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2) Cape Cod
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English
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Thoreau writes ten essays about the relationship between the shore and the sea.
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Catapult
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English
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Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love--with a place, or a painting, or a person--and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss--from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works,...
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English
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Tales of a champion surfcaster: the education of a young woman hell-bent on following her dream and learning the mysterious and profound sport, and art, of surfcasting, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Janet Messineo knew from the get-go that she wanted to become a great fisherman. She knew she was as capable as any man of catching and landing a huge fish. It took years -- and many terrifying nights along on the beach in complete darkness, in search...
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"From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet. More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today--and one of the very few women in her field--Into the Planet blends...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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xxii, 423 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"A product of Anglo-American capitalism, built by a generation that had never known trauma and was bored by its own prosperity and success, the Titanic set sail into a world that was about to change forever. Modernity was shaking the class system, the Industrial Revolution was creating new kinds of wealth, and revolutionary fervor would lead to The Great War. Exploring the infamous disaster from the perspectives of six of her first-class passengers--a...
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English
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In the spirit of Bill Bryson and Ian Frazier comes this fascinating examination of our past, present, and future beneath the waves. In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty, and inspiration. Bill Streever -- a longtime deep-sea diver himself -- has masterfully woven together the science and history of Earth's last remaining frontier: the sea....
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
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1st ed.
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vi, 53 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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What happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able--or less willing--to distinguish reality from what is desired? In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own--speculative, athletic, immediate--as he confronts moral crisis. What is the difference, he asks, between good and evil, cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop...
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Astra House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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108 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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"No Country for Eight-Spotted Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples-his own and others"--
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Putnam
Pub. Date
1977, ©1976
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1st American ed.
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231 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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The story of the great and beautiful ships, built for speed and comfort, that regularly plied between Europe and America on the North Atlantic route. It is the story of a line in ship design that runs from Brunel's Great Eastern through the early Cunarders and the might German ships of the late nineteenth century, to the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth, the Normandie, the United States and, finally the QE2.
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
©1995
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183 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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English
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In Poles Apart, Galen Rowell takes us on an exhilarating visual journey to the top and the bottom of the world, using the parallel visions of his camera to reveal the fascinating differences between these polar opposites.
The Arctic, home of the polar bear, takes its name from the Greek arktos, meaning bear. The Antarctic - anti-arktos - is a realm devoid of bears, a place where penguins live on the ice unthreatened by land predators. Other differences...
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Prestel
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 38 cm
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English
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"Let's take a trip around the coastlines of the world... Interspersed throughout are meticulously detailed maps of the world's largest oceans highlighting historic events, figures and scientific facts. As fun as it is informative, this vibrant book takes us on a trip around the globe that fosters a feeling of connection between our lives and the world's coastlines."--
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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ix, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 22 cm
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English
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"From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations, and where African royals, thinkers, and artists played celebrated roles in the globalized world of the Middle Ages. The Golden Rhinoceros brings this unsung era marvelously...
14) Selected poems
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
©1965
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vii, 114 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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Presents over fifty poems by twentieth-century poet Robinson Jeffers, selected from major works published between 1924 and 1963.
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Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2021.
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55 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 30 cm
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English
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Journey to some of the oceans' busiest coral reefs and discover the remarkable variety of marine life that live there.
"This journey through the world's coral reefs uncovers the incredible codependencies between fish, marine animals, and the underwater landscape. Across thirteen unique reef locations in tropical and cold waters, readers will discover the rich variety of marine life that rely on coral reefs for their survival. Along the way, they...
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xviii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human." --Amazon.
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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xii, 509 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. But there were survivors-- known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark...
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Sierra Club Books
Pub. Date
c2003
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xii, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Since ancient times the kinship between dolphins and humans has been celebrated across cultures and continents in myth, art, literature, and science. Only recently, however, have we gone beyond our own view of this interspecies connection and begun to ask: What might this bond look like from the dolphins' perspective? This anthology brings together for the first time eminent scientists and gifted writers to help shed light on this intriguing question....
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Portfolio / Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xiv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe--and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a "scout" mindset. Unlike...
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