Nature Studies
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Beyond Words: Talking with Animals and Nature
by Marta Williams  Publisher Comments Animals and nature can act as teachers and guides, send warnings of impending danger, or simply make life more joyous. More profoundly, intuitive bonds with the natural world can foster life-altering changes and spiritual redirection. "Beyond Words...
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Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
by Janisse Ray 
Publisher Comments This award-winning author writes a beautifully evocative paean to wildness and wilderness restoration with an extraordinary journey into southern Georgia's Pinhook Swamp, a link between the great southern wildernesses of Okefenokee Swamp and Osceola...
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On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century
by Dave Dempsey
Publisher Comments As one of the world's great natural treasures, the Great Lakes have also served in recent decades as an early warning system for many emerging environmental problems. In the early twenty-first century, as the Lakes face unprecedented challenges, we need...
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Eternal Treblinka : Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust (02 Edition)
by Charles Pattersonm
Publisher Comments This book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the Holocaust....
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Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning: Old World Techniques and Recipes
by Deborah Madison Publisher Comments Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern "kitchen gardeners" will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French...
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The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
by Wangari Maathai
Publisher Comments Africa's future is the subject of fierce debate, with the media full of warnings about environmental and economic collapse. Development workers continue to create supposed solutions to the problems they see, with little effect and much controversy. While...
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Handbook of Nature Study
by Anna Botsford Comstock
Publisher Comments 'A matchless handbook for decades, this classic has been the natural history bible of countless teachers and others who seek information about their natural environment. Written originally for those elementary school teachers who knew little of common...
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Edens Lost & Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great Cities
by Harry Wiland Publisher Comments Part celebration and part inspiration, Edens Lost & Found, the companion book to the PBS series, chronicles the forward-looking transformation of America's urban landscapes and communities....
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A Shadow and a Song: The Struggle to Save Endangered Species
by Mark Walters Publisher Comments This is the story of how the Endangered Species Act failed a small songbird, the dusky seaside sparrow. The sparrow's only habitat lay in the path of the Kennedy Space Center, not far from Disney World. Mark Walters' moving narrative describes how the...
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The Herbalist's Way: The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines
by Nancy Phillips Publisher Comments This updated edition of "The Village Herbalist" provides a complete guide to the art and practice of herbalism, as well as an introduction to the herbalist's role in family and community life. Inspirational profiles of practicing herbalists from across...
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Chasing Clayoquot: A Wilderness Almanac
by David Pitt Brooke
Publisher Comments In the manner of Thoreau, naturalist David Pitt-Brooke meditates on one of Earth's last untouched places - Vancouver Island's fabled Clayoquot Sound. This area came to prominence during Clayoquot Summer, a 1993 protest that resulted in 800 arrests but...
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The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine Life
by Richard Ellis
Publisher Comments In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many...
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The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - And Why They Matter
by Marc Bekoff Publisher Comments Based on Marc Bekoff's years of experience studying communication patterns of a wide range of animals, this important book shows that animals have rich emotional lives. Not only can animal emotions teach us about love, empathy, and compassion, argues...
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Kinship with Animals: True Animal Encounters With: Jane Goodall, Mark Bekoff, Susan Chernak McElroy, Penelope Smith, Linda Tellington-Jones,
by Kate Solisti Publisher Comments Scientists, artists, activists, philosophers, lawyers, and spiritual leaders share their intensely personal experiences and ponder on the meaning and import of human/animal relationships. From prairie dogs, donkeys and squid to Best Friends Sanctuary's...
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Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist
by Ted Levin Publisher Comments "When I come upon an animal's tracks in the woods, I find myself moving back against the animal's direction to trace where it started from," Ted Levin writes in Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist. He also traces his own development as a naturalist...
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Owning and Managing Forests: A Guide to Legal, Financial, and Practical Matters
by Thom J Mcevoy Publisher Comments Owning and Managing Forests is both an accessible overview of the privileges, rights, and obligations that accompany forest ownership and a guidebook to help active forest owners and managers use laws to their advantage and avoid the pitfalls of...
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Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities
by Harry Wiland
Publisher Comments With Edens LostandFound, award-winning filmmakers Harry Wiland and Dale Bell herald an exciting sea change in the relationship between ordinary citizens, environmental groups, and government. From across America they gather evidence of a new spirit of...
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A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
by Richard Ffrench
Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-411) and index....
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