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The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Revised
40 Ways to Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin
Written by David George Gordon
Format: eBook, 136 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $10.99
With its stylish new package, updated information on the health and environmental benefits of insect eating, and breed-your-own instructions, this new edition of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook is the go-to resource for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure.
For many Americans, eating a lowly insect is something you’d only do on a dare. But... Read more >
40 Ways to Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin
Written by David George Gordon
Format: eBook, 136 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $10.99
With its stylish new package, updated information on the health and environmental benefits of insect eating, and breed-your-own instructions, this new edition of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook is the go-to resource for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure.
For many Americans, eating a lowly insect is something you’d only do on a dare. But... Read more >
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The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Revised
40 Ways to Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin
Written by David George Gordon
Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $16.99
With its stylish new package, updated information on the health and environmental benefits of insect eating, and breed-your-own instructions, this new edition of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook is the go-to resource for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure.
For many Americans, eating a lowly insect is something you’d only do on a dare... Read more >
40 Ways to Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin
Written by David George Gordon
Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $16.99
With its stylish new package, updated information on the health and environmental benefits of insect eating, and breed-your-own instructions, this new edition of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook is the go-to resource for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure.
For many Americans, eating a lowly insect is something you’d only do on a dare... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Wild Edibles
A Practical Guide to Foraging, with Easy Identification of 60 Edible Plants and 67 Recipes
Written by Sergei Boutenko
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $19.95
In this field guide to foraging wild edible plants, Sergei Boutenko (son of raw-food guru Victoria Boutenko) explores the health benefits of wild-harvested food, explains how to safely identify trailside weeds, herbs, fruits, and greens that grow worldwide, and shares his delicious, nutrient-dense recipes.
Sergei Boutenko has been gathering wild plants since... Read more >
A Practical Guide to Foraging, with Easy Identification of 60 Edible Plants and 67 Recipes
Written by Sergei Boutenko
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $19.95
In this field guide to foraging wild edible plants, Sergei Boutenko (son of raw-food guru Victoria Boutenko) explores the health benefits of wild-harvested food, explains how to safely identify trailside weeds, herbs, fruits, and greens that grow worldwide, and shares his delicious, nutrient-dense recipes.
Sergei Boutenko has been gathering wild plants since... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Wild Edibles
A Practical Guide to Foraging, with Easy Identification of 60 Edible Plants and 67 Recipes
Written by Sergei Boutenko
Format: eBook, 296 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $14.95
In this field guide to foraging wild edible plants, Sergei Boutenko (son of raw-food guru Victoria Boutenko) explores the health benefits of wild-harvested food, explains how to safely identify trailside weeds, herbs, fruits, and greens that grow worldwide, and shares his delicious, nutrient-dense recipes.
Sergei Boutenko has been gathering wild plants since... Read more >
A Practical Guide to Foraging, with Easy Identification of 60 Edible Plants and 67 Recipes
Written by Sergei Boutenko
Format: eBook, 296 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $14.95
In this field guide to foraging wild edible plants, Sergei Boutenko (son of raw-food guru Victoria Boutenko) explores the health benefits of wild-harvested food, explains how to safely identify trailside weeds, herbs, fruits, and greens that grow worldwide, and shares his delicious, nutrient-dense recipes.
Sergei Boutenko has been gathering wild plants since... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Raccoons
A Natural History
Written by Samuel I. Zeveloff
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $17.95
The word raccoon is drawn from the Native American Algonquian language. Their term arakun roughly translates to “he who scratches with his hands.” Anyone who has found a raccoon rummaging around in a once securely closed trash container can attest to how skillful raccoons are with their front paws. In fact... Read more >
A Natural History
Written by Samuel I. Zeveloff
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $17.95
The word raccoon is drawn from the Native American Algonquian language. Their term arakun roughly translates to “he who scratches with his hands.” Anyone who has found a raccoon rummaging around in a once securely closed trash container can attest to how skillful raccoons are with their front paws. In fact... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Soul of All Living Creatures
What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
Written by Vint Virga, D.V.M.
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $12.99
Based on the author’s twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats – and explores the relationships we forge with them.
As an emergency room clinician four... Read more >
What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
Written by Vint Virga, D.V.M.
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $12.99
Based on the author’s twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats – and explores the relationships we forge with them.
As an emergency room clinician four... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Soul of All Living Creatures
What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
Written by Vint Virga, D.V.M.
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $25.00
Based on the author’s twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats – and explores the relationships we forge with them.
As an emergency room clinician four... Read more >
What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
Written by Vint Virga, D.V.M.
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $25.00
Based on the author’s twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats – and explores the relationships we forge with them.
