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Buy Now	What Wood Is That?: A Manual of Wood Identification (Studio Book) (more) »rank: 83477 by: Herbert L. Edlin : :Strong, pliable, and natural, wood is the world's most versatile structural resource. But how to tell one kind from another and choose just the right wood for your project? This remarkable collection of forty actual wood samples shows the color, grain, and texture of the leading varieties. Detailed drawings identify uncut, unfinished trees by their leaves, fruits, and bark. Originally published in 1969, and now in its eighth printing, this straightforward text explains where each kind of tree is grown and how to use its wood to the best advantage--from lamination to veneering, from carving and molding, to finishing. Here, ...	Buy Now	Environmental Economics (more) »rank: 617162 by: Barry C Field : :Barry Field’s Environmental Economics, 3e, examines all the facets of the connection between environmental quality and the economic behavior of individuals and groups of people. The book contains 21 chapters covering Cost and Benefits of Environmental Policy, Environmental Analysis, Policy Analysis, US Policy (Air Pollution, Toxic Wastes, State and Local Issues), and International Environmental Issues. Barry Field’s other text with McGraw-Hill/Irwin, Natural Resource Economics (©2001), may be packaged with Environmental Economics, 3e, at a discount.
Buy Now	Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones (Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones) (more) »rank: 360516 by: Walter Schumann : :This handbook includes more than 600 stunning color photographs showing rocks, minerals, and gems from all over the world. Each specimen is described in detail: its origin and structure, chemical composition, hardness, color, and other properties.	Buy Now	The Sacred Earth: Writers on Nature & Spirit (more) »rank: 250162 from: New World Library : :'The Sacred Earth' is a treasury of quotations that celebrates our spiritual bond with nature--presented in a gift book format. This collection includes works by Peter Matthiessen, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, and many others. Review:'This book is no substitute for being outside,' writes the noted environmental activist David Brower in his foreword to this anthology of inspirational nature writing. For those who happen to be stuck indoors, this slender volume, composed of short prose excerpts from longer literary works, makes for a nicely vicarious experience of the wild. Jason Gardner, an environmental ...
Buy Now	Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire (more) »rank: 453967 by: Murry A. Taylor : :A compelling memoir that captures a remarkable career; Terrifying, but grimly funny, this is a portrait of a real-life daredevil; For anyone with an appetite for vicarious adventure; Fighting fires since 1965, veteran smokejumper Murray Taylor finally retired from his legendary career last summer - the worst fire season in more than fifty years. After three decades of parachuting out of planes and battling blazes in the vast, rugged wilderness that is Alaska and the West. Taylor recounts in Jumping Fire, with passion and honesty, stories of man versus nature at its most furious and unforgiving. Review:To most of ...	Buy Now	Know Your Woods (more) »rank: 1737301 by: Constantin : :A detailed examination of over three hundred wood types and how to recognize each one.
Buy Now	Working with Your Woodland: A Landowner's Guide (Revised Edition) (more) »rank: 125314 by: Mollie Beattie, Charles Thompson, Lynn Levine : :An owner's manual for forest management in New England.	Buy Now	The Cost of Living (more) »rank: 244257 by: Arundhati Roy : :From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government'sdisregard for the individual.In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but unrelenting eye on one family in India. Now she lavishes the same acrobatic language and fierce humanity on the future of her beloved country. In this spirited polemic, Roy dares to take on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that were supposed to haul this sprawling subcontinent into the modern age--but which instead have displaced untold millions--and ...
Buy Now	Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish (more) »rank: 275643 by: G. Bruce Knecht : :This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us.Hooked is a story about the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to gourmands as Chilean Sea Bass) and is built around the pursuit of the illegal fishing vessel Viarsa by an Australian patrol boat, Southern Supporter, in one of the longest pursuits in maritime history.Author G. Bruce Knecht chronicles how an obscure fish merchant in California 'discovered' and renamed the fish, kicking off a worldwide ...	Buy Now	The Trees in My Forest (more) »rank: 995302 by: Bernd Heinrich : :The soaring majesty of a virgin forest and the intertwined relationships of plant, animal and man are the subject of Bernd Heinrich's lyrical elegy. Heinrich has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, and now he shares his vast knowledge and reflections on the trees of the Northeast woods and the rhythms of their seasons. From the DNA contained in an apple seed to the great choiring branches far beyond a young boy's reach, Heinrich explores a natural world in scientific and personal terms. Heinrich is a scientist, but his words speak with the power and subtle grace of a ...