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The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart Publisher Comments Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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On Mount Hood: A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak by Jon Bell Staff Pick Some 50 miles southeast of Portland lies the highest peak in the state of Oregon: Mount Hood, a 700,000-year-old stratovolcano. The fourth tallest in the Cascade range (around 11,240 feet high), Mount Hood is currently rated fourth by the U.S. Geological... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.87 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness by Rebecca Lerner Publisher Comments In this engaging and eye-opening read, forager-journalist Becky Lerner sets out on a quest to find her inner hunter-gatherer in the city of Portland, Oregon. After a disheartening week trying to live off wild plants from the streets and parks near... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk Publisher Comments An exposé of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today. We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football — or did we?... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Social Conquest of Earth (13 Edition) by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends “the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover). Refashioning the story of human evolution, Wilson draws on his... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors (Crossley Id Guides) by Richard Crossley Publisher Comments Praise for The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds:"The Crossley ID Guide is an interesting, multi-dimensional, unique take on a bird guide that delivers to a high standard for a specific target audience."--Alan... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary by Caspar Henderson Publisher Comments From medieval bestiaries to Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings, we’ve long been enchanted by extraordinary animals, be they terrifying three-headed dogs or asps impervious to a snake charmer’s song. But bestiaries are more than just zany... (read more) Your price: $29.00 New - Hardcover
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Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom by Daphne J. Fairbairn Publisher Comments "Odd couples indeed! Fairbairn takes us on a journey through oceans, grasslands, beaches, and backyards, plunging us into the worlds of nature's most weird and wonderful creatures, all to answer one question: why are males and females different? By... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Sierra Nevada Wildlife: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Montane Forest Species (Pocket Naturalist Guides) by James Kavanagh Publisher Comments Familiar species, common plants, and natural phenomena are introduced in these beautifully illustrated guides to nature and the outdoors. Printed on laminated, water-resistant paper in a folded format, Pocket Naturalist® Guides are highly durable... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Folded
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Hummingbirds: A Folding Pocket Guide to North American Species (Pocket Naturalist Guides) by James Kavanagh Publisher Comments Familiar species, common plants, and natural phenomena are introduced in these beautifully illustrated guides to nature and the outdoors. Printed on laminated, water-resistant paper in a folded format, Pocket Naturalist® Guides are highly durable... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Folded
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Sierra Nevada Trees & Wildflowers: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Montane Forest Species (Pocket Naturalist Guides) by James Kavanagh Publisher Comments Familiar species, common plants, and natural phenomena are introduced in these beautifully illustrated guides to nature and the outdoors. Printed on laminated, water-resistant paper in a folded format, Pocket Naturalist® Guides are highly durable... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Folded
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The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell Publisher Comments A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest. In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Sierra Nevada Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Montane Forest Species (Pocket Naturalist Guides) by James Kavanagh Publisher Comments Familiar species, common plants, and natural phenomena are introduced in these beautifully illustrated guides to nature and the outdoors. Printed on laminated, water-resistant paper in a folded format, Pocket Naturalist® Guides are highly durable... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Folded
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Beyond the Bear: How I Learned to Live and Love Again After Being Blinded by a Bear by Dan Bigley Publisher Comments The unbelievable true story of a man who narrowly survived one of the most brutal grizzly bear attacks, and the love that separated his blindness from the dark .... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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The Girl with No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys by Marina Chapman Publisher Comments In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and then abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later,... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Crossroads of the Natural World: Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt by Tom Earnhardt Publisher Comments In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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We Wanted a Farm (Dover Books on Herbs, Farming and Gardening) by Maurice G. Kains Publisher Comments In his classic Five Acres and Independence, Maurice G. Kains offered advice about going back to the land and living off privately raised stock and produce. In this engaging and informative memoir, he relates his family's experiences in... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Learning to Play with a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts from the Animals of Africa by Melissa J. Haynes Publisher Comments Playing with a lions testicles: An African saying that means to take foolhardy chances. Melissa, an exhausted executive from the city seeks meaning and purpose from her work volunteers for a Big Five conservation project in South Africa. Her boss, an... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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North America: A World in One Continent by Huw Cordey Publisher Comments The North American continent stretches over 9.5 million square miles, and is home to more than 500 million people, who share it with hundreds of thousands of species of mammals, birds, insects, and plantsmany of them extraordinary, unforgettable... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species by Kelsi Nagy Publisher Comments Why are some species admired or beloved while others are despised? An eagle or hawk circling overhead inspires awe while urban pigeons shuffling underfoot are kicked away in revulsion. Fly fishermen consider carp an unwelcome trash fish, even though the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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