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Whole Foods Companion: A Guide for Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and Lovers of Natural Foods by Dianne Onstad Publisher Comments Each entry includes nutritional value, general information, buying tips, culinary uses, and, when appropriate, health benefits, lore and legend, by-products, and descriptions of the more popular varieties. In the face of staggering confusion and... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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Chasing Clayoquot: A Wilderness Almanac by David Pitt Brooke Publisher Comments In the manner of Thoreau, naturalist David Pitt-Brooke meditates on one of Earth's last untouched places - Vancouver Island's fabled Clayoquot Sound. This area came to prominence during Clayoquot Summer, a 1993 protest that resulted in 800 arrests but... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World by Yvonne Baskin Publisher Comments Let's get dirty. In childhood, the back yard, the flowerbed, the beach, the mucky place where land slips into puddles, lakes, and streams are infinitely fascinating. It is a mistake to leave that "childish"fascination with mud and dirt behind. The soils... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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Chasing Clayoquot: A Wilderness Almanac by David Pitt-brooke Synopsis < div> In the manner of Thoreau, naturalist David Pitt-Brooke meditates on one of Earth& #8217; s last untouched places & #8212; Vancouver Island& #8217; s fabled Clayoquot Sound. This area came to prominence during & #8220... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (World as Home) by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments In lyrical, penetrating essays, Bill McKibben offers an optimistic response to his best-selling The End of Nature. He journeys from the Adirondack Mountains to Brazil and India to profile the efforts of caring communities to preserve wilderness and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist by Ted Levin Publisher Comments “When I come upon an animal’s tracks in the woods, I find myself moving back against the animal’s direction to trace where it started from,” Ted Levin writes in Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist. He also traces his own... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sippewissett: Or, Life on a Salt Marsh by Tim Traver Publisher Comments A biography of the famous New England salt marsh, interweaving science, history, and memoir. Tim Traver's Sippewissett is heir to a rich history of nature writing. Akin to classics like Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $11.25 New - Hardcover
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Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species: Biological, Social, and Economic Considerations by Martin G. Raphael and Randy Molina Publisher Comments Some ecosystem management plans established by state and federal agencies have begun to shift their focus away from single-species conservation to a broader goal of protecting a wide range of flora and fauna, including species whose numbers are scarce... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fish Conservation: A Guide to Understanding and Restoring Global Aquatic Biodiversity and Fishery Resources by Gene S. Helfman Publisher Comments Fish Conservation offers, for the first time in a single volume, a readable reference with a global approach to marine and freshwater fish diversity and fishery resource issues. Gene Helfman brings together available knowledge on the decline and... (read more) Your price: $103.75 New - Trade Paper
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