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Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey Staff Pick This memoir by Edward Abbey recounts his years as a park ranger working at Arches National Park in Utah. Abbey's keen eye and sharp writing clearly impart the beauty of the desert and the importance of preserving our limited natural resources. His... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - 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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ecology by Michael L Cain Synopsis In this new introductory ecology text, the authors (associated with Bowdoin College, U. of Colorado, and Oregon State U.) emphasize community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and applied aspects of ecology within discussion of principles. The 24 chapters are... (read more) List Price $112.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Foxfire #02: Foxfire 2 by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments This second Foxfire volume includes topics such as ghost stories, spinning and weaving, wagon making, midwifing, corn shuckin', and more.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith H by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Best American Science & Nature Writing #2012: The Best American Science and Nature Writing by Dan Ariely Publisher Comments Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this years volume of the finest science and nature writing.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog by Ted Kerasote Staff Pick Because I love dogs, Merle's Door was my favorite book this year. Merle lives with his owner, Ted, in the Grand Tetons. (He "found" Ted on one of Ted's many hunting explorations.) This book is a beautiful record of the relationship of a true wilderness... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 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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The Meadow by James Galvin Publisher Comments An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, 10th Anniversary Edition. with a New Introduction and Essay by the by David Orr Publisher Comments In Earth in Mind, Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that alienates us from life in the name of human... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell Publisher Comments Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. The Fatal Harvest Reader brings together in an... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley by Opal Whiteley and Benjamin Hoff Publisher Comments Long before environmental consciousness became popular, a young nature writer named Opal Whitely captured America's heart. Opal's childhood diary, published in 1902, became an immediate bestseller, one of the most talked-about books of its time... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart Staff Pick "An eco-sustainable manifesto. The next Industrial Revolution will be Green!"... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Botany in a Day : the Patterns Method of Plant Identification (5TH 04 - Old Edition) by Thomas J. Elpel Publisher Comments Learn to identify plants by the hundreds, based on the principle that related plants have similar patterns for identification and that they often have similar uses.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bonsai Basics: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing, Training & General Care (Our Garden Variety) by Christian Pessey Publisher Comments This simple guide for first-time bonsai growers, with easy instructions and more than 200 full-color photos and drawings, covers selecting a hardy specimen; the essentials of pruning, wiring, and aging; and keeping your bonsai healthy. Learn the many... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (Cornerstone Books) by John Bellamy Foster Publisher Comments From reviews of the first edition (1994): "Extraordinarily well written . . . " --Contemporary Sociology "A readable chronicle aimed at a general audience . . . Graceful and accessible . . . " --Dollars and Sense "Has the potential to be a political... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin Publisher Comments A stunning tribute to the savage beauty of the area known as Death Valley. To most travelers it is a parched, empty territory, unwelcoming and forgiving. In a collection of essays that date back almost a century, naturalist and writer Mary Austin (1868... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Tracking and the Art of Seeing 2e: How to Read Animal Tracks and Sign by Paul Rezendes Publisher Comments In this newly revised and updated edition of his highly acclaimed field guide, renowned nature photographer and tracking expert Paul Rezendes brings the fields and forests to life with his unique observations on North American wildlife and their tracks... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America by Jennifer Price Publisher Comments In five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connectionsand missed connectionswith nature. Beginning with an extraordinary chapter on the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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