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Avid North American birders share wit, wisdom, advice, and what fuels their passion for birds. Birding gets you outside, helps you de-stress, exercises your body and mind, puts your day-to-day problems in perspective, and can be lots of fun. Birders know this, and in this collection of thirty-seven brief essays, birders from diverse backgrounds share their sense of wonder, joy, and purpose about their passion (and sometimes obsession). From the Pacific...
2) Hadrosaurs
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A comprehensive study of the Late Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur, featuring insights on its origins, anatomy, and more.
Hadrosaurs-also known as duck-billed dinosaurs-are abundant in the fossil record. With their unique complex jaws and teeth perfectly suited to shred and chew plants, they flourished on Earth in remarkable diversity during the Late Cretaceous. So ubiquitous are their remains that we have learned more about dinosaurian paleobiology...
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El objetivo general de esta obra es evidenciar el papel de la participación de las mujeres en los conflictos por el agua, tanto para uso urbano como para el uso rural, así como mostrar los liderazgos de estas en los procesos de resistencia frente a los megaproyectos causados por el desarrollo urbano, por la construcción de infraestructura hídrica y por las formas tradicionales de organización rural, caracterizadas por relaciones de género desiguales....
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Prize-winning Atlantic Online cartoonist Sage Stossel has created her next Find the Animals book with On the Loose in New Orleans . Children will have hours of fun finding the Audubon Zoo animals around the Big Easy--whether a monkey on a riverboat, a giraffe in Jackson Square, or elephants eating beignets! Over 100 animals are hiding cleverly in favorite New Orleans locations in this colorfully illustrated rhyming picture book.
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Engagingly designed and boasting a wide array of more than fifty Minnesota poets, including Robert Bly, Broad Wings, Long Legs contemplates the iconic birds of the Midwestern marshlands, paying homage to the herons and cranes that stalk, stand and fly into and out of the lakes, ponds, backwaters, and corn fields of the continent's midsection.
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In this moving companion to the Caldecott Honor–winning They All Saw a Cat, Brendan Wenzel tells the story of a seemingly ordinary stone. But it isn't just a stone-to the animals that use it, it's a resting place, a kitchen, a safe haven...even an entire world. With stunning illustrations in cut paper, pencil, collage, and paint, and soothing rhythms that invite reading aloud, A Stone Sat Still is a gorgeous exploration of perspective, perception,...
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Poet, novelist, and essayist, the legendary Erica Jong-whose novel Fear of Flying opened eyes and broke down walls-offers us a provocative collection of essays about sex from some of the most respected female authors writing today. "Real Women Write about Real Sex" in Sugar in My Bowl, as such marquee names as Gail Collins, Eve Ensler, Daphne Merken, Anne Roiphe, Liz Smith, Naomi Wolf, and Jennifer Weiner, to name but a few, join together to speak...
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Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot, with an insightful introduction by Sherri Mitchell Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset, an esteemed Indigenous attorney, activist, and author from the Penobscot Nation, presents a captivating journey along Maine's vital Penobscot River. This charity anthology, weaving together the works of local writers, offers a deep dive into the river's lasting impact and its integral role in the region's heritage.
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Peppa loves rainbows! She and her friends will discover how rainbows are made in this storybook with a special fact sheet. Will they find a treasure at the rainbow's end? Em Lune loves stories more than anything else, but she also loves singing, sour candy, and the sea. Like Peter Pan, she has a strong emotional attachment to her shadow, a fluffy black service dog called Luna Lovegood. Her favorite place is her grandma's house on Cape Cod.
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Fearless, fleet-footed, and full of curiosity, good-natured goats have it all. In this motivating guide to self-improvement, the stars of the popular Instagram Goats Gone Grazing teach us to take life by the horns. Some days, it's a struggle just to get out of bed-let alone eat our greens, climb the career ladder, and make our family and friends smile. Some days, in this fast-paced world, we find ourselves wondering how to keep it together. And advice?...
11) Thunderstorm
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Thunderstorm follows the course of a storm through midwestern farm country minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, from late morning into late afternoon. As always with Arthur Geisert, it is a meticulously executed and visually stunning piece of work. Other than the timeline that runs along the bottom border of the illustrations, there is no text, and the illustrations are continuous.
Through keen observation, Geisert beautifully captures the nuances and...
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The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; out of sync, contradiction-ridden and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity's indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.
This collection explores social identities in today's 'overheated' world, seen from an anthropological perspective. The focus is on contradictions, tensions and paradoxes: How can an identity be stable if its border...
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The successful climate movement won't be radical or moderate. It has to be both – and it has to be now. The Climate Majority Project calls for a new wave of urgent, inclusive, citizen-led climate action; making space for a diversity of people to show up just as they are, and protect what they love. If climate action remains marginal at this late hour, it will fail. The rapid, system-level change that we need to escape catastrophe will take unprecedented...
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Hunting Polar Bear in the Winter is a guide to hunting one of the most important game animals for Inuit. This book includes advice on preparing for the hunt, avoiding detection by the polar bear, skinning the animal, preserving the meat, and staying safe on the hunt. It also includes information about traditional Inuit hunting methods and reflections on ethical and environmentally friendly hunting.
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No siempre resulta sencillo saber qué peces pueden convivir en un acuario tropical de agua dulce. Para facilitarle la tarea, este libro le ofrece información precisa y actualizada sobre diversas especies. Incluye indicaciones acerca del tamaño, la alimentación, el lugar de procedencia, las diferencias morfológicas entre macho y hembra, el tipo de acuario que necesita cada especie, la temperatura del agua y la decoración, la convivencia con otras...
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While the world's scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the impact of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but opportunities. For them, melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels, borders to be secured from 'climate refugees', social conflicts to be managed and more failed states in which to intervene. They are 'securing' their assets at the expanse of the planet and its inhabitants.
The Secure and the...
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Works exploring the responses of global mountain communities to the shared challenges and opportunities their unique locations afford them.
No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the growth of...
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Hunting is one of the most important land skills in the Arctic, and continues to be an important source of income and food for many people and communities. The Hunter Education Series facilitates the transmission of knowledge regarding proper hunting techniques, safety, and animal behaviour. It will also help to preserve traditional Inuit hunting knowledge and the value of environmental stewardship.
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Drawn from a 2005 international symposium, these essays explore current tyrannosaurid current research and discoveries regarding Tyrannosaurus rex.
The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane," a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, includes studies of the tyrannosaurids Chingkankousaurus...
20) Vanishing Acts
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"A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species-be they human or animal, mythical or alien." -Publishers Weekly
In this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories draw you into compelling, adventurous, and even humorous tales that will make you think about the future of animals, humanity, and the world around us. You'll find bugs and buffalo, humans and aliens, creatures...
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