Campfire Cuisine: Gourmet Recipes for the Great Outdoors
by Robin Donovan




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Campers will wax rhapsodic about sleeping outdoors, breathing clean air, and communing with nature, all the while eating unhealthy, unsatisfying foods. Campfire Cuisine is here to ensure that you won't have to eat hot dogs and baked beans any longer... (read more)

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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.)
by Eric Brende




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What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "... (read more)

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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




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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)

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Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton


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The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She... (read more)

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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben




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"Timely and useful. This valuable benchmark is a substantial contribution to the rethinking of unlimited economic expansion." Recommended by Ted, Powells.com... (read more)

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The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
by Amy Goodman


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She reduced Sally Jesse Rafael to tears. Charlie Rose was red in the face after her comments. Bill Clinton called her "hostile, combative, and even disrespectful." Newt Gingrich said to her, "You're the kind of reporter I warned my mother about." Meet... (read more)

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Reason for Hope
by Jane Goodall




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As a toddler she was entranced by all living things, and the child inspired by Tarzan and The Jungle Book became the woman who found herself working with Dr. Louis Leakey, making scientific breakthroughs with chimpanzees in Gombe, and becoming one of the... (read more)

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The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
by Greg Pahl


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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Al Gore's summer blockbuster An Inconvenient Truth, and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever know the truth about our oil addiction. Global warming is here. M. King Hubbert's oil peak is fast... (read more)

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Canadian Writers Market 15TH Edition
by Sandra B Tooze




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Completely revised and updated for this new edition, The Canadian Writer’s Market is the authority on who publishes what, and how best to bring your work to their attention. Success in getting your writing published depends on knowing where you are... (read more)

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This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
by John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry




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An inspiring celebration of courageous American innovators who are transforming the way we protect and care for the world we live in. The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack — concerted and purposeful. Yet... (read more)

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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris




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One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure... (read more)

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The Beatles: The Biography
by Bob Spitz




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As soon as The Beatles became famous, the spin machine began to construct a myth--one that has continued to this day. But the truth is much more interesting, much more exciting, and much more moving. In this masterpiece, Bob Spitz has written the... (read more)

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The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
by Michael Lerner




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The unholy alliance of the Political Right and Religious Right threatens to destroy the America we love. It also threatens to generate a popular aversion to God and religion by identifying religious values with a pro–war, pro–business, pro... (read more)

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Let Me Finish
by Roger Angell




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This wonderful collection of personal anecdotes by the New Yorker magazine writer and baseball chronicler comes together into a vivid portrait of a life well lived. Angell is witty and urbane. He deftly balances the deeply felt with a delightful, light... (read more)

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The Devil's Highway
by Luis Alberto Urrea




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In May 2001, in an area called the Devil's Highway, twenty-six illegal immigrants struggled across the desert border into the U.S. Most of them died in their effort. Using this tragedy to illustrate the fate of many immigrants, Urrea sheds light on... (read more)

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Mothering Magazine's Having a Baby, Naturally: The Mothering Magazine Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth
by Peggy O'Mara




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For more than twenty-five years, < I> Mothering< /I> magazine has captured an audience of educated women who appreciate its we'll inform, you choose approach to parenting. < I> Having a Baby, Naturally< /I> reflects this spirit... (read more)

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Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen
by Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry




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In the past few years, organic food has moved out of the patchouli-scented aisles of hippie food co-ops and into three-quarters of conventional grocery stores. Concurrent with this growth has been increased consumer awareness of the social and health... (read more)

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What in the Word?
by Charles Harrington Elster




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Are you so sure about "assure," "ensure," and "insure" ? Can you determine whether a knob of butter is equivalent to a lump or a pat or a scosh? Can you say which word in the English language has the most definitions, or who put the H in Jesus H. Christ?... (read more)

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