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Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
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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)

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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
by Michael Pollan
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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)

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Ecology
Ecology
by Michael L Cain
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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)

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Foxfire #02: Foxfire 2
Foxfire #02: Foxfire 2
by Eliot Wigginton
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This second Foxfire volume includes topics such as ghost stories, spinning and weaving, wagon making, midwifing, corn shuckin', and more.... (read more)

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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
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
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Best American Science & Nature Writing #2012: The Best American Science and Nature Writing
Best American Science & Nature Writing #2012: The Best American Science and Nature Writing
by Dan Ariely
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Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this years volume of the finest science and nature writing.... (read more)

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Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
by Ted Kerasote
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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)

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Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities
Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities
by Amy Stewart
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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)

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The Meadow
The Meadow
by James Galvin
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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)

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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
Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, 10th Anniversary Edition. with a New Introduction and Essay by the
by David Orr
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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)

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The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
by Andrew Kimbrell
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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)

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The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
by Opal Whiteley and Benjamin Hoff
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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)

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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
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"An eco-sustainable manifesto. The next Industrial Revolution will be Green!"... (read more)

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Botany in a Day : the Patterns Method of Plant Identification (5TH 04 - Old Edition)
Botany in a Day : the Patterns Method of Plant Identification (5TH 04 - Old Edition)
by Thomas J. Elpel
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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)

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Bonsai Basics: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing, Training & General Care (Our Garden Variety)
Bonsai Basics: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing, Training & General Care (Our Garden Variety)
by Christian Pessey
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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)

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The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (Cornerstone Books)
The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (Cornerstone Books)
by John Bellamy Foster
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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)

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The Land of Little Rain
The Land of Little Rain
by Mary Austin
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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)

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Tracking and the Art of Seeing 2e: How to Read Animal Tracks and Sign
Tracking and the Art of Seeing 2e: How to Read Animal Tracks and Sign
by Paul Rezendes
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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)

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Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America
Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America
by Jennifer Price
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In five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections—and missed connections—with nature. Beginning with an extraordinary chapter on the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and the... (read more)

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The World without Us
The World without Us
by Alan Weisman
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"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)

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