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Tuna: A Love Story
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Know Your Tuna - Tuna is the most popular food fish in the world. It is eaten raw, cooked, in sandwiches, in salads, and in catfood.
- The total worldwide tuna harvest is four million tons.
- In the past, tuna fishermen in the eastern tropical Pacific set their nets around dolphins, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of dolphins.
- There are many kinds of tuna, but the most popular for the Japanese sashimi market is the bluefin, one of the larg...
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Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds
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Sam Keen, the New York Times best-selling author of Fire in the Belly, has spent a lifetime reflecting on nature. In Sightings, a collection of essays, bird watching forms the basis for observations spiritual and soulful, witty and wise. He describes his childhood ramblings in the silence of the Tennessee wilderness as feeling distinctly more spiritual than the hard pews of his grandmother's church. Later in life, the presumed extinction and subsequent rediscovery of the ... |
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City Walks: Los Angeles: 50 Adventures on Foot
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Who says nobody walks in Los Angeles? Skip the bumper-to-bumper traffic and discover the real City of Angels. Walks include:
- Rodeo Drive
- Hollywood Boulevard
- Venice Boardwalk
- Griffith Park
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City Walks Deck: Philadelphia
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Discover the city of brotherly love—on foot! This deck is complete with detailed maps and insider information.
Walks include:
• The Liberty Bell
• Independence Hall
• Betsy Ross House
• Washington Square |
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Apocalypse Chow: How to Eat Well When the Power Goes Out
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Right now, somewhere in America, a storm has knocked out the electricity. With Apocalypse Chow! Jon Robertson delivers a very practical guide to eating with elegance even when the refrigerator, stove, and microwave are rendered powerless. With simple tips on how to shop, store, and prepare gourmet food, this book will help anyone who is forced to dine in the dark. Discover how the right nonperishables and a little creative heat can turn into renowned chef Robin Robertson's savory... |
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City Walks: Toronto 50 Adventures on Foot
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Discover the excitement of Toronto on foot! This deck is complete with detailed maps and insider information. Walks include:
The Harbourfront
Queen Street West
The Entertainment District
Toronto Islands
Bloor Street |
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Home to Roost: A Backyard Farmer Chases Chickens Through the Ages
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Each day, Bob Sheasley leaves Lilyfield Farm and heads into the city. And each day, he brings along a basket of eggs for his coworkers at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Depending on the breed of hen, these eggs may be white, green, rose, blue, or as brown as chocolate. And they are all deliciously fresh, a taste of the rural way of life that people have enjoyed for millennia, one in which chickens have played a supporting role for nearly as long. In Hom... |
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1,001 Ways to Save the Earth
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Features: 1,001 Ways to Save the Earth. Proves that simple ideas can have major environmental impact. Easy tips for every budget and every day. Cutting-edge ideas for supporting alternative energy. Reducing consumption will inspire veteran recyclers. Plus, the book itself is printed with vegetable-based inks. On paper from sustainable managed forests. |
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Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal
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The blue whale holds the title of largest creature that has ever lived, and it may also be the most mysterious. The biggest blue whales can outweigh every player in Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League combined. Their mouths can gulp more than thirteen thousand gallons of seawater. A newborn can be over twenty feet long and gain nearly twenty tons in seven months—about eight pounds per hour. Blue whales emit more powerful sounds than any other animal on earth, tho... |
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Man vs. Weather: Be Your Own Weatherman
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A humorous and practical guide to the history and science of understanding the weather?plus, how to build your own barometer!
For as long as man has walked upon this earth, he has been forced to survive under the cruel tyranny of weather. Let?s face it: there is no escape. Now, in Man vs. Weather, humorist Dennis DiClaudio offers up the knowledge to beat weather at its own game. Rooting through conventional wisdom, discovered gadgetry, and the advances of science, this b... |
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Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
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Could an adorable chimpanzee raised from infancy by a human family bridge the gap between species—and change the way we think about the boundaries between the animal and human worlds? Here is the strange and moving account of an experiment intended to answer just those questions, and the astonishing biography of the chimp who was chosen to see it through.
Dubbed Project Nim, the experiment was the brainchild of Herbert S. Terrace, a psychologist at Columbia University. His goal w... |
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Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan ... And the World
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Why do we see pigeons as lowly urban pests and how did they become such common city dwellers? Courtney Humphries traces the natural history of the pigeon, recounting how these shy birds that once made their homes on the sparse cliffs of sea coasts came to dominate our urban public spaces. While detailing this evolution, Humphries introduces us to synanthropy: The concept that animals can become dependent on humans without ceasing to be wild; they can adapt to the cityscape as if it were a... |
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Fish That Fake Orgasms: And Other Zoological Curiosities
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“If you are interested in transvestite garter snakes, the speed-eating habits of the star-nosed mole, or how geckos behave in zero gravity, you will enjoy Fish That Fake Orgasms.” ---The Times (UK)
Packed with fascinating, bizarre, amazing, and hilarious entries, Fish That Fake Orgasms takes you on a guided tour of the diverse natural life that surrounds us. It covers eating and drinking, playing and preying, carousing and canoodling--... |
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Where the Birds Are: A Travel Guide to Over 1,000 Parks, Preserves, and Sanctuaries
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Profiling a series of birdwatching excursions within reach of 35 major cities and population centers, Dolezal presents a practical rundown of road trips for bird-loving city-dwellers and those who may be visiting. Following a cleverly-designed table of contents that presents each jumping-off point (San Francisco, the Winnepeg Area, Boston to Cape Cod, etc.) on a regional map, Dolezal focuses in on urban centers across the U.S. and southern Canada with a similarly user-friendly approach. Sceni... |
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The Sixth Extinction: Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind
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The Sixth Extinction is a haunting account of the age in which we live. Ecologists are calling it the Sixth Great Extinction, and the world isn’t losing just its ecological legacy; also vanishing is a vast human legacy of languages and our ways of living, seeing, and knowing. Terry Glavin confirms that we are in the midst of a nearly unprecedented, catastrophic vanishing of animals, plants, a... |
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Destination Wildlife (Perigee)
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1,001 animals to see before they die.
From the world?s only multi-species primate sanctuary in South Africa, to the wild ponies of Assateague Island, to the Blue-Footed Boobies of the Galapagos Islands, Destination Wildlife provides all the information the intrepid traveler looking for the best wildlife experiences could need?and rarely finds in other travel guides.
Written from a visitor?s perspective?and informed by the National Wildlife Federation and other nat... |
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Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World
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Natural disasters, climate change, resource exploitation, and human development are all changing our planet at a relentless pace. Turn on the television, read any newspaper—one cannot avoid stories of the major changes that are taking place on Earth. Hurricanes and tornados in the Midwest, flooding along the coasts, melting of polar ice caps. What's going on? This book is an attempt to answer some of those questions. Written by leading ex... |
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| Deceptively Delicious |
| It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inconvenient truth that kids simply refuse to eat vegetables and other healthy foods, how can average parents ensure their kids are getting the proper nutrition and avoiding bad eating habits?
As a mother of three, Jessica Seinfeld can speak for all parents who struggle to feed their kids right and deal nightly with dinnertime fiascos. As she wages a personal war against sugars, packaged foods, and other nutritional saboteurs |
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