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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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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 Rhino with Glue-On Shoes
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Edited by Lucy H. Spelman, DVM and Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $16.00
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of wild animals and the doctors who... Read more >
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Edited by Lucy H. Spelman, DVM and Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $16.00
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of wild animals and the doctors who... Read more >
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American Buffalo
In Search of a Lost Icon
Written by Steven Rinella
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.”
A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.
In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a... Read more >
In Search of a Lost Icon
Written by Steven Rinella
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.”
A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.
In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a... Read more >
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The Spell of the Sensuous
Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Written by David Abram
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 25, 1997
Price: $16.00
David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even... Read more >
Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Written by David Abram
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 25, 1997
Price: $16.00
David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 928 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1981
Price: $21.95
Butterflies are among the natural world's most colorful and intriguing creatures, so what could be more useful than a handy field guide with more than 1,000 photographs of all the butterflies of North America north of Mexico, including all true butterflies, the most common skippers, and many migrants and strays. The... Read more >
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 928 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1981
Price: $21.95
Butterflies are among the natural world's most colorful and intriguing creatures, so what could be more useful than a handy field guide with more than 1,000 photographs of all the butterflies of North America north of Mexico, including all true butterflies, the most common skippers, and many migrants and strays. The... Read more >
Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: eBook, 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: eBook, 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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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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National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Birds: Eastern Region
Eastern
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1987
Price: $10.95
Brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Birds of North America: East is designed to be compact enough to literally fit into any bird-lover's back pocket. This streamlined volume contains; an easy-to-use field guide identifying 80 of the most frequently encountered... Read more >
Eastern
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1987
Price: $10.95
Brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Birds of North America: East is designed to be compact enough to literally fit into any bird-lover's back pocket. This streamlined volume contains; an easy-to-use field guide identifying 80 of the most frequently encountered... Read more >
