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1) Reaching North : A Celebration of the Subarctic
Bastedo, Jamie

Calgary, AB, Canada: Red Deer College Press, 1998. A near fine trade paperback.. ISBN: 0889951705. CANADA TRAVEL NATURAL HISTORY NATURE SCIENCE. more information

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2) Mind Over Murder: DNA and Other Forensic Adventures
Batten, Jack

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0-7710-1066-4. CRIME CRIMINALS SCIENCE. more information

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3) The Monkey Wars
Blum, Deborah

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1994. An analysis of the controversial issue of the use of monkeys and apes in laboratories. First printing. A fine hardcover in a very good dustjacket, one tear at top spine edge. . ISBN: 0195094123. MONKEYS LABORATORY ANIMALS PRIMATES ANIMAL RIGHTS EXPERIMENTATION MEDICAL RESEARCH NATURE APES SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS PROJECTS. more information

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4) Creatures of the Air: The Illustrated Guide to Birds of The World
Bowen, Pete

London: Marshall Cavendish Publications Limited, 1975. First Edition. Green boards are sunned at edges, 100 pp., 85 colour and 2 black & white photographs, illustrated endpapers, a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-85685-133-7. SCIENCE ANIMALS PETS BIRDS. more information

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5) Green is Gold: Business Talking to Business About the Environmental Revolution
Carson, Patrick; Moulden, Julia

Toronto, Canada: HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1991. First printing. A near fine copy in a near fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0002158396. SCIENCE ECONOMICS. more information

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6) Lady with a Spear
Clark, Eugenie

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953. A scientist's story of her career in the marine world. 16 pages of photographs. First Edition. A very good copy, bottom page corners creased, previous owner's bookplate on half-title torn at corner. Very good dustjacket. . SCIENCE BIOGRAPHY FEMINISM WOMEN WORK. more information

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7) Astrophotography for the Amateur
Covington, Michael

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Reprinted edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0521253918. ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY SCIENCE ASTRONOMY. more information

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8) Bright Air, Brilliant Fire : On the Matter of the Mind
Edelman, Gerald M

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Basic Books/HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1992. "A Nobel Laureate's revolutionary vision of how the mind originates in the brain." First Edition, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0-465-05245-2. SCIENCE MIND BODY NEUROPSYCHOLOGY PHILOSOPHY SPIRIT PSYCHIATRY. more information

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9) A Visitor's Guide to Underground Britain: Caves, Caverns, Mines, Tunnels, Grottoes
Fells, Richard

London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., 1993. A definitive guide to "what lies below". Photographs by Tim Grevatt. First published in Great Britain by Webb & Bower Publishers Limited in 1989. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 1-85471-127-X. TRAVEL ENGLAND SCIENCE. more information

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10) The Universe and Eye: Making Sense Of The New Science
Ferris, Timothy

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. Inner and Outer Space. Foreword by John Gribbin. Illustrated by Ingram Pinn. First Edition. Fine in a fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-8118-0300-7. SCIENCE. more information

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11) The Astronomers: Companion Book to the PBS Television Series
Goldsmith, Donald

New York: St. Martins Press, 1991. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dustjacket, illustrated throughout with both colour and black & white photographs. Jacket has minor closed tear on back.. ISBN: 0312053800. SCIENCE ASTONOMY. more information

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12) Healing Plants : A Medicinal Guide to Native North American Plants and Herbs
Heatherly, Ana Nez

Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, Limited, 1998. Illustrated with colour photographs. First Paperback Edition, a near fine trade paperback.. ISBN: 0-00-638617-2. HERBS MEDICINAL PLANTS HEALTH SCIENCE GARDENING HORTICULTURE. more information

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13) Wings For My Flight: The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock
Houle, Marcy Cottrell

Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1991. First Edition. A near fine copy, slight rubbing on bottom of boards, in a near fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-201-57706-2. SCIENCE BIRDS. more information

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14) Story Earth : Native Voices on the Environment
Inter Press Service Staff (editor)

Mercury House, Incorporated, 1993. First Edition, a fine trade paperback. . ISBN: 1-56279-035-8. SCIENCE ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE. more information

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15) In The Image Of The Brain: Breaking the Barrier Between The Human Mind and Intelligent Machines
Jubak, Jim

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1992. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-316-47555-6. SCIENCE. more information

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16) Probing the Athabaska Glacier: Case History of a Glacier In The Columbia Icefield Jasper National Park
Kucera, Richard E

Vancouver: Department of Geological Sciences, University of British Columbia, 1979. Seventh printing. Illustrated card cover, 32 pp., illustrated with black & white photos and drawings. . SCIENCE. more information

