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The World without Us by Alan Weisman Staff Pick "Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold Publisher Comments First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments "Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." —Barbara Kingsolver Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch Publisher Comments Remarkably complete, this is the one: the indispensable one-volume reference guide to gardening simply, beautifully and well. It is jam-packed with useful information, old-fashioned common sense, and a lifetime's worth of experience, and is thoroughly... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rodale Book of Composting (92 Edition) by Rodale Publisher Comments The essential guide to composting for all gardeners and enviromentally conscious people From Rodale Press: The publishers of Organic Gardening magazine Composting is fast becoming a household word. Gardeners know it is the best way to feed the soil... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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New Organic Grower 2ND Edition by Eliot Coleman Publisher Comments Those who have loved and used Eliot Coleman's original The New Organic Grower will be glad for the opportunity to revisit the master to learn of his latest thinking on every aspect of organic gardening. Those who are newly acquainted with Coleman will... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva Publisher Comments Contents Introduction Chapter 1 The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Chapter 2 Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local Food Cultures Chapter 3 The Stolen Harvest Under the Sea Chapter 4 Mad Cows and Sacred Cows Chapter 5 The Stolen Harvest of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unsettling of America : Cultural and Agriculture (77 Edition) by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments Berry's assessment of modern agriculture and its relationship to American culture--our health, economy, personal relationships, morals, and spiritual values--is more timely than ever. This new edition of Berry's work presents a a classic testament to the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Grayson by Lynne Cox Staff Pick You'd swear from the synopsis that it's fiction, grist for an after-school special or Disney's latest blockbuster. But, no, 17-year-old long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox, training one morning off the California coast, discovered a baby gray whale that had... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart Staff Pick It's not easy being green. Mostly, everything else eats you. But some plants fight back with thorns and poisons. Some plants are: Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Creative Propagation 2ND Edition by Peter Thompson Publisher Comments A classic among practical gardening guides, this reference has been thoroughly revised and updated, with almost twice as much text and nearly three times as many plants as are found in the celebrated first edition. Practical, how-to methods of creative... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Flexible
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson Publisher Comments Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Secrets To Great Soil (98 Edition) by Stell Publisher Comments The ultimate guide to creating fertile, productive soil anywhere. In easy-to-understand terms, Elizabeth Stell teaches readers all about the properties and value of good garden soil. She explains how to improve soil health with amendments and fertilizer... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Ga by William Alexander Publisher Comments Bill Alexander had no idea that his simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard would lead him into life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, weeds, and weather; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Accessible Gardening for People With Physical Disabilities (94 Edition) by Janeen R. Adil Publisher Comments Presents all the information and practical know-how necessary for designing, planting, and maintaining a garden that suits the special needs of young and older gardeners with physical disabilities. Dozens of mail-order sources are provided for the many... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan Staff Pick Michael Pollan may be incapable of uninteresting writing. Discerning and lucid, his works tend to provoke the reader to engage themselves (at least in thought, if not deed) well beyond the final page. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education is Pollan's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sunset Western Garden Book by Sunset Editors Publisher Comments Gardeners throughout the region will be welcoming a thoroughly updated and fresh-looking edition of the bible of Western gardening. With a new, easy-to-read design, more plant photography, larger illustrations, and more than 8,000 plant listings--500 of... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mind of the Raven : Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-birds (99 Edition) by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development by Herman Daly Publisher Comments Named one of a hundred "visionaries who could change your life" by the Utne Reader, Herman Daly has probably been the most prominent advocate of the need for a change in economic thinking in response to environmental crisis. An iconoclast economis t who... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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