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Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiography that explores her deepest beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution. NPR sponsorship.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Frog the Amphibian World Revealed by Thomas Marent Publisher Comments Featuring more than 400 photographs taken on locations around the globe, showing amphibians in their natural habitats, and including personal stories from the photographer, Frog is a celebration of the fascinating range of the planet's frogs and toads... (read more) Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Bees, Wasps, and Ants: The Indispensable Role of Hymenoptera in Gardens by Eric Grissell Publisher Comments Few insects are more important than bees, wasps, and ants. They maintain the garden's biological balance, fertilize vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and recycle nutrients within the soil. It's no exaggeration to say that a garden can't be understood... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Alligators: Prehistoric Presence in the American Landscape by Martha A Strawn Publisher Comments I ran as fast as I could toward the banana trees with the gator right behind me, gaining on me with every step. Her jaws popping together sounded like a door slamming. I reached the first banana tree just ahead of the gator and climbed right up it like... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate by Jennifer A Mather Publisher Comments The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends - from the giant octopus attack in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Buzz: The Intimate Bond Between Humans and Insects by Josie Glusiusz Publisher Comments Falling into that irresistible category of things we probably don't want to know, here is an up-close, personal look at insects as you've never seen them before. Striking a balance between the bizarre and the beautiful, Buzz features eye-popping and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Brutal Kinship by Michael Nichols Publisher Comments Brutal Kinship explores the relationship between humankind and its closest relative, the chimpanzee, presenting these extraordinary animals in the wild, in captivity, and in sanctuaries created expressly for their protection. In his revealing photographs... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature by Kathleen Dean Moore Publisher Comments In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Native American Food Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary by Daniel E Moerman Publisher Comments Based on 25 years of research that combed every historical and anthropological record of Native American ways, this unprecedented culinary dictionary documents the food uses of 1500 plants by 220 Native American tribes from early times to the present... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming by Shreve Stockton Publisher Comments • A fascinating true tale: When city girl Shreve Stockton set out to ride her Vespa from San Francisco to New York, she never imagined she’d end up staying in Wyoming, falling in love with a trapper, and working as a ranch hand. Nor could she... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at home, and even in the mirror.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Elephas Maximus: A Portrait of the Indian Elephant by Stephen Alter Publisher Comments Revered in Indian religion and culture, coveted for its ivory tusks, the majestic Asian elephant has captured the fascination of humans for more than four thousand years. In an effort to shed light on this regal animal and its unique relationship with... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir Publisher Comments Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd Publisher Comments Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist known for her botanical illustrations, she was born just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty she sailed from Europe... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness by Pete Fromm Publisher Comments Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromms account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Li: Dynamic Form in Nature (Wooden Books) by David Wade Publisher Comments David Wade has spent a lifetime gathering and organizing the extraordinary families of surface patterns that nature throws up at every scale. The study of these shapes—a subject virtually unknown in the West—was known in ancient China as Li and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Practical Tracking: A Guide to Following Footprints and Finding Animals by Louis Liebenberg Publisher Comments Techniques from international tracking experts applicable to any quarry and terrain How to follow and find elk, deer, bears, cougars, lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos, and cape buffalo Finding and identifying tracks and sign of an animal's passing is... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Publisher Comments The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs. In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodalls account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife by Marie Winn Publisher Comments Central Park in the Dark explores a natural world that flourishes in the midst of a crowded and mechanized city. These exuberant essays lead the reader through the cycle of seasons as experienced by nocturnal beasts (raccoons, bats, black skimmers... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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