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Amphibianby Barry Clarke, Frank Greenaway, Geoff BrightlingISBN 0679838791 (0-679-83879-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Ants at Work : How an Insect Society Is Organizedby Deborah GordonISBN 0684857332 (0-684-85733-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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At Nature's Paceby Gene LogsdonISBN 0679427414 (0-679-42741-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Big Snowby Elmer Hader, Berta HaderISBN 0689717571 (0-689-71757-1)
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Catby Juliet Clutton-BrockISBN 0679814582 (0-679-81458-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat'Book summary:Full-color photos. Take a look at the evolution, anatomy, and behavior of those fabulous felines--how they were revered by the ancient Egyptians and then reviled during the Middle Ages, why they nearly always land on their feet when they fall, and how the most cuddly house cat resembles its fiercest wild relative. [via]
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Classics of Horror: Dracula/Frankenstein/2 Books in 1by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0681411635 (0-681-41163-5)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederich Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Centuryby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0684865750 (0-684-86575-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Clearing in the Distance: Frederich Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century'Book summary:Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best remembered today as a landscape designer, well known for his plans for New York's Central Park and Prospect Park, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and the campus of Stanford University, among other noteworthy sites.
But, writes urban studies professor and accomplished author Witold Rybczynski, Olmsted was an American original, a 19th-century success story who packed many careers and wide learning and travel into a long life. He spent time in China and Europe, managed a California gold mine, edited The Nation, commanded a medical unit in the Civil War, and crisscrossed the United States many times over, writing long reports and articles all the while. (One series of reports urged, for instance, that the then-remote Yosemite region of California be made a national park.) Olmsted, Rybczynski suggests, changed the face of America: he had a vision of the American landscape as a reflection of the national character, with its broad vistas and open skies, and he was concerned to make America's urban spaces livable, bringing "trees and greenery into the congested grid of streets." At Olmsted's urging, many American and Canadian cities adopted his system of parks, broad avenues, and greenways, which encouraged the appreciation and preservation of nature; his influence is felt today in the so-called urban ecology movement, and in dozens of public spaces across the continent.
Rybczynski's fine and illuminating biography of Olmsted shows him to have been a man of many parts, an important historical figure whose legacy remains strong nearly a century after his death. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Centuryby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0684824639 (0-684-82463-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century'Book summary:Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best remembered today as a landscape designer, well known for his plans for New York's Central Park and Prospect Park, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and the campus of Stanford University, among other noteworthy sites.
But, writes urban studies professor and accomplished author Witold Rybczynski, Olmsted was an American original, a 19th-century success story who packed many careers and wide learning and travel into a long life. He spent time in China and Europe, managed a California gold mine, edited The Nation, commanded a medical unit in the Civil War, and crisscrossed the United States many times over, writing long reports and articles all the while. (One series of reports urged, for instance, that the then-remote Yosemite region of California be made a national park.) Olmsted, Rybczynski suggests, changed the face of America: he had a vision of the American landscape as a reflection of the national character, with its broad vistas and open skies, and he was concerned to make America's urban spaces livable, bringing "trees and greenery into the congested grid of streets." At Olmsted's urging, many American and Canadian cities adopted his system of parks, broad avenues, and greenways, which encouraged the appreciation and preservation of nature; his influence is felt today in the so-called urban ecology movement, and in dozens of public spaces across the continent.
Rybczynski's fine and illuminating biography of Olmsted shows him to have been a man of many parts, an important historical figure whose legacy remains strong nearly a century after his death. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Clouds and Stormsby David M. Ludlum, Richard A. Keen, Ronald L. HolleISBN 067977999X (0-679-77999-X)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The Company of Wolvesby Peter SteinhartISBN 0679743871 (0-679-74387-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing Butterflies & Mothsby Jim ArnoskyISBN 068980587X (0-689-80587-X)
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Crinkleroot's Guide to Walking in Wild Placesby Jim ArnoskyISBN 0689717539 (0-689-71753-9)
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Cross Creekby Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsISBN 0684818795 (0-684-81879-5)
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A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fateby Marc ReisnerISBN 0679420118 (0-679-42011-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate'Book summary:In A Dangerous Place, Marc Reisner, the author of Cadillac Desert, the classic history of the American West and its fatal dependence on water, returns to the subject that never ceased to seduce him: California.
