Ronald J. Taylor

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A Wildflower Sanctuary

Through color photographs and nontechnical descriptions, this book introduces visitors and residents alike to the abundant plant life in the land of bitterbrush and coyotes. (Includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ore

Sagebrush Country

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Older little book with beautiful illustrations 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Golden Guide: Flowers

A Golden Guide: Reptiles and Amphibians 

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Biography of Cancer

An assessment of cancer addresses both the courageous battles against the disease and the misperceptions and hubris that have compromised modern understandings, providing coverage of such topics as ancient-world surgeries and the development of present-day treatments. Reprint. Best-selling winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Includes reading-group guide.

The Emperor of All Maladies

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Rebecca Solnit

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A San Francisco Atlas

What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants, Solnit takes us on a tour that will forever change the way we think about place. She explores the area thematically--connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of Vertigo. Across an urban grid of just seven by seven miles, she finds seemingly unlimited landmarks and treasures--butterfly habitats, queer sites, murders, World War II shipyards, blues clubs, Zen Buddhist centers. She roams the political terrain, both progressive and conservative, and details the cultural geographies of the Mission District, the culture wars of the Fillmore, the South of Market world being devoured by redevelopment, and much, much more. Breathtakingly original, this atlas of the imagination invites us to search out the layers of San Francisco that carry meaning for us--or to discover our own infinite city, be it Cleveland, Toulouse, or Shanghai.



CONTRIBUTORS:



Cartographers: Ben Pease and Shizue Seigel



Designer: Lia Tjandra



Artists: Sandow Birk, Mona Caron, Jaime Cortez, Hugh D'Andrade, Robert Dawson, Paz de la Calzada, Jim Herrington, Ira Nowinski, Alison Pebworth, Michael Rauner, Gent Sturgeon, Sunaura Taylor



Writers and researchers: Summer Brenner, Adriana Camarena, Chris Carlsson, Lisa Conrad, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Paul La Farge, Genine Lentine, Stella Lochman, Aaron Shurin, Heather Smith, Richard Walker



Additional cartography: Darin Jensen; Robin Grossinger and Ruth Askevold, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Infinite City

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Richard Spellenberg

Western

National Audubon Society Field Guide to Wildflowers

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Kirk Wallace Johnson

Some unknown splotches on bottom of pages but does not affect readability. 

Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

As heard on NPR's This American Life

"Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever." --Christian Science Monitor

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins--some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them--and escaped into the darkness.

Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.

The Feather Thief

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Ann M. Evans

Alice Waters

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Davis Farmers Market Cookbook invites you to shop and cook through the seasons with the author as she shares cooking tops, culinary passions, market lore, and history. More than just a collection of 85 recipes, the book offers a "Basics" section that shows you how to adapt eight recipes, from risotto to fruit pies, throughout the year. In addition to glorious photos of food, farms and vendors, there is a year's worth of monthly menus.

The Davis Farmers Market Cookbook

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Older paperback. No writing or highlighting within

Desert Solitaire

Stephanie Van't Zelfden

Back cover is a little wavy, but rest of book is in great condition. 

Meal Plans and Recipes for Every Stage

The deliciously nutritious make-ahead baby food cookbook for a healthy start and beyond

Healthy, homemade baby food is the best way to ensure your little one is getting all of the nourishment they need--but every parent knows the stress of cooking dinner when your mind is on changing diapers. The Make-Ahead Baby Food Cookbook helps you plan ahead, showing you how quick and easy it can be to cook yummy, wholesome baby food safely and conveniently at home.

This baby food cookbook gets you started with a primer on signs to look for when your little one is ready to get in the high chair and how to provide essential nutrients at each stage. You'll learn the ins and outs of batch cooking, freezing, and reheating, before diving in with an easy-to-navigate 4-week meal plan for each of the three stages of development. This baby food cookbook is also packed with dozens of hearty purees, chunky combinations, and fun finger foods, as well as bonus recipes perfect for your toddler and delicious for the whole family.

The Make-Ahead Baby Food Cookbook includes:

 * From bottle to bowl--Discover what tools you'll need, which order to introduce solid foods, how to detect food sensitivities, and how to raise a food-friendly eater.
 * Set the stage--Prep for success with this baby food cookbook, using 4-week meal plans for each stage, including a reader-friendly planning chart, detailed shopping lists, foolproof step-by-step recipes, and more.
 * Ready-to-go recipes--Please your baby's palate with dozens of yummy and nutrient-rich foods for every stage and beyond--including flavor combos, mix-ins, and time-saving tips.

