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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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Change Comes to Dinner
How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How America Eats

St. Martin's Griffin
A fascinating exploration of America’s food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael...
  
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Calls Beyond Our Hearing
Unlocking the Secrets of Animal Voices

St. Martin's Press
A worldwide journey through the mystery and science of animal communication.  Calls Beyond Our Hearing is a fascinating exploration of animals, their voices,...
  
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The View from Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Picador
Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long...
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Fraser's Penguins
Warning Signs from Antarctica

St. Martin's Griffin
“Fraser’s Penguins is a brilliant, beautiful, and terrifying account of what’s happening at the bottom of our world.”—Nathaniel Philbrick, author of The Last...
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Big Miracle

St. Martin's Griffin
Now a major motion picture starring Drew Barrymore, Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Tim Blake Nelson, John Krasinski, and Vinessa Shaw—an account of the dramatic...
  
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The Dogs of War
The Courage, Love, and Loyalty of Military Working Dogs

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Military working dogs gained widespread attention after Cairo participated in the SEAL Team 6 mission that led to Osama bin Laden’s death. Before that, few...
  
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Shucked
Life on a New England Oyster Farm

St. Martin's Press
Bill Buford’s Heat meets Phoebe Damrosch’s Service Included in this unique blend of personal narrative, food miscellany, and history In March of 2009, Erin...
  
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On the Edge of Survival
A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend

St. Martin's Griffin
From the acclaimed author whose beloved books inspired the hit television show, The Deadliest Catch, a thrilling, true adventure tale in the Alaskan...
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Land Matters
Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity
International Library of Cultural Studies

I.B. Tauris
In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in color and black and white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers...

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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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Birds of North America, Revised and Updated
A Guide To Field Identification
Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press

Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
Spot the silhouette of a Northern Goshawk in flight. Identify the raucous call of the Red-winged Blackbird. Discover the secret of picking out a Chipping...
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Babylon's Ark
The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
THE ASTONISHING STORY OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST ANIMAL RESCUES. When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing:...
  
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Birds
A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press

Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
This guide will help you identify-quickly and easily-the birds you are most likely to see. It tells you: What to look for Where and when to look How to...
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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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Dark Summit
The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

Holt Paperbacks
"A dramatic story, ably and convincingly told . . . A chilling look at the precarious line between success and tragedy."—Kirkus Reviews On May 15, 2006, a...
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Wildflowers
Revised and Updated
A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press

Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
This is a practical beginner's guide to the most common American wildflowers. Emphasis is on those with showy petals and those that the amateur is most likely...
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The Elite Forces Wilderness Survival Guide
Survival Skills from the World's Most Elite Military Units

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
The Elite Forces Wilderness Survival Guide introduces the core skills needed to survive in a wilderness environment. With tips and techniques based on...
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The Outermost House
A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Holt Paperbacks
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald...
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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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Part of the Pride
My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa

St. Martin's Press
About a year ago, film started to circulate on YouTube® of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park. The...
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Dominion
The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

St. Martin's Griffin
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over...
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Arrowhawk

Henry Holt and Co.
Familiar hands tossed him gently into the winter air. Hawk flapped his wings and skimmed the earth. Then he beat his wings harder, rose, and flew over the...
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The Meadow

Holt Paperbacks
An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year...