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  • Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World

    A Story of Love, Work, Marriage, and Friendship

    by Kathy Chamberlain ...
    "Intelligent, witty, thoroughly engaging . . . the most fascinating biography I have read in years." — The Minneapolis Star TribuneShe was one of the all-time great letter writers, according to Virginia Woolf, but as the wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle has been much overlooked. In this "hugely satisfying" new biography ( The Spectator), Kathy Chamberlain ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecology and Conservation of Mountain Birds

    Edited by Dan Chamberlain, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Kathy Martin ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    High mountain habitats are globally important for biodiversity. At least 12% of birds worldwide breed at or above the treeline, many of which are endemic species or species of conservation concern. However, due to the challenges of studying mountain birds in difficult-to-access habitats, little is known about their status and trends. This book provides the first global review of the ecology, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Man Who Invented Christmas

    How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

    by Les Standiford ...
    As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world—now a major motion picture.Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol ... Read more

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  • Not Just Jane

    Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature

    by Shelley DeWees ...
    “Not Just Jane restores seven of England’s most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer’s story with wit, passion, and an astute understanding of the society in which she lived and wrote.”**—**Dr. Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of Georgiana: Duchess of DevonshireJane Austen and the Brontës endure as ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World

    Ecology and Conservation

    Edited by Dominick A. DellaSala ...
    While tropical rainforests have received much conservation attention and support for their protection, temperate and boreal rainforests have been largely overlooked. Yet these ecosystems are also unique, supporting rainforest communities rich in plants and wildlife and containing some of the most massive trees on Earth.Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World brings together leading ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Mystery of Charles Dickens

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A "marvelous exploration" of Dickens's life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).An exceedingly rare talent and great orator, slight of build with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Charles Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marine Conservation Biology

    The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity

    by Marine Conservation Biology Institute ...
    Humans are terrestrial animals, and our capacity to see and understand the importance and vulnerability of life in the sea has trailed our growing ability to harm it. While conservation biologists are working to address environmental problems humans have created on land, loss of marine biodiversity, including extinctions and habitat degradation, has received much less attention. At the same time, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Parallel Lives

    Five Victorian Marriages

    by Phyllis Rose ...
    In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot--née Marian Evans. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

  • The Dusky Dolphin

    Master Acrobat Off Different Shores

    Edited by Melany Wursig, Bernd Würsig ...
    The Dusky Dolphin: Master Acrobat Off Different Shores covers various topics about the dusky dolphin, including its taxonomy, history and demography, ecology, and behavior. After introducing the dusky dolphin as a member of the genus Lagenorhynchus under the family Delphinidae, the book continues by describing its life history, its demographic patterns, and its role in the food web considering ... Read more

    $90.89 USD

  • Second Growth

    The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

    by Robin L. Chazdon ...
    For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Invisible Woman

    The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

    by Claire Tomalin ...
    Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted thirteen years and destroyed Dickens’s marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record.In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Tropical Rain Forests

    An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison

    by Richard T. Corlett, Richard B. Primack ...
    The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of ‘the rain forest’ as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical rain forest regions, in tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and New Guinea, have as many differences as similarities, as a result of their isolation from each other during the evolution of their ... Read more

    $146.00 USD