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  50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth
  

  by Earth

  ISBN 1879682605 (1-879682-60-5)
  Softcover, Earth Works

  
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  • 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth: ISBN 0929634063 (0-929634-06-3)
    Softcover, Pub Group West
  • 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth: ISBN 1879682605 (1-879682-60-5)
    Softcover, Earth Works
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  Abbey's Road
  

  by Edward Abbey

  ISBN 052505006X (0-525-05006-X)
  Hardcover, Dutton

  
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  Curmudgeon, environmental brawler, and literary desert rat, Edward Abbey nursed dreams of one day walking out into the wild "to become one with the landscape. To just... disappear." He made valiant efforts to make good on that dream of escape in sometimes harebrained, often dangerous expeditions to difficult places, adventures some of which are recounted in this lively collection of essays.

  The first part of Abbey's Road is given to a walkabout in the outback of Australia, whose scattered human settlements remind Abbey of towns in the American West, "although not so blatantly ugly." Having ignored good advice not to stray too far afield in that waterless place and lived to tell the tale, Abbey turns later in the book to other desert landscapes (islands in the Gulf of California, remote corners of the Grand Canyon, and the like) before delivering a series of trademark yawps against the forces that would just as soon bulldoze such places as protect them. Along the way Abbey recalls his work as a seasonal park ranger (which yielded his incomparable memoir, Desert Solitaire) and fire lookout, offers a few tongue-in-cheek words in defense of rednecks, and muses on the effects of hallucinogenic drugs and the virtues of his "slapstick, slapdash, sex-crazed manner"--all good and generally good-natured pieces, even if a few of them are now showing signs of age.

  If you're new to Abbey's work, Abbey's Road is not the best place to start; have a look at The Best of Edward Abbey or The Serpents of Paradise, two sturdy, career-spanning collections. But if you've read his better-known books and want to have a closer look at the man behind them, Abbey's Road is the one to follow. --Gregory McNamee [via]

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  • Abbey's Road: ISBN 052505006X (0-525-05006-X)
    Hardcover, Dutton
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  Art of American Indian Cooking
  

  by Jean Anderson, Yeffe Kimball

  ISBN 1558210040 (1-55821-004-0)
  Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr

  
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  With dishes that range from Zuni Green Chile Stew to simple corn on the cob and pumpkin pie, this collection is a representation of recipes from Native American tribes in every region of the country. [via]

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  • Art of American Indian Cooking: ISBN 1558210040 (1-55821-004-0)
    Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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  Care and Identification of 19Th-Century Photographic Prints
  

  by James M. Reilly

  ISBN 0879853654 (0-87985-365-4)
  Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

  
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  A fully illustrated book which is a comprehensive reference on all aspects of the care and identification of 19th-century photographic prints. Excellent for anyone who is a serious collector or has an interest in preserving old pictures. [via]

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  • Care and Identification of 19Th-Century Photographic Prints: ISBN 0879853654 (0-87985-365-4)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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  The Care of Fine Books
  

  by Jane Greenfield

  ISBN 1558210032 (1-55821-003-2)
  Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr

  
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  The nature of book construction, storage, and handling, elementary cleaning and repair, and much more.
  

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  • The Care of Fine Books: ISBN 1558210032 (1-55821-003-2)
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  Catch Me a Colobus
  

  by Gerald Malcolm Durrell

  ISBN 0708900941 (0-7089-0094-1)
  Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books

  
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  A pot-pourri of animal anecdotes, based on hectic days at the author's Jersey zoo and his forays to various corners of the earth to rescue animal species in danger of extinction. First published in 1972. [via]

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  • Catch Me a Colobus: ISBN 0670206628 (0-670-20662-8)
    Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
  • Catch Me a Colobus: ISBN 0708900941 (0-7089-0094-1)
    Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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  Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed
  

  by Jared Diamond

  ISBN 0670033375 (0-670-03337-5)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.

  Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]

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    Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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  Conservation Biology : Research Priorities for the Next Decade
  

  by Michael E. Soule, Gordon H. Orians, P. Dee Boersma

  ISBN 1559638699 (1-55963-869-9)
  Softcover, Island Press

  
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  One of the fastest growing scientific disciplines in recent history is conservation biology. A response of the scientific community to the massive environmental changes taking place on Earth, its goal is to enable society to anticipate, prevent, and reduce ecological damage, and to generate the scientific information from which effective conservation strategies and policies can be designed and implemented.

