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Eating Animals Little, Brown and Company ISBN13 9780316069908 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a r Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a childs behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy literature science memoir and his own detective work Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting Marked by Foers profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close widely loved Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning a story about the stories weve told-and the stories we now need to tell / Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Liberty Mountain Knopf ISBN13 9780307266309 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Full of incredible characters amazing athletic achievements cutting-edge science and most of all pure inspiration Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question Why does my foot hurt In search of an answer Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong r r Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence With the help of Caballo Blanco a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans including a star ultramarathoner a beautiful young surfer and a barefoot wonder r r With a sharp wit and wild exuberance McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit and finally to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet and that you indeed all of us were born to run r r r From the Hardcover edition Book Description / r/ Full of incredible characters amazing athletic achievements cutting-edge science and most of all pure inspiration Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question Why does my foot hurt In search of an answer Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong r/ Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence With the help of Caballo Blanco a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans including a star ultramarathoner a beautiful young surfer and a barefoot wonder / With a sharp wit and wild exuberance McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit and finally to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet and that you indeed all of us were born to run / r/ span class h1 Amazon Exclusive A Q A with Christopher McDougall / / span r/ mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ randoEMS/ McDougall credit James Rexroad jpg / Question / Born to Run explores the life and running habits of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s Copper Canyon arguably the greatest distance runners in the world What are some Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Rodale Books ISBN13 9781594867347 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis The only missing ingredient is collective will / / Properly understood the climate crisis is an unparalleled opportunity to finally and effectively address many persistent causes of suffering and misery that have long been neglected and to transform the prospects of future generations giving them a chance to live healthier more prosperous lives as they continue their pursuit of happiness / / Our Choice gathers in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now and that together will solve this crisis It is meant to depoliticize the issue as much as possible and inspire readers to take action not only on an individual basis but as participants in the political processes by which every country and the world as a whole makes the choice that now confronts us / / There is an old African proverb that says If you want to go quickly go alone if you want to go far go together / / We have to go far quickly / / We can solve the climate crisis It will be hard to be sure but if we can make the choice to solve it I have no doubt whatsoever that we can and will succeed / AL GORE from the introduction / The National Parks: America's Best Idea Knopf The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War Baseball and The War r / r America s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence that the nation s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved not for royalty or the rich but for everyone In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world s first national park at Yellowstone in 1872 through the most recent / additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres r r The authors recount the adventures mythmaking and intense political battles behind the evolution of the park system and the enduring / ideals that fostered its growth They capture the importance and splendors of the individual parks from Haleakala in Hawaii to Acadia in Maine from Denali in Alaska to the Everglades in Florida from Glacier in Montana to Big Bend in Texas And they introduce us to a diverse cast of compelling characters both unsung heroes and famous figures such as John Muir Theodore Roosevelt and Ansel Adams who have been transformed by these special places and committed themselves to saving them from destruction so that the rest of us could be transformed as well r r The National Parks is a glorious celebration of an essential expression of American democracy span class h1 Amazon Exclusive Joseph J Ellis Reviews em The National Parks / em / / span r / r / Educated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University Joseph J Ellis is a Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College His em Founding Brothers / em won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and em American Sphinx / em earned the 1997 National Book Award His latest work em American Creation / em was published in 2007 Read Elliss exclusive Amazon guest review of em The National Parks Americas Best Idea / em / r / mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ randoEMS/ Ellis-credit-JIM-GIPE jpg / / If Ken Burns s upcoming documentary film on