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    Brownie
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    Brownie

    Brownie is a rhyming children's book about a curious guinea pig who escapes from his cage one night to explore around the house. One of the children hears him and goes on a hunt to try and find him and get him back in his cage before the parents wake up...
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    Mr. Mindbomb
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    Mr. Mindbomb

    A collection of personal essays detailing the life and achievements of a renowned environmental hero and activist.Mr. Mindbomb is a chronology of the significant events of Bob Hunter's life, written chapter by chapter by those who knew him. Where one...
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    On Digital Advocacy
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    On Digital Advocacy

    Whether you hike, bike, camp, climb, hunt, ride, paddle, paint, garden-whatever way you get out and enjoy nature, you leave an impact on the outdoors every time you step out your front door. Every step your boots take down dusty trails, every bolt your...
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    Lively Cities
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    Lively Cities

    A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urbanOne of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the...
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    Natural Reserve
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    Natural Reserve

    Zadok Ben-David is an award-winning artist who lives and works in London and is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks. He explores themes linked to human nature and evolution.His work is often referred to as poetic and...
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    Asteroids
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    Asteroids

    Grounded in historical studies of asteroids from the nineteenth century, Asteroids is a fully up to date view of these remarkable objects. Without resorting to any technical plots or mathematics, the author shows that asteroids are not just rocks in...
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    Turtle
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    Turtle

    A celebration of the ancient, unassuming yet exceptional turtleAs ancient creatures that once shared the Earth with dinosaurs, turtles have played a crucial role in maintaining healthy terrestrial and marine ecosystems for more than one hundred million...
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    Furry Planet
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    Furry Planet

    Audience demand: .Proven market appeal: , published by Cleis Press, which has sold 2,000 copies. This new book will be far more thorough, have a color photo insert, and receive proper support to reach its endemic audience and all those who've heard of...
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    Ewe Do Ewe
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    Ewe Do Ewe

    Unique new addition to a successful genre (Chronicle, 2019), which has scanned more than 70,000 copies since its release.Author has a huge social media following, which presents a built-in audience: The author has 275,000 Facebook followers, 136,000...
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    Fox and I
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    Fox and I

    Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * 2022 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner * Shortlisted for the John Burroughs Medal * Finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize * Shortlisted for a Reading the West...
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    A Landscape Approach
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    A Landscape Approach

    The book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are...
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    Four Fifths a Grizzly
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    Four Fifths a Grizzly

    What do you think of when you think of Nature?Prolific author and National Geographic writer Doug Chadwick's fresh look at human's place in the natural world. In his accessible and engaging style, Chadwick approaches the subject from a scientific angle,...
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    The Chimpanzee Whisperer
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    The Chimpanzee Whisperer

    A moving, heartwarming memoir about a conservation hero and real-life chimpanzee whisperer-now the subject of the award-winning documentary film Pant Hoot.Stany Nyandwi's gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned...
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    Walking With Gorillas
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    Walking With Gorillas

    An Inspiring Memoir, for Fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Frans De Waal.In her enchanting memoir, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda's first wildlife veterinarian, tells the remarkable story from her animal-loving childhood to her career protecting...
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    Terra-Sorta-Firma
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    Terra-Sorta-Firma

    A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanising and expanding coastline.For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds, 'reclaiming' land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds...
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    The World Beneath
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    The World Beneath

    Meet the world's most fascinating sea creatures-see the lives and curiosities of colourful fish and coral reefs-this spectacular volume has more than 300 color photos and extraordinary text from a leading marine biologist and underwater photographer, and...
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    Underfoot
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    Underfoot

    In Underfoot, Holmberg asks what prevents an industrialized nation-state from achieving its desire to extract maximum resources.His answers are people and their connection with land.Writing in Northern Smi, he creates a world of symbols to enact the...
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    Spontaneous Urban Plants

    Although we tend to think of our cities as concrete jungles, our post-new urban environment is awash in plant life. Wild urban plants have taken root along roadsides and chain-link fences, between cracks of pavement, and within vacant lots, rubble dumps...
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    Navajo and the Animal People

    This text examines the traditional Navajo relationship to the natural world. Specifically, how the tribe once related to a category of animals they collectively referred to as the "ones who hunt." These animals, like Native Americans, were once viewed as...
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    The Forest Journey
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    The Forest Journey

    A Foundational Conservation Story RevivedAncient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, "even the pine tree stood on its own very hills" but when...
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    Cracked
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    Cracked

    The ugly truthabout dams is about to be revealed. During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the whole messy truth about the legacy of last century's big dam building binge has come to light. What started out as an arguably good government...
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    Gather at the River

    From editors David Joy and Eric Rickstad comesGather at the River, an anthology of twenty-five remarkable essays on fishing from an ensemble of contemporary authors. Their experiences explore the ways we come to water, for renewal and reverie, or to...
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    Amphibians & Reptiles of Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan
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    Amphibians & Reptiles of Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan

    Get the field identification guide to all 77 species and subspecies of reptiles and amphibians of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.Did you know there are 77 kinds of snakes, frogs, toads, salamanders, turtles, and even lizards in the Western Great...
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    Pickles Tails Volume Two
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    Pickles Tails Volume Two

    Pickles Tails Volume II is the second installment of Brian Crane's Pickles strips dedicated to the hijinks of the beloved Pickles family pets, Roscoe and Muffin! This collection begins in 2008 and moves ahead through 2020, and includes over 300 fully...
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    The Wild Muir