  In 1989, the Society for Conservation Biology and Island Press produced Research Priorities for Conservation Biology, a slim volume that set forth the findings of experts who had gathered to outline research needs for the near future, and which served as a guidepost for the field throughout the 1990s. In January 2000, leaders of the Society for Conservation Biology convened a similar group to reach consensus on where the field now stands and to determine the major, compelling research priorities for the next decade. Conservation Biology: Research Priorities for the Next Decade presents the results of that gathering.

  The book:

  • notes progress or changes in the state of global biodiversity over the past decade and discusses overarching themes that influence all areas of conservation
  • offers ten chapters by leading experts that summarize the status of knowledge in key areas ranging from marine conservation to ecological restoration to conservation medicine
  • sets forth research priorities for each area
  • describes gaps in current knowledge that are impeding the ability of conservation practitioners to carry out their work

  A final synthesis chapter brings together cross-cutting themes that integrate the diverse topics within the context of global biodiversity loss, and presents a call to action for scientists and others working in the field.

  Conservation Biology: Research Priorities for the Next Decade represents an indispensable guide to the research that is most urgently needed to support effective conservation, and will be must reading for anyone involved with the field of conservation biology. [via]

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  • Conservation Biology : Research Priorities for the Next Decade: ISBN 1559638680 (1-55963-868-0)
    Hardcover, Island Press
  • Conservation Biology : Research Priorities for the Next Decade: ISBN 1559638699 (1-55963-869-9)
    Softcover, Island Press
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  Desert Solitaire
  

  by Edward Abbey

  ISBN 0345326490 (0-345-32649-0)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books

  
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  With language as colorful as a Canyonlands sunset and a perspective as pointed as a prickly pear, Cactus Ed captures the heat, mystery, and surprising bounty of desert life. Desert Solitaire is a meditation on the stark landscapes of the red-rock West, a passionate vote for wilderness, and a howling lament for the commercialization of the American outback. [via]

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  • Desert Solitaire: ISBN 0816510571 (0-8165-1057-1)
    Hardcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
  • Desert Solitaire: ISBN 0345326490 (0-345-32649-0)
    Softcover, Ballantine Books
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  Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
  

  by Edward Abbey

  ISBN 0671695886 (0-671-69588-6)
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster

  
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  With language as colorful as a Canyonlands sunset and a perspective as pointed as a prickly pear, Cactus Ed captures the heat, mystery, and surprising bounty of desert life. Desert Solitaire is a meditation on the stark landscapes of the red-rock West, a passionate vote for wilderness, and a howling lament for the commercialization of the American outback. [via]

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  • Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness: ISBN 0879050705 (0-87905-070-5)
    Hardcover, Peregrine Smith
  • Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness: ISBN 0671695886 (0-671-69588-6)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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  The Diversity of Life
  

  by Edward O. Wilson

  ISBN 0393319407 (0-393-31940-7)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to the loss of not only "a vast intellectual legacy born of intimacy" with nature, but also our very sanity. In The Diversity of Life, Wilson takes a sweeping view of our planet's natural richness, remarking on what on the surface seems a paradox: "almost all the species that ever lived are extinct, and yet more are alive today than at any time in the past." (Wilson's elegant explanation is a scientific education in itself.) This great variety of species is, of course, threatened by habitat destruction, global climate change, and a host of other forces, and Wilson revisits his oft-stated call for the protection of wilderness and undeveloped land, noting that "wilderness has virtue unto itself and needs no extraneous justification." We should, he continues, regard every species, "every scrap of biodiversity," as precious and irreplaceable, without attempting to quantify that regard with utilitarian measures such as "bio-economics." In short, Wilson offers with this book a simple, workable environmental ethic that extends the work of Aldo Leopold and other conservationists. A remarkably productive and influential scientist, Wilson is also a fine writer, and his survey of biodiversity makes for welcome and instructive reading. --Gregory McNamee [via]

