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Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories From the Animal Kingdom (11 Edition) by Jennifer S. Holland Publisher Comments It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . " Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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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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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Publisher Comments How can we give animals the best life — for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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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Monster of God by David Quammen Publisher Comments For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment by David Kirby Publisher Comments Swine flu. Bird flu. Massive fish kills. Concentrations of cancer and other diseases. Recalls of contaminated meats, fruits, and vegetables. Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $8.24 Sale - Hardcover
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Publisher Comments The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs. In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.98 Used - Hardcover
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Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson Publisher Comments Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try to protect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats, finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed to rescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch by Dan O'brien Publisher Comments For twenty years Dan OBrien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, OBrien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean Publisher Comments He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean's sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin's journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon. Orlean, a staff writer at The New Yorker who has been hailed as a national... (read more) Your price: $33.25 New - Hardcover
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The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs Publisher Comments From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today-a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals. Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Managing Risk in Agriculture: A Holistic Approach by Publishing Oecd Publishing Synopsis The sources of risk in agriculture are numerous and diverse, ranging from events related to climate and weather conditions to animal diseases; from changes in agriculture commodities prices to changes in fertilizer and other input prices; and from... (read more) Your price: $60.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle Publisher Comments A landmark work, The Bond is the passionate, insightful, and comprehensive examination of our special connection to all creatures, written by one of America's most important champions of animal welfare. Wayne Pacelle, the president of the Humane Society... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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How Not to Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back by Gilbert Waldbauer Publisher Comments All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy by Dave Madden Publisher Comments "[An] engagingly offbeat study . . . let's us in on the bizarre and sometimes repellent world of taxidermy." —The Wall Street Journal Why would someone want to create or own the mounted skin of a dead animal? Thats the question Dave... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild by Ellen Meloy Publisher Comments Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utahs canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats,... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Manes & Tails by Valerie Watson Publisher Comments A step-by-step guide to the art of trimming and plaiting manes and tails. Contents include how to pull a mane and tail, plaiting a mane with thread or rubber bands, hogging a mane, remedial mane plaiting and the two ways to plait a tail.... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Finding Beauty in a Broken World (Vintage) by Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments "Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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