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The Abridged Comparative Plant Ecologyby Roderick Hunt, J.G. Hodgson, Philip J. GrimeISBN 0045810273 (0-04-581027-3)
Softcover, Unwin Hyman
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Alien Empire: An Exploration of the Life of Insectsby Christopher O'TooleISBN 0062701568 (0-06-270156-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Always Coming Homeby Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Todd Barton, George HershISBN 006015456X (0-06-015456-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Coming Home/Paperback Book and Cassette'Book summary:Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.[via] 
Be Nice to Spidersby Margaret Bloom GrahamISBN 0060220732 (0-06-022073-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Be Nice to Spiders'Book summary:When Billy left his pet spider, Helen, at the Zoo, the animals suddenly became happy and contented. The lions snoozed all day long, the elephants enjoyed their baths, and the zebras ate their hay in peace -- all because Helen was spinning webs and catching flies.
But one day Helen's webs were swept away. The Keeper had the cages cleaned for the Mayor's inspection tour. Soon the flies were back again and the animals were miserable once more. But not for long...
Children will be fascinated and amused by the way Helen solved the problem and won a permanent place of honor for herself in the Zoo.
Margaret Bloy Graham's pictures match the wit and charm of her delightful story.
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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outsideby Edward AbbeyISBN 0030693012 (0-03-069301-2)
Softcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside'Book summary:In this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico.[via]More editions of Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside:
Case of the Missing Cutthroatsby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0064406474 (0-06-440647-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Chaos, Gaia, Eros: A Chaos Pioneer Uncovers the Three Great Streams of Historyby Ralph H. AbrahamISBN 0062500139 (0-06-250013-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chaos, Gaia, Eros: A Chaos Pioneer Uncovers the Three Great Streams of History'Book summary:A world-renowned mathematician unveils his theory of the All-and-the-Everything--a dramatic synthesis reexamining history and the inventions of the mind for readers who were fascinated by Godel, Escher, Bach. [via]
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The Coming of the Cosmic Christby Matthew FoxISBN 0060629592 (0-06-062959-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissanceby Matthew FoxISBN 0060629150 (0-06-062915-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Community Ecologyby Ted J. Case, Jared DiamondISBN 006041202X (0-06-041202-X)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Connecting: A User-Friendly Guide to Assembling Your Own Audio-Video Home Entertainment Centerby Tom MyersISBN 006096023X (0-06-096023-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Directing the Movies of Your Mindby A. BryISBN 0060105283 (0-06-010528-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Directing the Movies of Your Mind'Book summary:In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire.
This is a profound book about the natural world -- both its beauty and its cruelty -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dillard knows so well.
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Earth and Other Ethics: The Case for Moral Pluralismby Christopher StoneISBN 0060914866 (0-06-091486-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Earth Day-Hoorayby Stuart J. Murphy, Renee AndrianiISBN 0060001291 (0-06-000129-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Earthmind: A Modern Adventure in Ancient Wisdomby Paul Devereux, John Steele, David KubrinISBN 0060159774 (0-06-015977-4)
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Ecology of Aquatic Insectsby Vincent H. Resh, David M. RosenbergISBN 003059684X (0-03-059684-X)
Hardcover, Praeger
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Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense?by Dixy L. Ray, Louis R. GuzzoISBN 0060975989 (0-06-097598-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farmby David Mas MasumotoISBN 0062510258 (0-06-251025-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm'Book summary:An eloquent piece of nature writing by a young author with a farmer-s calluses and a poet-s soul, Epitaph for a Peach is about saving a peach (Sun Crest variety), saving a farm, saving a family, saving a way of life--it is a story about finding -home.- [via]
