The Imperfect Environmentalist
A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and Saving the Earth (Without Losing Your Mind)
Written by Sara Gilbert
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 13, 2013
Price: $11.99
Actress, producer, mother, and imperfect environmentalist, Sara Gilbert understands how helping the environment can seem overwhelming. Between keeping up with work, friends, and kids, who has the time or money to maintain a compost pile, become an activist, or knit a sweater out of recycled grocery bags? Fortunately, we now know...
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National Audubon Society Regional Guide to California
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $19.95
Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the
National Audubon Society Field Guide to California belongs in the home of every California resident and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor. This compact volume contains:
An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians...
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $21.95
The perfect companion volume for Hale-Bopp watchers, this guide explores the fabulous mysteries above, from planets in our solar system to the constellations in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, stars, galaxies (including the Milky Way), nebulae, astronomical bodies, objects, phenomena, and -- yes -- comets. Night Sky provides a concise...
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The Wild Trees
A Story of Passion and Daring
Written by Richard Preston
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $16.00
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees,
Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of...
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The Good Good Pig
The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
Written by Sy Montgomery
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $15.00
“Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am.”
–from The Good Good Pig
A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had...
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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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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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