Why Men Won't Ask for Directions: The Seductions of ...
 Thought-provoking and entertaining: The title of this book gives an excellent preview of how this book first catches your attention, "Why Men Won't Ask For Directions", and then cogently discusses the weaknesses of sociobiology, "The [... more]
CDN$23.91
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Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviour
From Amazon.com: From the creator of the seminal field guide, The Sibley Guide to Birds, comes another indispensable book for bird watchers. This veritable bible to the world of birds is the collaborative effort of 48 expert birders and biologists, who [... more]
CDN$70.17
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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an ...
From Amazon.com: As ornithologist Kenn Kaufman recounts in his lively memoir Kingbird Highway, he's managed to do what other birders only dream of doing: take a year and chase winged creatures from one end of the country to another. The year in question [... more]
CDN$15.95
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Restoring North America's Birds: Lessons from Landscape ...
From Amazon.com: Scores of bird species are in decline throughout North America. But the extent of that decline, writes zoologist Robert Askins, is unknown. Newspapers, for instance, report one day that songbird species are widely threatened, another day [... more]
CDN$42.99
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One Man's Owl: (Abridged Edition)
Across the Divide: I like to think of Bernd Heinrich as a forest sleuth. Nothing delights him more than prowling, or jogging, through miles and miles of his favorite Maine woods identifying and describing such things as the songs of birds, the cocoons of [... more]
CDN$25.03
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A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies
More of a reference book than field guide: Just slightly smaller than 8.5 x 11 inch letter size with 500 pages and an inflexible, non-weather resistant cover, this book is too big and rigid to fit in anything other than a back-pack. It's not a quick [... more]
CDN$62.71
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Birds of Ecuador
Bird Bible for Ecuador arrives. Strengthen your doormats.: There are probably only two ways of approaching this book. Firstly on your knees, bowing low and, secondly, after several weeks of serious weight-training. I have recently come back from a short [... more]
CDN$119.35
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Richard Dawkins: How a scientist changed the way we think
Not just a cheering section: If Darwin's revelation of natural selection is "the best idea anyone, any where, ever had", then Richard Dawkins' identification of the "selfish gene" must run a close second. While Darwin's concept [... more]
CDN$16.95
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Peterson Field Guide to More Birding by Ear Eastern and ...
Highly useful follow-up to BIRDING BY EAR: The second installment of the "By Ear" series is even more impressive than the previous guide. MORE BIRDING BY EAR has more wood warblers, sandpipers, and terns than BIRDING BY EAR and features the [... more]
CDN$33.95
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National Audubon Society Regional Guide to the ...
From Amazon.com: Intent on preserving threatened bird species, George Bird Grinnell (that being his given name, and no reflection of his interests) first formed the Audubon Society in 1886. It disbanded in 1888, re-emerged in Massachusetts in 1896, and [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Audubon Life-List Journal
Audubon Life List Journal - Great Gift for the Birder: The Audubon Life List Journal makes for a wonderful gift for the birder. The print type and color pages are beautifully crafted. The book includes the most common birds of North America, but for the [... more]
CDN$33.95
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Winged Migration
From Amazon.com: For earthbound humans, Winged Migration is as close as any of us will get to sharing the sky with our fine feathered friends. It's as if French director Jacques Perrin and his international crew of dedicated filmmakers had been given a [... more]
CDN$40.99
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