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An Eagle's Sky: My Life as a Birdman: How I Helped a One-Winged Eagle Fly Again
ISBN: 9780615833248 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,83 |
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Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
ISBN: 9781250048714 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years, protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House. With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Irene scouring the Atlantic, McKibben recognized that action was needed if solutions were to be found. Some... Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustaina... |
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Healing Rhinos and Other Souls: The Extraordinary Fortunes of a Bushveld Vet
ISBN: 9781492324928 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,99 |
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Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
ISBN: 9780813562421 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new, contemporary audience. Rachel Carson was the first American to combine two longstanding, but separate strands of American environmentalism--the love of nature and a concern for human health. Widely known for her 1962 best-seller, Silent Spring, Carson is today often perceived as a solitary "great woman," whose work...
In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carso...
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608,48 |
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Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard: Based On Actual Events
ISBN: 9781492907428 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,83 |
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The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular Park
ISBN: 9780700619672 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leader of the first tourist expedition into Yosemite in 1855, James Mason Hutchings became a tireless promoter of the valley--and of himself. Seeking to create an alternative to California's Gold Rush social chaos, Hutchings whetted the public enthusiasm for this unspoiled land by mass producing a lithograph of Yosemite Falls, while his Hutchings' California Magazine beat the drum for tourism. But because of his later legal imbroglios over the park, Hutchings was effectively written out of its history, and today he is largely viewed as an opportunist who made a career out of exploiting...
Leader of the first tourist expedition into Yosemite in 1855, James Mason Hutchings became a tireless promoter of the valley--and of himself. Seeking ...
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116,78 |
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Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin
ISBN: 9780199342488 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murray Bookchin was not only one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century--he was also one of the most prescient. From industrial agriculture to nuclear radiation, Bookchin has been at the forefront of every major ecological issue since the very beginning, often proposing a solution before most people even recognized there was a problem. Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin is the first biography of this groundbreaking environmental and political thinker. Author Janet Biehl worked as his collaborator and copyeditor...
Murray Bookchin was not only one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century--he was also one of the m...
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186,72 |
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Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard Short Stories: Memories
ISBN: 9781495235511 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for taking a look at my book. This is the first volume in the Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard Short Stories Series. This is a follow up book to the original Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard, The First Year. These books are all based on actual events that occured to my family and me while living on a ranch in central Texas. We have lived on what I like to call "The Bigfoot Ranch," for two years now, and continue to live there till this day. We also continue to have activity on a weekly basis, sometimes nightly. So, join me on my journey as I try to explain, describe, and understand the...
Thank you for taking a look at my book. This is the first volume in the Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard Short Stories Series. This is a follow up book to...
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27,97 |
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Louis Bromfield and His Malabar Farm
ISBN: 9780615766584 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will take you from the birth year of Louis Bromfield, until his dying day in March of 1956. "Louis Bromfield and his Malabar Farm" touches on every aspect from Mr. Bromfield's life as a World War One soldier to his days of entertaining world class guests to changing the agriculture field as we know it today. In this book you will learn what life was like at Malabar, the people who lived there, and how Louis, farm managers, and farm hands revived over 900 acres of land. Explore the halls of the "Big House" and the hills of Malabar Farm as author, Joe James, takes you around the most...
This book will take you from the birth year of Louis Bromfield, until his dying day in March of 1956. "Louis Bromfield and his Malabar Farm" touches o...
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87,48 |
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A Year and a Day on Just a Few Acres
ISBN: 9781495499579 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Peter Larson, a 44 year old principal at an architectural firm decides to leave his job to restart his family's seventh generation farm near Ithaca, New York, he encounters doubting ghosts of his former self, hundreds of frankenchickens, fifty personable turkeys, three pigs, one enduring friendship, and the true self he has searched for his whole life. Filled with the psychology of change and down to earth stories of farming and homesteading, this is the true story of making the leap so many wish for but dare not.
When Peter Larson, a 44 year old principal at an architectural firm decides to leave his job to restart his family's seventh generation farm near Itha...
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67,83 |
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Bear in the Back Seat II: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
ISBN: 9780988564374 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second volume in a national best selling series of true stories from " a]n extraordinary landscape populated with befuddled bears, hormonally-crazed elk, homicidal wild boars, hopelessly timid wolves, and nine million tourists, some of whom are clueless." The first volume was a #9 Wall Street Journal Bestseller in December of 2013. In Kim DeLozier's world, when sedated wild black bears wake up unexpectedly in the back seat of a helicopter in mid-flight, or in his car as he's driving down the highway, or in his office while he's talking on the phone, it's just another day in the...
This is the second volume in a national best selling series of true stories from " a]n extraordinary landscape populated with befuddled bears, hormona...
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39,18 |
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Bootstrap Geologist: My Life in Science
ISBN: 9780813060552 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The most innovative figure in marine geology has shared a lifetime of self-growth and challenging adventures in the danger zones between science and politics."--Marlan W. Downey, Bartell Professor of Geoscience, University of Oklahoma, and former president of Arco International "Written in a frank, sometimes earthy style, Bootstrap Geologist leads the reader through life in the Persian Gulf, diving in the Gulf of Mexico, and the bureaucratic constraints of big oil. I couldn t stop reading "--Bruce Purser, emeritus professor, University of Paris "Demonstrates how one can... "The most innovative figure in marine geology has shared a lifetime of self-growth and challenging adventures in the danger zones between science a... |
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Animal Encounters
ISBN: 9781496146014 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live on a rapidly urbanizing planet, ever more enmeshed in technological artifacts, electronic communication devices and disembodied "virtual" worlds, far more separated from the natural world than any previous generations of humans. And yet, if we think about it, nearly all of us will realize that even we denizens of the 21st Century have quite a lot of contact with non-human animals, both domesticated and wild, over the course of our lives, and that some of these experiences, especially those that occur when we're young, can be highly significant, even formative. This collection of...
We live on a rapidly urbanizing planet, ever more enmeshed in technological artifacts, electronic communication devices and disembodied "virtual" worl...
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40,03 |
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Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness
ISBN: 9781630262747 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indies born Frenchman arrived in New York City, fleeing Napoleon s conscription. His work would become inextricably entwined with the new world he so proudly adopted in his motto America, my country.
Inspired by the primeval forests and the vast flocks of birds that thrived in them, Audubon spent the next several decades of his life painstakingly documenting the birds of the American wilderness. He traveled the back roads and bayous, searching out and studying the birds that were his pastime and passion. He spent long, silent hours observing them in the... In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indies born Frenchman arrived in New York City, fleeing Napoleon s conscription. His work would become inextricably...
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Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
ISBN: 9781476710846 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Much more than a coming-of-age story, Badluck Way is an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animals, and the necessary damage that can occur when boundaries are crossed" (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys). In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes life on the remote, windswept Sun Ranch in southwest Montana. The Sun's twenty thousand acres of rangeland occupy a still-wild corner of southwest Montana--a high valley surrounded...
"Much more than a coming-of-age story, Badluck Way is an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly...
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Ma Thicket: The Story of Ethel Osborn Hill
ISBN: 9781497482067 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,83 |
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A Hunger for High Country: One Woman's Journey to the Wild in Yellowstone Country
ISBN: 9780870717567 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the 1970s few women were employed by the United States Forest Service. During the 1960s and 70s new environmental and fair employment laws meant that the Forest Service began to hire talented women in professional careers. For the first time women began working as wildlife biologists, geologists, soil scientists, and fisheries biologists for the U.S. Forest Service. A Hunger for High Country is the story of one of these women. Set in the national forests surrounding Yellowstone National Park, A Hunger for High Country is part memoir and part profile of a time and place. Susan Marsh...
Before the 1970s few women were employed by the United States Forest Service. During the 1960s and 70s new environmental and fair employment laws mean...
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72,96 |
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Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
ISBN: 9780500252109 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. InNaturalists in Paradise, Amazon expert John Hemming weaves the riveting stories of these three men's experiences in the Amazon and assesses their valuable research that drastically changed our conception of the natural world. Each of the three naturalists is famous for a particular discovery: Wallace is credited, along with Charles Darwin, for developing the theory of evolution; Bates uncovered the phenomenon of protective mimicry among insects; and Spruce transported the quinine-bearing Cinchona tree to India, saving countless lives from malaria. Drawing on the letters and books...
InNaturalists in Paradise, Amazon expert John Hemming weaves the riveting stories of these three men's experiences in the Amazon and assesses...
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100,17 |
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Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard The Second Year: The Second Year
ISBN: 9781501060748 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,99 |
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The End of the Rainy Season: Discovering My Family's Hidden Past in Brazil
ISBN: 9781593766023 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marian Lindberg grew up being told that Walter Lindberg, the man who raised her father, was a brave explorer who had been murdered in the Amazon. She took her father s claims at face value, basking in her exotic roots, until she started to notice things. The unverified legend became a riddle she couldn t solve.
As Lindberg moved from journalism to law, fell in love, and sought a family of her own, her father repeatedly interfered. He had a closed vision of his family, and sheunlike the silent Walterwas breaking out. Yet her father s story of the past haunted Lindberg. Long after her... Marian Lindberg grew up being told that Walter Lindberg, the man who raised her father, was a brave explorer who had been murdered in the Amazon. She ...
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