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Hummingbirds: (Hardcover)
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They have been called glittering fragments of the rainbow, jewels of the air. They have fascinated the Victorian poets as well as gardeners, birdwatchers, and anyone lucky enough to see one. They are the dazzling hummingbirds of the world, found solely in the Americas. With their lightning speed and iridescent plumage that appears to change color with the sun, it’s extremely difficult to capture a hummingbird in a photograph and do the amazing creatures justice. Incredibly, this wonderful book manages just that with 50 gorgeous photos highlighting the hummingbirds’ different species, attributes, and many talents. Comprehensive text also presents information about their habitats and lives, rapturous quotes from their many eloquent fans, and practical advice for attracting them to your garden. Just make sure you’ve accomplished everything you need to do in the day before watching these acrobatic wonders because you won’t be able to tear yourself away anytime soon.
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The Awesome Book of Bugs: (Paperback)
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Kids are fascinated by science and nature, but most of all . . . bugs! This third book in the Awesome series is larger-than-life, revealing over 200 facts for kids of all ages, including tales and theories of how bugs got their names, what they look like, and where they live. Just in time for spring and summer outdoor adventures, this entertaining guide is jam-packed with 288 pages of fascinating facts, awesome jokes, and fun illustrations. These interesting insects and creepy crawly invertebrates will leave kids squirming to explore!
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The Hummingbird Feeder Kit: (Paperback)
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Just when your backyard seems commonplace and boring, a visiting hummingbird can dart in and liven it up. These daring acrobats of the skies show off with spectacular twists, loops, and upside down, backward, and side-to-side tricks, demonstrating more stunts than Evel Knievel. This kit is easy to set-up-just add sugar water-you’ll be attracting exciting hummingbirds in no time. Everything you need is included: flower-shaped feeder with hanger, hummingbird stickers, and 32-page Hummingbird Handbook.
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The Mammoth Book of Maneaters: Over 250 Terrifying True Accounts of Predators from Pre-history to the Present (Paperback)
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Man-eating creatures roam, stalk, crouch, wait, leap, slither, swim, crawl, perch, and attack in the pages of this gripping Mammoth Book. Drawn from newspapers and autobiographies, the compelling real-life stories in this volume begin with "Danger in the Home," which includes not only accounts of attacks by domestic pets and farm animals but also shocking tales of cougars invading towns in Montana and polar bears terrorizing Alaskan suburbs. After exploration "Out on the Plains"—with riveting narratives of big cats from nonfiction adventures like Beryl Markham's West With the Night as well as of buffalo, bison, dingos, and rhinos—editor Alex MacCormick, herself the author of Shark Attacks, surveys the perils presented by marine predators like orcas, octopi, jellyfish, and giant clams "Beneath the Waves," including a gory meeting between a shark and a member of the British royal family in the Caribbean. MacCormick then travels "Up the Creek" among alligators and terrifying varieties of river snakes. An extract from David Fletcher's hair-raising tale with a vengeful 1200-pound grizzly in Hunted highlights the treacheries that lie "In the Wilderness," while "Jungle Stories" takes the reader into nail-biting accounts of man meeting man-eating enemies ranging from tigers to soldier ants.
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The Mammoth Book of the Deep: Over 30 True Stories of Danger and Adventure Under the Sea (Paperback)
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Thirty true-life stories of endurance and adventure from our planet's final frontier.
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Dancing with Your Dark Horse: How Horse Sense Helps Us Find Balance, Strength, and Wisdom (Paperback)
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In Dancing with Your Dark Horse, Chris Irwin, world-renowned as one of the most successful horse whisperers in North America, further explores the intriguing spiritual connection he has discovered between human and equine nature. Based on his more than twenty years of working with, training, and observing horses, Irwin explains how the characteristics necessary to building good relationships with horses can in turn be used to establish a positive balance between mind, body, and spirit in our own lives. Dancing with Your Dark Horse will help readers see that horses have a great deal to teach us about how to live happier, healthier, and more balanced lives.
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Ask Now the Beasts: Our Kinship with Animals Wild and Domestic (Paperback)
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We connect with animals on many levels, whether walking a dog, riding a horse, observing gorillas at the zoo, playing with a teddy bear as a child, or even simply watching them on TV and in movies. We call our sports teams Wolverines, Bobcats, Grizzlies, and Panthers. We can be gentle as a dove, fierce as a grizzly, or as agile as a cat. Some of us may even dream of being reborn as a different species. We typically accept these connections for what they are, taking for granted what is really a remarkable — and necessary — part of our existence. In Ask Now the Beasts, acclaimed nature writer Ruth Rudner explores the eternal and complicated connections between humans and animals. In a series of true stories about her own interactions and observations of some of the many animals that have crossed her path, she writes about the powerful ways that animals interact with us spiritually, activate our imaginations, and tie us to the ancient past. Moving between domestic and wild, Rudner finds meaning and appreciation for the way in which each animal exists fully in its own world — and how that world relates to ours.
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A Chimp in the Family: The True Story of Two Infants--One Human, One Chimpanzee--Growing Up Together (Paperback)
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In 1990, when Vince Smith—currently manager of the Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund's mountain gorilla conservation program— was working as a senior keeper at Chester Zoo in the English countryside, a newborn chimpanzee in his care was abandoned by her mother. Named Sophie, the infant chimp was taken home and hand-reared by Vince and his wife. Six months later another new baby arrived: Oliver, their son. A Chimp in the Family is the compelling and entertaining account of Sophie's life. Vince Smith vividly describes the parallel upbringing of Sophie and Oliver—through her early years with Vince and his family, her traumatic journey back to the zoo and her unsuccessful efforts to socialize with other chimps, her repatriation to Africa and reunion with her human foster family, and her integration in a semi-wild group of chimpanzees. A book both humorous (a family outing with both babies to the local pizzeria) and ultimately heartbreaking, A Chimp in the Family provides fascinating photographs and insights into the nature of our closest-living relatives—as well as the nature of human development.
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The Zoo on the Road to Nablus: A Story of Survival from the West Bank (Paperback)
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A Rum Affair: A True Story Of Botanical Fraud (Paperback)
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A Rum Affair is an absorbing tale of scientific chicanery and academic intrigue—critically acclaimed and a finalist for the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize. In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: Species of plants on the islands off the west coast of Scotland, he said, had survived the last Ice Age. His premise flew in the face of evidence that the last advance of the ice sheets extended well south of mainland Scotland, but he said he had proof—the plants and grasses found on the Isle of Rum—that would make his name in the scientific world. Harrison didn't anticipate, however, the tenacious John Raven, an amateur botanist who boldly questioned whether these grasses were truly indigenous to the area, or whether they had been transported there and planted. What seems at first a minor infringement of academic honesty soon becomes an enthralling tale of rival scientists and fraudulent science, a skillful whodunit that, in the hands of the talented Sabbagh, joins the ranks of the best narrative nonfiction.
   
 
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