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Never Cry Wolf
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Farley Mowat
This inquiry begins with the puzzle of sibling relations. Why are individuals from the same family little more similar in personality than people from different families? Why doesn't a shared family environment lead to similar values and beliefs? Sulloway suggests a fresh way of understanding how family affects individual development. Among ...
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
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Mark Kurlansky
The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. This book spans 1,000 years and four continents. From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, the author introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs, and fishermen whose lives have ...
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My Family & Other Animals
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Gerald Malcolm Durrell
This book is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu where the author lived as a boy with his 'family and other animals.' It is a matter of personal taste whether one most enjoys the family, with its many eccentric hangers-on, or the animals Gerry studies and brings back to the strawberry-pink, the daffodil-yellow, or the snow-white villa. The procession ...
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John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide: The Nature Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques
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John Shaw
The problems facing the photographer in the great outdoors are special. Even highly-skilled photographers are often baffled by them. In this revised and updated version of his 1984 book, "The Nature Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques", noted wildlife and scenic photographer John Shaw draws on his own many years in the ...
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The Diversity of Life
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Edward Osborne Wilson
View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" "In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon. There in the perfect bowl of the night sky, untouched by light from any human source, a thunderstorm sends its premonitory signal and begins ...
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
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Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson tells the extraordinary story of how she and her husband were able to rear an orphaned lion cub--not for a life of captivity, but, rather, for one of freedom and independence between two radically different worlds. 114 black-and-white photographs.
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Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived
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R Helfer
When a celebrated animal trainer takes a four-month-old African lion cub into his home, they care for each other, learn from each other, and change each other's lives, indelibly. This is a one-of-a-kind love story. This moving story is about the animal that started Ralph Helfer's illustrious career as Hollywood's top animal trainer for more than ...
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Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
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Edith Holden
This is a facsimile production of a naturalist's diary for the year 1906. Edith Holden recorded in words and paintings the flora and fauna of the British countryside through the changing seasons of the year.
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Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands
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Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Griffiths Belt (Photographer)
ACCLAIMED AUTHOR BARBARA KINGSOLVER brings her passion for the wilderness to bear in this striking book. Trained as a biologist, Kingsolver writes authoritatively, and movingly, about the continent's virgin pockets of desert, coast, grassland, forest, and wetland. ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGES: Specially commissioned infrared photographs, taken and hand ...
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Old Dogs: Are the Best Dogs
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Gene Weingarten, Michael S Williamson (Photographer)
The memories that people have of dogs they have loved and lost are almost always of the animal in his final years; somehow, those are the images we treasure most. There is a reason. Old dogs can be rheumy-eyed and grump, gray of muzzle, graceless of gait, eccentric of habit, pimply, wheezy, lazy, lumpy. But that is not the whole of him. The old ...
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The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America
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David Baron
In a spell-binding tale of man and beast, award-winning journalist David Baron chronicles a town's struggles to coexist with its wild neighbours and reconstructs the paved-with-good intentions path that led to the state's first recorded fatal mountain lion attack. It is a fable of nature corrupted, the clash between civilisation and wildness and ...
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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Bernd Heinrich
A visually stunning exploration of the mysteries of evolution focuses on the inherent winter survival tactics of animals, including flying squirrels, grizzly bears, torpid turtles, and even insects, revealing how these animals alter and adapt to a vast array of extraordinary conditions.
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Creature
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Andrew Zuckerman (Photographer)
Photographer Andrew Zuckerman's strikingly detailed images of animals from around the world are as delightful as they are inspiring. This collection of astonishing studio portraits of 175 wild creatures from baby leopards to parrots, bears, mandrills, and many more are stunningly foregrounded against white backgrounds, depicting their subjects ...
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Portfolios of Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
From 1948 - 1976 Ansel Adams produced seven portfolios, each a limited edition of 10-15 signed photographic prints. This book reproduces all 90 of these superb images, including many of Adams' most famous monumental landscape photographs and some remarkable, less familiar portraits and architecture studies. The book was first published in 1977 ...
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John Shaw's Closeups in Nature
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John Shaw
An illustrated book discussing the basic technical considerations as they apply to outdoor close-up nature photography. Information covers exposure, equipment, composition and necessary equipment applications which include: extension with tubes and bellows, macro lenses, tele-converters, flash and lighting. The reasons are given for the ...
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We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Changed Their Lives Forever
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Benjamin Mee
In the tradition of "Marley & Me" comes an unforgettable memoir about the mysteries of the animal kingdom, the power of family, and the triumph of hope over tragedy in this chronicle of the Mee family's purchase of the Dartmoor Wildlife Park, a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside.Weinstein Books
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The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love
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Jane Goodall, Marc Bekoff
World-renowned behavioural scientists Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff have set forth ten trusts that we must honour as custodians of the planet. They argue passionately and persuasively that if we put these trusts to work in our lives, the earth and all its inhabitants will be able to live together harmoniously. The Ten Trusts expands the concept of ...
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The whispering land
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Gerald Malcolm Durrell
Fans of Gerard Durrellas beloved classic "My Family and Other Animals" and other accounts of his lifelong fascination with members of the animal kingdom will rejoice at "The Whispering Land," The sequel to "A Zoo in My Luggage," this is the story of how Durrell and his wifeas zoo-building efforts at Englandas Jersey Zoo led them and a team of ...
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Wilderness and the American Mind
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Roderick Nash
Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included it in a survey of "books that changed our world", and ...
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Ravens in Winter
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Bernd Heinrich
In order to discover the truth about the social habits of ravens, the author spent four winters observing these birds in the woods of Maine. His adventures in pursuit of his quest read like a zoological detective story complete with false leads, apparently contradictory clues and hard evidence.
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John Shaw's Landscape Photography
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John Shaw
A master photographer offers a wonderful guide for all landscape photographers. Providing basic information on film and exposure, plus tips on problems like lens flare.
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Irish Blessings
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Ashley Shannon (Introduction by)
A treasury of warmth and exquisite charm, IRISH BLESSINGS provides beautiful full-color photographs of the Irish countryside and more than 60 traditional blessings, including such favorites as "The Traveler's Blessing," "A Blessing for You and Yours," and "St. Patrick's Breastplate."
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-Three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
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Mark Owens, Delia Owens
In this thrilling real-life adventure, award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and, ultimately, themselves.
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife
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Peter Alden, National Audubon Society, Richard D Estes
With more than ten million copies sold, the National Audubon Society Field Guide series leaves North American shores for the first time to explore the world's most splendid natural environment. This guide fully covers Africa's habitats, describing the climates, landscapes, and wildlife of 58 countries. 577 color photos. 25 country maps. 480 ...
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National Geographic: The Photographs
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Leah Bendavid-Val
"National Geographic: The Photographs" presents an amazing collection of award-winning "National Geographic" magazine photographs, the facts behind them, and the inside stories of the men and women who took them. The images capture rare moments in nature and the lives of animals, along with defining events in the lives of people everywhere. Many ...
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