Tuna
A Love Story
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $16.00
Famed marine researcher and illustrator Richard Ellis brings us a work of scientific achievement that will forever change the way we think about fish, fishing, and the dangers inherent in the seafood we eat.
The bluefin tuna is one of the world's biggest, fastest, and most highly evolved marine animals, as...
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On Thin Ice
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, polar bears are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. Today, as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come...
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1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly...
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Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Written by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $16.00
In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since
Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several...
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Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this...
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Disappearing Destinations
Written by Kimberly Lisagor
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet.
Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but it is rapidly being worn down by the thousands of feet treading across its stones. Glacier National Park is a...
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The Green Book
The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Written by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $13.95
Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.
Inside
The Green Book, find out how you can too:
- Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If...
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Ruffian
Burning From the Start
Written by Jane Schwartz
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
"A colorful story...Ruffian was nothing if not a heartbreaker. Her story, dramatically recounted by Jane Scwartz, epitomizes both the adrenaline-pumping glory and gut-wrenching ruthlessness inherent in the sport of horse racing."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Here is the story f the exceptional filly, a horse so dominating, she was likened to legend...
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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon
The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller,
When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable evidence that barnyard creatures have feelings too, even...
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