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Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage)
Wangari Maathai
Anchor
Anchor
In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental...
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American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
Susan Freinkel
University of California Press
University of California Press
The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees--a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague swept through the chestnut forests with the force...
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A Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America (Peterson Field Guides (R))
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin
This field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forests of eastern North America. With 53 full-color plates and 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles, amphibians,...
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Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens
Dan L. Perlman, Jeffrey Milder
Island Press
Island Press
Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens introduces and explains key ecological concepts for planners, landscape architects, developers, and others involved in planning and building human habitats. The book is tailored to meet the...
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston
Random House
Random House
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests...
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The Trees in My Forest
Bernd Heinrich
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
Winner of the New England Book Award Best Nonfiction Award and the Franklin Fairbanks Award of the Fairbanks Museum In a book destined to become a classic, biologist and acclaimed nature writer Bernd Heinrich takes readers on an eye-opening...
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Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
Robert Pogue Harrison
University Of Chicago Press
University Of Chicago Press
In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now...
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Oak: The Frame of Civilization
William Bryant Logan
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
From ink to sailing ships, a biography of the essential tree. "A dazzling book, full of knowledge and rare wisdom, too."—Thomas Pakenham, author of Remarkable Trees of the World Professional arborist and award-winning nature writer William...
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