National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils
Written by Ida Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 848 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1982
Price: $20.95
This, the first all-photographic field guide to cover fossils found throughout North America north of Mexico, includes nearly 500 full-color photographs identifying corals, trilobites, shells, teeth, bones, as well as fossil-bearing rocks and outcrop formations. The descriptive text includes information on size, geological period, geographical distribution, and ecology of the animal...
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The Cannabible Collection
The Cannabible 1/the Cananbible 2/the Cannabible 3
Written by Jason King
Format: Boxed Set, 384 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $25.00
At last, the choicest herb from renowned pot connoisseur Jason King'¬?s popular CANNABIBLE books is now rolled together in one potently psychotropic package. Asian Fantasy, Diesel, Haze, HP13, Mothership, Purple Urkel-all the legendary strains are here (plus hundreds more), illustrated with stunning photos of dank nugs, lush crop, and mind-blowing microscopic...
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 992 pages
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $24.95
The first and only field guide to offer comprehensive coverage of the African continent, this guide sends the reader on a virtual safari. All the birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects are brought to life, and the parks and reserves for which the continent is famous are described in thorough detail. This...
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Citizens of the Sea
Wondrous Creatures From the Census of Marine Life
Written by Nancy Knowlton
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $26.00
The astonishing diversity of ocean life will wow you in this riveting book by marine scientist Nancy Knowlton.
Citizens of the Sea reveals the most intriguing organisms in the ocean, captured in action by skilled underwater photographers from National Geographic and the Census of Marine Life.
As you read lively vignettes about...
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Walden
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
On Sale: January 11, 1993
Price: $21.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering...
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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
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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Red Bird
Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry,
Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for...
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National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky
Written by Howard Schneider
Foreword by Sandy Wood
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $21.95
Stargazing’s too much fun to leave to astronomers, but often we’re blinded by sciencedry facts can easily turn enchantment into a chore. We just want to lie down, look up, and understand the heavens above. The
National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky shows us how.
Authors Howard Schneider and Patricia...
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The Good Life
Written by Scott Nearing and Helen Nearing
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 3, 1990
Price: $16.95
This one volume edition of Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life brings these classics on rural homesteading together. This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health.
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