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Becoming Animal
An Earthly Cosmology
Written by David Abram
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $16.95
An Earthly Cosmology
Written by David Abram
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $16.95
A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Runner-up
David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous, hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by Science, has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with...
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The Zero-Waste Lifestyle
Live Well by Throwing Away Less
Written by Amy Korst
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $14.99
Live Well by Throwing Away Less
Written by Amy Korst
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $14.99
A practical guide to generating less waste, featuring meaningful and achievable strategies from the blogger behind The Green Garbage Project, a yearlong experiment in living garbage-free.
Trash is a big, dirty problem. The average American tosses out nearly 2,000 pounds of garbage every year that piles up in landfills and threatens our...
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True Love
24 Surprising Stories of Animal Affection
Written by Rachel Buchholz
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $9.95
This perfect National Geographic Valentine's Day gift is filled with uplifting true love stories from the animal kingdom and heartwarming accounts of animal emotions, friendships, romance, sibling and parent-child love. Author Rachel Buchholz, a longtime editor with National Geographic Kids magazine, has been collecting amazing animal stories for more than a... Read more >
24 Surprising Stories of Animal Affection
Written by Rachel Buchholz
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $9.95
This perfect National Geographic Valentine's Day gift is filled with uplifting true love stories from the animal kingdom and heartwarming accounts of animal emotions, friendships, romance, sibling and parent-child love. Author Rachel Buchholz, a longtime editor with National Geographic Kids magazine, has been collecting amazing animal stories for more than a... Read more >
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All That the Rain Promises and More
A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms
Written by David Arora
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1991
Price: $17.99
Full-color illustrated guide to identifying 200 Western mushrooms by their key features. Read more >
A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms
Written by David Arora
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1991
Price: $17.99
Full-color illustrated guide to identifying 200 Western mushrooms by their key features. Read more >
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Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms
The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $16.95
From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that... Read more >
The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $16.95
From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that... Read more >
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Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $22.95
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to... Read more >
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $22.95
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to... Read more >
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The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior
Written by David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $39.95
“Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. In 1838, John ames Audubon’s Birds of America was one...In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson produced Field Guide to the Birds...Now comes The Sibley Guide to Birds.”
Thus did The New York Times, in 1999, greet... Read more >
Written by David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $39.95
“Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. In 1838, John ames Audubon’s Birds of America was one...In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson produced Field Guide to the Birds...Now comes The Sibley Guide to Birds.”
Thus did The New York Times, in 1999, greet... Read more >
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashells
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 896 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1981
Price: $19.95
The essential book for beach-combers and divers, this guide explores more than 705 seashells, living mollusks, abalone, periwinkles, conchs, limpets, oysters, clams, mussels, and cockles found on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of North America and the West Indies. The photographs are arranged by shape and color, making identification quick... Read more >
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 896 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1981
Price: $19.95
The essential book for beach-combers and divers, this guide explores more than 705 seashells, living mollusks, abalone, periwinkles, conchs, limpets, oysters, clams, mussels, and cockles found on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of North America and the West Indies. The photographs are arranged by shape and color, making identification quick... Read more >
The Wave
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Written by Susan Casey
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $9.99
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories—waves that high would seem to violate the laws... Read more >
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Written by Susan Casey
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $9.99
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories—waves that high would seem to violate the laws... Read more >
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The Tiger
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Written by John Vaillant
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers... Read more >
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Written by John Vaillant
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers... Read more >