Make mealtime mess-free and stress-free with the Make-Ahead Baby Food Cookbook, an all-in-one meal map for every stage and age.

Make-Ahead Baby Food Cookbook

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Bill Thompson III

For youths wanting to learn more about birds!

Aided by his own son and daughter, Thompson delivers a field guide to 300 of the most common birds of North America just for kids.

The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America

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Vintage book. Only writing is on the front page in pencil (price at used bookstore). 

National Velvet (Hardcover) 

Lee Sandlin

Book itself is in great condition. However, it has a lot of highlighting and annotations. 

The Mississippi When it Last Ran Wild

Wicked River

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All New Square Foot Gardening 

NOTE: This is a book for teachers not storybook

Book full of lesson plans and coloring pages revolving around eggs! 

Publisher recommends this book for PreK to 1st grade. More info here: https://www.lhsgems.org/GEMSeggs.html

Science

Teacher's Guide

This guide introduces children, grades Preschool-1, to the wonder of eggs and provides them with experience to begin developing key concepts in biology and the life sciences. The activities are noteworthy for their interdisciplinary richness, interweaving literature, math, life science, physical science, drama, role-playing, and art.

Eggs Eggs Everywhere

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Why So Many Predictions Fail--But Some Don't

UPDATED FOR 2020 WITH A NEW PREFACE BY NATE SILVER "One of the more momentous books of the decade." —The New York Times Book Review Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of the website FiveThirtyEight. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the “prediction paradox”: The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future. In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the most successful forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball to global pandemics, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He explains and evaluates how these forecasters think and what bonds they share. What lies behind their success? Are they good—or just lucky? What patterns have they unraveled? And are their forecasts really right? He explores unanticipated commonalities and exposes unexpected juxtapositions. And sometimes, it is not so much how good a prediction is in an absolute sense that matters but how good it is relative to the competition. In other cases, prediction is still a very rudimentary—and dangerous—science. Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise. With everything from the health of the global economy to our ability to fight terrorism dependent on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver’s insights are an essential read.

The Signal and the Noise

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In vintage condition. Main damage is to the interior cover (see third picture). Otherwise no writing or highlighting. #hardcover #shortstories #vintage 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Stories (Vintage)

Corner is slightly bent (see last picture). No writing or highlighting within #paperback 

A Lakota History

The author of The Journey of Crazy Horse presents a legendary battle through the eyes of the Lakota

The saga of Custer's Last Stand, has become ingrained in the lore of the American West, and the key players Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and George Armstrong Custer have grown to larger-than-life proportions. Now, award-winning historian Joseph M. Marshall presents the revisionist view of the Battle of the Little Bighorn that has been available only in the Lakota oral tradition. Drawing on this rich source of storytelling, Marshall uncovers what really took place at the Little Big Horn and provides fresh insight into the significance of that bloody day.

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn

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No writing or highlighting within. 139 pages. #paperback #poetry

A Boy's Will and North of Boston

A collection of two of Robert Frost's most celebrated poems in their original form: A Boy's Will and North of Boston.
 
The publication of A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part of the American national heritage.
 
This is the only edition to present these two classics in their original form. A Boy's Will introduced readers to Frost's unmistakable poetic voice, and in North of Boston, we find two of his most famous poems, "Mending Wall" and "The Death of the Hired Man." With an introduction by distinguished critic and Amherst professor William H. Pritchard and an afterword by poet and critic Peter Davison, this centennial edition stands as a complete and vital introduction to the work of the quintessential modern American poet.

Poems by Robert Frost

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Book in great condition. #gardening #crafts 

75 Ingenious Ways to Enhance Your Outdoor Space with DIY Tools, Pots, Supports, Embellishments, and More

The DIY craze has moved beyond the craft room and into the garden! Relying on easy-to-find, inexpensive, and repurposed materials, Handmade for the Garden is a treasure trove of original projects that not only make planting and growing efficient and successful but also add a personal touch to the gardenscape. Among the myriad projects in this hardworking book are mini hothouses; painted, stamped, and stenciled terracotta planters; hypertufa and cement pots and decorations; rustic and formal fencing and trellises; plant markers and stakes; and sieves and baskets. With Handmade for the Garden to inspire them, gardeners of all skill levels will be empowered to experiment with form and function to discover creative, artful ways to personalize and beautify their gardens with handmade objects.

