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The National Parks
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $50.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $50.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >
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The Sibley Guide to Trees
Written by David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $39.95
David Allen Sibley, the preeminent bird-guide author and illustrator, now applies his formidable skills of identification and illustration to the trees of North America.
Monumental in scope but small enough to take into the field, The Sibley Guide to Trees is an astonishingly elegant guide to a complex subject. It condenses a... Read more >
Written by David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $39.95
David Allen Sibley, the preeminent bird-guide author and illustrator, now applies his formidable skills of identification and illustration to the trees of North America.
Monumental in scope but small enough to take into the field, The Sibley Guide to Trees is an astonishingly elegant guide to a complex subject. It condenses a... Read more >
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The Botany of Desire
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $16.00
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal... Read more >
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $16.00
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal... Read more >
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The Sibley Guide to Birds
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY and David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2000
Price: $39.95
David Allen Sibley, America's most gifted contemporary painter of birds, is the author and illustrator of this comprehensive guide. His beautifully detailed illustrations—more than 6,600 in all—and descriptions of 810 species and 350 regional populations will enrich every birder's experience.
The Sibley Guide's innovative design makes it entirely user friendly. The illustrations... Read more >
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY and David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2000
Price: $39.95
David Allen Sibley, America's most gifted contemporary painter of birds, is the author and illustrator of this comprehensive guide. His beautifully detailed illustrations—more than 6,600 in all—and descriptions of 810 species and 350 regional populations will enrich every birder's experience.
The Sibley Guide's innovative design makes it entirely user friendly. The illustrations... Read more >
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Animal Magnetism
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
Also available as an
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1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of... Read more >
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of... Read more >
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 928 pages
On Sale: December 12, 1981
Price: $20.95
With more than 700 mushrooms detailed with color photographs and descriptive text, this is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to the mushrooms of North America. The 762 full-color identification photographs show the mushrooms as they appear in natural habitats. Organized visually, the book groups all mushrooms by color and shape... Read more >
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 928 pages
On Sale: December 12, 1981
Price: $20.95
With more than 700 mushrooms detailed with color photographs and descriptive text, this is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to the mushrooms of North America. The 762 full-color identification photographs show the mushrooms as they appear in natural habitats. Organized visually, the book groups all mushrooms by color and shape... Read more >
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees--E
Eastern Region
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 716 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1980
Price: $19.95
Tree peepers everywhere will enjoy these two guides which explore the incredible environment of our country's forests-including seasonal features, habitat, range, and lore. Nearly 700 species of trees are detailed in photographs of leaf shape, bark, flowers, fruit, and fall leaves -- all can be quickly accessed making this the ideal... Read more >
Eastern Region
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 716 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1980
Price: $19.95
Tree peepers everywhere will enjoy these two guides which explore the incredible environment of our country's forests-including seasonal features, habitat, range, and lore. Nearly 700 species of trees are detailed in photographs of leaf shape, bark, flowers, fruit, and fall leaves -- all can be quickly accessed making this the ideal... Read more >
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The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we’ve learned more... Read more >
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we’ve learned more... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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American Buffalo
In Search of a Lost Icon
Written by Steven Rinella
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.
In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer... Read more >
In Search of a Lost Icon
Written by Steven Rinella
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.
In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer... Read more >
