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The Sibley Guide to Trees by David Allen Sibley Staff Pick In his new book, David Allen Sibley shifts his focus from birds to trees, including gorgeous illustrations and fascinating information. The Sibley Guide to Trees will dramatically change the way you look at your backyard, your neighborhood, and the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.96 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins Staff Pick Just when you were almost out of topics to argue about, here comes Richard Dawkins with another defense of evolution. But hang on ... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Shadow Falls by Nick Brandt and Peter Singer and Vicki Goldberg Staff Pick A Shadow Falls is the most gorgeous book I've seen this year. Brandt's photographs of animals are evocative and emotional, and this oversized book will make a stunning gift for anyone interested in art, ecology, or the natural world.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $35.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Bear Portraits by Jill Greenberg Staff Pick This disarming, adorable collection of bear portraits by celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg is my favorite book of the year. Like Andrew Zuckerman (Creature), Greenberg has the unique ability to coax powerful emotions out of her large, carnivorous... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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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) Your price: $18.95 New - Hardcover
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior ... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 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: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Edition by National Audubon Society Staff Pick Since its founding in 1905, the National Audubon Society has actively promoted wildlife protection and environmental education. Keeping in sync with the work of its namesake and inspiration, famed wildlife artist John James Audubon (1785-1851), this not... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $1.75 Used - Flexible
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The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature by Jonathan Rosen Staff Pick The Life of the Skies is at once a history of bird-watching in America, a meditation on changes in our views about killing animals, and a deeply personal book about the transforming qualities of a life spent observing the natural world. It is a book to... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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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) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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 $24.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Living with Goats: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Herd by Margaret Hathaway Staff Pick Every day, my daughter and I walk by a house that has two pygmy goats hanging out in the front yard. How sweet and charming they are! Perhaps their owners read Living with Goats by Margaret Hathaway. This book is jammed full of useful, practical advice... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M Sapolsky Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the baboons... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Food of the Gods : the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (92 Edition) by Terrence Mckenna Staff Pick McKenna starts his radical revision of human evolution by positing the theory that we evolved from apes to humans because of brain changes brought about by ingesting psilocybin-containing mushrooms. This was, in his opinion, the birth of religion, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The World without Us by Alan Weisman Staff Pick "Magic green pills spill, accidentally, onto the ground beneath a peach tree. A peach appears overnight, the only fruit the tree has ever produced; by morning, it's swollen to the size of a houseboat, and soon enough James Henry Trotter is climbing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird Staff Pick I can't believe I hadn't heard about this book before I found it on the shelf. Published in the 1970s, it explores the relationship between humans and plant life. Numerous scientific studies with lie detector tests, electrodes, and other '70s high-tech... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell Staff Pick This autobiographical work takes place on the island of Corfu when Durrell was a boy. He was pretty much a wild English boy who ended up with a lot of time on his hands, a lot of rugged land to explore, and as a result, a lot of critter friends the likes... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson Staff Pick This alphabetized bestiary is an entertaining overview of the critters that share our planet. Fun reading no matter your knowledge level, with The Book of Animal Ignorance, you'll laugh and learn your way through the animal kingdom.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian Staff Pick The Deep is one of the most beautiful and bizarre books I've ever seen. You will not be able to put it down, and none of your friends will be able to resist picking it up.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $45.00 Used - Hardcover
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Country Year : Living the Questions ((Rev)86 Edition) by Sue Hubbell Staff Pick Sue Hubbell makes me yearn to be a beekeeper in the Ozarks ... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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