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Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsf Comstock Publisher Comments 'A matchless handbook for decades, this classic has been the natural history bible of countless teachers and others who seek information about their natural environment. Written originally for those elementary school teachers who knew little of common... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning: Old World Techniques and Recipes by Deborah Madison Publisher Comments Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern "kitchen gardeners" will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - 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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A Shadow and a Song: The Struggle to Save Endangered Species by Mark Jerome Walters Publisher Comments This is the story of how the Endangered Species Act failed a small songbird, the dusky seaside sparrow. The sparrow's only habitat lay in the path of the Kennedy Space Center, not far from Disney World.Mark Walters' moving narrative describes how the... (read more) Your price: $23.25 New - Trade Paper
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Beyond Words: Talking with Animals and Nature by Marta Williams Synopsis Animals and nature can act as teachers and guides, send warnings of impending danger, or simply make life more joyous. More profoundly, intuitive bonds with the natural world can foster life-altering changes and spiritual redirection. Beyond Words... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Herbalist's Way: The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines by Nancy Phillips Publisher Comments This updated edition of The Village Herbalist provides a complete guide to the art and practice of herbalism, as well as an introduction to the herbalist's role in family and community life. Inspirational profiles of practicing herbalists from across the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century by Dave Dempsey Publisher Comments As one of the world’s great natural treasures, the Great Lakes have also served in recent decades as an early warning system for many emerging environmental problems. In the early twenty-first century, as the Lakes face unprecedented challenges... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - 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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Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust by Charles Patterson Publisher Comments This book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the Holocaust.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience by Wangari Maathai Publisher Comments Africa's future is the subject of fierce debate, with the media full of warnings about environmental and economic collapse. Development workers continue to create supposed solutions to the problems they see, with little effect and much controversy. While... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Empty Ocean (03 Edition) by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer & Naturalist by Carol Grant Gould Publisher Comments When William Beebe needed to know what was going on in the depths of the ocean, he had himself lowered a half-mile down in a four-foot steel sphere to see-five times deeper than anyone had ever gone in the 1930s. When he wanted to trace the evolution of... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - 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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Life in the Valley of Death: the Fight To Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed (08 Edition) by Alan Rabinowitz Publisher Comments Dubbed the Indiana Jones of wildlife science by The New York Times, Alan Rabinowitz has devoted—and risked—his life to protect natures great endangered mammals. He has journeyed to the remote corners of the earth in search of wild... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $19.00 Used - Hardcover
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Owning and Managing Forests: A Guide to Legal, Financial, and Practical Matters by Thom J. Mcevoy Publisher Comments Owning and Managing Forests is both an accessible overview of the privileges, rights, and obligations that accompany forest ownership and a guidebook to help active forest owners and managers use laws to their advantage and avoid the pitfalls of... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Trade Paper
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Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities by Harry Wiland Publisher Comments With Edens Lost & Found, award-winning filmmakers Harry Wiland and Dale Bell herald an exciting sea change in the relationship between ordinary citizens, environmental groups, and government. From across America they gather evidence of a new spirit of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago by Richard Ffrench Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-411) and index.... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Kinship with Animals: True Animal Encounters With: Jane Goodall, Mark Bekoff, Susan Chernak McElroy, Penelope Smith, Linda Tellington-Jones, by Kate Solisti Publisher Comments Scientists, artists, activists, philosophers, lawyers, and spiritual leaders share their intensely personal experiences and ponder on the meaning and import of human/animal relationships. From prairie dogs, donkeys and squid to Best Friends Sanctuary's... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island by Mark Jerome Walters Publisher Comments Will the 'Alala ever return to the wild? A bird sacred to Hawaiians and a... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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