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The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
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Kathryn Lasky,Christopher G. Knight |
Describes the work of Meg Lowman in the rainforest canopy, an area unexplored until the last ten years and home to previously unknown species of plants and animals. |
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Flight of the Goose
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Lesley Thomas |
A coming-of-age story, a cross cultural love story, an eco-novel with deep ecology, and the story of the initiation of a young shaman woman in the contemporary Alaskan Arctic. |
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Earth keepers
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Stuart A. Kallen |
Examines the lives of three people who were pioneer naturalists and ecologists. |
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The story of Rachel Carson and the environmental movement
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Leila Merrell Foster |
Describes the life of ecologist Rachel Carson, with emphasis on the importance of her books for the environmental movement. |
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Get a life
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Nadine Gordimer |
Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he is diagnosed with thyroid cancer, he receives treatment … |
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Margaret Murie
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Jennifer Bryant |
A biography of the conservationist, known as the "godmother" of the environmental movement, who grew up in the Alaska territory and became a major force behind the preservation of the Alaskan wildern… |
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Pioneers of ecology
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Donald W. Cox |
Brief biographies of fifteen early pioneers in the field of ecology. |
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Sick Puppy
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Carl Hiaasen |
When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not … |
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Wish you were here
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Nick Webb |
It all started when Douglas Adams demolished planet Earth in order to make way for an intergalactic expressway--and then invited everyone to thumb a ride on a comical cosmic road trip with the likes … |
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Don't panic
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Douglas Adams,Simon Jones,Neil Gaiman |
'It's all absolutely devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies'
**Douglas Adams**
*Don't Panic* celebrates the life of an ape-descended human called Douglas Adams who, in a field in Inn… |
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Listening to crickets
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Candice F. Ransom |
Examines the life of the marine biologist and science writer whose book "Silent Spring" changed the way we look at pesticides. |
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