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The Forest
Peter Farb |
Chapters include: The Forest Year, Ancient Landscapes, Green Patterns Around the Earth, From Jungle to North Woods, Tree Engineering,
The Web of Forest Life, The Hidden World of the Soil, Rise and Fall of the Wilderness, Forests of the Future.
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The Sea
Leonard Engel |
Chapters include: The Matchless Phenomenon of the Sea, The Origin of the Sea, The Underwater Landscape, Currents: On the Surface and
in the Deep, Waves and Tides, The Great Pyramid of Life, Sharks and Other Killers, Mammals of the Sea, Man and the Future of the Sea.
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The Desert
A. Starker Leopold |
Chapters include: Scorched Belts on the Earth, The Creation of Deserts, Plants under the Sun, The World of Desert Animals, Water: The Eternal
Problem, Life Patterns in Arid Lands, Man against Desert, The Desert Tamed.
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Evolution
Ruth Moore |
Chapters include: Darwin's Voyage into the Past, A Theory That Shook the World, The Riddle of Heredity, Chromosomes, Genes and DNA, A Half
Billion Years of Creation, The Search for Mankind's Ancestors, Dawn Man and His Brothers, The Emergence of Homo Sapiens.
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The Insects
Peter Farb |
Chapters include: A Realm of the Insect, Living in Armor, The Marvel of Metamorphosis, Insect Architecture, The Hunters and the Hunted, Flowers,
Pollen and Bees, The Water Dwellers, The Ant: Wisdom or Instinct?.
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The Birds
Roger Tory Peterson |
Chapters include: From Archaeopterys to Sparrow, What It Takes to Fly, Birds as Food Gatherers, How Many Birds, The Riddle of Migration, How
Birds Communicate, From Egg to Adult, Toward a Balance with Man.
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The Plants
Friz W. Went |
Chapters include: The Green World, The Subworld of the Cell, The Plant as a Chemical Factory, Moving Water by Molecules and by Tons, The
Quest for Clues to Growth, The Molding Force of Climate, Climbers, Clingers and Predators, Man the Master.
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The Mammals
Richard Carrington |
Chapters include: The Variety of Mammals, Mammalian Evolution, Moving on Four Legs, How Mammals Eat, Attack, Defense and Survival, The
Wanderers and the Stay-at-Homes, Love Life, Toward Man.
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The Fishes
F.D. Ommanney |
Chapters include: Inheritors of an Ancient World, The Facts of Life in Water, The Shaping Hand of Evolution, Sharks and Rays: Loners of the
Sea, The Complexities of Reproduction, Life and Death in a Silent Realm, Charting the Great Migrations, The Costly Struggle to Harvest the Sea.
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The Reptiles
Archie Carr |
Chapters include: The "Cold-Blooded" Fraternity, The Golden Age of Reptiles, The Business of Eating, The Business of Living, Return to the
Water, The Miraculous Shelled Egg, Growing Troubles with Man, A Dubious Future.
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Ecology
Peter Farb |
Chapters include: The All-embracing Web,
Coexistence in the Community, Why Living Things Are Where They Are, Rhythms, Cycles and Clocks,
Mutual Aid - or Tooth and Claw?, The Fit and the Unfit, The Rise and Fall of Populations, Man versus Nature.
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The Land and Wildlife of North America
Peter Farb |
Chapters include: A Virgin Continent, The Crowded Coasts, The Western Deserts, The Southern Lowlands, The Great Eastern Forests, A World of
Grass, Mountain Ramparts, The Last Frontiers.
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The Land and Wildlife of South America
Marston Bates |
Chapters include: A World Apart, Acrobats in the Treetops, The Old Inhabitants, Talented Newcomers, Where the Birds Are, Reptiles and
Amphibians, The Insect Legions, The Rivers and Their Denizens.
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The Land and Wildlife of Tropical Asia
S. Dillon Ripley |
Chapters include: The Southeastern Realm, When the Rains Come, In the Great Forest, The Muddy Margins of the Sea, Island Hopping, An
Insect Treasure Trove, Pythons, Rhinos and Others, The Human Invasion.
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The Land and Wildlife of Eurasia
François Bourlière |
Chapters include: A Continent's Turbulent Past, The Southern Barriers, Ravaged Lands on the Azure Sea, The Steppe Corridor, A Forest
Primeval and Its Survivors, The Land of the North, The Taming of the Wild, The Last Strongholds.
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The Land and Wildlife of Australia
David Bergamini |
Chapters include: The Dry Continent, A Long Isolation and Its Results, Two That Time Forgot, The Meat Eaters, The Mixed Feeders, Deadly
Snakes and Giant Lizards, The Birds of Down Under, Human Holdovers from the Stone Age.
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