In Eager , environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America...
Pets and animals
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Author:Goldfarb, Ben.Summary: - Author:Peterson, DaleSummary:
Details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was...
- Emperors of the deep : the ocean's most mysterious, most misunderstood, and most important guardiansAuthor:McKeever, WilliamSummary:
In this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel misplaced fear and correct common misconceptions, explores in-depth the secret lives of sharks-magnificent creatures who play an integral...
- Author:Nikiforuk, AndrewSummary:
Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce...
- Author:Lilley, JoannaSummary:
Endlings takes us across continents and through the long expanse of aeons to give voice to the dead. In poems that are lyrical, exact, and deeply melancholic, Joanna Lilley demands audience for the final moments of animal extinction....
- Author:Daniels, JulieSummary:
Enjoying Dog Agility (2nd edition) is the premier beginner's guide to the fast-growing sport of dog agility. Author Julie Daniels, a national and international agility champion and one of the early pioneers of the sport in the...
- Author:Jenkins, SteveSummary:
Unlikely pig owners Steve and Derek got a whole lot more than they bargained for when the designer micro piglet they adopted turned out to be a full-sized 600-pound sow! In the bestselling tradition of pet memoirs such as Oogy, Dewey,...
- Author:Grills, BarrySummary:
This is the story of Barry and Lupus. Barry, an exhausted newspaper owner physically and economically on the ropes, meets Lupus, a wolf-German Shepherd cross, at an animal shelter. Despite a nagging belief that he cannot take...
- Author:Grills, BarrySummary:
This is the story of Barry and Lupus. Barry, an exhausted newspaper owner physically and economically on the ropes, meets Lupus, a wolf-German Shepherd cross, at an animal shelter. Despite a nagging belief that he cannot take...
- Author:Hartson, TamaraSummary:
For this edition of Super Explorers, you better bundle up! Come explore the Arctic and Antarctic and all the creatures that make these icy places their homes. To survive in such places, these plants and animals have to be tough. -...
- Author:Eamer, ClaireSummary:
Ripley's Believe It or Not meets National Geographic in this book about some of the grossest yet most fascinating ways animals have adapted to survive. Survival of the Grossest explores how some of the most effective -- and often truly...
- Author:Andrews McMeel PublishingSummary:
In Faithful Friends, pet lovers are reminded how wonderful life is when we share it with our four-legged friends.
- Author:Moderow, Debbie ClarkeSummary:
At age forty-seven, a mother of two, Debbie Moderow was not your average musher in the Iditarod, but that's where she found herself when, less than 200 miles from the finish line, her dogs decided they didn't want to run...
- Author:West, Beverly, Bergund, JasonSummary:
Fat Daisy, a 16-pound Chihuahua who outgrew her teacup after the birth of her four puppies, has been struggling to regain her toy figure ever since. But what this girl lacks in the lean and mean department, she more than makes up for...
- Author:Woodford, RickSummary:
From Rick Woodford, the "Dog Food Dude" himself, comes Feed Your Best Friend Better, with easy recipes that will make even humans drool a little bit. Natural food can enable dogs to live longer, healthier lives, just as it can for...
- Author:Schilling, Kim, Brown, SusanSummary:
Thinking about getting a ferret? Want to make sure you’re giving the ferret you already have the best possible care? Ferrets For Dummies helps you decide whether a ferret is for you and give your little fellah a healthy, happy home. It’...
- Author:Leonard, DionSummary:
The New York Times bestselling true story of an Australian ultramarathon runner and a little dog who formed an unbreakable bond in the middle of the Gobi desert. Finding Gobi is the miraculous tale of Dion Leonard, a seasoned...
- Author:Mattick, LindsaySummary:
Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after...
- Author:Joynt, Amanda, Sullivan, MichaelSummary:
This beautifully illustrated book features 56 species of fish found in Alberta's lakes, rivers and streams. Each account includes a full-colour illustration by artist Ian Sheldon, a range map and information on feeding, spawning, status...
- Author:Pfaltz, KaySummary:
A dachshund's resilient spirit reveals how precious each day is, in this wise, heartfelt memoir by the author of Lauren's Story: An American Dog in Paris. Kay Pfaltz is living a quiet, simple existence with her three beloved dogs when...
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