National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America
Written by Jonathan Alderfer and Paul Hess
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $18.95
Essential for the estimated 62 million Americans who watch and feed birds in their backyards—from the experts at National Geographic and co-author of the popular and perennial best seller
Field Guide to the Birds of North America. No matter where you live—in the country, city, a high-rise or house—this handy guide will quench...
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Goodbye to a River
A Narrative
Written by John Graves
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $15.95
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had...
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Wave
Written by Sonali Deraniyagala
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She...
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The Sibley Guide to Birds
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY and David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2000
Price: $39.95
David Allen Sibley, America's most gifted contemporary painter of birds, is the author and illustrator of this comprehensive guide. His beautifully detailed illustrations—more than 6,600 in all—and descriptions of 810 species and 350 regional populations will enrich every birder's experience.
The Sibley Guide's innovative design makes it entirely user friendly. The illustrations...
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
Written by David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $19.95
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new...
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The Botany of Desire
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $11.99
The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in AmericaIn 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once...
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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...
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