As an emergency room clinician four... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Apocalyptic Planet
A Field Guide to the Future of the Earth
Written by Craig Childs
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $16.95
A Field Guide to the Future of the Earth
Written by Craig Childs
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $16.95
2013 Orion Book Award Winner
2013 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award Winner
Ours is not a stable planet. It is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters and extremes of climate. In this exhilarating exploration of our globe, Craig Childs goes to where the apocalypse can be seen now. From the driest deserts...
The Windward Road
Written by Archie Carr
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2013
Price: $14.99
The Windward Road, published in 1956, made history. When Archie Carr began to rove the Caribbean to write about sea turtles, he saw that their numbers were dwindling. Out of this appeal to save them grew the first ventures in international sea turtle conservation and the establishment of the Caribbean Conservation... Read more >
Written by Archie Carr
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2013
Price: $14.99
The Windward Road, published in 1956, made history. When Archie Carr began to rove the Caribbean to write about sea turtles, he saw that their numbers were dwindling. Out of this appeal to save them grew the first ventures in international sea turtle conservation and the establishment of the Caribbean Conservation... Read more >
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The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
Written by Sandi Doughton
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $23.95
Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake, also called a mega-quake, in the continental United States. A quake will happen--in fact it's actually overdue. The Cascadia subduction zone is 750 miles long, running along the Pacific coast from Northern California... Read more >
The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
Written by Sandi Doughton
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $23.95
Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake, also called a mega-quake, in the continental United States. A quake will happen--in fact it's actually overdue. The Cascadia subduction zone is 750 miles long, running along the Pacific coast from Northern California... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Full-Rip 9.0
The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
Written by Sandi Doughton
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $23.95
Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake, also called a mega-quake, in the continental United States. A quake will happen--in fact it's actually overdue. The Cascadia subduction zone is 750 miles long, running along the Pacific coast from Northern California... Read more >
The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
Written by Sandi Doughton
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $23.95
Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake, also called a mega-quake, in the continental United States. A quake will happen--in fact it's actually overdue. The Cascadia subduction zone is 750 miles long, running along the Pacific coast from Northern California... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The House Guests
Written by John D. MacDonald
Introduction by Dean Koontz
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
The House Guests, a classic memoir of animal companionship from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.
A master of the noir novel turns his sharp insights and considerable narrative talents to the human-animal bond in this charming... Read more >
Written by John D. MacDonald
Introduction by Dean Koontz
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
The House Guests, a classic memoir of animal companionship from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.
A master of the noir novel turns his sharp insights and considerable narrative talents to the human-animal bond in this charming... Read more >
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The Time Of The Buffalo
Written by Tom McHugh
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $16.99
According to the Blackfoot creation myth, the spirits first rolled moist earth in their hands and threw the magic symbol to the ground to make men and women. “Next they made earthen images of buffalo, blowing on them to bring them to life.” And it is the profound interrelationship of earth... Read more >
Written by Tom McHugh
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $16.99
According to the Blackfoot creation myth, the spirits first rolled moist earth in their hands and threw the magic symbol to the ground to make men and women. “Next they made earthen images of buffalo, blowing on them to bring them to life.” And it is the profound interrelationship of earth... Read more >
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Backyard Farming: Raising Chickens
From Building Coops to Collecting Eggs and More
Written by Kim Pezza
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $5.95
Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!
Whether for eggs, meat, fun, or profit, chickens are the perfect addition to any new backyard grower’s farm.
Backyard Farming: Raising Chickens is your guide to successfully caring for your flock. As a comprehensive primer for first-time chicken farmers, Raising Chickens includes detailed illustrations and informative photographs... Read more >
From Building Coops to Collecting Eggs and More
Written by Kim Pezza
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $5.95
Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!
Whether for eggs, meat, fun, or profit, chickens are the perfect addition to any new backyard grower’s farm.
Backyard Farming: Raising Chickens is your guide to successfully caring for your flock. As a comprehensive primer for first-time chicken farmers, Raising Chickens includes detailed illustrations and informative photographs... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Backyard Farming: Raising Chickens
From Building Coops to Collecting Eggs and More
Written by Kim Pezza
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $5.95
Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!
Whether for eggs, meat, fun, or profit, chickens are the perfect addition to any new backyard grower’s farm.
Backyard Farming: Raising Chickens is your guide to successfully caring for your flock. As a comprehensive primer for first-time chicken farmers, Raising Chickens includes detailed illustrations and informative photographs... Read more >
From Building Coops to Collecting Eggs and More
Written by Kim Pezza
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $5.95
Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!
