Syntax & Sage weaves ideas about nature, software, art and urban design in a book that shows how software shapes the world, how the world shapes people, and how people shape software.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Syntax & Sage

Katie Shepard

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

Two people are ready for their lives to get a little wilder in this romantic comedy by debut author Katie Shepard.

After being hospitalized for panic attacks two years after his mother's death, charitable foundation executive Teagan van Zijl is dragged by his sister to a wilderness therapy retreat in Montana. Lost in the woods, Teagan nearly gets eaten by a bear but is saved by an angel in muddy hiking boots-the program's handywoman, Darcy Albano, that is. After spending the summer with Darcy, Teagan realizes he doesn't want to return to New York without her. He hires Darcy as his sober companion-a position he doesn't actually need filled and for which Darcy is completely unqualified-hoping she can help him figure out how to move forward. But once they get to the city, all Teagan can think of is how to confess the truth while keeping her in his life.

Darcy Albano thought she was going to work as a wilderness guide when she was hired on the camp staff but ended up a handywoman instead-only the latest screwing-over she's endured since her ex stole her car and her parents ruined her credit score. But Teagan van Zijl is the silver lining she didn't expect to appear-clearly going through something but willing to commit to Darcy's unique brand of wilderness education as the cure for what ails him. They form an unlikely bond based on the unexpected support they provide each other. Darcy never imagined staying in the city, but with Teagan's unshakeable belief in her abilities, anything seems possible.

Bear with Me Now

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Pennsylvania

World of wonders

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

Nature, Culture, and the Hunt

We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos--the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl--but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. Accompanied by more than one hundred images--many of them previously unseen and some formerly suppressed--Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; a New York Times Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.

Bloodties

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#nonfiction #nature #outdoors #hardcover #animals #science dust cover has some wear

Michigan

Animals

Shows and explains the prenatal development of dogs, dolphins, kanagroos, and elephants.

In the Womb

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Nevada

Wonder of the Natural World

The Tree

Kevin Trudeau

Mississippi

More Natural Cures Revealed

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*Price sticker is on back from my pop-ups.

Texas

Little Bear

Valerie Tripp

California

Maryellen is in charge of planning her tenth birthday, designing a flying machine, and - most important of all - taking care of the family dog, Scooter, on a camping trip. One night, while she's holding down the fort, Scooter disappears. Maryellen is desperate to find him before the others return, so she and her bossy big sister, Joan, set off to search the woods. Suddenly, Joan disappears. Now Maryellen's really in charge, whether she wants to be or not! Can she find Scooter, rescue her sister, and figure out how to make something fly - all in one night?

Maryellen: Taking Off

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Gail Gibbons

Massachusetts

This book about nature and the changing seasons focuses on a young boy and a very special apple tree. In Gail Gibbons's bright illustrations, Arnold collects apple blossoms in spring, builds a tree house in summer, makes apple pie and cider in the fall, and hangs strings of popcorn and berries for the birds in winter, among other seasonal activities. Includes a recipe for apple pie and a description of how an apple cider press works.

The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree

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An identification guide to the trees of North America. Printed in 1943, it contains keys and drawings to help identify your tree. 


West Virginia

The Complete Guide to North American Trees 

Janni Howker

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Read and Wonder

With evocative watercolors by Sarah Fox-Davies, Walk with a Wolf is as full of beauty and drama as it is of facts about this mysterious and often maligned creature. Walk with a wolf . . . as she hunts alone, howls to her pack, and greets her cubs and mate. Hunt with the pack as it follows the scent of a bull moose, crouching and charging. Learn all about these lords of the far north, who have been hunted by man nearly to extinction. With evocative watercolors by Sarah Fox-Davies, Walk with a Wolf is as full of beauty and drama as it is of facts about this mysterious and often maligned creature. Back matter includes an index.

