1.
Series:
Flora of the Pacific Northwest
An Illustrated Manual
2nd edition
Hardcover
C. Leo Hitchcock
9780295742885
$112.50
NATURE
Grade (US) from 17
Oct 02, 2018
Flora of the Pacific Northwest, first published in 1973, became an instant classic for its innovative style of providing species descriptions in the identification keys, and for its comprehensive illustrations of nearly all treated taxa (species, subspecies, and varieties). Students rely on it as an essential primer, while veteran botanists and natural resource managers use it as the definitive reference for the region's flora.This completely revised and updated edition captures the advances in vascular plant systematics over the decades since ...
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2.
Series:
Pacific Northwest Insects
Paperback
Merrill A. Peterson
9780914516187
$37.95
NATURE
Sep 01, 2018
This field guide is an indispensable resource to naturalists, educators, gardeners, and others. Engaging and accessible, Pacific Northwest Insects features detailed species accounts, each with a vivid photograph of a living adult, along with information for distinguishing similar species, allowing the reader to identify more than 3,000 species found from southern British Columbia to northern California, and as far east as Montana. The book features most of the commonly encountered insects, spiders, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes, and kin in ...
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3.
Series:
Endangered Species
Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity
Paperback
Barbara C. Matilsky
9780692083314
$44.90
ART
Grade (US) from 17
Sep 01, 2018
Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity highlights sixty artists who celebrate biodiversity's beauty, interpret natural and human-induced extinctions, and focus on endangered species from diverse ecosystems. It includes the work of artists who spotlight human actions threatening biodiversity alongside art projects that revitalize habitats and reconnect people to the natural world.Endangered Species surveys a wide range of approaches and media used by artists spanning the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries....
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4.
Series:
Fish Wars and Trout Travesties
Saving Southern Alberta's Coldwater Streams in the 1920s
Paperback
George Colpitts
9781927356715
$24.99
HISTORY
Grade (US) from 17
Aug 31, 2021
Today, efforts at environmental protection commonly take the form of “top-down” measures, in which overarching plans, usually based on scientific reports, are implemented through environmental legislation, which is then enforced at the local level. Fish Wars and Trout Travesties offers an instructive glimpse into an earlier era, before the state assumed its present degree of regulatory control over the environment. In southern Alberta of the 1920s, townspeople and civic leaders took a spirited interest in the management of their local rivers an...
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5.
Series:
Staying Healthy Abroad
A Global Traveler's Guide
Paperback
Christopher Sanford
9780295744384
$29.90
TRAVEL
Grade (US) from 17
Dec 11, 2018
Whether planning a long weekend in Mexico or an African safari, travelers need current and practical information on protecting their health in foreign countries. Staying Healthy Abroad gives straightforward and easy-to-follow recommendations for those traveling for pleasure, study, business, or volunteer work; for short- or long-term stays; and to destinations ranging from rural areas to large cities, in both developing and industrialized nations.Observing that risk is determined less by where you go than by what you do, physician and...
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6.
Series:
Style and Story
Literary Methods for Writing Nonfiction
Paperback
Stephen J. Pyne
9780816537891
$24.95
Oct 02, 2018
There are two basic rules for writing nonfiction, says historian and award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne. Rule 1: You can’t make stuff up. Rule 2: You can’t leave out known stuff that affects our understanding. Follow these rules, and you are writing nonfiction. Writing for different audiences and genres will require further guidelines. But all readers expect that style and story (or more broadly, theme) will complement one another.Style and Story is for those who wish to craft nonfiction texts that do more than simply relay facts and ar...
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7.
Series: Mingling Voices Series
What We Are, When We Are
Kaj smo, ko smo
Paperback
Cvetka Lipu
9781771992497
$19.99
POETRY
Oct 31, 2018
Working within a postmodern style, this rhythmic and melodious collection of poems originally written in Slovenian by Cvetka Lipu and translated here by Tom Priestly, blends the real with the surreal, dull urban lives with dreams. Lipu, known for the lexical beauty of her work, dwells on topics of time and space which she handles in an almost revolving, irreverent manner. Priestly captures the maze-like characteristic of her verse and carefully reconstructs the sonoric beauty of the work in its original language.