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Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence
HardcoverOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the scientist duo behind True or Poo?, their original New York Times bestselling sensation—a scientifically precise, fully illustrated, utte...
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Big Pacific: Passionate, Voracious, Mysterious, Violent
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of Earth’s surface—more than all of the planet’s landmasses combined. It contains half of the world’s water, h...
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Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"A superb introduction to paleontology as it really is and how it is done, from fish to dinosaur, bird, and mammal." —Edward O. Wilson Michael No...
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Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusi...
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Serendipity: An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /"Many of the findings in the book . . . are classics of ecology. . . . A rare and delightful insight into timely science."—Jane Lubchenco, Nature...
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Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Abundantly illustrated with more than 400 color photographs and 200 detailed drawings, this comprehensive guide to the state's rare and endangere...
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Caterpillars in the Field and Garden: A Field Guide to the Butterfly Caterpillars of North America
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Jeffrey Glassberg's acclaimed Butterflies through Binoculars guides have revolutionized the way we view butterflies. Now there's a field guide in...
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Talking to Animals: How You Can Understand Animals and They Can Understand You
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz—“a Thoreau for modern times” (San Antonio Express-News)—offers us a deeper understanding of the inner ...
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Field Guide to Birds of the Northern California Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The Northern California coast—from Monterey County to the Oregon border—is home to some of the richest avian habitats on the North American conti...
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Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Just astonishing . . . Our natural navigational capacities are no match for those of the supernavigators in this eye-opening book.”—Frans de Waa...
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Bugs In The System: Insects And Their Impact On Human Affairs
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An introduction to insect physiology, genetics and behaviour which looks at the interaction between humans and insects, and explores both the pos...
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Ponds and Small Lakes: Microorganisms and Freshwater Ecology
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Ponds and small lakes support an extremely rich biodiversity of fascinating organisms. Many people have encountered a few unfamiliar creatures, s...
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Bluebird Seasons: Witnessing Climate Change in My Piece of the Wild
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"This wonderful book is faithful both in its witness to the world’s beauty and to our need to act now to preserve something of that wonder and gr...
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Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An Oprah.com "Best Book for National Reading Month"Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we fin...
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The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms: with Observations on their Habits
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"...I was led to keep in my study during many months worms in pots filled with earth, I became interested in them, and wished to learn how far th...
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The Brown Recluse Spider
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The brown recluse is a fascinating spider very well adapted to dwelling in houses and other buildings. Because of this very quality and the ghast...
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /"Could extinct species like mammoths and passenger pigeons be brought back to life? The science says yes. In [this book], Beth Shapiro, evolution...
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The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A fascinating investigation into the miraculous world of birds and the powerful—and surprising—ways they enrich our lives and sustain the planetO...
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Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and...
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that "spark[s] not just the int...
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The Secret Life of Sharks: A Leading Marine Biologist Reveals the Mysteries of Shark Behavior
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Marine biologist Pete Klimley swims with the sharks. He was one of the first scientists to free-dive among sharks, and he has spent nearly thirty...
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New Mexico's Reptiles and Amphibians: A Field Guide
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /New Mexico is home to 165 species and subspecies of snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs, toads, and salamanders. Some are ubiquitous and others are l...
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The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate. From ants ...
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Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, wh...
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