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  • The Diversity of Life: ISBN 0674212983 (0-674-21298-3)
    Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
  • The Diversity of Life: ISBN 0393310477 (0-393-31047-7)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
  • The Diversity of Life: ISBN 0393964574 (0-393-96457-4)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
  • The Diversity of Life: ISBN 0393989801 (0-393-98980-1)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
  • The Diversity of Life: With a New Introduction: ISBN 0393319407 (0-393-31940-7)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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  Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
  

  by Nicholson Baker

  ISBN 0375726217 (0-375-72621-7)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Since the 1950s, our countrys greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject of this passionately argued book, in which Nicholson Barker pleads the case for saving our recorded heritage in its original form while telling the story of how and why our greatest research libraries betrayed the public trust by auctioning off or pulping irreplaceable collections. The players include the Library of Congress, the CIA, NASA, microfilm lobbyists, newspaper dealers, and a colorful array of librarians and digital futurists, as well as Baker himself  who eventually discovers that the only way to save one important newspaper is to buy it. Double Fold is an intense, brilliantly worded narrative that is sure to provoke discussion and controversy. [via]

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  • Double Fold : Libraries and the Assault on Paper: ISBN 0375504443 (0-375-50444-3)
    Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
  • Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper: ISBN 0375726217 (0-375-72621-7)
    Softcover, Random House Inc
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  Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
  

  by Al Gore

  ISBN 1594866376 (1-59486-637-6)
  Softcover, Rodale Pr

  
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  What's most inspiring about Earth in the Balance is who wrote it. It's a big deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, "We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." And that's not all. In his 1992 book, Al Gore also wrote:

  I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously.... [E]very time I pause to consider whether I have gone too far out on a limb, I look at the new facts [on the environment crisis] that continue to pour in from around the world and conclude that I have not gone far enough.... [T]he time has long since come to take more political risks--and endure more political criticism--by proposing tougher, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactments.

  And the buzz on the street is that Gore actually wrote those words himself.

  When Earth in the Balance first came out, it caused quite a stir--and for good reason. It convincingly makes the case that a crisis of epidemic proportions is nearly upon us and that if the world doesn't get its act together soon and agree to some kind of "Global Marshall Plan" to protect the environment, we're all up a polluted creek without a paddle. Myriad plagues are upon us, but the worst include the loss of biodiversity, the depletion of the ozone layer, the slash-and-burn destruction of rainforests, and the onset of global warming. None of this is new, of course, nor was it new in 1992. But most environmentalists will still get a giddy feeling reading such a call to action as written by a prominent politician.

  The book is arranged into three sections: the first describes the plagues; the second looks at how we got ourselves into this mess; and the final chapters present ways out. Gore gets his points across in a serviceable way, though he could have benefited from a firmer editor's hand; at times the analogies are arcane and the pacing is odd--kind of like a Gore speech that climaxes at weird points and then sinks just as the audience is about to clap. Still, at the end you understand what's been said. Gore believes that if we apply some American ingenuity, the twin engines of democracy and capitalism can be rigged to help us stabilize world population growth, spread social justice, boost education levels, create environmentally appropriate technologies, and negotiate international agreements to bring us back from the brink. For example, a worldwide shift to clean, renewable energy sources would create huge economic opportunities for companies large and small to design, build, and maintain solar panels, wind turbines, fuel cells, and other ecofriendly innovations.

  Gore doesn't mince words when describing just how hard it will be to get out of this jam. Real hope is contingent on a swelling up of concern among the public--and fast. A year into the vice presidency, in an interview with writer Bill McKibben, Gore paraphrased a key passage in his book, "The minimum that is scientifically necessary far exceeds the maximum that is politically feasible." Ah, a political out. Some readers will ask of Gore: what has he done since publishing his book to advance the political feasibility of decisive environmental action? --Chip Giller [via]

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  • Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit: ISBN 0618056645 (0-618-05664-5)
    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
  • Earth in the Balance : Ecology and the Human Spirit: ISBN 0452269350 (0-452-26935-0)
    Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit: ISBN 0395578213 (0-395-57821-3)
    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
  • Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit: ISBN 1594866376 (1-59486-637-6)
    Softcover, Rodale Pr
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  Exploitation Conservation Preservation: A Geographic Perspective on Natural Resource Use
  

  by William H. Renwick, Susan L. Cutter

  ISBN 0471152250 (0-471-15225-0)
  Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

  
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  Integrating physical, economic, social, and political perspectives, Cutter and Renwick's Fourth Edition presents readers with a wide range of opinions and interpretations of the major natural resource issues facing the world today. [via]

