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  • Every Creature Has a Story

    What Science Reveals about Animal Behaviour

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    We are surrounded by an astounding variety of lifeforms. Over millennia, they have evolved to exploit unique niches, in the process developing features and skills that set them apart.Have you ever wondered what price the giraffe pays for its long neck? The neck increases its blood pressure to pump blood up to its brain, which endangers its life every time it bends down to drink. Or have you ... Leer más

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  • Snakes, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

    My Early Years

    A legend in the arena of wildlife conservation and affectionately hailed as the 'Snakeman of India', Romulus Whitaker has had a lifelong love affair with the 'fierce creatures' that share our planet. This first volume of his fascinating memoir brings the India of the 1950s and the US of the 1960s to life.When his mother married and moved to Mumbai, Whitaker was transplanted from a conventional ... Leer más

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    The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

    The New York Times–bestselling "exploration of the world from a piscine perspective . . . makes a persuasive case that what fish know is quite a lot" (Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books).Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, ethologist Jonathan ... Leer más

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  • Swamplandia!

    de Karen Russell ...
    *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—*about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family."Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times**Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire ... Leer más

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  • This is Not a Drill

    Just another glorious day in the oilfield

    de Paul Carter ...
    Carter writes as if he has ADD, careering through his life on oil rigs in exotic locations. He won't win the Booker, but his yarns burn with anarchic energy ... in a word, irrepressible.' - Herald SunHe's back on the rigs and back in trouble.Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out more tall tales of a mad, bad and dangerous life in the international oil trade. Starting with ... Leer más

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  • Darwin Comes to Town

    How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

    *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.*Europe's urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic.How is this happening?Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our ... Leer más

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  • Pests

    How Humans Create Animal Villains

    An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons—and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural worldA squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild ... Leer más

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  • The Best of Outside

    The First 20 Years

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    The man-eating proclivities of Komodo dragons. The complicated art of being a cowgirl. A picaresque ramble with a merry band of tree-cleaners. The big-wave crusaders of the world's best surfers. For the past twenty years, Outside magazine has set the standard for original and engaging reports on travel, adventure, sports, and the environment.Along the way, many of America's best journalists and ... Leer más

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  • The Incredible Human Journey

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  • Motorcycle Messengers

    Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride

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  • Travels In A Strange State

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  • The Extreme Life of the Sea

    "A fascinating exploration of this vast mysterious universe. Wonderfully written, it will grab you from page one and carry you all the way through." ―Philippe CousteauThe ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world—the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures ... Leer más

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