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Trees of the Pacific Northwest (Backpacker Field Guides)
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Trees of the Pacific Northwest (Backpacker Field Guides)
by George A Petrides

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For wilderness travelers and backyard naturalists alike, the sheer number and variety of North American trees can make identification a daunting task. For those who have struggled to distinguish the Pacific Yew from the Redwood or the Quaking Aspen from...
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An Instant Guide to Edible Plants
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An Instant Guide to Edible Plants
by Pamela Forey

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An Instant Guide to Edible Plants is an ideal compact guide to the identification and uses of the most commonly found edible wild plants of North America. An easy-to-understand system of color-coded bands that denotes the edible part of the plant leads...
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Oregon Trees & Wildflowers: An Introduction to Familiar Species of Trees, Shrubs and Wildflowers
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Oregon Trees & Wildflowers: An Introduction to Familiar Species of Trees, Shrubs and Wildflowers
by James Kavanagh

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Oregon Trees and Wildflowers is an accessible reference to familiar trees and wildflowers found in this state.  This durable folding guide, printed on laminate material,  is an essential resource for any level of nature explorer.  The...
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Why We Run: A Natural History
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Why We Run: A Natural History
by Bernd Heinrich

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index....
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by Richard Dawkins

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The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years.--E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction. Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book...
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Pacific Northwest Butterflies & Moths: An Introduction to Familiar Species (Pocket Naturalist)
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Pacific Northwest Butterflies & Moths: An Introduction to Familiar Species (Pocket Naturalist)
by James Kavanagh

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Waterford Press produces reference guides that introduce novices to travel, languages, science and nature. Product information and hundreds of free educational games are featured on the website; www.waterfordpress.com...
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The Hot Zone
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The Hot Zone
by Richard Preston

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"Popular science writing at its best and the years most infectious page-turner" (People), this two-million-copy bestseller is "a top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall" (Newsweek)....
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Jonathan Weiner

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not...
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When Elephants Weep
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When Elephants Weep
by Jeffrey M Masson

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Not since Darwin's The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals has a book so thoroughly and effectively explored the full rage of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom. Hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, When Elephants...
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Basin and Range
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Basin and Range
by John Mcphee

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The first of John McPhee' s works in his series on geology and geologists, "Basin and Range" is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world-- a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the...
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley

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Matt Ridley's Genome is one of the best, and most popular, works of popular science of recent years, in line with such instant classics as Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb or Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe. Ever since James Watson and...
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Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World
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Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World
by Chris Lavers

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Reason for Hope
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Reason for Hope
by Jane Goodall

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From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiography that explores her deepest beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution. NPR sponsorship....
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Human Anatomy Coloring Book
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Human Anatomy Coloring Book
by Margaret Matt

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Careful, scientifically accurate line renderings of the body's organs and major systems: skeletal, muscular, nervous, reproductive, etc. Numerous views, cross-sections, diagrams. Suggestions for coloring. Complete text. 43 plates....
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The Origin of Species (Enriched Classics)
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The Origin of Species (Enriched Classics)
by Charles Darwin

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Contents: Editor's Introduction; Historical Sketch; Variation Under Domestication; Variation Under Nature; Struggle for Existence; Natural Selection or the Survival of the Fittest; Laws of Variation; Difficulties of the Theory; Miscellaneous Objections...
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Northwest Park and Backyard Birds (Mac's Guides)
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Northwest Park and Backyard Birds (Mac's Guides)
by Craig Macgowan

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Two-sided plastic laminated cards developed by a teacher of marine science. Color drawings, common and scientific names, information on size and habitat....
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How to Hide an Octopus and Other Sea Creatures
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How to Hide an Octopus and Other Sea Creatures
by Ruth Heller

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With stunning, full-color illustrations of sea creatures, and an informative, rhyming text, Heller leads young ones on a search for a giant red sea dragon, a huge crab, and several exotic fish as she explores the secrets of camouflage in the ocean depths....
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The Demon in the Freezer
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The Demon in the Freezer
by Richard Preston

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The first major bioterror event in the United States — the anthrax attacks in October 2001 — was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon...
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright

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In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history-and discerning...
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The Practice of the Wild: Essays
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The Practice of the Wild: Essays
by Gary Snyder

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and counter-culture hero offers a prescription for recovering our humanness by giving it away--by giving back to the earth more than we take. No index. Published by North Point Press, 850 Talbot Avenue, Berkeley, CA...
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