Good Old Books: Common Wild Animals and Their Young

Common Wild Animals and Their Young
by Rita Vandivert with photographs by William Vandivert
Dell, 1957

This beautiful picture book tells the life stories of sixteen common
American wild animals. In enchanting, original photographs you will
see....

... the flight of a deer
... what happens inside a beaver house
... baby 'possum in the marsupial pouch,
... the difference between male and female skunks,
... tiny deermice in their nest,
... the sharp-quilled defense of the porcupine,
... mother mink feeding her young,
... black bear cubs in rollicking play,
... and many more intimate glimpses of animal life.

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Good Old Books: Human Heredity

Human Heredity
by Ashley Montagu
New American Library, 1960

What is bad blood?
What is an inherited disease?
Where does environment begin?
Ignorance, superstition, and prejudice have clouded these basic questions for centuries.

Dr. Ashley Montagu clears away much of the mystery concerning inherited traits in this comprehensive and fascinating study of the science of genetics.

This book includes some of the most recent, important discoveries in the field.

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Good Old Books: The Compact Book of Upland Game Birds

The Compact Book of Upland Game Birds
edited by Ray Ovington
J. Lowell Pratt, 1965

Whether you are a shooting sportsman who thrills to the sudden flurry and rise of an upland game bird twisting through cover or a bird watcher, the study and practical knowledge of the various species of game birds is challenging.

The species covered in this book are the most popular of the game birds found in the 48 states and Canada.

This book is primarily a book of basic facts and identification for ready reference.

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Good Old Books: 150 Science Experiments Step-By-Step

150 Science Experiments Step-By-Step
by Judith Viorst
Bantam Books, 1967

You don't have to be a scientific expert to perform valuable, exciting
scientific experiments. With the new, simple, step-by-step methods outlined in this book you can:

> Build your own laboratory.
> Make your own slide rules, wind vanes, barometers and dozens of other valuable pieces of scientifi apparatus.

Discover how flowers reproduce. Learn how your lungs and senses operate. Discover the basic elements of chemical change. Find out about computer mathematics and scores of other fascinating scientific wonders.

Complete with the Periodic Table of Elements, Laws of Matter, Weights and Measures, Centigrade to Fahrenheit Conversion Table, and Charts of the Animal and Plant Kingdoms.

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Book List Addition: Scarcity and Frontiers

Scarcity and Frontiers
How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation
by Edward B. Barbier
Cambridge University Press, 2011

Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing scarcity raises the cost of exploiting existing natural resources and creates incentives in all economies to innovate and conserve more of these resources. However, economies have also responded to increasing scarcity by obtaining and developing more of these resources. Since the agricultural transition over 12,000 years ago, this exploitation of new 'frontiers' has often proved to be a pivotal human response to natural resource scarcity.

This book provides a fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in key eras of world history. This not only fills an important gap in the literature on economic history but also shows how we can draw lessons from these past epochs for attaining sustainable economic development in the world today.

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