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The Fallsby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0060722290 (0-06-072229-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Mealby Eric SchlosserISBN 0060838582 (0-06-083858-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secretby Duff WilsonISBN 0060931833 (0-06-093183-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Fire in Paradise: The Yellowstone Fires and the Politics of Environmentalismby Micah MorrisonISBN 0060163038 (0-06-016303-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Regionby Jonathan BarnettISBN 0064302229 (0-06-430222-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting With the Body of the Earthby Joan HalifaxISBN 0062503138 (0-06-250313-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting With the Body of the Earth'Book summary:Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Joan Halifax delves into "the fruitful darkness" the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation. In The Fruitful Darkness, a highly personal and insightful odyssey of the heart and mind, she encounters Tibetan Buddhist mediators, Mexican shamans, and Native American elders, among others. In rapt prose, she recounts her explorations from Japanese Zen meditation to hallucinogenic plants, from the Dogon people of Mali to the Mayan rain forest. Grove Press is proud to reissue this important work by one of Buddhism's leading contemporary teachers.[via]More editions of The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting With the Body of the Earth:
Good Workby E. F. Schumacher, Peter N. GillinghamISBN 0060905611 (0-06-090561-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Work'Book summary:Hardcover published by Harper & Row, copyright 1979. [via]
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Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earthby William Anderson, Clive HicksISBN 0062500759 (0-06-250075-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earth'Book summary:Examines the motif of the "Green Man", symbol of the human unity with the natural world, in folklore, mythology, religion, art and architecture, from prehistory to the present. The author aims to show it was absorbed into the Christian tradition in the Middle Ages. [via]
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Holy the Firmby Annie DillardISBN 0060915439 (0-06-091543-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geographyby Terry G. Jordan, Lester RowntreeISBN 0060434600 (0-06-043460-0)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Ice Schoonerby Michael MoorcockISBN 0060130067 (0-06-013006-7)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Introduction to Theoretical Ecologyby Peter YodzisISBN 006047369X (0-06-047369-X)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883by Simon WinchesterISBN 0060838590 (0-06-083859-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded August 27, 1883'Book summary:In Krakatoa, the author of The Map That Changed the World and The Professor and the Madman focuses his considerable research powers on one of the most cataclysmic events of modern history: the volcanic eruption, in 1883, of the Southeast Asian island of Krakatoa, which resulted in the deaths of 36,000 people and sent shock-waves around the world. But what at the time was a mysterious, almost supernatural phenomenon has become, under the precepts of the contemporary science of plate tectonics, explicable if no less tragic. Winchester veers between eyewitness accounts by survivors and the limited scientific measurements of the time in an attempt to describe the indescribable. The event "is still said to be the most violent explosion ever recorded and experienced by modern man," he writes. "Six cubic miles of rock had been blasted out of existence, had been turned into pumice and ash and uncountable billions of particles of dust." Yet words and numbers can barely hint at the scale of the calamity, which resulted in tsunamis that washed whole villages into the ocean and forever changed the very topography of the area. The author also explores the social and cultural topography, noting, "Orthodox Islam, its revival in part triggered by tragic events such as the great cataclysm, was totally transformed in Java during the nineteenth century, with fundamentalism, militancy, and profound hostility to non-Muslims its watchwords." At times Winchester seems to overstate his case, and the link he finds between Krakatoa and the rise of anti-Western sentiment in the Islamic world isnt especially convincing. But, by weaving together the disaster with science, communications, politics, religion, and economics, he has come up with a comprehensive and often fascinating glimpse into the way the world, and our perception of it, can change in an instant. --Shawn Conner [via]
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Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwestby Alex Shoumatoff, Alfred A. Knopf Publishers StaffISBN 0060977698 (0-06-097769-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Those Who Would Save the Earthby Steve Chapple, David Ross BrowerISBN 0062520334 (0-06-252033-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Living Seaby Jacques Yves CousteauISBN 0060108754 (0-06-010875-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living Sea'Book summary:The second volume of memoirs of jacques coustou, pioneer undersea explorer. Adventures in exploring coral reefs, discovering and excavating wrecks, improving techniques of diving and undersea exploration. Jacques cousteau is still active at nearly 80 and embarked recently on a major expedition to the south pacific. Follow up to the "silent world" reissued in earloy 1988 by elm tree. 15/02/88 launch agreed 2250x265px$13.95(2000x272p).240x164mm,256pp incl.32pp pics on text paper.f&g sheets imported from usa. UK YES [via]
