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Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /As climate disruption intensifies the world over, Californians are finding solutions across a diversity of communities and landscapes. Though c...
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The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neg...
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On Time and Water
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A few years ago, Andri Snaer Magnason, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals, was asked by a leading climate scientist w...
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well plac...
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally best...
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Wisconsin State Parks: Extraordinary Stories of Geology and Natural History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Hit the trail for a dramatic look at Wisconsin’s geologic past. The impressive bluffs, valleys, waterfalls, and lakes of Wisconsin’s state parks ...
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A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“An arresting vision of this relentless natural world” (New York Times) by a leading ecologist, who urges us to heed nature’s iron laws Our spec...
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The Sea around Us
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Originally published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's abilit...
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Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Paleontology is one of the most visible yet most misunderstood fields of science. Children dream of becoming paleontologists when they grow up. M...
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Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World's Most Misunderstood Predator
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Get submerged in the amazing world of sharks! Your expert host, award-winning marine biologist Dr. David Shiffman, will show you how--and why--we s...
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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
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 beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence "[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of behold...
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this scientifically informed account of the changes in nature over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Atten...
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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Env...
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Imperfection: A Natural History
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies. In the beginning, there was i...
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Stone Desert
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"Few writers can better express the strange vitality of desert landscapes than Childs."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLYOriginally published over twenty-five yea...
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White Pine: The Natural and Human History of a Foundational American Tree
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /America was built on white pine. From the 1600s through the Civil War and beyond, it was used to build the nation's ships and houses, barns, and br...
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The Climate Action Handbook: A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"What can I do, personally, about the climate crisis? [Readers] often ask us a version of this question....[Roop] says that civic engagement is one...
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Royal Society's Science Book of the Year "[A]n exuberant romp through evolution, like a modern-day Willy Wonka of genetic space. Gee's grand to...
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Planting Our World
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /With fun, fascinating vignettes, a renowned neurobiologist illuminates the interconnectedness of plant life and how we can learn from it to better ...
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The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key even...
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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Env...
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Origin Africa: A Natural History
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A richly illustrated journey through the evolution of Africa's extraordinary natural world across deep time Origin Africa is a unique introduction ...
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth--from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicell...
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armaged...
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