America s National Parks is as good as the book laying open before me he has another huge winner Of course the book entitled em The National Parks America s Best Idea / em is intended as a companion to the film but as I see it--literally--the book permits the eye and mind to linger over the truly breathtaking pictures in a more meditative way that film does not allow The result is almost elegiac producing the same kind of goose bumps that Burns created in his early work on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Civil War / Burns has been chronicling the American experience for over thirty years and I think it s fair to say that no one has influenced more living Americans to think about our history as a people and a nation His dominant themes have been space and race his persistent question deceptively simple who are we I think em The National Parks / em is his masterpiece on the space theme And the message that kept whispering to me in these pages was that whoever we are has been decisively shaped by the sheer physicality of the continent we inhabit / It never occurred to me before but Americans invented the idea institutionalized in our National Parks Namely as Burns puts it in the introduction for the first time in human history land--great sections of our natural landscape--was set aside not for kings or noblemen or the very rich but for everyone for all time As Wallace Stegner once observed and the book s subtitle echoes this may have been America s best idea Burns links the idea to Jefferson s magic words in the Declaration of Independence i e We hold these truths our The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN13 9780618968411 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a On the afternoon of August 20 1910 a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington Idaho and Montana whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men college boys day workers immigrants from mining camps to fight the fire But no living person had seen anything like those flames and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them r r Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester Gifford Pinchot Pioneering the notion of conservation Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure owned by and preserved for every citizen The robber barons fought Roosevelt and Pinchot s rangers but the Big Burn saved the forests even as it destroyed them the heroism shown by the rangers turned public opinion permanently in their favor and became the creation myth that drove the Forest Service with consequences still felt in the way our national lands are protected or not today Amazon Best of the Month October 2009 / When Theodore Roosevelt vacated the Oval Office he left a vast legacy of public lands under the stewardship of the newly created Forest Service Immediately political enemies of the nascent conservation movement chipped away at the foundations of the untested agency lobbying for a return of the land to private interests and development Then in 1910 several small wildfires in the Pacific Northwest merge into one massive swift and unstoppable blaze and the Forest Service is pressed into a futile effort to douse the flames Over 100 firefighters died heroically galvanizing public opinion in favor of the forests--with unexpected ramifications exposed in todays proliferation of destructive fires Just as he recounted the Dust Bowl experience in em The Worst Hard Time / em a National Book Award winner em The Big Burn / em vividly recreates disaster through the eyes of the men and women who experienced it though this time without the benefit of first-hand accounts Its another incredible--and incredibly compelling--feat of historical journalism -- em Jon Foro / em r / r / hr class bucketDivider size 1 / r / span class h1 Amazon Exclusive Essay The Ghosts of 1910 by Timothy Egan Author of em The Big Burn / em / / span mg align right border 0 hspace 5 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ hmh-ems/ TimEgan150 jpg vspace 5 / / Nearly a hundred years ago a big piece of Rocky Mountain high country fell to a fire that has never been matched--in size ferocity or how it changed the country I was drawn to this fire in part because of its mythic status among my fellow Westerners But I was reluctant to try and tell this story because everyone who had lived through it had gone to their grave With em The Worst Hard Time / em I could look into the eyes of people who survived the Dust Bowl and hear their stories--firsthand They were happy to pass them on I was the baton r / r / With em The Big Burn / em the stories would have to come from ghosts That fire burned 3 million acres and five towns to the ground in the hot sweep of a single weekend It also killed nearly a hundred people So my task was to listen to the dead--those Italian and Irish immigrant firefighters in their letters home those first forest rangers in memories collected in volumes How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times Plume ISBN13 9780452295834 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The definitive guide on how to prepare for any crisis--from global financial collapse to a pandemic / R R It would only take one unthinkable event to disrupt our way of life If there is a terrorist attack a global pandemic or sharp currency devaluation--you may be forced to fend for yourself in ways youve never imagined Where would you get water How would you communicate with relatives who live in other states What would you use for fuel R R Survivalist expert James Wesley Rawles author of Patriots and editor of SurvivalBlog com shares the essential tools and skills you will need for you family to survive including R R Water / Filtration transport storage and treatment options R Food Storage / How much to store pack-it-yourself methods storage space and rotation countering vermin