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Marine Biology: An Ecological Approachby James W. NybakkenISBN 0065008227 (0-06-500822-7)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Metamorphosisby David SuzukiISBN 0043510744 (0-04-351074-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Modocby Ralph HelferISBN 0060929510 (0-06-092951-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modoc'Book summary:Modoc is the joint biography of a man and an elephant born in a small German circus town on the same day in 1896. Bram was the son of an elephant trainer, Modoc the daughter of his prize performer. The boy and animal grew up devoted to each other. When the Wunderzircus was sold to an American, with no provision to take along the human staff, Bram stowed away on the ship to prevent being separated from his beloved Modoc. A shipwreck off the Indian coast and a sojourn with a maharajah were only the beginning of the pair's incredible adventures. They battled bandits, armed revolutionaries, cruel animal trainers, and greedy circus owners in their quest to stay together. They triumphed against the odds and thrilled American circus audiences with Modoc's dazzling solo performances, only to be torn apart with brutal suddenness, seemingly never to meet again. Hollywood animal trainer Ralph Helfer rescued Modoc from ill-treatment and learned her astonishing story when Bram rediscovered her at Helfer's company. His emotional retelling of this true-life adventure epic will make pulses race and bring tears to readers' eyes. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Livedby Ralph HelferISBN 0060182571 (0-06-018257-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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One Day in the Tropical Rainforestby Jean Craighead George, Gary AllenISBN 0064420167 (0-06-442016-7)
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One Man's Meatby E. B. WhiteISBN 0060804203 (0-06-080420-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Man's Meat'Book summary:NonfictionLarge Print EditionIn print for fifty-five years, One Mans Meat continues to delight readers with E.B. Whites witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm. Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Mans Meat can best be described as a primer of a countrymans lessons a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style. [via]
Origins: Canadian History to Confederationby Richard Jones, Donald B. Smith, R. Douglas FrancisISBN 0039217051 (0-03-921705-1)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Patient Earthby John Harte, Robert H. SocolowISBN 0030851033 (0-03-085103-3)
Softcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Patterns of Life: Biogeography of a Changing Worldby Howard MielkeISBN 004574033X (0-04-574033-X)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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The Peregrineby John Alec BakerISBN 0060701730 (0-06-070173-0)
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The Perennial Philosophyby Aldous HuxleyISBN 006057058X (0-06-057058-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perennial Philosophy'Book summary:"Both an anthology and an interpretation of the supreme mystics, East and West. . . . A magnificent achievement."--Rufus M. Jones "In his absorption and other-worldliness, he soars clear out of sight."--The New Yorker [via]
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060512822 (0-06-051282-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, And Actionsby Winifred GallagherISBN 0061233358 (0-06-123335-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Readings in Canadian Historyby R. Douglas FrancisISBN 0039211061 (0-03-921106-1)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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- Readings in Canadian History: ISBN 0039226913 (0-03-922691-3)
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Readings in Canadian History Post Confederationby FrancisISBN 0039218775 (0-03-921877-5)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbageby Cullen Murphy, William RathjeISBN 0060922281 (0-06-092228-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Science of Ecologyby Richard BrewerISBN 0030965756 (0-03-096575-6)
Hardcover, Brooks/Cole Pub Co
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustaceanby Trevor Corson, Jim SollersISBN 0060555599 (0-06-055559-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Life Of Lobsters: How Fishermen And Scientists Are Unraveling The Mysteries Of Our Favorite Crustacean'Book summary:In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about the secret undersea lives of lobsters.
