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There are 1096 books in this aisle.
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by Mike Tidwell  
Publisher Comments Mike Tidwell knew nothing of the disappearing bayou country when he first visited the Cajun coast of Louisiana, but the evidence was all around him: the skeletons of oak trees killed by the salinity of the groundwater, whole cemeteries sinking into... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Mike Davis
Publisher Comments According To The United Nations, More Than One billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Feiler
Powells.com Staff Pick From the beginning of pre-history, human cultures have rooted sacred stories in actual landscapes, a legacy that becomes increasingly untenable as ballooning populations find it difficult to share their sacred places. Nowhere is this trend more evident... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Doyle Publisher Comments A self-described "wine doofus" spends a year in a small Oregon vineyard, chronicling the creative and chaotic labor as the winemakers chase after the perfect pinot noir.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ted Steinberg
Publisher Comments The Rise Of The Perfect Lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. Today the lawn is one of America's leading crops, outstripping cotton in acres by a factor of two. American Green, Ted Steinberg's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Gustave Speth
Publisher Comments Offering viable new strategies, a renowned visionary environmentalist leader warns that, in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth's environment are not succeeding.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tonya Bolden
Synopsis Uses poems, essays, letters, photographs and more to present the actions and achievements of women in the United States, from its beginnings up through the twentieth century.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thom Hartmann
Publisher Comments Was the Boston Tea Party the first WTO-style protest against transnational corporations? Did Supreme Court sell out America's citizens in the nineteenth century, with consequences lasting to this day? Is there a way for American citizens to recover... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vikram Seth
Publisher Comments A heartrending new book -- the story of a marriage and the story of two lives -- from the author of the international bestselling novel A Suitable Boy Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lou Ureneck
Publisher Comments While father and son fishing trips can be the stuff of American legend, they can also turn out to be the stuff of anger, love and self-discovery. In his memoir of a fishing trip through the Alaskan wilderness, Lou Ureneck brings to life the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nuruddin Farah
Publisher Comments A new novel from one of the world's great writers-an extraordinary work set in Mogadiscio, Somalia-that both breaks new ground and brings him back to his literary roots. A strong, self-reliant woman who was born in Somalia but brought up in North America,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Frank Mccourt
Publisher Comments Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came "'Tis," his glorious... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Graham Greene
Publisher Comments In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to... (read more) Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenny Ausubel
Publisher Comments In this pathfinding book, many of the world’s leading health visionaries show how human health is inescapably dependent on the health of our environment. Drawn largely from presentations given at the annual Bioneers Conference, it focuses on... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Freese
Publisher Comments In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frank Mccourt
Publisher Comments Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elmore Leonard
Publisher Comments The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Faith Dalusio
Publisher Comments On the banks of Mali's Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with tamarind juice. In the USA, the Ronayne-Caven family enjoys corndogs-on-a-stick with a tossed green salad. This age-old practice of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $27.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David B. Williams
Publisher Comments Back to the city, or back to nature? Seattle author David Williams shows us how we can get the best of both. Botany and bugs, geology and geese, and creeks and crows; living in a major city doesn't have to separate us from the natural world. Stepping... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Formichelli
Publisher Comments Illustrates that breaking the traditional "rules" of freelancing can lead to success by revealing tips that the most successful freelancers use.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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