Writing with his signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Reisner leads us through Californias improbable history and rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the achievement of this, the last great desert civilization, hinges on Californias denial of its own inescapable fate. Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, mere prologues to a future cataclysm that will result in destruction of such magnitude that the only recourse will be to rebuild from the ground up. Reisner concludes A Dangerous Place with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic description of such a disaster and its horrifying aftereffects. [via]More editions of A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate:
Deep Playby Diane Ackerman, Peter SisISBN 0679771352 (0-679-77135-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Dinosaur Heresiesby Robert T. BakkerISBN 0688042872 (0-688-04287-2)
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The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Natureby I. Prigogine, Isabelle StengersISBN 0684837056 (0-684-83705-6)
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Everybody Needs a Rockby Byrd Baylor, Peter ParnallISBN 0684138999 (0-684-13899-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Familiar Animal Tracksby John FarrandISBN 0679741488 (0-679-74148-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Familiar Butterflies North Americaby Paul A. Opler, National Audubon Society, Paul OplerISBN 067972981X (0-679-72981-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Field Notesby Barry LopezISBN 0679434534 (0-679-43453-4)
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0679409998 (0-679-40999-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
Frankenstein : Or, the Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0679427899 (0-679-42789-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordonby Stephen KingISBN 0684867621 (0-684-86762-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon'Book summary:Trisha McFarland is a plucky 9-year-old hiking with her brother and mom, who is grimly determined to give the kids a good time on their weekends together. Trisha's mom is recently divorced, and her brother is feuding with her for moving from Boston to small-town Maine, where classmates razz him. Trisha steps off the trail for a pee and a respite from the bickering. And gets lost.
Trisha's odyssey succeeds on several levels. King renders her consciousness of increasing peril beautifully, from the "first minnowy flutter of disquiet" in her guts to her into-the-wild tumbles to her descent into hallucinations, the nicest being her beloved Red Sox baseball pitcher Tom Gordon, whose exploits she listens to on her Walkman. The nature writing is accurate, tense, and sometimes lyrical, from the maddening whine of the no-see-um mosquito to the profound obbligato of the "Subaudible" (Trisha's dad's term for nature's intimations of God). Our identification with Trisha deepens as we learn about her loved ones: Dad, a dreamboat whose beer habit could sink him; loving but stubborn Mom; Trisha's best pal, Pepsi Robichaud, vividly evoked by her colorful sayings ("Don't go all GIRLY on me, McFarland!"). The personal associations triggered by a full moon, the running monologue with which she stays sane--we who have been lost in woods will recognize these things.
In King's revealing Amazon.com interview, he said the one book he wishes he'd written was Lord of the Flies. When Trisha confronts a vision of buzzing horror in the middle of the woods, King creates his strongest echo yet of the central passage of Golding's novel. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Guardians of Yellowstone: An Intimate Look at the Challenges of Protecting America's Foremost Wilderness Parkby Steven M. Newman, Dan R. ShollyISBN 0688125743 (0-688-12574-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors in Flightby Jerry Liguori, David Allen SibleyISBN 0691118256 (0-691-11825-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors in Flight'Book summary:Identifying hawks in flight is a tricky business. Across North America, tens of thousands of people gather every spring and fall at more than one thousand known hawk migration sites--from New Jersey's Cape May to California's Golden Gate. Yet, as many discover, a standard field guide, with its emphasis on plumage, is often of little help in identifying those raptors soaring, gliding, or flapping far, far away.
Hawks from Every Angle takes hawk identification to new heights. It offers a fresh approach that literally looks at the birds from every angle, compares and contrasts deceptively similar species, and provides the pictures (and words) needed for identification in the field. Jerry Liguori pinpoints innovative, field-tested identification traits for each species from the various angles that they are seen.
Featuring 339 striking color photos on 68 color plates and 32 black & white photos, Hawks from Every Angle is unique in presenting a host of meticulously crafted pictures for each of the 19 species it covers in detail--the species most common to migration sites throughout the United States and Canada. All aspects of raptor identification are discussed, including plumage, shape, and flight style traits.
