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Identify Massachusetts birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.
Make bird-watching in Massachusetts even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This handy book features 132 species of Massachusetts birds organized by...
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• Popular, proven format: more than 1 million copies of Stan Tekiela's Bird Identification Guides have sold
• Market: According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, about 20% of the population are active bird watchers, spending more than $40 billion on the hobby, annually
• Not intimidating: geared toward the average bird watcher with bird species organized by color for easily identifying them
• 139 species of Nevada birds-backyard birds,...
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Identify Connecticut and Rhode Island birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.
Make bird-watching in Connecticut and Rhode Island even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This handy book features 128 species of Connecticut...
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• Popular, proven format: the previous edition (9781591930754) sold more than 13,000 copies
• Not intimidating: information geared toward the average person
• New edition with all 144 of Arizona's mammals
• Species organized by family (identifiable by common visual characteristics) and then by size for ease of use
• Professional photographs and range maps
• Times each animal is most likely to be active, as well as track patterns,...
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Identify Arizona succulents with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by shape and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.
Learn about a variety of cactus species in Arizona. With this famous field guide by Nora Bowers, Rick Bowers, and Stan Tekiela, cactus identification is simple and informative. The Cacti of Arizona Field Guide features 50 of the most common and widespread species found in the state, organized by shape. Just...
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Identify Utah birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.
Make bird-watching in Utah even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This handy book features 138 species of Utah birds organized by color for ease of use. Full-page...
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Identify Texas mammals with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by family and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.
Whether you happen upon an animal track or actually see wildlife in nature, interacting with mammals is a thrill. Learn to identify mammals in Texas. With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, mammal identification is simple and informative. The Mammals of Texas Field Guide features all 157 species found in the...
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160 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm.
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"This authoritative handbook offers clear and simple information for identifying wild mushrooms. A detailed introduction explains the essentials a mushroom forager needs to know, followed by an illustrated guide to the most popular edible wild mushrooms in the UK and Northern Europe, describing their identifying features and typical habitats, along with storage and cooking tips. The book includes poisonous lookalikes the picker is most likely to come...
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419 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"En este libro se cuenta la historia de una pequeña ciudad, con una terminal de autobuses en la que desaparecen los pasajeros. La mayoría son hombres jóvenes que viajan a Estados Unidos en busca de un mejor futuro. Van ligeros de equipaje y de dinero. Cada amanecer, cuando un camión llega a la parada, son bajados por la fuerza, llevados a brechas y asesinados. Por error, por capricho, porque sí. Porque los asesinos tienen permiso. Luego son arrojados...
11) Fungi grow
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
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"Fungi are all around us. They root and fruit and twist and twine. The mycelium roots spread below ground while the mushroom fruits pop above the earth. Some are edible, and some are poisonous. Some help keep forests communicate, others recycle decaying matter. But all across the world, fungi are growing. Discover when, how, where, and why in this poetic and illuminating nonfiction picture book"--
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239 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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Learn how to identify rocks and minerals and appreciate the beauty of the natural world with Rocks & Minerals: An Illustrated Field Guide. Expert geologist Dr. Evelyn Mervine takes you through 50 profiles of these natural materials, including their characteristics, chemical compositions, occurrences, and key identifiers.
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xxi, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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"Fans of true crime shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order know that when it comes to "getting the bad guy" behind bars, your best chance of success boils down to the strength of your evidence - and the forensic science used to obtain it. Beyond the silver screen, forensic science has been used for decades to help solve even the most tough-to-crack cases. In 2018, the accused Golden State Killer, Joseph DeAngelo, was finally apprehended...
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xv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a sleepover with two friends, while her mother slept soundly in the room next door. This rarest of all kidnappings -- a stranger abduction from the home -- triggered one of the largest manhunts in FBI history. Riddled with red herrings, grave mistakes, dead ends, and false leads, from fake ransom calls to junior high pranks to dramatic...
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xxii, 518 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
Are we alone in the universe? From the post-war Project Blue Book to the Pentagon's modern-day Advanced Aerospace Threat...
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