In revelations from the laboratory and the sea that are by turns astonishing and humorous, the lobster proves itself to be not only a delicious meal and a sustainable resource but also an amorous master of the boudoir, a lethal boxer, and a snoopy socializer with a nose that lets it track prey and paramour alike with the skill of a bloodhound.
The Secret Life of Lobsters is a rollicking oceanic odyssey punctuated by salt spray, melted butter, and predators lurking in the murky depths. [via]
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The Secret Life of Plantsby Peter Tompkins, Christopher BirdISBN 0060915870 (0-06-091587-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure The Passionate Story of the Growing Movement to Restore Biodiversity and Revolutionize the Way We Think Aboutby Ken AusubelISBN 0062500082 (0-06-250008-2)
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Sheer Joy: Conversations With Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spiritualityby Matthew FoxISBN 0060629142 (0-06-062914-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Simply Green Giving: Create Beautiful Gift Wrapping, Tags, and Handmade Treasures from Everyday Materialsby Danny SeoISBN 0061122777 (0-06-112277-7)
Hardcover, Collins
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Soil and Civilizationby Edward S. HyamsISBN 0060904585 (0-06-090458-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Thin Edge: Coast and Man in Crisisby Anne W. SimonISBN 0060138904 (0-06-013890-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animalby Jared M. DiamondISBN 0060845503 (0-06-084550-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution And Future of the Human Animal'Book summary:Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight." The Third Chimpanzee is, in many ways, a prequel to Diamond's prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns examines "the fates of human societies," this work surveys the longer sweep of human evolution, from our origin as just another chimpanzee a few million years ago. Diamond writes:
It's obvious that humans are unlike all animals. It's also obvious that we're a species of big mammal down to the minutest details of our anatomy and our molecules. That contradiction is the most fascinating feature of the human species.
The chapters in The Third Chimpanzee on the oddities of human reproductive biology were later expanded in Why Is Sex Fun? Here, they're linked to Diamond's views of human psychology and history.
Diamond is officially a physiologist at UCLA medical school, but he's also one of the best birdwatchers in the world. The current scientific consensus that "primitive" humans created ecological catastrophes in the Pacific islands, Australia, and the New World owes a great deal to his fieldwork and insight. In Diamond's view, the current global ecological crisis isn't due to modern technology per se, but to basic weaknesses in human nature. But, he says, "I'm cautiously optimistic. If we will learn from our past that I have traced, our own future may yet prove brighter than that of the other two chimpanzees." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Wasteby Louis R. Guzzo, Dixie Lee RayISBN 0060974907 (0-06-097490-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era-A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmosby Brian Swimme, Thomas Mary BerryISBN 0062508261 (0-06-250826-1)
Hardcover, HarperSan Francisco
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Where Does the Garbage Goby Paul Showers, Randy Chewning, Randy ChewingISBN 0064451143 (0-06-445114-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Who Really Killed Cock Robinby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0064404056 (0-06-440405-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Word for World Is Forestby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0057502323 (0-05-750232-3)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Writings on an Ethical Lifeby Peter SingerISBN 0060007443 (0-06-000744-3)
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Singer first gained eminence for his profoundly important early work on animal rights, arguing convincingly for vegetarianism and against the commonplace cruel treatment of animals by large commercial interests. However, he has probably attracted the most notoriety for his much-maligned writings in defense of abortion rights and certain forms of euthanasia. Singer is frequently misunderstood, misquoted, and demonized. Ironically, the ferocity of his detractors--particularly during his appointment as DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University--has generated nearly unheard-of exposure for an academic philosopher. While a small portion of Singer's work has been catapulted into the limelight, lay audiences have often overlooked other equally important ideas--unfortunate, because he is a wonderfully plainspoken and powerful writer: "Where so many are in such great need, indulgence in luxury is not morally neutral, and the fact that we have not killed anyone is not enough to make us morally decent citizens of the world." It is no wonder Singer is so controversial and influential. --Eric de Place [via]
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