For all birders who follow hawk migration and have found themselves wondering if the raptor in the sky matches the one in the guide, Hawks from Every Angle--distilling an expert's years of experience for the first time into a comprehensive array of truly useful photos and other pointers for each species--is quite simply a must.
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- The essential new approach to identifying hawks in flight
- Innovative, accurate, and field-tested identification traits for each species
- 339 color photos on 68 color plates, 32 black & white photos
- Compares and contrasts species easily confused with one another, and provides the pictures (and words) needed for identification in the field
- Covers in detail 19 species common to migration sites throughout the North America
- Discusses light conditions, how molt can alter the shape of a bird, aberrant plumages, and migration seasons and sites
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Heart of Home : People, Wildlife, Placeby Ted KerasoteISBN 0679450122 (0-679-45012-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Windby Lyall WatsonISBN 0688056237 (0-688-05623-7)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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I'm in Charge of Celebrationsby Byrd Baylor, Peter ParnallISBN 0689806205 (0-689-80620-5)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I'm in Charge of Celebrations'Book summary:Byrd Baylor's text captures and shares some of the special experiences in the Southwest desert country that have inaugurated her private celebrations: The Time of Falling Stars, in the middle of August, when "every time a streak of light goes shooting through the darkness, I feel my heart shoot out of me"; Rainbow Celebration Day, marking the time she and a jackrabbit stood together watching a triple-rainbow over a canyon; and the real New Year's Day (January first is "just another winter day"), the day spring begins. "I celebrate with horned toads and ravens and lizards and quail...And, Friend, it's not a bad party." [via]
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In the Snowby Lindsay Barrett GeorgeISBN 0688170560 (0-688-17056-0)
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Insectby Laurence Mound, L. A. MoundISBN 0679804412 (0-679-80441-2)
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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poemsby Diane AckermanISBN 0679743049 (0-679-74304-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poems'Book summary:In A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman revealed herself as a naturalist who writes with the sensuous immediately of a great poet. Now Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist.
Ackermans's Olympian vision records and transforms landscapes from Amazonia to Antarctica, while her imaginative empathy penetrates the otherness of hummingbirds, deer, and trilobites. But even as they draw readers into the wild heart of nature, Ackerman's poems are indelible reminders of what it is to be a human being -- the "jaguar of sweet laughter" that, according to Mayan mythology, astonished the world because it was the first animal to speak. [via]More editions of Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poems:
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard BachISBN 0684846845 (0-684-84684-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull'Book summary:"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness. The dreamy seagull photographs by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations--although the overall packaging does seem a bit dated (keep in mind that it was first published in 1970). Nonetheless, this is a spirituality classic, and an especially engaging parable for adolescents. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Questby Sy MontgomeryISBN 068484558X (0-684-84558-X)
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Last Places : A Journey in the Northby Lawrence MillmanISBN 0679734562 (0-679-73456-2)
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The Life of Mammalsby David AttenboroughISBN 0691113246 (0-691-11324-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Mammals'Book summary:There are over four and a half thousand different kinds of mammals alive today. How many can you name? Many will not be entirely clear about what it is that makes a mammal rather than a reptile or bird, apart from egg laying. But then what about egg-laying mammals such as the platypus and echidna? The Life of Mammals describes and illustrates the remarkable diversity of mammals from the giant blue whale to the miniscule pigmy shrew. The cachet of David Attenborough's name and distinctive voice comes through clearly from the text and there's a stunning selection of photographs, by the best wildlife photographers in the world. The Life of Mammals is worth getting even if you just like wildlife pictures, for there are many here that you will not have seen before--the Brazilian tapir, the hairy rhino of Sumatra, the Pyrenean desman and more.
Attenborough certainly has the knack of making good stories for the general reader out of what, in other hands, can be rather dry science. He manages to weave in a great deal about the evolutionary story behind the success of the mammals over the last 65 million years since the dinosaurs bit the dust. Also, because of all the careful research behind the TV programmes, he is pretty well up to speed on many of the scientific developments in our understanding of our biologically nearest if not necessarily dearest relatives. This is especially true when the story gets around to our closest primate cousins--the apes. All the recent discoveries about tool use and culture are included.