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  • Exploitation Conservation Preservation: A Geographic Perspective on Natural Resource Use: ISBN 0471018104 (0-471-01810-4)
    Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Exploitation Conservation Preservation: A Geographic Perspective on Natural Resource Use: ISBN 0471500771 (0-471-50077-1)
    Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Exploitation Conservation Preservation: A Geographic Perspective on Natural Resource Use: ISBN 0471152250 (0-471-15225-0)
    Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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  The Future of Life
  

  by Edward Osborne Wilson

  ISBN 0679768114 (0-679-76811-4)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  The eminent Harvard naturalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson marshals all the prodigious powers of his intellect and imagination in this impassioned call to ensure the future of life. Opening with an imagined conversation with Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, he writes that he has come "to explain to you, and in reality to others and not least to myself, what has happened to the world we both have loved." Based on a love affair with the natural world that spans 70 years, Wilson combines lyrical descriptions with dire warnings and remarkable stories of flora and fauna on the edge of extinction with hard economics. How many species are we really losing? Is environmentalism truly contrary to economic development? And how can we save the planet? Wilson has penned an eloquent plea for the need for a global land ethic and offers the strategies necessary to ensure life on earth based on foresight, moral courage, and the best tools that science and technology can provide. -- Lesley Reed [via]

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  • The Future of Life: ISBN 0679450785 (0-679-45078-5)
    Hardcover, Random House Inc
  • The Future of Life: ISBN 0679768114 (0-679-76811-4)
    Softcover, Random House Inc
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  Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons
  

  by Gerald Durrell

  ISBN 0671507575 (0-671-50757-5)
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster

  
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  On this speck of volcanic soil in the middle of a vast sea, a complete, unique and peaceful world was created slowly and carefully. It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating invasion of voracious animals for which it was totally unprepared, a cohort of rapacious beasts led by the worst predator in the world, Homo sapiens...In an incredibly short space of time, a number of unique species had vanished...Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean that was once the home of the ill-fated dodo, still had among its fauna many unique but endangered species, among them Mauritius kestrels, Telfair's skinks, Gunther's geckos and pink pigeons. The indigenous flora and fauna of Mauritius were, by the 1970s, hanging onto their existence by their fingernails.When Gerald Durrell went to rescue some of these creatures from extinction, he experienced danger and discomfort, but enjoyed the adventures greatly. By the end of his trip, he had an extraordinary collection of animals to take to his Jersey sanctuary from where the progeny could, in time, be restored to Mauritius. [via]

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  • Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons: ISBN 0671243721 (0-671-24372-1)
    Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
  • Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons: ISBN 0708904157 (0-7089-0415-7)
    Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
  • Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons: ISBN 0755111907 (0-7551-1190-7)
    Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
  • Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons: ISBN 0671507575 (0-671-50757-5)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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  Golden Spruce
  

  by John Vaillant

  ISBN 067697645X (0-676-97645-X)
  Hardcover, Random House Inc

  
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    Hardcover, Random House Inc
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  High Tide in Tucson
  

  by Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Mirocha

  ISBN 0786206306 (0-7862-0630-6)
  Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

  
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  The bestselling author of Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven brings her acclaimed voice to the essay, in a handsomely designed book. High Tide in Tucson provides readers with a reflection of Kingsolver's sensibility and creativity, as she constantly examines the urgent business of being alive. 25 line drawings. [via]

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  Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
  

  by Nicholas Stanley Price, Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro, Mansfield Kirby Talley

  ISBN 0892363983 (0-89236-398-3)
  Softcover, Getty Trust Pubn

  
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  This is the first comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture to be published in the English language. Designed for students of art history as well as conservation, the book consists of forty-five texts, some never before translated into English and many originally published only in obscure or foreign journals. The thirty major art historians and scholars represented raise questions such as when to restore, what to preserve, and how to maintain aesthetic character. Readings come from the work of such writers as Ruskin, Berenson, Clive Bell, Cesare Brandi, Kenneth Clark, Erwin Panofsky, E.H. Gombrich, Marie Cl. Berducou, and Paul Philippot. The fully illustrated book also contains references, a glossary of terms, and an index. [via]

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  Hoot: Library Edition
  

  by Carl Hiaasen

  ISBN 0375829164 (0-375-82916-4)
  Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

  
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  Hoot, Carl Hiaasen's debut novel for younger readers is a very special treat indeed. The writing is exceptionally good, and the characters extremely quirky and well realised. It's incredibly readable despite a story premise that is not sparklingly original. But no matter, there's an engaging "feel-good" vibe running through the whole book.

