Ecology
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The Hidden Company That Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips
$29.95 Read moreA spectacularly illustrated journey into the intimate communities that native trees share with animals, insects, fungi, and microbes
You can tell a lot about a tree from the company it keeps. James Na- Author: Nardi, James B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0691237972
- Language: English
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
$16.99 Add to cart“No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this underappreciated group its due.” — Elizabeth Kolbert
Say “algae” and most people think of pond- Author: Kassinger, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 035829956X
- Language: English
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Assembling California
$20.00 Read moreAt various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these tr
- Series: Annals of the Former World #4
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0374523932
- Language: English
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In Defense of Plants: An Exploration Into the Wonder of Plants (Plant Guide, Horticulture, Trees)
$18.95 Add to cartThe Study of Plants in a Whole New Light
“Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and a
- Author: Candeias, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 164250453X
- Language: English
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Man Who Made Things Out of Trees: The Ash in Human Culture and History
$22.99 Add to cartOut of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound up with who we are: the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. One frigid winter morni
- Author: Penn, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354121
- Language: English
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The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science
$34.99 Add to cartA new way of understanding our place in the web of life from a scholar praised for his “graceful prose” (Publishers Weekly).
The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most funda
- Author: Weber, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0865717990
- Language: English
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A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees
$17.95 Add to cartA Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and struggling to settle into her new job and home. Then friends gift her a colony of honeybees–a gift that, accordin
- Author: Jukes, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501766538
- Language: English
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Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World
$27.95 Add to cartWhat if Nature is more cooperative, and less competitive, than we think?
A follow-up to Kristin Ohlson’s previous book, The Soil Will Save Us (Rodale 2014), Sweet in Tooth and Claw extends the concept… [more below]
- Author: Ohlson, Kristin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1952338093
- Language: English
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Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe oceans are our planet’s most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover 71 percent of its surface; support a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microsco… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mladenov, Philip V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019884171X
- Language: English
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Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss
$24.95 Add to cart*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Death/Dying Grief & Loss (Small Press)
News reports appear every day now on the ecological state of our planetary home and the news is not good. Ecological
- Author: Buhner, Stephen Harrod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0970869673
- Language: English
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The New Neotropical Companion
$39.95 Read moreThe acclaimed guide to the ecology and natural history of the American tropics–now fully updated and expanded
The New Neotropical Companion is the completely revised and expanded edition of a book th- Author: Kricher, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0691115257
- Language: English
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Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
$29.99 Read moreFrom CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti, a “vivid” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) and “stunning” (Booklist) character-driven call to action on our climate, told thr… [more below]
- Author: Vigliotti, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1668008173
- Language: English
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING
“Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they… [more below]- Author: Haskell, David George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 143111302
- Language: English
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Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
$17.99 Add to cartFrom one of the finest naturalists and writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature’s inspiring death-to-life cycle.
How does the animal world deal with death? And what ecological and spi… [more below]
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0544002261
- Language: English
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The Regenerative Landscaper: Design and Build Landscapes That Repair the Environment
$32.95 Add to cartAn awe-inspiring guide that weaves together permaculture design, food resiliency, climate adaptation, community organizing, and indigenous wisdom that you can implement in your own backyard.
This book… [more below]
- Author: Ohlsen, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1957869089
- Language: English
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Armadillos to Ziziphus: A Naturalist in the Texas Hill Country
$29.95 Read moreA collection of essays on the ecology, biodiversity, and restoration of the Texas Hill Country.
For most of five decades, evolutionary biologist David Hillis has studied the biodiversity of the Texas- Author: Hillis, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1477326731
- Language: English
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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
$18.99 Add to cartFor centuries, agricultural practices have eroded the soil that farming depends on, stripping it of the organic matter vital to its productivity. Now conventional agriculture is threatening disaster f
- Author: Montgomery, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356094
- Language: English
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The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge [With CD (Audio)]
$9.99 Add to cartTrust the bestselling science series of all time to get down to the facts on global warming, so kids can understand the crisis – and how they can help solve it.
FORMAT: paperback book with CDLike it or… [more below]
- Series: Magic School Bus
- Author: Cole, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0545434254
- Language: English
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Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife
$26.95 Add to cartA philosophical and practical guide for the gardener who hopes to wants to create a backyard garden in harmony with nature.
Why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. An eloquent plea for compa- Author: Lawson, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1616895543
- Language: English
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Restoring Eden: Unearthing the Agribusiness Secret That Poisoned My Farming Community
$19.99 Add to cart“A beautifully descriptive, lyrical immersion in the natural world that’s coupled with a detective story, reminiscent of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” — Library Journal
All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hi- Author: Hilborn, Elizabeth D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1641609389
- Language: English
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