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  • Life at the Zoo

    Behind the Scenes with the Animal Doctors

    Please Do Not Annoy, torment, pester, plague, molest, worry, badger, harry, persecute, irk, bullyrag, vex, disquiet, grate, beset, bother, tease, nettle, tantalize or ruffle the Animals.—sign at zooSince the early days of traveling menageries and staged attractions that included animal acts, balloon ascents, and pyrotechnic displays, zoos have come a long way. The Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes ... Read more

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  • Directing the Tunnellers' War

    The Tunnelling Memoirs of Captain H Dixon MC RE

    A first-hand account of the underground work of the First World War—from the firing of mines to constructing subways to bureaucratic mishaps.With a background in mining and tunneling, Major H. R. Dixon was transferred to GHQ in Montreuil to handle mining plans and records. In due course he was appointed to a small group of Royal Engineers' officers who operated as the eyes and ears of the ... Read more

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  • The Pygmy Hippo Story

    West Africa's Enigma of the Rainforest

    Though the pygmy hippopotamus has been designated as a flagship species of West African forests (meaning that by raising conservation efforts for a single species, an entire ecological region could benefit), very little research has been published on the animal. They are solitary, nocturnal, and highly evasive, and until recent developments in "camera trap" technology, they were considered the ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Forgiveness in the First Degree

    The True Story of a Son Whose Father Was Murdered, The Man Who Pulled the Trigger, And the God Who Redeemed Them Both

    The gun was never supposed to go off.When a drug dealer assured twenty-nine-year-old Ron Hammer and his brother-in-law that they could make some quick easy money, they were intrigued. He promised them that when a local grocer delivered a bag of money to his store to cash Friday paychecks, they only needed to show him a gun and he’d hand over the bag.But high on meth and dulled by liquor, they ... Read more

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  • Eating Animals

    Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name.Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own ... Read more

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  • Deborah and the War of the Tanks

    by John Taylor ...
    Deborah is a British First World War tank that rose from the grave after taking part in one of the most momentous battles in history. In November 1917 she played a leading role in the first successful massed tank attack at Cambrai. Eighty years later, in a remarkable feat of archaeology, the tanks buried remains were rediscovered and excavated, and are now preserved as a memorial to the battle and ... Read more

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  • Witness to a Trial

    A Short Story Prequel to The Whistler

    by John Grisham ...
    AN ORIGINAL E-SHORT • This prequel to John Grisham’s #1 New York Times bestseller The Whistler delivers a startling and original courtroom drama.In one small-town courthouse, the stakes are unbearably high for nearly everyone present: A judge presiding over his first murder trial. A defense attorney in over his head. A prosecutor out for blood and glory. The accused, who is possibly innocent. And ... Read more

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  • Wicked Bugs

    The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects

    by Amy Stewart ...
    Explore the creepy, dangerous, and sometimes deadly insects and other bugs that can harm humans, animals, and plants.In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, horticulture and nature writer Amy Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes—creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From ... Read more

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  • Underground Warfare, 1914–1918

    by Simon Jones ...
    Simon Joness graphic history of underground warfare during the Great War uses personal reminiscences to convey the danger and suspense of this unconventional form of conflict. He describes how the underground soldiers of the opposing armies engaged in a ruthless fight for supremacy, covers the tunneling methods they employed, and shows the increasingly lethal tactics they developed during the war ... Read more

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  • Baltimore Blues

    The First Tess Monaghan Novel

    by Laura Lippman ...
    Series Book 1 - Tess Monaghan Novel
    Until her paper, the Baltimore Star, crashed and burned, Tess Monaghan was a damn good reporter who knew her hometown intimately -- from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at twenty-nine, she's willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent -- including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton.In a city where ... Read more

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  • Origin of Feces, The

    What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society

    The Origin of Fecestakes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone’s lives. With insight and wit, David Waltner-Toews explores what has been too often ignored and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives — ... Read more

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  • Ypres 1914-1915

    The Fight for Flanders Fields

    by Will Fowler ...
    Ypres was a medieval town known for its textiles; however, fierce trench warfare, poison gas and the deadly engagements of the First World War would transform the area beyond recognition.As the German Army advanced through Belgium in the early stages of the war, its troops entered Ypres, looting the city before retreating as the British Expeditionary Force advanced. The First Battle of Ypres began ... Read more

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