by Sunset  Synopsis Gardeners throughout the region will be welcoming a thoroughly updated and fresh-looking edition of the bible of Western gardening. With a new, easy-to-read design, more plant photography, larger illustrations, and more than 8,000 plant listings--500 of... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your Price $12.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies 
by Michael Pollan 
Publisher Comments In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- though this... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Richard Louv Publisher Comments Richard Louv was the first to identify a phenomenon we all knew existed but couldn't quite articulate: nature-deficit disorder. His book Last Child in the Woodscreated a national conversation about the disconnection between children and nature, and his... (read more) Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Roger Burrows Publisher Comments This definitive field guide is a must for Oregon birding enthusiasts, covering more than 325 species found in the state. Each account includes a full-color illustration of the bird, a range map, identifying features, habitat, nesting and feeding... (read more) Your Price $21.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Al Gore
Publisher Comments An Inconvenient Truth — Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance — is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Richard Preston Publisher Comments Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have... (read more) Your Price $16.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Step Green Armytage Synopsis The classic introduction to the world of exotic ornamental chickens in a new chunky format designed to be held in the palm of the hand. It features photographs of chickens of all colours, shapes and sizes, including breeds from places as far apart as... (read more) Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Mark Turner and Phyllis Gustafson Publisher Comments Featuring more than 1240 stunning color photographs, this comprehensive field guide will remain a trusted, authoritative trailside reference for years to come. It describes and illustrates 1220 commonly encountered species, both native and nonnative... (read more) Your Price $27.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments Illustrates, simplifies, and humor-coats the important principles of classical and modern genetics and their experimental bases, with amusing anecdotes about how the ancients tried to explain inheritance and sex determination.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Neil Shubin
Powells.com Staff Pick Neil Shubin makes tracing our evolutionary origins positively fascinating. Through his work in expeditionary paleontology, Shubin explains the genetic correlations between humans and the animals that inhabited our planet billions of years ago. In a... (read more) Your Price $24.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Lynne Cox
Powells.com Staff Pick You'd swear from the synopsis that it's fiction, grist for an after-school special or Disney's latest blockbuster. But, no, seventeen-year-old long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox, training one morning off the California coast, discovered a baby gray whale... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by James Kavanagh Publisher Comments Oregon Trees & Wildflowers, An Introduction to Familiar Species, is a must-have, reference guide for beginners and experts alike. Whether you're on a nature hike or taking a stroll in your neighborhood, you'll want to take along a copy of this... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (New - Miscellaneous) check for used and sale copies
by Dale Peterson Publisher Comments This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall's accomplishments have been. Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when Louis Leakey, unable to find someone with more fitting... (read more) Your Price $14.50 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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Read the INK Q&A with Victor Wooten and save 30% on The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth through Music.
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