The Life of Mammals will make a perfect gift for anyone from the age of about 10 upwards and hopefully a whole new generation will know what a kinkajou, cacomistle or a uakiri are. The only quibble is there's no further-reading list to fuel new enthusiasms lit up by this excellent book. --Douglas Palmer. [via]
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Lightningby Seymour SimonISBN 0688146384 (0-688-14638-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lightning'Book summary:Millions of bolts of lightning strike the earth every day. Each blazes a path up to five times hotter than the surface of the sun, yet the flash can be over in as little as a millionth of a second. Sizzling photographs highlight this striking introduction to one of the most powerful and mysterious forces of nature.
The Living Isles: A Natural History of Britian and Irelandby Peter CrawfordISBN 0684188015 (0-684-18801-5)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Lucretius: De Rerum Naturaby Titus Lucretius CarusISBN 0674992008 (0-674-99200-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucretius: De Rerum Natura'Book summary:Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99ca. 55 BCE, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In six books compounded of solid reasoning, brilliant imagination, and noble poetry, he expounds the scientific theories of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, with the aim of dispelling fear of the gods and fear of death and so enabling man to attain peace of mind and happiness.
In Book 1 he establishes the general principles of the atomic system, refutes the views of rival physicists, and proves the infinity of the universe and of its two ultimate constituents, matter and void. In Book 2 he explains atomic movement, the variety of atomic shapes, and argues that the atoms lack colour, sensation, and other secondary qualities. In Book 3 he expounds the nature and composition of mind and spirit, proves their mortality, and argues that there is nothing to fear in death. Book 4 explains the nature of sensation and thought, and ends with an impressive account of sexual love. Book 5 describes the nature and formation of our world, astronomical phenomena, the beginnings of life on earth, and the development of civilization. In Book 6 the poet explains various atmospheric and terrestrial phenomena, including thunder, lightning, earthquakes, volcanoes, the magnet, and plagues.
The work is distinguished by the fervour and poetry of the author.
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The Man Who Listens to Horsesby Monty Roberts, Lucy GrealyISBN 0679456589 (0-679-45658-9)
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, Frank Justus MillerISBN 0674990463 (0-674-99046-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses'Book summary:Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.
Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.
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The Mid-Atlantic States: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jerseyby Eugene Walter, Jonathan Wallen, Thomas E. LovejoyISBN 067976478X (0-679-76478-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman Melville, Rockwell KentISBN 067978327X (0-679-78327-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick Or, the Whale'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Moby-Dickby Herman Melville, Larzer ZiffISBN 0679405593 (0-679-40559-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby-Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
Monsters of the Seaby Richard EllisISBN 0679406395 (0-679-40639-5)
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonderby Lawrence WeschlerISBN 0679764895 (0-679-76489-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder'Book summary:In the non-Aristotelian, non-Euclidean, non-Newtonian space between the walls of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles exist bats that can fly through lead barriers, spore-ingesting pronged ants, elaborate theories of memory, and a host of other off-kilter scientific oddities that challenge the traditional notions of truth and fiction. Lawrence Weschler's book, expanded from an article for Harper's, is, at turns, a tour of the museum, a profile of its founder and curator, David Wilson, and a meditation on the role of imagination and authority in all museums, in science and in life. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder is an exquisite piece of "magic realist nonfiction" that will prove utterly captivating. [via]
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder : Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technologyby Lawrence WeschlerISBN 0679439986 (0-679-43998-6)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern Statesby Peter Alden, National Audubon Society, Jonathan D. Kahl, Brian Cassie, Wendy B. Zomlefer, Gil Nelson, Harry Zirlin, Eirc A. OchesISBN 0679446834 (0-679-44683-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States'Book summary:Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States belongs in the home of every resident of the Southeast and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor. This compact volume contains:
An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more;
A complete overview of the southeastern region's natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns, and the night sky;
An extensive sampling of the area's best parks, preserves, hiking trails, forests, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on dozens of others.
The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color images include more than 1,300 photographs, 13 maps, and 16 night-sky charts, as well as more than 100 drawings explaining everything from geological processes to the basic features of different plants and animals.