Handmade for the Garden

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Retired library book with laminated sleeve. #hardcover #blues #music #blackhistory 

A Celebration

Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature "shaped speech" style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantations, the current of the mighty Mississippi, and the shackles, blood, and tears of slavery. Each chop of the ax is a beat, each lash of the whip fashions another line on the musical staff. But each sound also creates the chords and harmonies that preserve the ancestors and their stories, and sustain life, faith, and hope into our own times.

Roots and Blues

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Has a written greeting on the interior front page. Otherwise good condition for an older book. Crease in the spine and some bends on the back cover. #paperback #wwii #japaneseamericanhistory 

Tule Lake 

No writing or highlighting within #paperback #ecology #communityecology #science 

Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities

Ecologists, although they acknowledge the problems involved, generally conduct their research on too few species, in too small an area, over too short a period of time. In The Balance of Nature?, a work sure to stir controversy, the distinguished theoretical ecologist Stuart L. Pimm argues that ecology therefore fails in many ways to address the enormous ecological problems now facing our planet.

Ecologists describing phenomena on larger scales often use terms like "stability," "balance of nature," and "fragility," and Pimm begins by considering the various specific meanings of these terms. He addresses five kinds of ecological stability--stability in the strict sense, resilience, variability, persistence, and resistance--and shows how they provide ways of comparing natural populations and communities as well as theories about them. Each type of stability depends on characteristics of the species studied and also on the structure of the food web in which the species is embedded and the physical features of the environment.

The Balance of Nature? provides theoretical ecology with a rich array of questions--questions that also underpin pressing problems in practical conservation biology. Pimm calls for nothing less than new approaches to ecology and a new alliance between theoretical and empirical studies.


The Balance of Nature?

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Purchased this copy completely forgetting we already had a copy. Oops! In excellent condition. #nature #spiders #arachnology #invertebrates #entomology 

A richly illustrated and up-close look at the secret lives of spiders and other arachnids

The American Southwest is home to an extraordinary diversity of arachnids, from spitting spiders that squirt silk over their prey to scorpions that court one another with kissing and dancing. Amazing Arachnids presents these enigmatic creatures as you have never seen them before. Featuring a wealth of color photos of more than 300 different kinds of arachnids from eleven taxonomic orders--both rare and common species--this stunningly illustrated book reveals the secret lives of arachnids in breathtaking detail, including never-before-seen images of their underground behavior.

Amazing Arachnids covers all aspects of arachnid biology, such as anatomy, sociality, mimicry, camouflage, and venoms. You will meet bolas spiders that lure their victims with fake moth pheromones, fishing spiders that woo their mates with silk-wrapped gifts, chivalrous cellar spiders, tiny mites, and massive tarantulas, as well as many others. Along the way, you will learn why arachnids are living fossils in some respects and nimble opportunists in others, and how natural selection has perfected their sensory structures, defense mechanisms, reproductive strategies, and hunting methods.


 * Covers more than 300 different kinds of arachnids, including ones new to science
 * Features more than 750 stunning color photos
 * Describes every aspect of arachnid biology, from physiology to biogeography
 * Illustrates courtship and mating, birth, maternal care, hunting, and defense
 * Includes first-ever photos of the underground lives of schizomids and vinegaroons
 * Provides the first organized guide to macroscopic mites, including photos of living mites for easy reference

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Ronald J. Taylor

Sagebrush Country

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A Golden Guide: Flowers

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A Golden Guide: Reptiles and Amphibians

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies

Rebecca Solnit

Infinite City

Richard Spellenberg

National Audubon Society Field Guide to Wildflowers

Kirk Wallace Johnson

The Feather Thief

Ann M. Evans; Alice Waters

The Davis Farmers Market Cookbook

Edward Abbey

Desert Solitaire

Stephanie Van't Zelfden

Make-Ahead Baby Food Cookbook

Bill Thompson III

The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America

Enid Bagnold

National Velvet (Hardcover)

Lee Sandlin

Wicked River

Mel Bartholomew

All New Square Foot Gardening

Jean C. Echols

Eggs Eggs Everywhere

Nate Silver

The Signal and the Noise

Katherine Mansfield

Stories (Vintage)

Joseph M. Marshall

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn

Robert Frost; William H. Pritchard (Introduction by); Peter Davison (Afterword by)

Poems by Robert Frost

Susan Guagliumi

Handmade for the Garden

Arnold Adoff; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)

Roots and Blues

Edward Miyakawa

Tule Lake

Stuart L. Pimm

The Balance of Nature?

Jillian Cowles

Amazing Arachnids

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