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Color Yourself Smart: Birds of North America by Dominic Couzens Synopsis Many memory experts agree that the best way to retain information is by using color and illustrations. In Color Yourself Smart: Birds of North America, youll explore the world of our continents winged creatures by coloring 52 illustrations of birds such... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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Birds of North America (Peterson Field Guides) by Roger Peterson Publisher Comments In celebration of the centennial of Roger Tory Petersons birth comes a historic collaboration among renowned birding experts and artists to preserve and enhance the Peterson legacy. This new book combines the Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Birds and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Flexible
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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Publisher Comments Charles Darwin was a bumbling neophyte naturalist when he boarded the Beagle in 1831. Through the five years that followed, as the ship hugged the coastline of South America, Darwin found himself wading through waist-deep mud, climbing towerlike trees... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief by Lewis Wolpert Publisher Comments Why do 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, while others are convinced that they were abducted by aliens? What makes people believe in improbable things when all the evidence points to the contrary? And don't almost all of us, at some time or... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest (Timber Press Field Guides) by Steve Trudell Publisher Comments The Pacific Northwest is one of the best places to find mushrooms -- they are both abundant and spectacularly diverse. Yet until now, there has been no mushroom guide that focuses on the region. This compact, beautifully illustrated guide presents... (read more) List Price $27.95 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 How can we give animals the best life — for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations by David S. Wilcove Publisher Comments Animal migration is a magnificent sight: a mile-long blanket of cranes rising from a Nebraska river and filling the sky; hundreds of thousands of wildebeests marching across the Serengeti; a blaze of orange as millions of monarch butterflies spread... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Grayson by Lynne Cox 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, 17-year-old long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox, training one morning off the California coast, discovered a baby gray whale that had... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Complete James Herriot by James Herriot Publisher Comments The Complete James Herriot Includes Every Living Thing The Lord God Made Them All Vet in a Spin Vets Might Fly Vet in Harness Let Sleeping Vets Lie It shouldn't Happen to a Vet If Only They Could Talk... (read more) Your price: $36.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster Publisher Comments Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Secret Lives of Backyard Bugs: Discover Amazing Butterflies, Moths, Spiders, Dragonflies, and Other Insects! by Judy Burris Publisher Comments With this book in hand, readers of any age will discover — just outside their own doors, no matter where they live—a world they never knew existed. Stunning photography is combined with expert information to create an up-close-and-personal... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Bedside Book of Beasts: A Wildlife Miscellany by Graeme Gibson Publisher Comments In a wonderfully diverse selection of writings and gorgeous illustrations, this stunning companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey. The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships by Marty Crump Publisher Comments Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capuchin monkeys that use millipede secretions as mosquito repellent. The... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Jumbo: The Greatest Elephant in the World by Paul Chambers Publisher Comments Jumbo was a superstar of the Victorian era. Every day tens of thousands of people would visit this adored animal known as the Children's Pet or, more simply, the Giant Elephant, at the London Zoo. When P.T. Barnum purchased him for his Greatest Show on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Real Rudolph a Natural History of the Reindeer by Tilly Smith Publisher Comments It explains the facts and myths that surround the animal everybody has heard of but few have seen.... (read more) Your price: $3.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Venomous Snakes (Wild Guides) by Cynthia Berger Publisher Comments Feared and reviled by many, venomous snakes are woefully misunderstood. This illustrated guide to 20 North American species clears up many of the misconceptions about the animals and offers a glimpse into their extraordinary lives. Covering everything... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $5.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Encounters with the Archdruid by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart Publisher Comments In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes — creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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