R Fuel and Home Power / Home heating fuels fuel storage safety backup generators R Garden Orchard Trees and Small Livestock / Gardening basics non-hybrid seeds greenhouses choosing the right livestock R Medical Supplies and Training / Building a first aid kit minor surgery chronic health issues R Communications / Following international news staying in touch with loved ones R Home Security / Your panic room self-defense training and tools R When to Get Outta Dodge / Vehicle selection kit packing lists routes and planning R Investing and Barter / Tangibles investing building your barter stockpile And much more R R How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It is a must-have for every well-prepared family R R K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain Random Broadway ISBN13 9780767932509 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2 the worlds most difficult and unpredictable mountain by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top r r At 28 251 feet the worlds second-tallest mountain K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering with good reason Four times as deadly as Everest K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954 In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2 the worst single-event tragedy in the mountains history and the second-worst in the long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges Yet summiting K2 remains a cherished goal for climbers from all over the globe Before he faced the challenge of K2 himself Ed Viesturs one of the worlds premier high-altitude mountaineers thought of it as the holy grail of mountaineering r r In K2 Life and Death on the Worlds Most Dangerous Mountain Viesturs explores the remarkable history of the mountain and of those who have attempted to conquer it At the same time he probes K2s most memorable sagas in an attempt to illustrate the lessons learned by confronting the fundamental questions raised by mountaineering questions of risk ambition loyalty to ones teammates self-sacrifice and the price of glory Viesturs knows the mountain firsthand He and renowned alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992 and were nearly killed in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost certain death Fortunately Ed managed to get into a self-arrest position with his ice ax and stop both his fall and Scott s r r Focusing on seven of the mountains most dramatic campaigns from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy Viesturs and Roberts crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling With photographs from Viesturss personal collection and from historical sources this is the definitive account of the worlds ultimate mountain and of the lessons that can be gleaned from struggling toward its elusive summit span class h1 Amazon Exclusive Christopher Reich Reviews em K2 Life and Death on the Worlds Most Dangerous Mountain / em / / span r / r / Christopher Reigh is the em New York Times / em bestselling author of / em Rules of Vengeance / em em Numbered Account / em and em The Patriots Club / em which won the International Thiller Writers award for best novel in 2 / 006 / r / r / mg alt Christopher Reich photo Katja Reich height 180 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ rando/ christopher reich jpg style float right width 250 / Is there anything more enthralling than a true tale of high adventure well told Stories about men and women braving impossible odds under daunting conditions in far flung locales often risking life and limb keep me glued to the page every time I m talking about books like em Papillion / em em Alive / em em Into Thin Air / em and em The Perfect Storm / em Well today I m happy to add another book to that list em K2 Life and Death on the World s Most Dangerous Mountain / em by Ed Viesturs with David Roberts r / r / K2 is the world s second tallest mountain Located in the Karakoram Range in northern Pakistan it has more than earned its nickname as the world s most dangerous mountain Just a year ago thirteen climbers lost their lives on the mountain in a single day A few mountains may have killed a higher ratio of those who have tried to climb them notably Annapurna but none combine the danger lore and prestige of K2 In Viesturs new book he tells the story of six expeditions to the fabled mountain Some successful Some ill-fated All spellbinding r / r / First a word about the author Ed Viesturs is widely acknowledged to be among the world s top five living mountaineers In 2005 he became the first American to summit all fourteen of the world s 8000 meter peaks And he did so without supplemental oxygen His fine memoir em No Shortcuts to the Top / em chronicles that adventure To offer but one example of his prodigious skills Viesturs once climbed 7 000 feet from an altitude of 16 000 feet to 23 000 feet up a near vertical slope in only eight hours Did I mention he was carrying a forty-pound pack on his back The man is to mountaineering what Michael Jordan is to basketball If that is Michael Jordan had risked The Sibley Guide to Trees Knopf ISBN13 9780375415197 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Book Description / r/ The man who revolutionized the field guide to birds now brings his formidable skills of identification and illustration to the more than six hundred tree species of North America Similar in size and format to The Sibley Guide to Birds the layout for this guide is another triumph of logic and concision Species are arranged taxonomically not by features such as leaf shape as in most other guides which will enable the user to browse the images to find a match for an observed tree in the same way a birder uses the bird guide And all pages will follow the same format allowing the user to pinpoint particular information with ease David Sibley s meticulous exquisitely detailed