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Love, Life, and Elephants
An African Love Story

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her...
  
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But Will the Planet Notice?
How Smart Economics Can Save the World

Hill and Wang
You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesn’t notice. In our...
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Our Life in Gardens

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately’ makes no sense, for when two...
  
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Central Park in the Dark
More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife

Picador
Central Park in the Dark explores a natural world that flourishes in the midst of a crowded and mechanized city. These exuberant essays lead the reader through...
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The Life of the Skies
Birding at the End of Nature

Picador
In The Life of the Skies, Jonathan Rosen explores the significance of this timeless pursuit, chronicling his own birding adventures alongside those of John...
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Coal River

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of America’s most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are blasting the mountains, decapitating them for...
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Return to Wild America
A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul

North Point Press
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over...
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Out of Eden
An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them...
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Pulse
The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pulse is not about dance music, not about heart rates—and not about electromagnetic fields. What it does describe is a sea change in human affairs, a vast and...
  
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Birds in the Hand
Fiction and Poetry About Birds

North Point Press
A unique anthology of avian literature From the myths of ancient Greece to the fables of Aesop, from Chaucer to contemporary poetry and fiction, birds are...
  

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Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things

North Point Press
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other...
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Encounters with the Archdruid

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the...
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The Control of Nature

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested...
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Against the Grain
How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

North Point Press
In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in...
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My Favorite Plant
Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A delightful compendium of writing on plants. The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of...