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Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry by Glenn Drowns Publisher Comments Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry is the only book you need to naturally and humanely raise a wide range of poultry, from chickens and turkeys to waterfowl and game birds -- even uncommon species, such as pigeons, emus, doves, ostriches, peafowl, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Princess: A Special Polar Bear by Dennis Fast Publisher Comments 'Princess' (www.dennisfast.com) is the whimsical story of a mother polar bear who teaches her cubs about life in the arctic regions of Canada. It also introduces young readers to the other wildlife that calls the North its home. It will delight... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price: $4.43 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young Publisher Comments A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important about their environment, be it backyard or forest; by tuning in to their... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $20.35 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's so Hard to Think Straight about Animals by Hal Herzog Publisher Comments Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis of Jared Diamond, a leading social scientist offers an unprecedented look inside our complex and often paradoxical relationships with... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mark of the Grizzly: True Stories of Recent Bear Attacks and the Hard Lessons Learned by Scott McMillion Publisher Comments People too often portray the grizzly as a vicious killer or as Winnie the Pooh when neither case is true. Sometimes grizzlies kill people, and in exceptionally rare cases they even eat them. Those incidents are the focus of this book because that's what... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Silent Spring Revisited by Conor Mark Jameson Publisher Comments American scientist and author Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring in 1962. She made vivid the prospect of life without birdsong. But has her warning been heeded? Fifty years on,... (read more) Your price: $19.49 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia by Erik Reece Publisher Comments A cautionary analysis of the consequences of radical strip mining, otherwise known as "mountaintop removal," links its practice to virtually every leading social issue today, from groundwater pollution to corporate ethics, in an account that warns... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail by Leonard M. Adkins Publisher Comments The combination of photographers Joe Cook and Monica Cook's elegant full-page photographs, combined with detailed descriptions expertly crafted by author Leonard Adkins, lends this magnificent book beauty as well as authority. Wildflower information... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mississippi Weather and Climate by Kathleen Sherman-Morris Publisher Comments A comprehensive survey of the state's wild and crazy weather... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $24.05 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Modern Marine Weather - From Time Honored Maritime Traditions to the Latest Technology by David Burch Synopsis A new, comprehensive text on how to take weather into account for the planning and navigation of voyages, local or global, using the latest technologies as well as the time-honored skills of maritime tradition, so that your time on the water remains as... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $9.20 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Return Of Planet-X by Jaysen Quinton Rand, Ph.D. Publisher Comments The Return Of Planet-X is a non-fiction, educational, religious, scientific, political and social commentary of the coming and present effects of the return of a Brown Dwarf Star to our solar system every 3,600 years that greatly affects our Sun, planet... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price: $4.43 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow Publisher Comments Out of the Woods tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of the nation's history. How forests morphed from dark, unmapped infinities, to timber reserves essential to the creation of the American... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments Traveling to more than thirty countries to define the scientific, economic, and historical dimensions of the water crisis, offers a solution based on managing the water cycle for the maximum social good, rather than pure self-interest.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter by Marc Bekoff Publisher Comments Biologist Marc Bekoff is one of the world's foremost experts on animal emotions. After years of fieldwork studying the communication patterns of coyotes and domestic dogs, Bekoff began challenging the scientific status quo that argued that no scientific... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Value of Species by Edward L. Mccord Publisher Comments In the face of accelerating extinctions across the globe, what ought we to do? Amid this sea of losses, what is our responsibility? How do we assess the value of nonhuman species? In this clear-spoken, passionate book, naturalist and philosopher Edward L.... (read more) Your price: $25.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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IF A HOME HELD MEMORIES: MEMOIRS Chapter 2 : Growing Up Years by Tymothy Maris Publisher Comments This Book is based on the many experiences of which I was exposed to while living at my last Home during the dawn of the new millennium. The Poems in this Book are sometimes serious, sometimes funny and many times with a punch-line at the end. For the... (read more) Your price: $3.99 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Return Of Planet-X by Jaysen Quinton Rand, Ph.D. Publisher Comments The Return of Planet-X is an educational, informational source examining all aspects of this controversial subject including the record of X's Ancient Science of Prophecy, its Phantom Astronomy, Forbidden Archaeology and the Signs Of Its Approach. We... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price: $4.43 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Shrubs and Woody Vines of Indiana and the Midwest by Sally S. Weeks Publisher Comments As the definitive identification guide to the shrubs and woody vines of Indiana, this book also provides coverage of 90% of the species to be found in surrounding Midwestern US states. As well as covering indigenous species, it also includes all... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $20.40 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History by Thomas Barfield Publisher Comments When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and... (read more) Your price: $2.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Collins Field Guide – Birds of New Zealand, Hawaii, Central and West Pacific by Ber van Perlo Publisher Comments The essential guide to identifying every species of bird you may see in this area, for both tourists and wildlife enthusiasts. Featuring over 750 species, Birds of New Zealand, Hawaii, Central and West Pacific is the only field guide to illustrate and... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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