  The setting, as with Hiaasen's crime thrillers for adults such as Basket Case and Sick Puppy, is sunny Florida and the heat, swamps, dust and pancakes all contribute to the authentic atmosphere of the book. His favourite environmental theme is here too, as is the thoroughly watertight plotting. There's an engaging mystery set up on the very first page and it builds nicely with more twists and turns as the story unfolds--all of them reassuringly tied up come the final pages.

  Roy Eberhardt's story begins when he is being mashed up against the window of the school bus by bully Dana Matherson. He spots an athletic bare-footed boy running away from the bus and wonders where he is going. Further investigations, after he has unwisely smashed Dana's nose in to get away from him, leads Roy into the middle of a battle between a green-minded local runaway and the proposed opening of a pancake restaurant. The development threatens the habitat of a burrowing-owl colony and it's an issue that several people in the community have differing views upon--not all of them legal.

  Roy carries the story very well indeed. He's likable and persistent in the face of unexpected and challenging adventure, despite his modest size. The cause he chooses to support is eminently worthy--he weighs up the strength of his beliefs with the necessity to slightly bend the law. This is a good story with some great writing--a winning combination. (For readers aged 10 and over.) --John McLay [via]

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  • Hoot: Library Edition: ISBN 0440419395 (0-440-41939-5)
    Softcover, Yearling Books
  • Hoot: Library Edition: ISBN 0440421705 (0-440-42170-5)
    Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
  • Hoot: Library Edition: ISBN 0375821813 (0-375-82181-3)
    Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
  • Hoot: Library Edition: ISBN 0375921818 (0-375-92181-8)
    Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
  • Hoot: Library Edition: ISBN 0606308482 (0-606-30848-2)
    Hardcover, Demco Media
  • Hoot: Library Edition: ISBN 0375829164 (0-375-82916-4)
    Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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  How to Rescue the Earth Without Worshipping Nature/a Christian's Call to Save Creation
  

  by Tony Campolo

  ISBN 0840777728 (0-8407-7772-8)
  Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc

  
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  God created the Earth and called it good. Christians should therefore be taking the lead in this battle to save our planet. In How to Rescue the Earth Without Worshiping Nature, best-selling Christian author Tony Campolo outlines his practical program of Earth stewardship, which he calls "creation care". Presenting a firm and biblically based perspective on creation, Campolo outlines specific things you can do to help restore the environment, not worship it, while demonstrating how to experience nature in the profound and joyous way that Jesus and the Apostle Paul did. Making the church "green" is an absolute requirement! [via]

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  Ishmael
  

  by Daniel Quinn

  ISBN 0553375407 (0-553-37540-7)
  Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

  
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  FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Ishmael follows what happens when a man answers an ad in a local newspaper placed by a telepathic gorilla. [via]

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    Softcover, Bantam Books
  • Ishmael: ISBN 0553078755 (0-553-07875-5)
    Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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  Last Chance to See
  

  by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine

  ISBN 0345371984 (0-345-37198-4)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books

  
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  The best-selling science fiction humorist Douglas Adams accompanies a world-class zoologist on an around-the-world trip in search of exotic, endangered creatures. By turns hilarious and poignant, this is a treat for Adams fans and anyone who cares about Earth's wildlife. [via]

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    Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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  Menagerie Manor
  

  by Gerald Durrell

  ISBN 0755111958 (0-7551-1195-8)
  Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated

  
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  The Monkey Wrench Gang
  

  by Edward Abbey

  ISBN 1568490836 (1-56849-083-6)
  Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated

  
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  Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief. The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation ("Hell of a place to lose a cow," Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. "Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"). Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. It's comic, yes, and required reading for anyone who has come to love the desert. --Gregory McNamee [via]

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    Softcover, Perennial
  • The Monkey Wrench Gang: ISBN 0072434244 (0-07-243424-4)
    Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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    Hardcover, Dream Garden Pr
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    Softcover, Harpercollins
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    Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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    Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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  Of Wolves and Men
  

  by Barry Holstun Lopez

  ISBN 0684163225 (0-684-16322-5)
  Softcover, Scribner

  
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  "The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you." So Barry Lopez writes in his first major work of nonfiction, a careful study of the way that wolves and humans have interacted over centuries, and the way that the wolf has become so central to our thinking about animals. Drawing on considerable personal experience with wolves and on an astonishing range of literature, Lopez argues for the necessity of wolves in the world, which would be much poorer without their howl. Thanks in part to the influence of this essential book about Canis lupus, first published in 1978, we know a great deal more about wolves and are all the better prepared to assure their protection. [via]

