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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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Last Child in the Woods : Saving Our Children From Nature-deficit Disorder (Rev 08 Edition) by Richard Louv Publisher Comments In his landmark work Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv brought together cutting-edge studies that pointed to direct exposure to nature as essential for a child's healthy physical and emotional development. Now this new addition updates the growing... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Perennial Classics) by Annie Dillard Publisher Comments Chapter 1. Heaven and Earth in Jest Chapter 2. Seeing Chapter 3. Winter Chapter 4. The Fixed Chapter 5. Untying the Knot Chapter 6. The Present Chapter 7. Spring Chapter 8. Intricacy Chapter 9. Flood Chapter 10. Fecundity Chapter 11. Stalking Chapter 12.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 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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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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The Control of Nature by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - 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, to the American... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich Publisher Comments A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that is a true celebration of the region.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rediscovery of North America by Barry Holstun Lopez Publisher Comments Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water (Harvest Book) by Kathleen Dean Moore Publisher Comments In these twenty elegant essays, a philosopher and amateur naturalist meanders along the rivers and streams of the american West-and muses on love, loss, aging, motherhood, happiness, the art of poking around, and other important matters. "A smart... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The John McPhee Reader by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author’s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility,... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You by Clare Walker Leslie Publisher Comments From the day it was released in 2000, Keeping a Nature Journal has struck a profound chord among professional, casual, and occasional naturalists of all ages. In response to this groundswell of enthusiasm, we have revised Keeping a Nature Journal... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Creaturely and Other Essays by Devin Johnston Publisher Comments The author puts forward a bracing theory of partial empathy....Johnston's searching book of thought-probes goes a long way toward allowing the reader the grounding that would allow him to make empathic contacts with the animals over which he ponders... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field by Terry Temp Williams Publisher Comments Williams weaves her observations in the naturalist field and her personal experience--as a woman, a Westerner, and a Mormon--into a resonant manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves, making clear as well that, through our disregard of this world... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pine Barrens by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster Publisher Comments "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Silent Spring : 40TH Anniversary Edition ((Rev)02 Edition) by Rachel Carson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-355) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered by Patrick Lane Publisher Comments Part memoir, part homage to the healing power of nature, this exquisitely written book evokes the poignancy of time lost and the ever-present possibility of renewal.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Winter Count by Barry Holstun Lopez Publisher Comments "Perfectly crafted. . . . [These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina." --Los Angeles Times "Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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