Bill Thompson III

For youths wanting to learn more about birds!

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Aided by his own son and daughter, Thompson delivers a field guide to 300 of the most common birds of North America just for kids.

The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America

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Mostly great condition but has a lot of notes in pencil. However, most of the notes are within the first 70 pages (out of 291 pages).

Science

A Primer of Ecology (Fourth Edition) 

Vintage book. Only writing is on the front page in pencil (price at used bookstore). 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

National Velvet (Hardcover) 

Robert C. Stebbins

Water stain on top that runs onto some of rhe pages slightly (see picture). Otherwise no writing or highlighting. Usable copy! 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Third Edition

Peterson Field Guides: Western Reptiles and Amphibians

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Lee Sandlin

Book itself is in great condition. However, it has a lot of highlighting and annotations. 

The Mississippi When it Last Ran Wild

Wicked River

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Scott Lankford

Only writing is previous owner's name on first page. No highlighting. 

Tahoe Beneath the Surface 

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All New Square Foot Gardening 

NOTE: This is a book for teachers not storybook

Book full of lesson plans and coloring pages revolving around eggs! 

Publisher recommends this book for PreK to 1st grade. More info here: https://www.lhsgems.org/GEMSeggs.html

Teacher's Guide

This guide introduces children, grades Preschool-1, to the wonder of eggs and provides them with experience to begin developing key concepts in biology and the life sciences. The activities are noteworthy for their interdisciplinary richness, interweaving literature, math, life science, physical science, drama, role-playing, and art.

Eggs Eggs Everywhere

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Used 10 years ago in college Latin :O No writing or highlighting within. Cover is coated with a protective plastic film. 

World Languages

Based on the 1903 edition, this attractive, newly typeset reprint of the classic work in Latin Grammar has some updating of the material on meter. The key system widely used to reference grammar in numerous Latin texts has been retained. Available also in hardcover.

Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar

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Why So Many Predictions Fail--But Some Don't

UPDATED FOR 2020 WITH A NEW PREFACE BY NATE SILVER "One of the more momentous books of the decade." —The New York Times Book Review Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of the website FiveThirtyEight. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the “prediction paradox”: The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future. In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the most successful forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball to global pandemics, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He explains and evaluates how these forecasters think and what bonds they share. What lies behind their success? Are they good—or just lucky? What patterns have they unraveled? And are their forecasts really right? He explores unanticipated commonalities and exposes unexpected juxtapositions. And sometimes, it is not so much how good a prediction is in an absolute sense that matters but how good it is relative to the competition. In other cases, prediction is still a very rudimentary—and dangerous—science. Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise. With everything from the health of the global economy to our ability to fight terrorism dependent on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver’s insights are an essential read.

The Signal and the Noise

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No writing or highlighting inside. Crease on front cover. 

Presents a guidebook which provides identification tips, information on behavior and nesting, locator and range maps, and plumage and species classification data on over one thousand species of birds found in North America.

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition

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In vintage condition. Main damage is to the interior cover (see third picture). Otherwise no writing or highlighting. #hardcover #shortstories #vintage 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Stories (Vintage)

Corner is slightly bent (see last picture). No writing or highlighting within #paperback 

A Lakota History

The author of The Journey of Crazy Horse presents a legendary battle through the eyes of the Lakota

The saga of Custer's Last Stand, has become ingrained in the lore of the American West, and the key players Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and George Armstrong Custer have grown to larger-than-life proportions. Now, award-winning historian Joseph M. Marshall presents the revisionist view of the Battle of the Little Bighorn that has been available only in the Lakota oral tradition. Drawing on this rich source of storytelling, Marshall uncovers what really took place at the Little Big Horn and provides fresh insight into the significance of that bloody day.

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn

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No writing or highlighting within. 139 pages. #paperback #poetry

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Boy's Will and North of Boston

A collection of two of Robert Frost's most celebrated poems in their original form: A Boy's Will and North of Boston.
 
The publication of A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part of the American national heritage.
 
This is the only edition to present these two classics in their original form. A Boy's Will introduced readers to Frost's unmistakable poetic voice, and in North of Boston, we find two of his most famous poems, "Mending Wall" and "The Death of the Hired Man." With an introduction by distinguished critic and Amherst professor William H. Pritchard and an afterword by poet and critic Peter Davison, this centennial edition stands as a complete and vital introduction to the work of the quintessential modern American poet.

Poems by Robert Frost

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Book in great condition. #gardening #crafts 

75 Ingenious Ways to Enhance Your Outdoor Space with DIY Tools, Pots, Supports, Embellishments, and More

The DIY craze has moved beyond the craft room and into the garden! Relying on easy-to-find, inexpensive, and repurposed materials, Handmade for the Garden is a treasure trove of original projects that not only make planting and growing efficient and successful but also add a personal touch to the gardenscape. Among the myriad projects in this hardworking book are mini hothouses; painted, stamped, and stenciled terracotta planters; hypertufa and cement pots and decorations; rustic and formal fencing and trellises; plant markers and stakes; and sieves and baskets. With Handmade for the Garden to inspire them, gardeners of all skill levels will be empowered to experiment with form and function to discover creative, artful ways to personalize and beautify their gardens with handmade objects.