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    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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    Hardcover, Scribner
  • Of Wolves and Men: ISBN 0684163225 (0-684-16322-5)
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  The Overloaded Ark
  

  by Gerald Durrell

  ISBN 0571053718 (0-571-05371-8)
  Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

  
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  Prodigal Summer
  

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  ISBN 0060199660 (0-06-019966-0)
  Softcover, Harpercollins

  
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  There is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in daily life but are also on familiar terms with the eternal. With Prodigal Summer, she returns from the Congo to a "wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness." And there, in an isolated pocket of southern Appalachia, she recounts not one but three intricate stories.

  Exuberant, lush, riotous--the summer of the novel is "the season of extravagant procreation" in which bullfrogs carelessly lay their jellied masses of eggs in the grass, "apparently confident that their tadpoles would be able to swim through the lawn like little sperms," and in which a woman may learn to "tell time with her skin." It is also the summer in which a family of coyotes moves into the mountains above Zebulon Valley:

  The ghost of a creature long extinct was coming in on silent footprints, returning to the place it had once held in the complex anatomy of this forest like a beating heart returned to its body. This is what she believed she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration.

  The "she" is Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist observing the coyotes from her isolated aerie--isolated, that is, until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more aware of the truth that humans are only an infinitesimal portion in the ecological balance. This truth forms the axis around which the other two narratives revolve: the story of a city girl, entomologist, and new widow and her efforts to find a place for herself; and the story of Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, who seem bent on thrashing out the countless intimate lessons of biology as only an irascible traditional farmer and a devotee of organic agriculture can. As Nannie lectures Garnett, "Everything alive is connected to every other by fine, invisible threads. Things you don't see can help you plenty, and things you try to control will often rear back and bite you, and that's the moral of the story."

  Structurally, that gossamer web is the story: images, phrases, and events link the narratives, and these echoes are rarely obvious, always serendipitous. Kingsolver is one of those authors for whom the terrifying elegance of nature is both aesthetic wonder and source of a fierce and abiding moral vision. She may have inherited Thoreau's mantle, but she piles up riches of her own making, blending her extravagant narrative gift with benevolent concise humor. She treads the line between the sentimental and the glorious like nobody else in American literature. --Kelly Flynn [via]

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  Reason for Hope
  

  by Phillip Berman, Jane Goodall

  ISBN 078622343X (0-7862-2343-X)
  Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

  
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  The Restoration of Leather Bindings
  

  by Bernard C. Middleton

  ISBN 158456119X (1-58456-119-X)
  Hardcover, Oak Knoll Pr

  
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  Fourth edition, revised and expanded from the 1998 edition. A welcome new addition in this book is a full-color section for the identification of leather and marbled papers. From the author of HISTORY OF ENGLISH CRAFT BOOKBINDING TECHNIQUE (also published by Oak Knoll & The British Library), this classic in the field of bookbinding is a practical guide to the restoration of leather bindings. Revised and expanded, this work reflects advances in techniques and materials, and contains current information on suppliers and related publications. The book has chapters concerning definition of terms, tools and materials, cleaning, removing the spine, resewing and alternatives; gluing, rounding and backing; headbanding, back lining, preparation of boards, rebacking, replacing the spine, repairing caps and outer joints, repairing caoutchoue bindings, repairing corners, blending new endpapers, straightening warped boards, rebinding pasteboards, salvaging old sides; staining, aging, tooling and refurbishing, recording repairs, and a section of selected reading. Alternative approaches are included for rebinding when the original covers have been lost or are beyond restoration, modern rebinding, and replication of original bindings by combining elements of both modern and historical binding techniques. Middleton's work is designed to be a comprehensive handbook for practitioner and student alike when formal training in restorative techniques are unavailable. Also included is an updated listing of binders' suppliers. With numerous photographs and line drawings. Co-published with The British Library. [via]

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  A Sand County Almanac
  

  by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz

  ISBN 0345345053 (0-345-34505-3)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books

  
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  Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]