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17) In the Age of Mankind: A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution
Lewin, Roger

Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. Large softcover, 255 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photography. A fine copy.. ISBN: 0895990253. HUMAN EVOLUTION SCIENCE ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE. more information

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18) The Web of Life: Little Stories for My Grandchildren
Lytton, The Earl of

London: Peter Davies. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Virginia Parsons. Lord Lytton's version of the birds & the bees facts of life. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, 75 pages, in a cream-coloured jacket illustrated on front panel. Dustjacket is darkened at edges, a few tiny tears at top edge but very attractive.. SCIENCE. more information

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19) Underwater Man
MacInnis, Joe

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1974. Very good in a good, mylar-protected, price-clipped dust jacket, showing some rubbing along edges, small closed tear. Introduction by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The story of eleven different ocean descents by the discoverer of the Breadalbane. Illustrated with photographs. First Edition.. ISBN: 0771036272. SCIENCE TRAVEL ADVENTURE OCEANS SHIPS. more information

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20) The Owl Papers
Maslow, Jonathan Evan

New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1983. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. A fine copy in a very good dustjacket. . SCIENCE OWLS. more information

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21) The Human Zoo
Morris, Desmond

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. First American Edition, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket, . SCIENCE ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE. more information

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22) Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour
Morris, Desmond

London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. Third printing. Line drawings by Edward Coleridge. Pages 68 and 69 irregularly cut, otherwise fine in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0-224-02868-5. SCIENCE CATS ANIMALS PETS. more information

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23) Rescue the Earth! Conversations With the Green Crusaders
Mowat, Farley

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990. First Edition, a near fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0771066848. SCIENCE. more information

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24) A Whale For the Killing
Mowat, Farley

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972. First edition. A near fine hardcover, pages clean and white, in a near fine dustjacket, rubbed at edges.. ISBN: 0771065701. SCIENCE WHALES HUNTING OCEAN. more information

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25) Malicorne: Earthly Reflections of an Astrophysist
Reeves, Hubert

Don Mills, ON, Canada: Stoddart Publishing Co., Limited, 1993. Thoughts on the relationship between science and culture. First English language edition, translated from the French by Donald Winkler. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0773726896. SCIENCE. more information

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26) Tropical Fish: Freshwater & Marine Aquaria
Rutta, Reginald

London: Octopus Books Limited, 1976. A very good copy, light shelfwear in a very good dustjacket. Illustrated throughout in both colour and black & white. Foreword by Robert Morris. . ISBN: 0-7064-0553-6. SCIENCE FISH ANIMALS PETS COLLECTING HOBBIES. more information

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27) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Sagan, Carl

New York: Random House, Incorporated, 1977. Sagan clearly explains theories on the development of the human brain, genes and intelligence. Book club edition in very good condition, in a very good dustjacket. . ISBN: 0394410459. BRAIN GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY INTELLECT MEDICAL NEUROSCIENCE SCIENCE GENETICS. more information

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28) Galileo's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Sobel, Dava

New York: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2000. First Penguin printing. A very good trade paperback, illustrated in black & white, 420 pages.. ISBN: 0140280553. GALILEI GALILEO 1564 1642 ITALY BIOGRAPHY SCIENTISTS CORRESPONDENCE WOMEN ASTRONOMERS AUTOBIOGRAPHY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HISTORY. more information

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29) The Coming Global Superstorm
Strieber, Whitley; Bell, Art

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Edition, fine in a fine dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-671-04190-8. CLIMATIC CHANGES GLACIAL EPOCH STORMS SCIENCE GEOLOGY NATURE WEATHER METEOROLOGY. more information

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30) Inventing The Future: Reflections on Science, Technology and Nature
Suzuki, David

Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co., Limited, 1989. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0-7737-2354-4. SCIENCE. more information

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31) Tuktu: Tthe Caribou of the Northern Mainland
Symington, Fraser

Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, 1965. Illustrated card covers lightly worn, illustrated at front with black & white photos and map tipped in at back cover. . SCIENCE ANIMALS CARIBOU. more information

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32) Acts of God: The Old Farmer's Almanac Unpredictable Guide to Weather & Natural Disasters
Watson, Benjamin A

Toronto: Random House, 1993. First Edition. A near fine copy, corners very slightly rounded, in a near fine, price-clipped dustjacket. . ISBN: 0-679-73794-4. SCIENCE. more information

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33) Jaguar Woman
Watt, Melanie

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1989. "One woman's struggle to preserve the jaguars of Belize." First Edition, a fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 1-55013-149-4. WOMEN BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY SCIENCE ANIMALS. more information

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