My Eclectic List of Non-Fiction Books
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
by Gary Lincoff
With more than 700 mushrooms detailed with color photographs and descriptive text, this is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to the mushrooms of North …
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Raw Dog Food
by Carina Beth MacDonald
Many dog parents, including breeders and competitors, believe that feeding a raw food diet has improved their dogs' health, performance and longevity. Learn how to …
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The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin’s classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books …
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What Evolution Is
by Ernst Mayr
A pillar of evolutionary biology, Mayr (comparative zoology, Harvard U.) writes for three types of readers: anyone, biologist or not, who wants to know more …
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The Body Project
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
The award-winning author of Fasting Girls explores what teenage girls have lost in this new world of freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body …
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Cadillac Desert
by Marc Reisner
“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much …
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The Secret Life of Plants
by Peter Tompkins
The world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest scientific discoveries. "Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical …
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Eyes on the Prize
by Juan Williams
Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education case in 1954 to the march on Selma and …
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Zoya's Story
by John Follain
Kabul was always more beautiful in the snow. Even the piles of rotting rubbish in my street, the only source of food for the scrawny …
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Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
by Francis Stuart Chapin (III)
Features review questions at the end of each chapter; Includes suggestions for recommended reading; Provides a glossary of ecological terms; Has a wide audience as …
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Biogeochemistry
by W.H. Schlesinger
This book considers the effects of life on the Earth's chemistry on a global level.