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My Backyard Jungle
The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It
The captivating story of an urban family who welcomes wildlife into their backyard and discovers the ups and downs of sharing habitat For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their...
France, Story of a Childhood
An intimate, heartbreaking autobiographical novel of an Algerian Muslim family’s exile from home and unwelcoming reception in France This moving tale of imprisonment and escape, persecution and loss, is...
Strange Bird
The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was,...
Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves
A History of American Environmental Policy
Third Edition
In the third edition of this definitive book, Richard N. L. Andrews looks back at four centuries of American environmental policy, showing how these policies affect contemporary environmental issues and public policy...
Writing Successful Science Proposals
An authoritative how-to guide that explains every aspect of science proposal writing This fully revised edition of the authoritative guide to science proposal writing is an essential tool for any...
Learning Irish
Text with Online Media
Learning Irish is the standard introductory course to the Irish language. The product of many years of original and scholarly research as well as much teaching experience, this book and the accompanying online...
Three Laws of Nature
A Little Book on Thermodynamics
A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory A romantic description of the second law of...
Dante and the Early Astronomer
Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens
Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867–1949) sat on a...
Polyarchy
Participation and Opposition
"A tightly woven explanation of the conditions under which cultures that do not tolerate political opposition may be transformed into societies that do."—Foreign Affairs "[Dahl's] analysis is lucid,...
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763
In 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low...