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    Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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    Hardcover, Trails Media Group Inc
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  A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
  

  by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz

  ISBN 019505928X (0-19-505928-X)
  Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

  
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  Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]

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    Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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  A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
  

  by Aldo Leopold

  ISBN 0195007778 (0-19-500777-8)
  Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

  
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  Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]

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  A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
  

  by Aldo Leopold

  ISBN 0195006194 (0-19-500619-4)
  Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

  
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  The Sea Around Us
  

  by Rachel L. Carson

  ISBN 0195069978 (0-19-506997-8)
  Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

  
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  Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us was a phenomenal success. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on The New York Times bestseller list, where it remained on top for thirty-one consecutive weeks. It stayed on the list for more than a year and a half and ultimately sold well over a million copies, has been translated into 28 languages, inspired an Academy Award-winning documentary, and won both the 1952 National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal. This commemorative edition has over 130 beautiful, full color illustrations from all over the world--everything from breaching whales, Christmas Tree worms and phosphorescent shrimp, to fur seals, flashlight fish, and giant squid. The volume features a foreword by Carl Safina, a founder of the Blue Ocean Institute; an introduction by explorer Robert D. Ballard, renowned for his role in finding the Titanic as well as for his discovery of life around deep-sea hydrothermal vents; and an afterword by Brian J. Skinner, an eminent geologist and former president of the Geological Society of America. The book itself remains as fresh today as when it first appeared. Carson's writing teems with stunning, memorable images--the newly formed Earth cooling beneath an endlessly overcast sky; the centuries of nonstop rain that created the oceans; incredibly powerful tides moving 100 billion tons of water daily in the Bay of Fundy. Quite simply, she captures the mystery and allure of the ocean with a compelling blend of imagination and expertise. For anyone who loves to wander the shore, sail the ocean, or ponder what lies beneath the waves, this illustrated special edition of The Sea Around Us will make a perfect gift. [via]

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    Softcover, New Amer Library
  • The Sea Around Us: ISBN 0195061861 (0-19-506186-1)
    Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
  • The Sea Around Us: ISBN 0307167453 (0-307-16745-3)
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  Silent Spring
  

  by Rachel Carson, Wilson, Edward O. (AFT), Linda Lear

  ISBN 0618249060 (0-618-24906-0)
  Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

  
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  Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carson's book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. Presented with thorough documentation, the book opened more than a few eyes about the dangers of the modern world and stands today as a landmark work. [via]

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  • Silent Spring: ISBN 0395683297 (0-395-68329-7)
    Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
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    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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  Silent Spring
  

  by Rachel Louise Carson

  ISBN 0449209385 (0-449-20938-5)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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  Small Wonder
  

  by Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Mirocha

  ISBN 1410400913 (1-4104-0091-3)
  Softcover, Walker Large Print

  
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  Readers familiar with Barbara Kingsolver will find that Small Wonder, a collection of 23 essays, shows the same sensitivity and thoughtfulness, the same rich knowledge of and love for the natural world, as her spellbinding novels. In "Knowing Our Place," she describes the two places in which she writes: a tin-roof cabin in Appalachia and her home in the Tucson desert. In "Setting Free the Crabs," she uses her daughter's decision not to take home a beautiful (and occupied) red conch shell from a Mexican beach to illustrate our own need to give up our sense of ownership of the earth, to resist "the hunger to possess all things bright and beautiful." Many of these pieces, like the lovely title essay, were written (or rewritten) in response to the events of September 11, which threw into relief the growing social and economic inequities that are so little remarked on in the American media. These are political essays, although Kingsolver is not a natural rhetorician; her prose is too supple and inclusive. She is more inclined to follow the turns of her mind, like water in a curving stream bed, than to hammer home a point or two. But she has a rare gift for apt allusion (from sources as wide-ranging as Robert Frost to Beanie Babies) and for the elegant use of facts and figures. And she is highly quotable. It is easy to imagine the speechwriters and activists of the next 10 years dipping into Small Wonder for inspiration and the perfect phrase. --Regina Marler [via]

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  The Wilderness World of John Muir
  

  by E.W. Teale, Henry B. Kane

  ISBN 0618127518 (0-618-12751-8)
  Softcover, Mariner Books

  
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  Restauracion De Encuadernaciones En Piel
  

  by Bernard C. Middleton

  ISBN 8489142440 (84-89142-44-0)
  Softcover, Pujol & Amado S.L.L.

  
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