Climategate: A Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam
December 10, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9781935071839 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Those now notorious intercepted emails documenting leading scientists conspiring to squelch global-warming skeptics and falsifying data proved exactly what Brian Sussman has been saying for years. Climategate is intended for anyone who has ever expressed skepticism about the clamorous environmentalist claims that the Earth is in peril because of mankind’s appetite for carbon-based fuels. By tracing the origins of the current climate scare, Sussman guides the reader from the diabolical minds of Marx...
Pure Sea Glass: Discovering Nature’s Vanishing Gems
November 5, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780975324608 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Pure Sea Glass is an incredible reference for any coastal enthusiast. More than 200 elegant images by photographer Celia Pearson present some of the best sea glass ever collected, along with samples of the classical glassware that is often its source. Author Richard LaMotte provides tremendous detail on all aspects of identifying sea glass, its historical significance, ways to assess rarity,...
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Sixth Edition
October 26, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780547152462 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed With all-new range maps, updated text, and 40 new paintings, the completely revised editions of two classic Peterson Field Guides are sure to be valuable additions to any birder’s pocket or daypack. At a trim size of 5 x 8, they are portable but also beautifully illustrated. Photographs, while modern looking and colorful, capture just one moment in time. The paintings in these guides,...
The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
October 21, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780767929806 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So off he went, spending six months circumnavigating the globe on the world’s worst conveyances: the statistically most dangerous airlines, the most crowded and dangerous ferries, the slowest buses, and the...
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
September 26, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780881929928 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. With the accelerating pace of development and subsequent habitat destruction, the pressures on wildlife populations are greater than ever. But there is a surprisingly important and relatively simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution to sustaining biodiversity. There is an unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife. Most native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plant species...
Dogs and All about Them
August 27, 2011 by admin
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The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map
August 4, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780345495372 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Americans have shaped the idea of wilderness, and it has shaped us. The Last Empty Places is one man’s love letter to the enduring American wild, where our country’s character was forged and its destiny set in motion. Memories of growing up in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods inspired writer Peter Stark to seek out untouched tracts of the American wilderness. What he discovered in these “blank spots” on the U.S. map is that these places are actually teeming with the rich history of our nation. Stark...
Squirrels: The Animal Answer Guide
July 25, 2011 by admin
Did you know that a groundhog is really a type of squirrel? That squirrels control their body temperature with their tails? That most squirrels have yellow-tinted eye lenses that work like sunglasses to reduce glare? That tree squirrels can turn their hind feet completely around when climbing down a tree head-first? In Squirrels: The Animal Answer Guide, Richard W. Thorington Jr. and Katie Ferrell unveil the fascinating world of one of the “most watched” mammals on the planet. The diversity of squirrels is astounding. There are 278 species that inhabit all continents except Antarctica...
The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
June 25, 2011 by admin
The world is a breathtakingly big place, and in this big book we have undertaken the big task of detailing as much of it as we can – every single country, many of the larger dependencies and other, smaller destinations. With the traveler’s experience at its heart, this book shows a slice of life in every corner of the globe, and all points in between, engaging the reader’s senses in an adventure which conjures up the sights, smells, tastes, sounds and feel of our amazing world. Rating: (out of 78 reviews) List Price: $ 30.00 Price: $ 19.80 Read More →
Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
March 27, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780865715530 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort....