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9780688080884 | William Morrow & Co, October 1, 1977, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Scientifically accurate poems on the planets, moons, and asteroids of our solar system and the stars beyond evoke earthbound responses to those bodies, discoveries concerning them, and journeys to them
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9780688023966 | William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1983, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Poems portray the author's experiences and explore a variety of themes, including dreams, flight, music and sports
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9780684188355 | Scribner, April 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The author explains why flying is so important to her, despite its dangers and the difficulties she faced learning to fly
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9780930829094 | Lumen, September 1, 1988, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A dramatization of the passion of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Mexican nun regarded as one of her country's greatest poets.
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9780679402145 | Random House Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: This collection of verse touches on such topics as a hospital vigil, the Amazon rain forest, and the icy Antarctic, and offers a selection from the author's dramatic poem about a Mexican nun and the Inquisition
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9780679743040, titled "Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poems" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1993), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This collection of verse touches on such topics as a hospital vigil, the Amazon rain forest, and the icy Antarctic, and offers a selection from the author's dramatic poem about a Mexican nun and the Inquisition
Hardcover:
9780844672144, titled "A Natural History of the Senses" | Peter Smith Pub Inc, January 31, 2002, cover price $27.25 | About this edition: In a celebration of our ability to smell, taste, touch, hear, and see, Ackerman weaves together scientific facts with lore, history, and description to create an enchanting account of how humans experience the world.
9780394573359, titled "A Natural History of the Senses" | 1 edition (Random House Inc, May 1, 1990), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A perceptive celebration of the sensory world offers a poetic tour of the human senses and explains how human beings absorb and savor the wonders of the world around
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9780394269535 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1995, cover price $12.00 | also contains Vanishing | About this edition: A naturalist guides readers on an odyssey through the human senses, discussing such topics as the evolution of the kiss, the sadistic cuisine of eighteenth-century England, the chemistry of pain, and the melodies of Earth.
9780679735663, titled "A Natural History of the Senses" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1991), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A naturalist guides readers through the human senses, discussing the evolution of the kiss, the sadistic cuisine of eighteenth-century England, the chemistry of pain, and the melodies of Earth
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781879371729 | Publishing Mills, November 1, 1995, cover price $24.95
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9780606296359, titled "A Natural History of the Senses" | Demco Media, December 1, 1991, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: A naturalist guides readers through the human senses, discussing the evolution of the kiss, the sadistic cuisine of eighteenth-century England, the chemistry of pain, and the melodies of Earth
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9780517105436 | Random House Value Pub, June 1, 1993, cover price $5.99
Hardcover:
9780394585741 | Random House Inc, October 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Describes Earth's wildlife in essays on penguins, whales, bats, and the crocodilians
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9781857990874, titled "The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians And Whales" | New edition (Orion Pub Co, May 5, 1994), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A book about animals and humans and their relationship.
9780679742265 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1992), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Describes the evolution, behavior, habitats, and threats to whales, penguins, crocodilians, and bats
Hardcover:
9780679403470, titled "A Natural History of Love" | Random House Inc, June 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Explores the diverse faces and forms of love from a scientific, psychological, and philosophical perspective
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9780679761839, titled "A Natural History of Love" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author of the best-selling A Natural History of the Senses explores the diverse faces and forms of love from a scientific, psychological, and philosophical perspective.