paintings illustrate the cycles of annual and lifetime development and reveal even the very subtle similarities and distinctions between like elements of different species bark leaves needles cones flowers fruit twigs and silhouettes More than four hundred maps show the complete range both natural and cultivated for nearly all the species Issues of conservation preservation and environmental health are addressed in authoritative essays As innovative comprehensive and indispensable as The Sibley Guide to Birds this new book will set the standard of excellence in field guides to trees / span class h1 A Q A with David Allen Sibley / / span / mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ randoEMS/ Sibley credit Erinn Hartman A plus jpg / Question / When did your interest in trees begin / David Allen Sibley / It has always been there I don t think there is anything unusual about that--kids like to climb trees imagine living in a big hollow tree etc When I was about 8 years old I lived near Muir Woods so seeing the Redwoods and smelling what I now know are California Laurel trees made a big impression on me And I think an interest in trees follows naturally from an interest in birds--looking at birds means you are looking at a lot of trees and when you do you start to notice different things about their twigs and leaves and bark / Q / How long have you been working on this book and what kind of research did it entail How long did each illustration in this book take you / DAS / The Dangerous Book for Boys William Morrow ISBN13 9780061243585 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses learning how to fish finding true north and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is / In this digital age there is still a place for knots skimming stones and stories of incredible courage This book recaptures Sunday afternoons stimulates curiosity and makes for great father-son activities The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun--building go-carts and electromagnets identifying insects and spiders and flying the worlds best paper airplanes / The completely revised American Edition includes / The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World r The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World r The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know r Stickball r Slingshots r Fossils r Building a Treehouse r Making a Bow and Arrow r Fishing revised with US Fish r Timers and Tripwires r Baseballs Most Valuable Players r Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord The Alamo and Gettysburg r Spies-Codes and Ciphers r Making a Go-Cart r Navajo Code Talkers Dictionary r Girls r Cloud Formations r The States of the U S r Mountains of the U S r Navigation r The Declaration of Independence r Skimming Stones r Making a Periscope r The Ten Commandments r Common US Trees r Timeline of American History / Equal parts droll and gorgeous nostalgia book and heartfelt plea for a renewed sense of adventure in the lives of boys and men Conn and Hal Igguldens The Dangerous Book for Boys became a mammoth bestseller in the United Kingdom in 2006 Adapted in moderation for American customs in this edition cricket is gone rugby remains conkers are out Navajo Code Talkers in The Dangerous Book is a guide book for dads as well as their sons as a reminder of lore and technique that have not yet been completely lost to the digital age Recall the adventures of Scott of the Antarctic and the Battle of the Somme relearn how to palm a coin tan a skin and most charmingly wrap a package in brown paper and string The books ambitions are both modest and winningly optimistic you get the sense that by learning how to place a splint or write in invisible ink a boy might be prepared for anything even girls which warrant a small but wise chapter of their own align left span class h1 Inside The Dangerous Book for Boys / / span r width 100 border 0 cellspacing 4 cellpadding 4 align center valign top class tiny width 35 mg src http / / g-ec2 images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ a-plus/ Iggulden Knots 06 250 V22799812 jpg border 0 r Figure 8 Knot / width 65 mg src http / / g-ec2 images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ a-plus/ Iggulden Knots 17 V23062802 jpg border 0 r Sheet Bend Knot / / r r width 100 border 0 cellspacing 4 cellpadding 4 align center valign top class tiny width 100 mg src http / / g-ec2 images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ a-plus/ Iggulden Waterloo 500 V22799815 jpg border 0 r The Battle of Waterloo / / r align left span class h1 Questions for Conn Iggulden / / span Conn and Hal Iggulden are two brothers who have not forgotten what it was like to be boys Conn taught for many years before becoming one of the most admired and popular young historical novelists with his Emperor series based on the life of Julius Caesar and his newly embarked series on Genghis Khan while Hal is a theater director We asked Conn about their collaboration Amazon com / Its difficult to describe what Zeitoun McSweeney''s ISBN13 9781934781630 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans Abdulrahman Zeitoun a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business In the days after the storm he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe passing on supplies and helping those he could A week later on September 6 2005 Zeitoun abruptly disappeared Eggers s riveting nonfiction book three years in the making explores Zeitoun s roots in Syria his marriage to Kathy an American who converted to Islam and their children and the surreal atmosphere in New Orleans and the United States generally in which what happened to Abdulrahman Zeitoun was possible Like What Is the What Zeitoun was written in close collaboration with its subjects and involved vast research in this case in the United States Spain and Syria