Handmade for the Garden

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Retired library book with laminated sleeve. #hardcover #blues #music #blackhistory 

A Celebration

Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature "shaped speech" style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantations, the current of the mighty Mississippi, and the shackles, blood, and tears of slavery. Each chop of the ax is a beat, each lash of the whip fashions another line on the musical staff. But each sound also creates the chords and harmonies that preserve the ancestors and their stories, and sustain life, faith, and hope into our own times.

Roots and Blues

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Has a written greeting on the interior front page. Otherwise good condition for an older book. Crease in the spine and some bends on the back cover. #paperback #wwii #japaneseamericanhistory 

Tule Lake 

No writing or highlighting within #paperback #ecology #communityecology #science 

Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities

Ecologists, although they acknowledge the problems involved, generally conduct their research on too few species, in too small an area, over too short a period of time. In The Balance of Nature?, a work sure to stir controversy, the distinguished theoretical ecologist Stuart L. Pimm argues that ecology therefore fails in many ways to address the enormous ecological problems now facing our planet.

Ecologists describing phenomena on larger scales often use terms like "stability," "balance of nature," and "fragility," and Pimm begins by considering the various specific meanings of these terms. He addresses five kinds of ecological stability--stability in the strict sense, resilience, variability, persistence, and resistance--and shows how they provide ways of comparing natural populations and communities as well as theories about them. Each type of stability depends on characteristics of the species studied and also on the structure of the food web in which the species is embedded and the physical features of the environment.

The Balance of Nature? provides theoretical ecology with a rich array of questions--questions that also underpin pressing problems in practical conservation biology. Pimm calls for nothing less than new approaches to ecology and a new alliance between theoretical and empirical studies.


The Balance of Nature?

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One page is dog-eared but otherwise no writing or highlighting within. Some wear with age but nothing significant. #paperback #nonfiction #environment #southwest #wilderness 

A Season in the Wilderness

An account of the author's existence, observations and reflections, as a seasonal park ranger in southeast Utah

Desert Solitaire

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Purchased this copy completely forgetting we already had a copy. Oops! In excellent condition. #nature #spiders #arachnology #invertebrates #entomology 

A richly illustrated and up-close look at the secret lives of spiders and other arachnids

The American Southwest is home to an extraordinary diversity of arachnids, from spitting spiders that squirt silk over their prey to scorpions that court one another with kissing and dancing. Amazing Arachnids presents these enigmatic creatures as you have never seen them before. Featuring a wealth of color photos of more than 300 different kinds of arachnids from eleven taxonomic orders--both rare and common species--this stunningly illustrated book reveals the secret lives of arachnids in breathtaking detail, including never-before-seen images of their underground behavior.

Amazing Arachnids covers all aspects of arachnid biology, such as anatomy, sociality, mimicry, camouflage, and venoms. You will meet bolas spiders that lure their victims with fake moth pheromones, fishing spiders that woo their mates with silk-wrapped gifts, chivalrous cellar spiders, tiny mites, and massive tarantulas, as well as many others. Along the way, you will learn why arachnids are living fossils in some respects and nimble opportunists in others, and how natural selection has perfected their sensory structures, defense mechanisms, reproductive strategies, and hunting methods.


 * Covers more than 300 different kinds of arachnids, including ones new to science
 * Features more than 750 stunning color photos
 * Describes every aspect of arachnid biology, from physiology to biogeography
 * Illustrates courtship and mating, birth, maternal care, hunting, and defense
 * Includes first-ever photos of the underground lives of schizomids and vinegaroons
 * Provides the first organized guide to macroscopic mites, including photos of living mites for easy reference

Amazing Arachnids

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Paperback with wear on spine corners but otherwise great condition. No writing or highlighting within. #fiction #scifi #paperback #fiction 

An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family's priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel set in the world of Ann Leckie's groundbreaking, NYT bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards.

Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingrid is determined to at least be considered as heir to the family name. She hatches an audacious plan -- free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned, and use them to help steal back a priceless artifact.

But Ingray and her charge return to her home to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future and her world, before they are lost to her for good.

Provenance

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Cover is a little worn but interior pages are in great condition with no writing or highlighting
  
#africanamericanstudies #paperback 

The Double Lives of Black Women in America

"Always moving, at times haunting, and often inspirational, Shifting provides a richly textured look at the lives of Black women. Jones and Shorter-Gooden poignantly portray the day-to-day challenges and triumphs of 'sisters' at work, in relationships, and in their spiritual lives." -- Bebe Moore Campbell, author of What You Owe Me

Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "white" as they head to work in the morning and "Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back.

With deeply moving interviews, poignantly revealed on each page, Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of African American women's lives today.

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Bill Thompson III

The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America

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A Primer of Ecology (Fourth Edition)

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National Velvet (Hardcover)

Robert C. Stebbins

Peterson Field Guides: Western Reptiles and Amphibians

Lee Sandlin

Wicked River

Scott Lankford

Tahoe Beneath the Surface

Mel Bartholomew

All New Square Foot Gardening

Jean C. Echols

Eggs Eggs Everywhere

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Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar

Nate Silver

The Signal and the Noise

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition

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Stories (Vintage)

Joseph M. Marshall

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn

Robert Frost; William H. Pritchard (Introduction by); Peter Davison (Afterword by)

Poems by Robert Frost

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Handmade for the Garden

Arnold Adoff; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)

Roots and Blues

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Stuart L. Pimm

The Balance of Nature?

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Desert Solitaire

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Amazing Arachnids

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