Walk with a Wolf

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FROM AFRICA-
THE MOST REMARKABLE ANIMAL STORY EVER TOLD!
It began when George Adamson, an African Game Warden, had to shoot a lioness in self-defense, and brought her three orphaned cubs home to his wife. Two of the cubs they gave to zoos, but the third they named Elsa and kept for themselves. Elsa became their baby. She slept with them. She played and cuddled. She followed them everywhere like a love-sick puppy. But inevitably, she grew to be a full-sized lioness and the Adamsons were faced with a cruel choice: either consign Elsa to a zoo, or give her the freedom which she was unfit to enjoy or even survive. Unable to do either, the Adamsons deliberately set out to train Elsa to kill and fend for herself. Slowly and methodically, they finally succeeded in turning her back into the fierce wild animal nature intended her to be.
But Elsa's love for them could never be changed...
BORN FREE
"A NARRATIVE UNPARALLELED IN NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE!"
New York Herald Tribune

Washington

Born Free

Lawrence Weschler

Some cover creasing.

Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.

Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno Logy

The author takes readers on a tour of his personal museum of natural oddities and optical illusions as he explores the imaginative origins of art and science, in a work nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

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#hardcover #birdsandblooms #nature #birds #flowers 

Georgia

Electives

The Best of Birds & Blooms 2012

Like new condition #flyfishing #fishing #outdoors #sreams #trout #nature #peaceful #spring #winter #fall 


North Carolina

Lessons from a Master Tactician

William Stewart's writings burst upon the angling world in 1857 in a flurry of acclaim and controversy. In a provocative mixture of traditionalism and iconoclasm, Stewart aimed to reshape the angling habits of his day in the most fundamental way. His forceful arguments on behalf of upstream fishing and his advocacy of shorter, stiffer fly rods were an important early influence in the rise of dry-fly fishing in the later 1800s. Schullery brings together Stewart's key fly-fishing writings in this first American edition. Many of the rationales behind practices that we take for granted today were first and best expressed by Stewart, and his strong opinions on fly pattern theory still have the power to make us reconsider principles and habits we have perhaps grown too comfortable with. SELLING POINTS: A key influence in modern soft-hackle and emerger fishing Insight into the natural world combined with fly pattern theory 10 b/w photos

Stewart on the Wet Fly

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Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table

Upstream is an in-depth and timely look at salmon-one of the last wild foods on our table-for readers of Susan Orlean, Mark Kurlansky and John McPhee. As the author travels to meet a variety of colorful people associated with this unique species, from Alaskan anglers to fish farm owners to four-star chefs, he reports on its remarkable place at the intersection of nature, commerce, cuisine, and human history.

Upstream

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Virginia

I Wonder Why Trees Have Leaves

New Jersey

The Insiders’ Guide to Cape Cod

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There is a tear on the spine and some creases on the back cover. 

Colorado

Wilf Life

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Dome Some tears in dust jacket. See photos 

Wisconsin

Hugh Johnsons Encyclopedia of Trees

•2001 Hardcover 
•Good Condition- There is residue from a sticker in the front and back of the dust jacket. The pages are clean and show no wear. The binding is in great shape. See photos. 
 #poetry #nature #illustrated 

Illustrated 

Stopping by Wood on a Snowy Evening 

#hardcover #nile #nonfiction #adventure #history #Africa #biography #travel #historical #nature 

Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy--from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic

For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was  a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe - and extend their colonial empires.
 
Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a decorated soldier. He was also mercurial, subtle, and an iconoclastic atheist. Speke was a young aristocrat and Army officer determined to make his mark, passionate about hunting, Burton's opposite in temperament and beliefs.
 
From the start the two men clashed. They would endure tremendous hardships, illness, and constant setbacks. Two years in, deep in the African interior, Burton became too sick to press on, but Speke did, and claimed he found the source in a great lake that he christened Lake Victoria. When they returned to England, Speke rushed to take credit, disparaging Burton. Burton disputed his claim, and Speke launched another expedition to Africa to prove it. The two became venomous enemies, with the public siding with the more charismatic Burton, to Speke's great envy. The day before they were to publicly debate,Speke shot himself.
 
Yet there was a third man on both expeditions, his name obscured by imperial annals, whose exploits were even more extraordinary. This was Sidi Mubarak Bombay, who was enslaved and shipped from his home village in East Africa to India. When the man who purchased him died, he made his way into the local Sultan's army, and eventually traveled back to Africa, where he used his resourcefulness, linguistic prowess and raw courage to forge a living as a guide. Without Bombay and men like him, who led, carried, and protected the expedition, neither Englishman would have come close to the headwaters of the Nile, or perhaps even survived.
 
In River of the Gods Candice Millard has written another peerless story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers.

River of the Gods

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