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9781879371736 | Publishing Mills, June 1, 1994, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780517596739 | Crown Pub, April 1, 1995, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: Journeys to the last refuge of the most endangered seal species, the Hawaiian monk seal, and explores the biology, lives, and behavior of these rare mammals
Library:
9780517596746 | Crown Pub, April 1, 1995, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Journeys to the last refuge of the most endangered seal species, the Hawaiian monk seal, and explores the biology, lives, and behavior of these rare mammals
Hardcover:
9780679448778 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, January 1, 1997), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author describes her work as a telephone crisis counselor and the desperate, anonymous people with whom she deals in terms of her close observation of the wild creatures that live their lives on the edge in her own backyard
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9781574531404 | Audio Literature, March 1, 1997, cover price $11.95
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9780517709207 | Crown Pub, July 1, 1997, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The author gets to see bats close up as she accompanies bat expert and founder of Bat Conservation International, Merlin Tuttle, on a trip to study these often misunderstood mammals
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9780393045895 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An anthology of more than two hundred excerpts of poetry, fiction, and memoirs, both classic and contemporary, pertaining to the many moods of love
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9780679771333 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1998), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author describes her work as a telephone crisis counselor and the desperate, anonymous people with whom she deals in terms of her close observation of the wild creatures that live their lives on the edge in her own backyard
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9781574532579 | Abridged edition (Audio Literature, November 1, 1998), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: his astonishing book by the prizewinning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses reveals Ackerman's parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor.
Hardcover:
9780679448785 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, April 1, 1998), cover price $18.50 | About this edition: A collection of poems that treats the worlds of nature, science, and society with a combination of lyricism and sobriety, and the real and the fantastic
Hardcover:
9780679448792 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, May 1, 1999), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides an exploration of the concept of 'deep play'--a psychological state of mind in which we fully engage our faculties--discussing the activities that draw us into this state, the qualities that distinguish deep-play activities, and the ways in which the state can be achieved
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9780679771357 | Vintage Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Provides an exploration of the concept of 'deep play'--a psychological state of mind in which we fully engage our faculties--discussing the activities that draw us into this state, the qualities that distinguish deep-play activities, and the ways in which the state can be achieved.
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9781574533316 | Abridged edition (Audio Literature, December 1, 1999), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides an exploration of the concept of 'deep play'--a psychological state of mind in which we fully engage our faculties--discussing the activities that draw us into this state, the qualities that distinguish deep-play activities, and the ways in which the state can be achieved.
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9781569246863 | 2 edition (Da Capo Pr, May 30, 1999), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Nine distinguished American authors representing a broad spectrum of religious beliefs--including Allen Ginsberg, Mary Gordon, Frederick Buechner, and Daine Ackerman--discuss the role of religion and spirituality in their work and in their personal lives.
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9780931134999 | Mount Washington Observatory, September 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Soul of the Sky is a collection of essays that illustrates how the weather can inspire and terrify, connect us and urge us on to new adventures, and invite us to gain a deeper appreciation of how weather and climate affect our everyday lives.
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9783908163015 | Edition Stemmle, September 1, 1999, cover price $70.00
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9780517709184 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 2003, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Poems about the five senses as manifested in such animals as the star-nosed mole, bat, bee, swan, fly, and cow.
9780375904004 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2000, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Poems about the five senses as manifested in such animals as the star-nosed mole, bat, bee, swan, fly, and cow.
9780375804007 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2000, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Poems about the five senses as manifested in such animals as the star-nosed mole, bat, bee, swan, fly, and cow.
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9780679771340 | Vintage Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: An award-winning poet gathers her most recent poems in an intense volume that treats the worlds of nature, science, and society with a combination of lyricism and sobriety, and the real and the fantastic.
Paperback:
9780811828574 | Chronicle Books Llc, September 1, 2000, cover price $22.95
Hardcover:
9780786240753 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, March 1, 2002), cover price $28.95
9780060199869 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author takes readers deep into her own garden, mixing science with lyrical writing to offer a sensory celebration of her encounter with the natural world.
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9780060505363 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 2002), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: The author takes readers deep into her own garden, mixing science with lyrical writing to offer a sensory celebration of her encounter with the natural world.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781574534627 | Abridged edition (Audio Literature, August 1, 2003), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Exploring her own garden, the author mixes science with lyrical writing to offer a sensory celebration of her encounter with the natural world.
Paperback:
9781555914684 | Fulcrum Pub, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.95
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