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Sneed B. Collard III—Defending Nature: How the Military Protects Threatened and Endangered Species

Military bases often serve as islands of biodiversity. Nearly 500 threatened or endangered species live on US military bases, more than in US National Parks, Sneed Collard III reports in Defending Nature: How the US Military Protects Threatened and Endangered Species. In this book for readers ages 9-14, Collard focuses on three at-risk species and the biologists and others working to save them.

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Lynne Peeples—The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms

Smartphones, daylight saving time, jet travel, shiftwork, lighting, and other aspects of modern life disrupt biological clocks that govern sleep and alertness, appetite, mood, response to medications, and other bodily functions, Lynne Peeples writes in The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms. Paying more attention to body time, she asserts, could improve health and happiness.

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Paul A. Offit, MD, and Charlotte A. Moser (NASW Member)—Vaccines and Your Family: Separating Fact from Fiction, 2nd Ed.

Why do we still need vaccines? How do I sort out the good information about vaccines from the bad? Isn’t it better to be naturally infected than immunized? In Vaccines and Your Family: Separating Fact from Fiction, 2nd Ed., Paul A. Offit, MD, and NASW member Charlotte A. Moser, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Vaccine Education Center provide a broad overview of current vaccine topics.

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Sneed B. Collard III—Birding for Boomers: And Everyone Else Brave Enough to Embrace the World’s Most Rewarding and Frustrating Activity

“One of the first great things about birds: they are everywhere,” Sneed B. Collard III writes in Birding for Boomers—and Everyone Else Brave Enough to Embrace the World’s Most Rewarding and Frustrating Activity. Collard offers tips for new birders on binoculars, field guides, and bird ID apps, coping with age-related hearing/vision loss, birding travel destinations, and bird conservation.

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