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Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family's nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to...
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Bold Type Books
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2010-01-26
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This Print On Demand book will be sent within 3 weeks (metropolitan France) and in a separate package if you order another paperback book.Cet ouvrage en impression à la demande sera envoyé sous 3 semaines environ (France métropolitaine) et dans un colis séparé en cas de...
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éditions Quae
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2010-01-19
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The bestselling reference on environmental microbiology—now in a new edition This is the long-awaited and much-anticipated revision of the bestselling text and reference. Based on the latest information and investigative techniques from molecular biology and genetics,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-01-08
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We all now know that the arctic is the canary in the coal mine of climate change, but that is only part of the story. As Alun Anderson reveals in this fascinating book, the melting snow and ice are now giving way to a much bigger story of battles over vast deposits of...
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Virgin Digital
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2009-11-24
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A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers.Born in 1922 in the tiny Portuguese village of Azinhaga, José Saramago was only a baby when his family moved to a series of cramped lodgings in a...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-11-05
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Competing at dog shows is an excellent way for the family - both young and old alike - to enjoy a hobby together. Many people enter this sport first with a family pet as a fun day out and then move on to more serious competition at championship level. The ultimate goal...
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How to Books
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2009-10-30
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'It didn't matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel. All that mattered to Neil as he searched for a safe spot to land was that boulders littered the surface below....
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Ebury Digital
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2009-10-06
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For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives -- as well as those who have already brought a dog home. Based on Cesar's own detailed experiences raising individual puppies from some of the most popular breeds, How to Raise the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-10-01
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Attract beautiful nesting birds to your backyard with this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated guide from America's foremost authorities on birds and nature. Experience the joy of watching baby birds being raised just outside your door. With the Stokes Birdhouse...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2009-09-26
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Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-09-24
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Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-09-24
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If you don’t know the difference between a bridle and a saddle but your child dreams of riding horses, this informative guide will answer all of your most pressing questions. Elise Gaston Chand provides informed and sensible tips on finding qualified instructors,...
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Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2009-09-16
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The Moss Physcomitrella patens has rapidly become an experimental model of choice for many aspects of molecular, cell and developmental biology in plant sciences. With a recently sequenced genome, which has further fuelled interest and research, Physcomitrella is...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-09-08
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Annual Plant Reviews
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This "miracle" of a guide book shows readers how to maintain harmony within their environment (Margaret Renkl, The Washington Post). In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant...
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Timber Press
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2009-09-01
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In New England, 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer. Crops failed throughout America and, in Western Europe, it was even worse, with food riots and armed groups raiding bakeries and grain markets. All this turmoil followed a catastrophic volcanic eruption--a year...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-08-28
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Die Waldtypen Bayerns in Wort und Bild - von den Schneeheidekieferwäldern der Alpen über Silberweiden - Auwälder bis hin zu den subkontinentalen Fingerkraut-Eichenwäldern Unterfrankens. Ausführliche Beschreibungen charakterisieren die einzelnen Gesellschaften mit...
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Wiley-VCH
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2009-08-14
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All animals are equal - but some, as George Orwell said, are more equal than others, and birds, most people would surely agree, are in the very first rank. They can do almost everything that mammals can do - and more. By mastering flight, they have a way of living that...
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Penguin
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2009-08-06
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On February 1, 2003, ten astronauts were orbiting the planet. Seven headed back to Earth on the space shuttle Columbia. They never made it. And the three men left behind found themselves too far from home. Chris Jones chronicles the efforts of the beleaguered Mission...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-07-15
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With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem - or thinks it does.Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food - enough to feed all the world's hungry...
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Penguin
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2009-07-02
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From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see similar forms and patterns wherever there is flow - whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds. It is the complex...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-06-11
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