For everyone who lives or spends time in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Tennessee, there can be no finer guide to the area's natural surroundings than the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States. [via]More editions of National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States:
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Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Spaceby Carl SaganISBN 0679764860 (0-679-76486-0)
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A Perfect Harmony: The Intertwining Lives of Animals and Humans Throughout Historyby Roger A. CarasISBN 0684811006 (0-684-81100-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Perfect Harmony: The Intertwining Lives of Animals and Humans Throughout History'Book summary:What would the world be like without animals? This is the first question Caras poses in this study, which shows how the domestication of animals transformed the entire course of civilization. Through the prism of history, anthropology and personal experience, Caras explores the principle domestic species, both familiar and exotic, and their monumental impact on human affairs. The domestication of sheep and goats enabled wandering tribes to settle and develop agriculture and technology; the camel, once domesticated, enabled caravans to travel to the Orient, leading the first cultural exchanges between the East and West; throughout history, the dog has been at man's side, as hunter, herder and guard - and as faithful and loving companion. [via]
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Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajolandby Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 0684182327 (0-684-18232-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Random House Book of Herbsby Roger Phillips, Nicky FoyISBN 0679732136 (0-679-73213-6)
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Robert Bateman: Natural Worldsby Robert BatemanISBN 068482986X (0-684-82986-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robert Bateman: Natural Worlds'Book summary:This is a breathtaking exploration of the living systems upon which all life depends--in magnificent new sketches and paintings by the world's foremost wildlife artist. The living systems explored in the book range from Poland's haunting ancient waterways to Costa Rica's cloud forests to North America's pristine yet dwindling wild realms. 120 full-color illustrations. [via]
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Sajo and the Beaver Peopleby Grey OwlISBN 0684922983 (0-684-92298-3)
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Secrets of a Wildlife Watcherby Jim ArnoskyISBN 0688105319 (0-688-10531-9)
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The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0679783350 (0-679-78335-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald MacLeish has noted the "curious energy" which pervades Emily Dickinson's work. She, along with Walt Whitman, helps make up the very foundation of American poetry. This Modern Library edition from Random House is an excellent overview of Dickinson's work, divided by theme, including "Life," "Nature," "Love," and so forth. This volume of selected poems is a must for any serious reader of American poetry. [via]
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The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Modern Library Staff, Emily DickinsonISBN 0679602011 (0-679-60201-1)
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The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emersonby Brooks Atkinson, Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0679600183 (0-679-60018-3)
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Shorebirds Of North America: The Photographic Guideby Dennis R. PaulsonISBN 0691121079 (0-691-12107-9)
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Sociobiologyby Edward Osborne WilsonISBN 0674816242 (0-674-81624-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sociobiology'Book summary:E.O. Wilson defines sociobiology as "the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior," the central theoretical problem of which is the question of how behaviors that seemingly contradict the principles of natural selection, such as altruism, can develop. Sociobiology: A New Synthesis, Wilson's first attempt to outline the new field of study, was first published in 1975 and called for a fairly revolutionary update to the so-called Modern Synthesis of evolutionary biology. Sociobiology as a new field of study demanded the active inclusion of sociology, the social sciences, and the humanities in evolutionary theory. Often criticized for its apparent message of "biological destiny," Sociobiology set the stage for such controversial works as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and Wilson's own Consilience.
Sociobiology defines such concepts as society, individual, population, communication, and regulation. It attempts to explain, biologically, why groups of animals behave the way they do when finding food or shelter, confronting enemies, or getting along with one another. Wilson seeks to explain how group selection, altruism, hierarchies, and sexual selection work in populations of animals, and to identify evolutionary trends and sociobiological characteristics of all animal groups, up to and including man. The insect sections of the books are particularly interesting, given Wilson's status as the world's most famous entomologist.
It is fair to say that as an ecological strategy eusociality has been overwhelmingly successful. It is useful to think of an insect colony as a diffuse organism, weighing anywhere from less than a gram to as much as a kilogram and possessing from about a hundred to a million or more tiny mouths.
