Sibley, David

Summary: "Can birds smell?" "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?" "Do robins 'hear' worms?" In "What It's Like to Be a Bird," David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020

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Dunne, Pete

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988

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Summary: François André Michaux (1770–1855) was a French botanist whose work on the trees of North America gave the world’s first illustrated account of American trees east of the Mississippi. From 1841 to 1849 the English botanist and one of the greatest plant explorers of North America, Thomas Nuttall (1786–1859), prepared supplementary volumes to Michaux’s landmark work, The North American Sylva....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press Publishers 2017

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Clavreul, Denis

Summary: "An artist's uniquely personal journey across Audubon's America In the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a complete pictorial record of North American birdlife, traveling from Louisiana and the Florida Keys to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the cliffs of the Yellowstone River. The resulting work, The Birds of America, stands as a monumental...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022

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Smiley, Tavis

Summary: "A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks leading up to King of Pop Michael Jackson's death. Michael Jackson's final months were like the rest of his short and legendary life: filled with deep lows and soaring highs, a constant hunt for privacy, and the pressure and fame that made him socially fragile and almost--ultimately--unable to live,"--NoveList.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016

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Smiley, Tavis

Summary: Presents an analysis of the recent increase of poverty in the United States, even among the middle class, describing twelve steps that can be undertaken to give the poor more equitable access to housing, education, and health care.

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Publisher / Publication Date: SmileyBooks 2012

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