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100 Birds to See Before You Die - trade paperback
By David Chandler And Dominic Couzens - $25.95 - add to cart

What is the fastest-growing outdoor activity in the U.S.? Snowboarding? Mountain biking? No. It’s bird watching! There are currently 51.3 million dedicated birders in the U.S. with their binoculars...

 

The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating - trade paperback
By Alisa Smith - $19.95 - add to cart

The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. When Alisa Smith...

 

The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God - trade paperback
By David J. Linden - $21.95 - add to cart

You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elega...

 

Amazing Baby - hardcover
By Desmond Morris - $40.00 - add to cart

Renowned zoologist and scholar of human behavior Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape) reveals a baby's incredible powers of development and extraordinary growth patterns. Through informed text and stunni...

 

Animal Life - hardcover
By Dorling Kindersley - $55.00 - add to cart

If you think that watching all the nature programs on television qualifies you as an expert on the subject, think again! Do you really know what makes animals tick? Here are the answers, portrayed ...

 

Arctic Fox: Life at the Top of the World - hardcover
By Garry Hamilton - $39.95 - add to cart

Curious, innovative and mysterious survivors of the arctic tundra. Ever since explorers began venturing north into the harsh lands of the arctic, they have encountered arctic foxes in the unlik...

 

Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind - trade paperback
By Dorothy L. Cheney - $18.95 - add to cart

In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, “He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” Baboon Metaphysics is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth’s fascinating r...

 

The Backyard Astronomer's Guide (3rd Edition) - hardcover
By Terence Dickinson And Alan Dyer - $49.95 - add to cart

The modern classic, completely updated. The newest edition of The Backyard Astronomer's Guide includes the latest data and answers the questions most often asked by home astronomers, from begin...

 

Bears: A Brief History - trade paperback
By Bernd Brunner - $15.00 - add to cart

This engaging book examines the shared history of people and bears. Hopscotching through history, literature, and science, Bernd Brunner presents a rich compendium of the interactions between the t...

 

Bees: Nature's Little Wonders - hardcover
By Candace Savage - $28.00 - add to cart

The bee may have a brain the size of a grass seed, but in its brief, five-week life it works as a brood nurse, wax producer, comb builder, honey maker, home guard, and floral forager. Bees: Nature'...

 

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 - trade paperback
By Jerome Groopman (editor) - $18.95 - add to cart

"The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intel...

 

The Best American Science Writing - trade paperback
By Sylvia Nasar (editor) - $16.25 - add to cart

Edited by Sylvia Nasar, bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind and former economics correspondent for the New York Times, The Best American Science Writing 2008 brings together the premiere science...

 

The Better to Eat You With: Fear in the Animal World - hardcover
By Joel Berger - $34.95 - add to cart

At dawn on a brutally cold January morning, Joel Berger crouched in the icy grandeur of the Teton Range. It had been three years since wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone after a sixty-year ab...

 

The Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference - trade paperback
By Ellis Jones - $9.95 - add to cart

The only comprehensive guide for socially and environmentally responsible consumers available, this book ranks every product on the shelf from A to F so you can quickly tell the "good guys" from th...

 

Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present - trade paperback
By Cynthia Stokes Brown - $19.95 - add to cart

Beginning with the very origin of the universe, American Book Award–winning author Brown (Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement) shows that history is more than the written...

 

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