Something in the Water
Ben Wynne
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780881468021
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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The Nighthawk's Evening
Gretchen N. Newberry
In her late thirties, Gretchen Newberry left her office job in Portland, Oregon, to become a wildlife biologist studying nighthawks. The common nighthawk, Chordeiles minor, has long fascinated birders, scientists, farmers, and anyone who has awoken to its raspy calls on a hot city night. In The Nighthawk’s Evening, Newberry charts her journey across North America to study these birds, from the islands of British Columbia to rooftops in South Dakota, Oregon sagebrush, and Wisconsin forests. This acrobatic, night-flying bird nests on rooftops and flocks in the thousands as it migrates from Alaska to Argentina and back every year. Nighthawks are strange animals, reptiles with feathers, sleepy during the day, but quick, agile, and especially adept at survival. They have the ability to withstand extreme temperatures and adapt to many habitats, but they are struggling for survival in the Anthropocene. Newberry’s story focuses on the bird itself—its complex conservation status and cultural significance—and the larger, often hidden world of nocturnal animals. Along the way, she gives readers insight into the daily life of a scientist, especially one who works primarily at night. The Nighthawk’s Evening uses one scientist and one species to explore the challenges, disappointments, and successes of scientific research and conservation efforts. An accessible work of science, it will appeal to birders, students, wildlife managers, and anyone who is fascinated by urban wildlife.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780870711503
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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The Ultimate Chicago Pizza Guide
Steve Dolinsky
The Ultimate Chicago Pizza Guide is your guide to the styles, history, locales, and people who make the Windy City a prime destination for slices and pies. This user-friendly book is organized by pizza style and includes a glossary, recipes, and local beer pairings.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780810144286
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Natural Landmarks of Arizona
David Yetman
Natural Landmarks of Arizona celebrates the vast geological past of Arizona’s natural monuments through the eyes of an author who has called Arizona home for most of his life. In David Yetman’s new book, he shows us how Arizona’s most iconic landmarks were formed millions of years ago and sheds light on more recent histories of these landmarks as well.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780816542451
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Gettysburg Eddie Plank
Dave Heller
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781476684543
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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The Kindness of Strangers
Tom Lutz
Once again, Tom Lutz takes us to seldom-traveled corners of the world—the small towns of western Madagascar, the terraced rice fields in northern Luzon, the scattered homesteads on the Mongolian steppe, the hilltop churches on Micronesian islands, the riverside docks of Dhaka, Ethiopian weddings in Gondar, funeral pyres in Nepal, traditionalist karaoke bars in Bhutan—to bring us random reports of human kindness.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781609387884
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Broken Dreams
Thomas Hauser
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781682261798
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Handbook of Vegan Studies
Kailash R. Malode
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781774691687
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Ships and Shipwrecks
Richard Gebhart
From the day that the French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle launched the Griffin in 1679 to the 1975 sinking of the celebrated Edmund Fitzgerald, thousands of commercial ships have sailed on the vast and perilous waters of the Great Lakes. In a harbinger of things to come, on the return leg of its first trip in late summer 1679, the Griffin disappeared and has never been seen again. In the centuries since then, the records show that an alarming number of shipwrecks occurred on the Great Lakes. The fearsome wrath of the storms that brew over the Great Lakes has challenged and defeated some of the staunchest vessels constructed in the shipyards of port cities along the U.S. and Canadian lakeshores. Here Richard Gebhart tells the tales of some of these ships and their captains and crews, from their launches to their sad demises—or sometimes, their celebrated retirements. This volume is a must-read for anyone intrigued by the maritime history of the Great Lakes.
- Imprint: Greenstone Books
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781948314091
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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2022 Enchanting New Mexico Calendar
Each month you'll be treated to award-winning images selected by the editors of New Mexico Magazine for its annual contest.
- Imprint: New Mexico Magazine
- Format: Calendar
- ISBN: 9781934480243
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Señor Sack
Jorge Iber
A biography of Red Raider football legend Gabe Rivera.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781682830994
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Iowa's Remarkable Soils
Kathleen Woida
In language that is scientifically sound but accessible to the layperson, Kathleen Woida explains how Iowa's soils formed and have changed over centuries and millennia. Its soils are what make Iowa a premier agricultural state, both in terms of acres planted and bushels harvested. But in the last hundred years, large-scale intensive agriculture and urban development have severely degraded most of our soils. However, as Woida documents, some innovative Iowans are beginning to repair and regenerate their soils by treating them as the living ecosystem and vast carbon store that they are.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781609387501
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Ted Sullivan, Barnacle of Baseball
Pat O'Neill
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781476684789
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Seven Games in '62
John Iamarino
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781476687513
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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The Northwest Gardens of Lord and Schryver
Valencia Libby
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780870711527
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Turf Grass and Lawn Management
Nekesah T. Wafullah and Kuria C. Munene
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781774690857
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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The Fearless Traveller
Monica Mahajan
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789390620388
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Major League Turbulence
Douglas M. Branson
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781476680583
- Publication Date: Dec 2021
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A Sportsman's Journey
Donald C. Jackson
Expressive reminders of the power and spiritual pull of the natural world
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781496835963
- Publication Date: Nov 2021
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Bud Wilkinson and the Rise of Oklahoma Football
John Scott
Including vignettes of Wilkinson’s closest coaching friends (Royal, Bryant, Leahy, Sanders, Blaik, Tatum), Bud Wilkinson and the Rise of Oklahoma Football captures all the drama of Oklahoma’s ascendance and serves an authoritative and entertaining history of the sport that will appeal to all college football fans.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780806175546
- Publication Date: Nov 2021
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