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  Heartbeats in the Muck - The...

  John Waldman

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  “Gives the reader a sense of lost New York, of the incredibly rich and biologically diverse ecosystem that once was the lower Hudson River estuary.” —Ted Steinberg, author of Gotham Unbound 
   
  Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor’s environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural environment. Garbage dumping, oil spills, sewage sludge, pesticides, heavy metals, poisonous PCBs, landfills, and dredging greatly diminished life in the harbor, in some places to nil. 
   
  Now, forty years after the Clean Water Act began to resurrect New York Harbor, John Waldman delivers a new edition of his New York Society Library Award-winning book. Heartbeats in the Muck is a lively, accessible narrative of the animals, water quality, and habitats of the harbor. It includes captivating personal accounts of the author’s explorations of its farthest and most noteworthy reaches, treating readers to an intimate environmental tour of a shad camp near the George Washington Bridge, the Arthur Kill (home of the resurgent heron colonies), the Hackensack Meadowlands, the darkness under a giant Manhattan pier, and the famously polluted Gowanus Canal. A new epilogue details some of the remarkable changes that have come upon New York Harbor in recent years. 
   
  “Full of humor and a picaresque joy in the almost absurd persistence of Gotham’s underwater ecosystems, Heartbeats should be read by every urbanite who dreams of a better relationship with nature.” —Paul Greenberg, New York Times-bestselling author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

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  DIVIDEND TRADING: The new...

  Russel L. Bostic

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  Succeed In Forex, Swing, And Stock Market Investing With This Efficient Daily Trading Guide 
  Receiving dividends ' benefits is like receiving capital interest in a bank account. It's a simple way to generate a stable source of additional funds, but it's not thrilling. This is why people buy into the craze of investing in high-growth stocks to get high returns. But in order for your investment to achieve steady growth, you need to adopt and efficient dividend-investment strategy. 
  In his book, Russel L. Bostic provides the best strategies and tools so you can successfully take on Forex, swing, and stock market investing. This new guide allows you to proactively manage your daily trading undertakings step by step.Here’s what you’ll learn:The advantages of Dividend TradingAcknowledging the risks and choosing the right approachCollecting capital to fuel your investmentsRecognizing the risk of no riskGauging and raising your risk toleranceDealing with risk factors you can controlCreating efficiency with consolidationMeasuring debt versus equityAnd so much more! 
  It’s not always about the highest amount of returns in the shortest amount of time. Sometimes, playing the long game can get you further than anyone else. 
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  Lower Your Blood Pressure -...

  Max Highstein

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  Deep relaxation and a simple breathing exercise help your body slow down, relax, balance.Blood pressure responds naturally to heart rate and breathing. As a general principal, as you slow down your breathing, your heart responds, as does your blood pressure. This program combines deep relaxation with a simple breathing exercise to help your body slow down, relax, and come into balance.With gentle narration and soft, relaxing music, you’ll be guided on an inner journey to a peaceful park on a beautiful day. There you’ll take a walk, and come to an inviting hammock tied between two old trees. Lying comfortably in the hammock, you’ll do a simple, easy to follow breathing exercise. As you follow along, you’ll dissolve your cares, and allow your body to naturally adjust your blood pressure to more healthy levels.This program includes the main 15-minute guided inner journey, and two alternate versions of the program for you to choose from.

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  The One-Straw Revolution - An...

  Masanobu Fukuoka

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  Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book "is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture." 
  Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror nature's own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his so-called "do-nothing" technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. 
  Whether you're a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something here—you may even be moved to start a revolution of your own.

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  Chronicles of Canada Volume 08 -...

  William Wood

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  Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrary, it was a necessary link in the chain of waterside posts which connected France with America by way of the Atlantic, the St Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi. But since the chain itself and all its other links, and even the peculiar relation of Louisbourg to the Acadians and the Conquest, have been fully described elsewhere in the Chronicles of Canada, the present volume only tries to tell the purely individual tale. (Summary from Book preface)

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  Earth Water and Sky - A...

  Paul A. Johnsgard

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  A leading ornithologist shares his personal insights and experiences with birds across the globe in this collection of lyrical essays and drawings.Paul Johnsgard is one of America's most prominent ornithologists and a world authority on waterfowl behavior. In Earth, Water, and Sky, he describes some of his most fascinating encounters with birds, from watching the annual mating displays of prairie-chickens on a hilltop in Pawnee County, Nebraska, to attempting to solve some of the mysteries surrounding Australia's nearly flightless musk duck. Reflecting his worldwide interests and travels, the birds Johnsgard describes inhabit many parts of the globe. Grouping the birds by the element they frequent most—earth, water, or sky—he weaves a wealth of natural history into personal stories drawn from a lifetime of avian observation. And, as a bonus, Johnsgard’s lovely pen-and-ink drawings illustrate each species he describes.

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