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The National Parks
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $50.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $50.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download and an
unabridged audiobook download.
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The Sibley Guide to Trees
Written by David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $39.95
David Allen Sibley, the preeminent bird-guide author and illustrator, now applies his formidable skills of identification and illustration to the trees of North America.
Monumental in scope but small enough to take into the field, The Sibley Guide to Trees is an astonishingly elegant guide to a complex subject. It condenses a... Read more >
Written by David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $39.95
David Allen Sibley, the preeminent bird-guide author and illustrator, now applies his formidable skills of identification and illustration to the trees of North America.
Monumental in scope but small enough to take into the field, The Sibley Guide to Trees is an astonishingly elegant guide to a complex subject. It condenses a... Read more >
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The Botany of Desire
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $16.00
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal... Read more >
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $16.00
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal... Read more >
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The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we’ve learned more... Read more >
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we’ve learned more... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of... Read more >
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of... Read more >
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees--E
Eastern Region
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 716 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1980
Price: $19.95
Tree peepers everywhere will enjoy these two guides which explore the incredible environment of our country's forests-including seasonal features, habitat, range, and lore. Nearly 700 species of trees are detailed in photographs of leaf shape, bark, flowers, fruit, and fall leaves -- all can be quickly accessed making this the ideal... Read more >
Eastern Region
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 716 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1980
Price: $19.95
Tree peepers everywhere will enjoy these two guides which explore the incredible environment of our country's forests-including seasonal features, habitat, range, and lore. Nearly 700 species of trees are detailed in photographs of leaf shape, bark, flowers, fruit, and fall leaves -- all can be quickly accessed making this the ideal... Read more >
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds--E
Eastern Region - Revised Edition
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 800 pages
On Sale: September 27, 1994
Price: $19.95
Introduced in 1977 and completely revised in 1994, these bestselling photographic field guides have become the birding bibles of more than four million enthusiasts. Virtually every bird found in North America is brought to life in a full-color photograph and with textual information on the bird's voice, nesting habits, habitat, range... Read more >
Eastern Region - Revised Edition
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 800 pages
On Sale: September 27, 1994
Price: $19.95
Introduced in 1977 and completely revised in 1994, these bestselling photographic field guides have become the birding bibles of more than four million enthusiasts. Virtually every bird found in North America is brought to life in a full-color photograph and with textual information on the bird's voice, nesting habits, habitat, range... Read more >
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Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
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... Read more >
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Lion Called Christian
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Written by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $21.95
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Written by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $21.95
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the...
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Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 928 pages
On Sale: December 12, 1981
Price: $20.95
With more than 700 mushrooms detailed with color photographs and descriptive text, this is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to the mushrooms of North America. The 762 full-color identification photographs show the mushrooms as they appear in natural habitats. Organized visually, the book groups all mushrooms by color and shape... Read more >
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 928 pages
On Sale: December 12, 1981
Price: $20.95
With more than 700 mushrooms detailed with color photographs and descriptive text, this is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to the mushrooms of North America. The 762 full-color identification photographs show the mushrooms as they appear in natural habitats. Organized visually, the book groups all mushrooms by color and shape... Read more >
