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Released: March 19, 2013
"An entertaining introduction to botanical lore."
Crane (School of Forestry and Environmental Studies/Yale Univ.) shares his fascination with the ginkgo tree.
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Released: March 19, 2013
"A rich compendium of botanical lore for cocktail lovers."
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Released: March 19, 2013
"Greeting-card philosophy, as light and common as feathers."
The author of
Jonathan Livingston Seagull and numerous volumes about flying returns with an account of a cross-country flight in his new SeaRey amphibious plane.
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Released: March 12, 2013
"A step-by-step grasping of the enormity of an impending biodiversity crisis."
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Released: March 12, 2013
"Learned, entertaining and illuminating."
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Released: March 12, 2013
"An in-depth and compelling disclosure of the changes needed to protect the world's travel sites while maintaining a good profit margin."
"In 2012 the world passed the 1 billion mark for international trips," writes former
New York Times correspondent Becker (
America's Vietnam War, 1992, etc.), who provides an extensive exposé on the benefits and detriments of tourism.
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Released: March 7, 2013
Engrossing social study from a rara avis: an East Coast progressive who's also a gun enthusiast.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"A lively footnote to the debate between science and religion and the exploration of the African jungle in the Victorian era."
Former
Washington Post reporter Reel (
The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon, 2010) offers a fascinating sidelight on the perennial debate of man's origins.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"An earthy, homespun and voyeuristically satisfying book."
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Released: March 5, 2013
"Revealing and well-written."
A meticulous account of the building of one of the largest American-made yachts since the Gilded Age.
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Released: March 1, 2013
"A fun read for Francophiles, but lacks cohesiveness."
Memoirist and critic Baxter (
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris, 2011, etc.) chronicles his exploration of France through its cuisine.
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Released: March 1, 2013
"A carefully written and surprising biography of one of science's unsung heroes."
Biography of W.D. Hamilton (1936–2000), a revolutionary thinker and scientist whose outlier methods and ideas isolated him from the scientific establishment; he would later be vindicated as a brilliant contributor to evolutionary biology.
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