It's when Wilson starts talking about human beings that the furor starts. Feminists have been among the strongest critics of the work, arguing that humans are not slaves to a biological destiny, forever locked in "primitive" behavior patterns without the ability to reason past our biochemical nature. Like The Origin of Species, Sociobiology has forced many biologists and social scientists to reassess their most cherished notions of how animals work. --Therese Littleton [via]
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doomby Walter AlvarezISBN 0691016305 (0-691-01630-5)
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The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect Survivalby Bernd HeinrichISBN 0674883411 (0-674-88341-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect Survival'Book summary:All bodily activity is the result of the interplay of vastly complex physiological processes, and all of these processes depend on temperature. For insects, the struggle to keep body temperature within a suitable range for activity and competition is often a matter of life and death.
A few studies of temperature regulation in butterflies can be found dating back to the late 1800s, but only recently have scientists begun to study the phenomenon in other insects. In The Thermal Warriors Bernd Heinrich explains how, when, and in general what insects regulate their body temperature and what it means to them. As he shows us, the ingenuity of the survival strategies insects have evolved in the irreducible crucible of temperature is astonishing: from shivering and basking, the construction of turrets (certain tiger beetles), and cooling with liquid feces to stilting (some desert ants and beetles), "panting" in grasshoppers and "sweating cicada," and counter- and alternating-currents of blood flow for heat retention and heat loss.
In The Thermal Warriors Heinrich distills his great reference work, The Hot-Blooded Insects, to its essence: the most significant and fascinating stories that illustrate general principles, all conveyed in the always engaging prose we have come to expect from this author.
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The Thousand-Mile Summerby Colin FletcherISBN 0679723269 (0-679-72326-9)
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Time's Arrow/Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Timeby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0674891996 (0-674-89199-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time's Arrow/Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time'Book summary:Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense following for the seeming arcana of this field.
In Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle his subject is nothing less than geology's signal contribution to human thought--the discovery of "deep time," the vastness of earth's history, a history so ancient that we can comprehend it only as metaphor. He follows a single thread through three documents that mark the transition in our thinking from thousands to billions of years: Thomas Burnet's four-volume Sacred Theory of the Earth (1680-1690), James Hutton's Theory of the Earth (1795), and Charles Lyell's three-volume Principles of Geology (1830-1833).
Gould's major theme is the role of metaphor in the formulation and testing of scientific theories--in this case the insight provided by the oldest traditional dichotomy of Judeo-Christian thought: the directionality of time's arrow or the immanence of time's cycle. Gould follows these metaphors through these three great documents and shows how their influence, more than the empirical observation of rocks in the field, provoked the supposed discovery of deep time by Hutton and Lyell. Gould breaks through the traditional "cardboard" history of geological textbooks (the progressive march to truth inspired by more and better observations) by showing that Burnet, the villain of conventional accounts, was a rationalist (not a theologically driven miracle-monger) whose rich reconstruction of earth history emphasized the need for both time's arrow (narrative history) and time's cycle (immanent laws), while Hutton and Lyell, our traditional heroes, denied the richness of history by their exclusive focus upon time's Arrow.
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Waiting To Fly: My Escapades With The Penguins Of Antarcticaby Ron NaveenISBN 0688175732 (0-688-17573-2)
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To starboard, I pass an undulating line of chinstraps descending to the beach. The moment tingles, weirdly. I think of all the time I've spent doing something other than chinstraps. How could I have waited so long?
Waiting to Fly is a meditative, sweeping look at these misunderstood birds and their flightless, elegant lives. Naveen has terrific field biology tales, and he tells them with grace, making you understand how he might want to freeze his own tail feathers communing with short, goofy, tuxedo-wearing avians. We can learn from the penguins, he says, lessons about health, priorities, and a good work ethic. They may actually have mastered the art of life better than humans. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Walk a Green Pathby Betsy LewinISBN 0688134254 (0-688-13425-4)
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizationsby Eugene LindenISBN 0684863529 (0-684-86352-9)
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The Winter Beachby Charlton OgburnISBN 068809418X (0-688-09418-X)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0679405437 (0-679-40543-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. "Only Emily Brontë," V. S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, "exposes her imagination to the dark spirit." And Virginia Woolf wrote, "It is as if she could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognisable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality. Hers, then, is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts, with a few touches indicate the spirit of a face so that it needs no body; by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar."
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The Year of the Sealby Victor B. SchefferISBN 0684127385 (0-684-12738-5)
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