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The Future of Life
by Edward O. Wilson  Synopsis From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet: an impassioned call for quick and decisive action to save Earth's biological heritage, and a plan to achieve...
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Sandy: The Sandhill Crane Who Joined Our Family (Northwest Reprints)
by Dayton Hyde Synopsis An inspiring, often amusing account of an Oregon rancher who dedicates himself to saving a struggling species....
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Common Fate Endangered Salmon & the Peop
by Joseph Cone Synopsis Science writer Cone traces the dramatic history of the current salmon crisis....
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Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World
by Steve Kazlowski 
Publisher Comments 200 full-color images of the polar bear in its Arctic habitat, taken over a six-year period All-star roster of top nature essayists, including Richard Nelson, Steven C. Amstrup, Charles Wohlforth, and Theodore Roosevelt IV, among others The Last Polar...
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Condor: To the Brink and Back--The Life and Times of One Giant Bird
by John Nielsen Publisher Comments The California condor, with a wingspan of nineandndash;andandndash;aandndash;half feet and a history as old as the Redwoods, should be extinct by now. It should not be soaring over the Grand Canyon, Big Sur, and southandndash;central California. It...
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Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed
by Alan Rabinowitz Publisher Comments Dubbed the Indiana Jones of wildlife science by The New York Times, Alan Rabinowitz has devoted—and risked—his life to protect nature’s great endangered mammals. He has journeyed to the remote corners of the earth in search of wild...
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Organisms and Environments #08: Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
by Paul S. Martin Publisher Comments As recently as 11,000 years ago--near time to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's...
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Chasing the Dragon's Tail: The Struggle to Save Thailand's Wild Cats
by Alan Rabinowitz Publisher Comments In 1987, zoologist Alan Rabinowitz was invited by the Thai government to study leopards, tigers, and other wildlife in the Huai Kha Khaeng valley, one of Southeast Asia's largest and most prized forests. It was hoped his research would help protect the...
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The Sixth Extinction: Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind
by Terry Glavin
Publisher Comments “Asks us to care, deeply, about living in the midst of the greatest extinction rates of the past 65 million years. If there’s room for hope, it can be found in a book like this.”--The Globe and Mail The Sixth Extinction is a...
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A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
by Tim Flannery Publisher Comments Since humans first wandered from their original habitat in Africa, over fifty millennia ago, they have radically altered the environment wherever they have gone, often at the cost of the animals who'd ruled the wild before mankind's arrival. Humanity's...
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Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk
by Jeffrey V. Wells Publisher Comments "This is truly a bird guide for the new millennium. Jeff Wells has given us a resource that gives us a more realistic and three-dimensional view of bird life. In this book we can see the birds as part of a bigger picture that includes their environment...
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Horn of Darkness: Rhinos on the Edge
by Carol Cunningham Publisher Comments What hope remains for Africa's black rhinos? This book addresses that question by mixing local people and attitudes with biology and adventure while describing the challenges of doing ecological fieldwork in a difficult setting, while accompanied by a...
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Last Chance to See
by Douglas Adams Publisher Comments "Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams'] thinking, enlivened his world; and so might the animals do for us all, if we were to help them live." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Join bestselling author Douglas Adams...
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The End of the Wild (Boston Review Books)
by Stephen M Meyer Publisher Comments With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years. The species that survive will be the ones that are most compatible with us: the...
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No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species
by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments Nearly every species that has lived on earth is extinct. The last of thedinosaurs was wiped out after a Mount Everest-sized meteorite slammedinto the earth 65 million years ago. The great flying and marine reptiles areno more. Before humans crossed the...
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100 Animals to See Before They Die
by Nick Garbutt Publisher Comments Marking a new departure for Bradt, this full color, large format title builds on the brand’s reputation for ethical travel and conservation, presenting a compendium of 100 of the world’s most endangered mammals in association with ZSL –...
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Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean
by Osha Gray Davidson Publisher Comments Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. But now, suddenly, the turtles are dying, ravaged by a mysterious plague that some biologists consider the most serious epidemic now raging in the natural world. Perhaps most important, sea...
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The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History
by Joseph Cone Synopsis In this acclaimed volume, knowledgeable observers of salmon history select and comment on the documents that they feel most clearly reveal the causes of today's crisis. The eighty documents span a period of 140 years and address such issues as habitat...
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Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay
by Tom Horton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-374) and index....
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Watching, from the Edge of Extinction
by Beverly Pet Stearns Synopsis In this mesmerizing series of interviews with dedicated people who work to save endangered species throughout the world, an alarming truth emerges: the obstacles of human politics, greed, corruption, folly, and hypocrisy can present as much danger to a...
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