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by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments Illustrates, simplifies, and humor-coats the important principles of classical and modern genetics and their experimental bases, with amusing anecdotes about how the ancients tried to explain inheritance and sex determination.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Powells.com Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior on the farm, at home, and even in the mirror. Recommended by Kyle, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jane Goodall Synopsis As a toddler she was entranced by all living things, and the child inspired by Tarzan and The Jungle Book became the woman who found herself working with Dr. Louis Leakey, making scientific breakthroughs with chimpanzees in Gombe, and becoming one of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by National Audubon Society Powells.com 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... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Aldo Leopold Publisher Comments First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Quammen Publisher Comments FOR MILLENNIA, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have haunted our jungles and nightmares, but soon alpha predators may vanish from the wild. "Monster of God explores their natures and the variety of human attitudes toward them through sources as... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Publisher Comments Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds is a collection of seventeen thoughtful essays on birds capture the sense of wonder and connection people have for these marvelous creatures. Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Howard Bloom Publisher Comments As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement.-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Al Gore Publisher Comments An Inconvenient Truth Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elbert L. Little Publisher Comments All 933 identification pictures are full-color photos of significant details of virtually all native trees and many cultivated species as you see them in their natural habitat.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gerald Durrell Powells.com 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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Audubon Publisher Comments Introduced in 1977 and completely revised in 1994, these bestselling photographic field guides have become the birding bibles of more than four million enthusiasts. Virtually every bird found in North America is brought to life in a full-color photograph... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Quammen Publisher Comments David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Aldo Leopold Publisher Comments "We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Blair Csuti Synopsis This revised and expanded edition of the standard reference on Oregon wildlife provides interested citizens with a basic understanding of wildlife species and serves as an invaluable reference for serious naturalists and wildlife professionals.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Quammen From Powells.com David Quammen's column, "Natural Acts," ran for fifteen years in Outside magazine; his stories, profiles, and essays have appeared in magazines ranging from Rolling Stone to Powder. Wild Thoughts from Wild Places collects twenty-three of the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jeffrey M Masson Publisher Comments This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall. The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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