    Here is an entertaining collection of famed conservationist John Muir's most exciting adventures in nature, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm...
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    The Silver Invicta
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    The Silver Invicta

    The Silver Invicta is a stream of impressions from a fishing life, in its varying moods, coloured with plenty of whisky and eccentric company. Join Tom Harland on his light-hearted journeys with his fly rod; take part in his triumphs and disasters on...
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    Butterfly Notebook Set

    This set of three A5, softback notebooks with high quality ruled paper feature three designs using butterfly paintings by Williams Jones from the collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. An exquisite gift for nature-lovers and...
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    Curious Creatures on our Shores
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    Curious Creatures on our Shores

    Beachcombing, overturning a boulder, or simply parting the strands of seaweed in a rock pool can offer a glimpse into a thriving underwater world of astonishing creatures. Starfish which, upon losing an arm, can grow a new one; ethereal moon jellyfish...
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    What Have Plants Ever Done for Us?
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    What Have Plants Ever Done for Us?

    When did the British Government become the world's largest drugs pusher? What tree is frequently used to treat cancer? Which everyday condiment is the most widely traded spice on the planet?Plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. From the...
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    The Hidden Fires
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    The Hidden Fires

    Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender.In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with...
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    The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook
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    The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

    The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook brings together the combined knowledge of Kew experts in a guide to the commonly encountered plants of temperate regions.The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a centre of expertise for cultivating a...
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    Napoleon's Garden Island
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    Napoleon's Garden Island

    There is more to St Helena than an exiled emperor; the tiny island in the middle of the wild South Atlantic Ocean has a rich garden heritage and an extraordinarily diverse flora, both exotic and endemic. This was the consequence of St Helena being the...
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    Meadow
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    Meadow

    Meadow explores the intimate and complex relationship between people, place and plants which, over many centuries, has shaped the colour and character of the classic hay meadows of the British Isles.The surviving hay meadows of the British Isles are an...
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    Jan Hendrix: Paradise Lost
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    Jan Hendrix: Paradise Lost

    Jan Hendrix is a Dutch-born, Mexico-based contemporary artist. His work is all about observation and analysis; nature and its diff erent ways of representing and telling extended stories, often in a non- linear narrative. Based on an exhibition...
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    A Legacy of Ancient Oaks
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    A Legacy of Ancient Oaks

    This beautiful book is a celebration of the mighty oak, through the passion and vision of artist Mark Frith.Mark has drawn large scale portraits of 22 of Britain's oldest living oaks, with exceptional detail conveyed in these intricate graphite works,...
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    Ancient Oaks in the English landscape
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    Ancient Oaks in the English landscape

    The story of how England's iconic tree the oak - has shaped the landscape over the past 1000 years Combining history with science, this is the first detailed study into why England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined New...
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    Wild Plants of Southern Spain
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    Wild Plants of Southern Spain

    Southern Spain, and in particular Andalucia, is hope to many common garden plants, including daffodils, lavenders, and shrubs. At the same time, it is one of the most florally diverse regions in the world. This book covers that spectrum, from the...
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    Last Great Plant Hunt, The
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    Last Great Plant Hunt, The

    As humans adapt to a changing climate and planet, there is a pressing need for wild plant seed banks, and an urgent effort to conserve all plant diversity. Kew's Millennium Seed Bank is a unique, global asset. The largest seed bank of its kind in the...
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    Feather Leaf Bark and Stone
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    Feather Leaf Bark and Stone

    Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone is a book of poems and meditations with a difference. More than a hundred short texts have been typed onto small squares of gold leaf, then photographed. These pieces are arranged in a sequence which culminates in a...
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    Robin
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    Robin

    A tuneful natural and cultural history of this globally renowned songbird.The robin is a small bird with a distinctive ruddy breast, at once a national treasure and a bird with a global reputation. In this superbly illustrated account, Helen F. Wilson...
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    Amber
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    Amber

    Amber: From Antiquity to Eternity is a history of human engagement with amber across three millennia. The book vividly describes our conceptions, stories, and political and scholarly disputes about amber, as well as issues of national and personal...
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    Most Unimaginably Strange
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    Most Unimaginably Strange

    Described by William Morris as 'Most Unimaginably Strange', the landscape of Iceland has fascinated and inspired travellers, scientists, artists and writers throughout history. This book provides a contemporary understanding of the landscape as a whole,...
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    Ash
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    Ash

    Elegant and beautiful, rich in history and supremely useful, the ash tree has played an extraordinary yet largely unrecognised part in shaping both our natural environment and the material culture and beliefs of millions of people around the world. Ash...
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    Squid
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    Squid

    This book traces the many ways humans have thought about and pictured squidsIn myths and legends, squids are portrayed as fearsome sea-monsters, lurking in the watery deeps waiting to devour humans. Even as modern science has tried to turn those monsters...
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    Wasp
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    Wasp

    Fear and fascination set wasps apart from other insects. Despite their iconic form and distinctive colours, they are surrounded by myth and misunderstanding. Often portrayed in cartoon-like stereotypes bordering on sad parody, wasps have an unwelcome and...
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    Polar Bear
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    Polar Bear

    Polar bears are truly majestic animals: the largest land-dwelling carnivore on earth, they can measure up to 3 metres in length, and weigh up to 700 kilograms. They are also iconic in other ways - a symbol of the climate change debate, with their...
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Nature and the natural world: general interest