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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Looking for a Ship John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks This is an extraordinary tale of life aboard what may be one of the last American merchant ships. As the story begins, Andy Chase, who holds a license as a...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Rising From The Plains John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Pine Barrens John McPhee, illustrated by James Graves Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near...

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The Second John McPhee Reader

John McPhee; Introduced by David Remnick Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a...

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Table of Contents John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces that range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village...

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The Survival of the Bark Canoe

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same...

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The Founding Fish

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American...

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	The Meat You Eat How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply Ken Midkiff; Foreword by Wendell Berry St. Martin's Griffin "The best collection of fact and figures about the sorry state of our meat supply."—*San Francisco Chronicle*

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Fraser's Penguins

A Journey to the Future in Antarctica

Fen Montaigne A John Macrae Book

A dramatic chronicle of Antarctica's penguins that bears witness to climate changes that foreshadow our own future The towering mountains and iceberg-filled...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Little Green Handbook Seven Trends Shaping the Future of Our Planet Ron Nielsen, D.Sc. Picador "Clearly presented and thoroughly researched . . . An essential reference for anyone who cares about the future of the planet."—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

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Tears of the Cheetah

The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors

Dr. Stephen J. O'Brien St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

"Tears of the Cheetah is told by O'Brien with such literary mastery that one can hardly lay his book down . . . O'Brien has succeeded in presenting his stories in a simple language that can be understood even by the nonexpert. There is no other book I have read in recent years for which I have learned and enjoyed more."—Ernst Mayr

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Merchants of Doubt How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Naomi Oreskes Erik M. M. Conway Bloomsbury Press \u0022Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Grizzly Years In Search of the American Wilderness Doug Peacock Holt Paperbacks For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His...

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On the Wild Edge

In Search of a Natural Life

David Petersen A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

“Opinionated and iconoclastic, Petersen writes with humor and a well-honed craft that will delight fans of Edward Abbey.” —Library Journal (starred review) ...

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Trade Paperback : $20.99 Buy	Future Primitive The New Ecotopias Edited by Kim Stanley Robinson Tor Books Ernest Callenbach's classic novel Ecotopia sparked a movement that is growing rapidly around the world. Ecotopians embrace high technology as a a tool for...

Hardcover : $23.99 Buy	Organic Manifesto How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe Maria Rodale, Foreward by Eric Schlosser Rodale Books Rodale was founded on the belief that organic gardening is the key to better health both for us and for the planet, and never has this message been more...

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The Life of the Skies

Birding at the End of Nature

Jonathan Rosen Picador

“The Life of the Skies is part birding history, part birding travelogue, centered on Rosen’s regular migration route from his apartment to Central Park . . . with the occasional exotic birding trip. (The descriptions of birding in the Holy Land are particularly beautiful.) . . . It is a thoughtful and engaging journey, one that discusses the history of birding alongside changes in the conception of nature from the 19th century until the present.”—Robert Sullivan, The New York Times Book Review

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Carbon Age How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat Eric Roston Walker & Company The story of carbon—the building block of life that, ironically, is humanity’s great threat. Carbon has always been the ubiquitous architect of life: Indeed,...

Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	Survival of the Beautiful Art, Science, and Evolution David Rothenberg Bloomsbury Press \u0022The peacock's tail,\u0022 said Charles Darwin, \u0022makes me sick.\u0022 That's because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature...

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Bottlemania

Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle Over America's Drinking Water

Elizabeth Royte Bloomsbury USA

"Fascinating . . . look at the water wars: between bottled water and tap water, between big corporations and local water interests, between consumers who say they want the convenience, cleanliness and even status of bottled water, and environmentalists who condemn bottled water as 'the moral equivalent of driving a Hummer,' producing tons of plastic bottles, racking up huge transportation fees and leaving behind a significant carbon footprint."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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Song for the Blue Ocean

Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas

Carl Safina A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist...

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Eye of the Albatross

Visions of Hope and Survival

Carl Safina A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

Winner of the John Burroughs Medal
A Boston Globe Best Book

"Safina again opens our eyes . . . The travels are epic, the animals awe-inspiring, and the realized message of the unity of life is important and uplifting."—Gus Speth, Dean of the Yale School for Environmental Studies

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John Burroughs Medal for Outstanding Natural History Writing - Winner - Natursl History

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Voyage of the Turtle

In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur

Carl Safina A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

“Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal—and ample reasons to care.” —Los...

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The Adirondacks

A History of America's First Wilderness

Paul Schneider A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non-Native...

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