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The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while "overturning the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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When Women Were Birds Signed Edition by Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments The beloved author of Refuge returns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebrates Terry Tempest Williams's mother told her: "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone... (read more) Available June 20, 2012 Your price: $23.00 New - Hardcover 
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The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle Publisher Comments In countless fascinating ways, our relationship with animals is an essential part of the human experience. Now, one of the world's leading champions of animal welfare offers a dramatic examination of our age-old bond to all creatures. Wayne Pacelle... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships by Dario Maestripieri Publisher Comments Most humans don't realize that when they exchange emails with someone, anyone, they are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy. The same rules regulate the exchange of grooming behavior in rhesus macaques or chimpanzees.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young Publisher Comments Advance Praise for What the Robin Knows "Jon Young is one of the heroes of the new nature movement, an expansion of traditional environmentalism. With What the Robin Knows, he opens a door to a universe that overlaps modern life, a world lost to... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Hardcover
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Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story by Daphne Sheldrick Publisher Comments Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenyas rich variety of wildlife, and her... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz Publisher Comments How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it actually feel an insects tiny, spindly legs? And how do cherry blossoms know when to bloom? Can they actually remember the weather? For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant... (read more) Your price: $23.00 New - Hardcover
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Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter by Ellen Prager Publisher Comments When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea’s waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active creatures, engaged in the never-ending struggles of... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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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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Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World by Stefan Bechtel Publisher Comments He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he began as a taxidermist and an adventurer who... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow Publisher Comments This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nations history. Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eat, Sleep, Fly: A Butterfly's View of Life by Maryjo Koch Publisher Comments Life is all about change and transformation--something butterflies know a thing or two about! Inspired by the world of butterflies, Eat, Sleep, Fly speaks to nature lovers as well as anyone experiencing life changes. Koch captures the spirit and beauty... (read more) Your price: $9.99 New - Hardcover
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Mammals of Indiana (Indiana Natural Science) by John Whitaker Publisher Comments This highly anticipated new edition of Mammals of Indiana by John O. Whitaker, Jr., and Russell E. Mumford, first published by Indiana University in 1982, places strong emphasis on ecology with descriptions of Indiana's habitats, climate, and vegetation... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $49.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Reader's Digest North American Wildlife: An Illustrated Guide to 2,000 Plants and Animals by Reader's Digest Synopsis Birds and butterflies, ferns and frogs, mushrooms and mantra rays, seashells and salamanders---this 576 page book includes more than 2,000 plants and animals of all types. Spanning the land from Florida to the Northwest Territories, it embraces... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age by Richard Louv Publisher Comments For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child in the Woods, urges us to change our vision of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Attracting Songbirds to Your Backyard: Hundreds of Easy Ways to Bring the Music and Beauty of Songbirds to Your Yard by Sally Roth Publisher Comments The best ways to attract melodic birds, with insight into their rapidly changing habits The American robin and northern cardinal are two of the best-loved songbirds, but newer backyard arrivals, like rose-breasted grosbeaks and scarlet tanagers, quickly... (read more) Your price: $22.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins Publisher Comments THIS BOOK JUST MIGHT SAVE THE PLANET “When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second best time? Today.”—Chinese proverb Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman with a penchant... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America (Peterson Field Guides) by Bill Thompson, Iii Publisher Comments Covering 300 of the most common birds in all of the United States and Canada, The Young Birders Guide to Birds of North America is loaded with color photographs, drawings showing typical behaviors, range maps, an easy-to-use checklist, fun facts, and... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. To explore the Columbia River and befriend those who... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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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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