Weiner, Jonathan.

Summary: Following in Darwin's footsteps in the Galapagos were Peter and Rosemary Grant, who studied the features of the beaks of various species of finches and confirmed Darwin's theory of natural selection. On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1994

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Green, Jonathon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell 1998

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Meissner, David

Summary: Traces the true story of prospectors Stanley Pearce and Marshall Bond, who joined thousands of men along the dangerous Chilkoot and White Passes to seek their fortunes in the gold fields of Canada.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Pr 2013

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Reisler, Jim

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2007

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Medsger, Betty.

Summary: An account of the 1971 break-in of the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists cites their roles in triggering major changes in the FBI and confirming that J. Edgar Hoover had run a personal shadow-FBI.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014

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Eisner, Peter

Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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Eisner, Mark

Summary: "The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018

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Gessner, David

Summary: "An urgent call to protect America's public lands, told through New York Times bestselling author David Gessner's American road trip with our greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, as his guide"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

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Eisner, Peter.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2004

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Eisner, Thomas

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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2003

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Monaghan, Patricia.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 1997

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Merser, Cheryl.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1994

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Gessner, David

Summary: "Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, ... nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015

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Zeisler, Andi

Summary: "A critical assessment of feminism today by the founding editor and creative director of Bitch magazine draws on the stories of institutions and everyday women to illuminate how feminism has been compromised by market forces, subversive politics and popular culture, sharing strategic recommendations for how to reverse marginalizing trends,"--NoveList.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016

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Beiser, Vince

Summary: The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world -- sand -- and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other -- even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018

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Gillmeister, Heiner

Contents: The origins of tennis: the monks' racket -- The tennis games of the Middle Ages -- The language of tennis -- Tennis in Renaissance literature -- Tennis in the German Ballhouse -- Lawn tennis: the sturdy bastard -- Lawn tennis in America -- Continental colonies: lawn tennis in France -- Lawn tennis under the Kaiser.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1998

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Leiser, Eric

Summary: Here at last is a book for fly tiers, beginners and experts alike, that provides foolproof directions for tying all types of flies. In this book even the beginner knows where he is during every step in the process, from the moment he ties in the waxed thread until he ties off the fly with the whip finish knot. But unlike the specialized books on fly tying that describe particular types or...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1977

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Meijer, Fik.

Summary: Overview: Meijer traces the origins of the gladiators over 2,500 years, from the initial belief that their blood spilled on a grave would sustain the dead on its journey to the underworld. Yet, as centuries passed and the Roman Empire grew, gladiators became part of vaster, more brutal entertainments staged by successive emperors eager to manipulate the public with "bread and circuses" and to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005

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Kisner, Jordan

Summary: When Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was, she writes, “just naturally reverent,” a fact that didn’t change when she—much to her own confusion—lost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: “You go about the great...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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Leiser, Eric

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987

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Leiser, Eric

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1993

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Elsner, Jaś.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998

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Reisner, Robert George.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1977

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Messner, Kate

Summary: "Under the canopy of the rainforest, hundreds of animals make their homes--from the slender parrot snake to the colorful poison dart frog. But up in the trees hides a whole other world, where toucans and pale-billed woodpeckers chatter and call, capuchin monkeys swing from the vines, and sleek-furred jaguars rule the night. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020

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