common problem: squirrels These fast, greedy, incredibly crafty, fluffy-tailed rodents pillage birdfeeders before owners' very eyes. For 25 years, Outwitting Squirrels has been leading the charge to help bird lovers defend their feeders. This classic defense manual for the besieged...
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The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right"On these pages, the Garden of Eden meets the world we live in." - Shane Claiborne, activist and author God once declared everything in the world "very good." Can you imagine it? Through careful exploration of the biblical text, particularly the first three chapters...
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The Genius of Birds"Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of 'bird brains, ' Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . ." --New York Times Book Review "A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence." --Scientific American An award-winning science writer tours the globe...
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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical TheoryThe Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands...
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The Song of the Ape: Tenth Anniversary EditionAn absorbing investigation of chimpanzee language and communication.The Song of the Ape traces the individual histories of each of the five chimpanzees on the boat, some of whom came to the zoo after being wild-caught chimps raised as pets, circus performers, and lab chimps,...
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Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles & Amphibians, Fourth EditionPETERSON: The best-selling field guides of all time This is the most comprehensive and trusted guide to reptiles and amphibians of western North America. The new edition retains the realistic and accurate paintings by Robert Stebbins and includes 160 color photographs for additional detail....
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CrossingsThe poet Wallace Stevens said, "We live in the description of a place and not in the place itself." Franchot Ballinger shares his experience of the Ohio River Valley, what it means to live aware in a place, to see and smell spicebush, to...
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I Say to This MountainAuthor: Judy ScheelPublisher: Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLCPublished: 01/12/2023Pages: 94Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.23dISBN: 9781952439483This title is not returnable
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The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its ApplicationsThe most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants - Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances - Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights into the nature of reality...
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The Warbler GuideA field guide that revolutionizes warbler identification Warblers are among the most challenging birds to identify. They exhibit an array of seasonal plumages and have distinctive yet oft-confused calls and songs. The Warbler Guide enables you to quickly identify any of the 56 species...
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Mouse's First FallOne cool day Mouse and Minka venture out to play. From leaves of all colors -- red, yellow, orange, and brown -- to leaves of all shapes and sizes -- from pointy to round -- Mouse learns that fall is a season full of...
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Walden and Other WritingsWith their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in...
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