Heyday Books
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Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds: A Sideways Look at the Pacific Ocean and Everything in It
$20.00 Add to cartLauded essayist takes to the high seas in hot pursuit of elusive birds, artistic ghosts, fathers and their memories, and above all, safe harbor.
“Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood is my fa
- Author: Hood, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146668
- Language: English
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Birds of the California Delta
$25.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated birding guide to the wetlands and developed areas of the California Delta.
From Sacramento to Stockton, the Delta gathers the waters of inner California to create a lush estuary an
- Series: Birds of California
- Author: Haiman, Aaron N. K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146730
- Language: English
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Portrait in Red: A Paris Obsession
$35.00 Add to cartThe quest to uncover the history of a mysterious painting, and a joyous exploration of art in the twentieth century and beyond.
While wandering the streets of Paris in 2015, L. John Harris finds an aba
- Author: Harris, L. John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146498
- Language: English
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Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
$20.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oakland’s geological history and its impacts on the city’s urban present.
“This book has tu
- Author: Alden, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 159714679X
- Language: English
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California Lizards and How to Find Them
$22.00 Add to cartThe author of California Snakes and How to Find Them invites budding reptile enthusiasts into a wonderland of lizards.
“This guide joyfully celebrates the beauty and quirkiness of our native lizards.”
- Series: California Herping Guides
- Author: Taylor, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146714
- Language: English
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An Indian Among Los Ind?genas: A Native Travel Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: a gripping, witty travel memoir that offers “a fascinating look at voluntourism from an Indigenous perspective” (Book Riot)
“Ursula Pike’s memoir is unlike any other I’ve read, with h
- Author: Pike, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146706
- Language: English
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I Love Salmon and Lampreys: A Native Story of Resilience
$20.00 Add to cartFor young readers, an inspiring story about a river, a successful Native-led movement for environmental justice, and the making of a scientist.
Growing up in the Yurok and Karuk Tribes, Brook Thompson
- Author: Thompson, Brook M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146684
- Language: English
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The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds
$16.00 Add to cartUpdated for the first time in twenty years with completely redrawn birds and more, the classic and remarkably easy-to-use guide for identifying birds in the Sierra Nevada.
John Muir Laws began his life
- Author: Laws, John Muir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146552
- Language: English
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The Curious World of Seaweed
$35.00 Add to cart“A remarkable mixture of photos and writing. … An important work well done.” –Fabien Cousteau
Marine algae are the supreme eco-engineers of life: they oxygenate the waters, create habitat for countl
- Author: Iselin, Josie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1597144827
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley
$30.00 Add to cartThe incendiary story of conquest, racism, warfare, and historical amnesia at one of the world’s most celebrated and ostensibly enlightened public universities.
“This is a land acknowledgment.” —Ruth W
- Author: Platt, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1597146218
- Language: English
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Birds of Point Reyes
$25.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated guide celebrates California’s coastal birds and the wonders of witnessing them.
“A compact treasury of natural history knowledge.” —Burr Heneman, former executive director of Poin
- Author: Hansen, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 159714603X
- Language: English
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Louder Than the Lies: Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love
$28.00 Add to cartA primer on racism that offers an intersectional, anti-racist, coalition-building view of Asian American identity.
“This is and will be a necessary and useful tool for generations to come.” —Jenny Wan
- Author: Camp, Ellie Yang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146617
- Language: English
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Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide
$35.00 Add to cartLearn about the wildlife of the Bay Area from a lifelong protector of endangered species, and enjoy the wild ride.
Jeff Miller’s quirky guide to the coolest animal neighbors in the Bay Area will have y
- Author: Miller, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146633
- Language: English
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An Indian Among Los Ind?enas: A Native Travel Memoir
$26.00 Add to cartA gripping, witty memoir about indigeneity, travel, and colonialism
When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her term of service in the Peace Corps. A member of the- Author: Pike, Ursula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1597145270
- Language: English
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Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood
$20.00 Read moreIn the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this portable guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just ou… [more below]
- Series: Fylling’s Illustrated Guides #2
- Author: Fylling, Marni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1597144800
- Language: English
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Stickeen
$12.00 Add to cartAn illustrated edition of the well-loved tale in which world-famous naturalist John Muir recounts how he and a dog named Stickeen struggled to cross an Alaskan glacier during an ice storm. An exhilara… [more below]
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0930588487
- Language: English
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The Birds in the Oaks: Secret Voices of the Western Woods
$26.00 Add to cartThe first book on the birds of California’s oaks, from our most lyrical and observant wanderer of the woods.
With charm and delight, The Birds in the Oaks introduces us to the birds who burrow, forage,
- Author: Gedney, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146595
- Language: English
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California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: a “deeply researched and reported” (San Francisco Chronicle) exploration of sea level rise in California that “breathes exquisite detail and dialogue” (Science Magazine) into the sub
- Author: Xia, Rosanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146587
- Language: English
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Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood
$20.00 Add to cartIn the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this portable guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just ou… [more below]
- Series: Fylling’s Illustrated Guides #2
- Author: Fylling, Marni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1597144800
- Language: English
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The State of Fire: Why California Burns
$28.00 Add to cartHow do we live with fire? From the creator of The California Field Atlas, a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope.
Fire is an essential part of California’s ecology. Humans have been using it to sh
- Author: Kaufmann, Obi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 159714651X
- Language: English
