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  • ACCURSED TOWER *
    ACCURSED TOWER *
    CROWLEY, ROGER
    The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before the age of gunpowder, whic...
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  • A NATURAL HISTORY OF BEER *
    A NATURAL HISTORY OF BEER *
    ROB DESALLE
    A celebration of beer-its science, its history, and its impact on human cultureWhat can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer. They...
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  • A LITTLE HISTORY OS ARCHAEOLOGY *
    A LITTLE HISTORY OS ARCHAEOLOGY *
    FAGAN, BRIAN
    The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globeWhat is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science to encompass the entire spa...
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  • PROJECT PUFFIN *
    PROJECT PUFFIN *
    STEPHEN W. KRESS, DERRICK Z. JACKSON
    Project Puffin es la inspiradora historia de cómo un ave marina amada fue restaurada en colonias de anidación abandonadas desde la costa de Maine. Como joven instructor de ornitología en Hog ??Island Audubon Camp, el Dr. Stephen W. Kress se enteró de que los frailecillos habían anidado en las islas cercanas hasta que los cazadores lo extirparon a fines del siglo XIX. Para...
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  • BIRDERS OF AFRICA *
    BIRDERS OF AFRICA *
    NANCY J. JACOBS
    In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnography, scientific publications, private archives, and interviews, Jacobs asks: How did white ornithologists both depend on and oper...
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  • FLORA ILLUSTRATA *
    FLORA ILLUSTRATA *
    FRASER S.M.
    An exquisitely illustrated volume in celebration of the world's foremost library of botanical works The renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden counts among its holdings many of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical and horticultural works ever created. More than eight centuries of knowledge, from the twelfth century to the present, are represe...
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  • THE NARROW EDGE *
    THE NARROW EDGE *
    DEBORAH CRAMER
    Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue b...
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