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Coast: Our Island Story
Written by Nick Crane

Hardcover | 320 pages | BBC Books | Science - Geography; Nature; Travel - Essays & Travelogues
978-1-84990-036-2 (1-84990-036-1)

November 23, 2010 | $48.50






The Brendan Voyage
Written by Tim Severin
Introduction by Malachy McCourt

eBook | 304 pages | Modern Library | Nature; Travel - Adventure
978-0-307-75560-5 (0-307-75560-6)

November 17, 2010 | $22.50



Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built...

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Biocidal

Hardcover | 288 pages | Beacon Press | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Medical - Toxicology; Science - Biochemistry
978-0-8070-0612-2 (0-8070-0612-2)

November 9, 2010 | $

(Available November 9, 2010)

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Biocidal
Written by Theodore Michael Dracos

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780807006122
Our Price: $
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(Available November 9, 2010)


The first full account of the scientific and political dynamics of global PCB contamination, and its threat to human health and the environment
 
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were first manufactured in 1920 for the electronics industry. This highly toxic group of substances was then put to widespread military and domestic use, and were...


Our Way Out
Written by Marq De Villiers

Hardcover | 400 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Science - Environmental Science; Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection
978-0-7710-2648-5 (0-7710-2648-X)

October 26, 2010 | $34.99

(Available October 26, 2010)

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Our Way Out
Written by Marq De Villiers

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771026485
Our Price: $34.99
   Quantity: 1 
(Available October 26, 2010)




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Our Way Out
Written by Marq De Villiers

eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Science - Environmental Science; Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection
978-1-55199-358-4 (1-55199-358-9)

October 26, 2010 | $34.99





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Great Migrations
Written by Karen Kostyal

Hardcover | 304 pages | National Geographic | Nature - Wildlife; Science - Zoology; Photography - Nature & Wildlife
978-1-4262-0644-3 (1-4262-0644-5)

October 19, 2010 | $40.00

(Available October 19, 2010)

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Great Migrations
Written by Karen Kostyal

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781426206443
Our Price: $40.00
   Quantity: 1 
(Available October 19, 2010)


With more than 250 color photographs, at turns arresting and gorgeous, this stunning companion includes all of the epic animal dramas that are featured in the unprecedented high definition television event to air on the National Geographic Channel. In a world of changing global temperatures both on land and in the...


Animal Magnetism
Written by Rita Mae Brown

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Ballantine Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Nature - Animals
978-0-345-51180-5 (0-345-51180-8)

September 28, 2010 | $18.00

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Animal Magnetism
Written by Rita Mae Brown

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345511805
Our Price: $18.00
   Quantity: 1 
(Available September 28, 2010)


Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and...

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In Motion
Written by Tony Hiss

Hardcover | 336 pages | Knopf | Travel; Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection
978-0-679-41597-8 (0-679-41597-1)

September 28, 2010 | $32.00

(Available September 28, 2010)

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In Motion
Written by Tony Hiss

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679415978
Our Price: $32.00
   Quantity: 1 
(Available September 28, 2010)


In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, mind-opening book, Tony Hiss delves into the question of why travel sometimes (but only sometimes) feels remarkably fresh and exhilarating, and illustrates how we can avail ourselves of this seemingly elusive quality—which he calls “deep travel”—on an everyday basis.

The sensation of deep travel can overtake us...

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In Motion
Written by Tony Hiss

eBook | 320 pages | Knopf | Travel; Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection
978-0-307-59439-6 (0-307-59439-4)

September 28, 2010 | $32.00



In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, mind-opening book, Tony Hiss delves into the question of why travel sometimes (but only sometimes) feels remarkably fresh and exhilarating, and illustrates how we can avail ourselves of this seemingly elusive quality—which he calls “deep travel”—on an everyday basis.

The sensation of deep travel can overtake us...

Also available as a hardcover.

A Nose for Justice
Written by Rita Mae Brown

Hardcover | 304 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Nature - Animals
978-0-345-51181-2 (0-345-51181-6)

September 28, 2010 | $28.95

(Available September 28, 2010)

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A Nose for Justice
Written by Rita Mae Brown

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345511812
Our Price: $28.95
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(Available September 28, 2010)




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A Nose for Justice
Written by Rita Mae Brown

eBook | 300 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Nature - Animals
978-0-345-52310-5 (0-345-52310-5)

September 28, 2010 | $28.95





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Global Birding
Written by Les Beletsky

Hardcover | 320 pages | National Geographic | Nature - Birds & Birdwatching
978-1-4262-0640-5 (1-4262-0640-2)

September 21, 2010 | $40.00

(Available September 21, 2010)

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Global Birding
Written by Les Beletsky

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781426206405
Our Price: $40.00
   Quantity: 1 
(Available September 21, 2010)


A general "how-to" book for international birding is absent. This unprecedented new book by top-selling author Les Beletsky (Birds of the World, Birdsongs) will aim to explain why birders are interested in going to other countries and where they like to go. It will act as a "bridge" for domestic birders...


Jacques Cousteau
Written by Brad Matsen

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage | Science - Oceanography; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Nature - Oceans & Seas
978-0-307-27542-4 (0-307-27542-6)

September 21, 2010 | $19.95

(Available September 21, 2010)

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Jacques Cousteau
Written by Brad Matsen

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307275424
Our Price: $19.95
   Quantity: 1 
(Available September 21, 2010)


Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.

With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this...

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The Laws of Nature
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Walt McLaughlin

Trade Paperback | 96 pages | North Atlantic Books | Nature - Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays
978-1-55643-931-5 (1-55643-931-8)

September 21, 2010 | $19.95

(Available September 21, 2010)

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The Laws of Nature
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edited by Walt McLaughlin

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781556439315
Our Price: $19.95
   Quantity: 1 
(Available September 21, 2010)


Though written in the mid-nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work, particularly his nature writing, speaks to contemporary sensibilities. The uniquely American, nature-based philosophy commonly attributed to Thoreau was first presented to the world by Emerson in his slender volume Nature and later developed by both men, each with his own distinct...


Pharmako/Dynamis, Revised and Updated
Written by Dale Pendell

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | North Atlantic Books | Body, Mind & Spirit; Nature - Plants; Medical - Pharmacology
978-1-55643-803-5 (1-55643-803-6)

September 21, 2010 | $26.95

(Available September 21, 2010)

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Pharmako/Dynamis, Revised and Updated
Written by Dale Pendell

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781556438035
Our Price: $26.95
   Quantity: 1 
(Available September 21, 2010)


***This paperback edition has a new introduction by the author and updated content.

This is the second volume of North Atlantic Books’ updated paperback edition of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books...


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