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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: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- though this... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Complete James Herriot by James Herriot Publisher Comments The Complete James Herriot Includes Every Living Thing The Lord God Made Them All Vet in a Spin Vets Might Fly Vet in Harness Let Sleeping Vets Lie It shouldn't Happen to a Vet If Only They Could Talk... (read more) Your price: $24.98 Sale - Set Softcover
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The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones Publisher Comments Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country — the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance,... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram Publisher Comments David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler Publisher Comments A nondescript storefront operation in Los Angeles, California, the Museum of Jurassic Technology actually exists — that may be the only thing about it that is for certain. The creation of David Wilson, a man of prodigiously unusual imagination, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures) by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold Publisher Comments "We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Dawn Light Signed Edition by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn — drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The House Plant Expert: The World's Best-Selling Book on House Plants (Expert Series) by D G Hessayon Publisher Comments 256 pages (all in color), 7 1/4 x 9 3/8. REISSUE.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Diet for a Small Planet Anniversary Edition by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments Here again is the extraordinary bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating — one that remains a complete guide for eating well in the new millennium. Featuring: simple rules for a healthy diet; a... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol Kaesuk Yoon Publisher Comments Biologist and journalist Carol Kaesuk Yoon takes us beyond genus and species to deep cognition, revealing our drive to name life. She tells the strange story of scientists leading people away from the impulse to name the living world, even as they are... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Unsettling of America : Cultural and Agriculture (77 Edition) by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today’s... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs Staff Pick Animal Dialogues is one of the best collections of nature writing I've read in years, which puts Craig Childs in the company of giants: Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Terry Tempest Williams. I found myself wondering how Childs... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment by Sandra Steingraber Publisher Comments Biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as accessible and as invaluable as "Silent Spring". "An important, deeply felt book".--"Chicago... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Immense Journey (Vintage) by Loren Eiseley Publisher Comments Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Ravens and River Notes: The Dance of Herons by Barry Holstun Lopez Synopsis Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of Lopez's masterpieces, "River Notes and "Desert Notes. From the thundering power of the river's swift current, to the stillness of clear freshwater pools; to desert springs, birds and wind, and... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Temp Williams Publisher Comments As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.50 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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Grayson by Lynne Cox Publisher Comments This captivating bestseller tells the true story of a miraculous encounter between a teenaged girl and a baby whale off the coast of California. It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was swimming her last half mile back to the pier after a long workout... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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