Whether for eggs, meat, fun, or profit, chickens are the perfect addition to any new backyard grower’s farm.
Backyard Farming: Raising Chickens is your guide to successfully caring for your flock. As a comprehensive primer for first-time chicken farmers, Raising Chickens includes detailed illustrations and informative photographs... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Call of Everest
The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak
Written by Conrad Anker, Bernadette McDonald, David Breashears and Broughton Coburn
Foreword by Thomas Hornbein
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $35.00
Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain.
In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the... Read more >
The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak
Written by Conrad Anker, Bernadette McDonald, David Breashears and Broughton Coburn
Foreword by Thomas Hornbein
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $35.00
Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain.
In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Daddy Long Legs
The Natural Education of a Father
Written by John Price
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $14.95
“If David Sedaris and Annie Dillard had a literary love child and raised him in Iowa, he would write like this.”—The Iowan
John Price appears to have thrown in the towel. He has spent the last year struggling to support his family, neglecting to spend time with his wife and children... Read more >
The Natural Education of a Father
Written by John Price
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $14.95
“If David Sedaris and Annie Dillard had a literary love child and raised him in Iowa, he would write like this.”—The Iowan
John Price appears to have thrown in the towel. He has spent the last year struggling to support his family, neglecting to spend time with his wife and children... Read more >
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Mr. Hornaday's War
How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World
Written by Stefan Bechtel
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $17.00
He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he began as a taxidermist and an adventurer who tracked tigers in Borneo with friendly headhunters... Read more >
How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World
Written by Stefan Bechtel
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $17.00
He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he began as a taxidermist and an adventurer who tracked tigers in Borneo with friendly headhunters... Read more >
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Global Weirdness
Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future
Written by Climate Central
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.00
Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future
Written by Climate Central
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.00
Global Weirdness summarizes everything we know about the science of climate change, explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the future, and lays out, in practical terms, what we can do to avoid further shifts. In fifty easy-to-read entries, Climate Central tackles basic questions such as:
-Is climate...
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Saving the White Lions
One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
Written by Linda Tucker
Foreword by Andrew Harvey
Format: Trade Paperback, 374 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $19.95
In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.
Her story begins in 1991 with a heart-stopping misadventure in the Timbavati Reserve... Read more >
One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
Written by Linda Tucker
Foreword by Andrew Harvey
Format: Trade Paperback, 374 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $19.95
In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.
Her story begins in 1991 with a heart-stopping misadventure in the Timbavati Reserve... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Saving the White Lions
One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
Written by Linda Tucker
Foreword by Andrew Harvey
Format: eBook, 374 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99
In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.
Her story begins in 1991 with a heart-stopping misadventure in the Timbavati Reserve... Read more >
One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
Written by Linda Tucker
Foreword by Andrew Harvey
Format: eBook, 374 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99
In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.
Her story begins in 1991 with a heart-stopping misadventure in the Timbavati Reserve... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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On Mount Hood
A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak
Written by Jon Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $16.95
On Mount Hood is a contemporary, first-person narrative biography of Oregon's greatest mountain, featuring stories full of adventure and tragedy, history and geology, people and places, trivia and lore. The mountain itself helps create the notorious Oregon rains and deep alpine snows, and paved the way for snowboarding in the mid... Read more >
A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak
Written by Jon Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $16.95
On Mount Hood is a contemporary, first-person narrative biography of Oregon's greatest mountain, featuring stories full of adventure and tragedy, history and geology, people and places, trivia and lore. The mountain itself helps create the notorious Oregon rains and deep alpine snows, and paved the way for snowboarding in the mid... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Icebound Summer
Written by Sally Carrighar
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $14.99
Sally Carrighar was a prolific writer of stories of the natural world. She has an almost magical ability to bring wild creatures to life with her literary renditions of their world allowing us to get inside that world and live it briefly. In Icebound Summer, we are taken through a brief... Read more >
Written by Sally Carrighar
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $14.99
Sally Carrighar was a prolific writer of stories of the natural world. She has an almost magical ability to bring wild creatures to life with her literary renditions of their world allowing us to get inside that world and live it briefly. In Icebound Summer, we are taken through a brief... Read more >
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Moonlight At Midday
Written by Sally Carrighar
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $15.99
Written by Sally Carrighar
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $15.99
This is the real Alaska, the Alaska few outsiders know. It is the human scene, described in intimate and authentic detail. No one except a gift naturalist could have written this book, for Sally Carrighar has eyes that see, trained eyes that see what others pass by.
Icebound Summer was...
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One Day At Teton Marsh
Written by Sally Carrighar
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $15.99
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Written by Sally Carrighar
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $15.99
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