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Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn by Hannah Holmes Publisher Comments The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it's a green oasis; to others, it's eco-purgatory. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels, crows, worms, and spiders who think of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Field Guide to Urban Wildlife by Julie Feinstein Synopsis Identify and understand the wildlife most commonly found living near humans--and how they've adapted to thrive in cities and suburbs The first field guide of its type ever published Species accounts for 135 common urban North American mammals, birds, and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town by Susan Han Shetterly Publisher Comments Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land-observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn by Hannah Holmes Publisher Comments Who knew that an investigation into that patch of grass in our backyards could be so fruitful-and so funny? More than 550 square miles of new lawns unfold each year in the U.S. alone. Although new research shows that these lawns aren't nearly as... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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I Found a Baby Squirrel, What Do I Do? (Basic Manual Wildlife Rehabilitation) by Dale Carlson Publisher Comments - Available in this compendium and single volumes (see listing below).<P>- Safe, step-by-step text and picture guidance for backyard rehabilitators.<P>- Provides first aid and rescue techniques, along with proper diet, housing and release... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Squirrel Wars: Backyard Wildlife Battles & How to Win Them by George H. Harrison Publisher Comments The author offers advice on how to rid a house and yard of squirrels, cats, crows, deer, racoons, and other gardening pests.... (read more) List Price $11.96 Your price: $10.61 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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 $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Coyote At the Kitchen Door: Living With Wildlife in Suburbia (10 Edition) by Stephen Destefano Publisher Comments A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey through suburban backyards; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. Such stories, which regularly make headline news, highlight the blurred divide that... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Living with Wildlife by Diana Landau Publisher Comments Based on years of practical experience and research, and informed by the California Center for Wildlife's commitment to humane treatment of animals, Living with Wildlife traces the evolution of attitudes toward wildlife and provides sensible guidelines... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Flights Against the Sunset: Stories That Reunited a Mother and Son by Kenn Kaufman Publisher Comments At age sixteen, Kenn Kaufman left home to travel the world in search of birds. Now a grown man and a renowned ornithologist, he has come back to visit his ailing mother and explain to her what drove his obsession with bird life. His explanation forms a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Suburban Safari by Hannah Holmes Publisher Comments The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it's a green oasis; to others, it's eco-purgatory. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels, crows, worms, and spiders who think of... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Raccoon Next Door: Creatures of the Urban Wilderness by Gary Bogue Publisher Comments An engaging and enjoyable guide to getting along with the creatures in your backyard with illustrations throughout by Chuck Todd.... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia by Stephen Destefano Publisher Comments A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey through suburban backyards; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. Such stories, which regularly make headline news, highlight the blurred divide that... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $13.50 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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Flights against the Sunset: Stories That Reunited a Mother and Son by Kenn Kaufman Publisher Comments A collection of interconnecting stories from the world of birding, ranging in setting from Alaska to Africa and from vast wilderness areas to suburban parking lots, documents one man's intense fascination and obsession with birds, while offering a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Urban Naturalist by Steven D. Garber Publisher Comments This informative, useful field guide reveals the amazing biodiversity within city and suburban landscapes, including trees, insects and other invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The author explains why these organisms live in... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $7.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Beastley Abodes: Homes for Birds, Bats, Butterflies & Other Backyard Wildlife by Bobbe Needham Book News Annotation Presents detailed instructions for creating and positioning some 35 simple but beautiful homes for desirable wildlife, from tufted titmice to toads. Each projects includes tool and material lists and the finished homes are designed to meet the safety... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Squirrel Wars: Backyard Wildlife Battles & How to Win Them by George H Harrison Publisher Comments Despite our reverence for wildlife, many of our most favorite species raise havoc in lawns and gardens from city to suburbia. This book solves backyard problems with squirrels, raccoons, deer, crows, insects and a host of other "pests", and leads to a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nature's Everyday Mysteries: A Field Guide to the World in Your Backyard by Sy Montgomery Publisher Comments The highly regarded author of Walking With the Great Apes and Spell of the Tiger turns her formidable skills of observation to the marvelous, but largely overlooked, diversity of life in our own backyards.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Creature Comforts by Joel Thomas List Price $15.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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