Purdue University Press
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Native Trees of the Midwest: Identification, Wildlife Value, and Landscaping Use
$45.00 Add to cartNative Trees of the Midwest is a definitive guide to identifying trees in Indiana and surrounding states, written by three leading forestry experts. Descriptive text explains how to identify every spe… [more below]
- Author: Weeks, Sally S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: August 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1557535728
- Language: English
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Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental Failure
$32.99 Add to cartDrawing on historic sources as well as present-day interviews, Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing is a story about systemic racism, environmental injustice, and the failure of government.
In 2016, 1,100
- Author: Boiarsky, Carolyn R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1612499473
- Language: English
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Shrubs and Woody Vines of Indiana and the Midwest: Identification, Wildlife Values, and Landscaping Use
$45.00 Add to cartAs the definitive identification guide to the shrubs and woody vines of Indiana, this book also provides coverage of 90% of the species to be found in surrounding Midwestern US states. As well as cove… [more below]
- Author: Weeks, Sally S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 475
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1557536104
- Language: English
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A Round Indiana: Round Barns in the Hoosier State, Second Edition
$34.99 Add to cartRounds barns are architectural phenomena that have graced rural America for over a century. Today the few that survive stand as symbols of another generation’s innovation and ingenuity. To understand
- Author: Hanou, John T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1557539944
- Language: English
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Diary of an Alzheimer’s Caregiver
$19.99 Add to cartOne year shy of her fiftieth wedding anniversary, Dee Hershberger was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Her husband, Bob, serving as her primary caregiver, kept a journal the following four and a h
- Author: Hershberger, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497349
- Language: English
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Buried Truths and the Hyatt Skywalks: The Legacy of America’s Epic Structural Failure
$29.99 Read moreIn 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City’s Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200. There never was a public trial, nor a full airing of everything that went wrong. Ric
- Author: Serrano, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1612497152
- Language: English
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Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship with the Natural World
$19.99 Add to cartWhat do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold’s Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmenta
- Author: Simpson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497837
- Language: English
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Teaming with Your Therapy Dog
$16.95 Add to cartToday’s therapy-dog handlers recognize the need to be teammates with their dogs. Teaming with one’s dog involves unobtrusively providing physical and emotional support as well as respectful guidance i
- Series: New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
- Author: Howie, Ann R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1557537038
- Language: English
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The Sky Above: An Astronaut’s Memoir of Adventure, Persistence, and Faith
$27.99 Read moreLooking up at the stars at the age of ten, John Casper dreamed of being a space explorer. The Sky Above tells how persistence and determination led to flying in space, after serving the nation as a
- Series: Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Author: Casper, John Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497160
- Language: English
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Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom, Revised and Expanded
$19.95 Add to cartUnlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crew in a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his chance
- Series: Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Author: Leopold, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1557538298
- Language: English
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Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University
$44.95 Add to cartIn 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana’s land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education inst
- Series: Founders
- Author: Norberg, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1557538220
- Language: English
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My One-Eyed, Three-Legged Therapist: How My Cat Clio Saved Me
$19.99 Add to cartMy One-Eyed, Three-Legged Therapist: How My Cat Clio Saved Me is the story of how an adorable, spunky, gray-and-white kitten helped the author regain the courage to face life’s challenges and realize … [more below]
- Series: New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
- Author: Finley, Kathy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1612498736
- Language: English
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Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgement
$34.95 Add to cartWhat would life be like if no one acknowledged your existence? The question confronts one with the possibility of being isolated, marginalized, ignored, and forgotten by others. The unacknowledged fin… [more below]
- Series: Philosophy/Communication
- Author: Hyde, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1557534020
- Language: English
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Magnificent Trees of Indiana
$34.99 Add to cartFeaturing more than two hundred gorgeous color photographs of Indiana’s champion trees and old-growth forest remnants, Magnificent Trees of Indiana is a celebration of the state’s natural beauty. Seve
- Author: Ritter, Carroll D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497411
- Language: English
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Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car
$26.99 Add to cartLong Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car provides an inside look at the birth of the lithium-ion battery, from its origins in academic labs around the world to its transition to it
- Author: Murray, Charles J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497624
- Language: English
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Photographing America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub
$44.99 Add to cartFeaturing more than 600 photos, Photographing America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub is the most complete photographic account of Project Mercury ever published. Pre
- Series: Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Author: Pickering, J. L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1612498566
- Language: English
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Boiler Up: A University President in the Public Square
$34.99 Add to cartWhen former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels was named Purdue University’s twelfth president, he became one of a small handful of nationally renowned figures to lead an institution of higher education.
- Series: Founders
- Author: Daniels, Mitch
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1612499368
- Language: English
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Creating Moments of Joy Along the Alzheimer’s Journey: A Guide for Families and Caregivers, Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded
$25.00 Add to cartThe beloved best seller has been revised and expanded for the fifth edition. Jolene Brackey has a vision: that we will soon look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer’s disease to focus more of our energ
- Author: Brackey, Jolene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 15, 2016
- ISBN10: 1557537607
- Language: English
