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The Sierra Club: Air
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The Sierra Club: Animal and Bird Tracks
 Text by Verna Mays. Published by Pomegranate Communications. All Rights Reserved.

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Description: Air is good: it's all that stands between us and outer space. This deck of 48 Q&A cards explores our atmosphere with wide-ranging inquiries and casually erudite answers. Where is the planet's cleanest and dirtiest air found? Why do divers get the bends?

With a question on the front and the answer on the back, other cards address global warming, the Kyoto Protocol, CFCs and the ozone layer, and cow digestion. An engaging test of multiple players' knowledge, these cards are equally satisfying as a good, solitary read.		 Description: Close observation of our surroundings is one of the biggest joys of being outdoors. And we humans--the naming animal--enjoy ourselves more when we know, or can find out, what we're observing. This 48-card deck satisfies our hardwired urge to identify. A picture of a bird's or animal's footprints appears on one side of each card; the other side names the creature and presents its taxonomic data, physical characteristics, footprint size, and diet, and notes on its natural history.
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The Sierra Club: The Earth-Friendly
Garden
 by Don Root.
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 		 The Sierra Club: Extreme Nature
 Text by Lorna Cunkle. Published by Pomegranate Communications. All Rights Reserved.

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Description: This pocket-sized guide to organic gardening really can hold its own as a quiz deck, with Q&As that are engaging and entertaining, as well as informative.

Sample card: True or False? Carnivorous plants are native only to the tropics. Answer: false. Provided they don’t grow big enough to eat you, carnivorous plants can add a uniquely green bug-reducing element to your garden. These macabre miracles of mother nature lure insects into an inescapable trap, then secrete enzymes that dissolve and digest the hapless bugs. Nearly 600 species exist.

Fascinating cards to supplement any botanical or gardening lessons, in both formal and non-formal settings.		 Description: The Highest, Deepest, Widest, Smallest, Heaviest, and Fastest Places and Living Things

 This deck of Knowledge Cards covers forty-eight of Nature's superlatives in the areas of geography, biology, and climate. Which mammal bears the most young? (No, not the rabbit.) Where will you find the world's driest and wettest locations? (They're both in South America.) Which insect is the most destructive? (One of their migrating swarms covered 2,000 square miles.) With fascinating answers to questions like these, Extreme Nature will delight inquisitive thrillseekers of all ages.
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The Sierra Club: Granite Gourmet
 by Lori Pottinger. Published by Pomegranate Communications. All Rights Reserved.		 The Sierra Club: How Many?
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Description: This deck will appeal not just to hard-core, Gore-Tex–clad peripatetics but also to foodies who occasionally go car camping or picnicking.

In addition to its numerous recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, Granite Gourmet offers tips on food staples, single-burner cooking, and other important topics (like bears). 		Description: The ancients argued, or so we are told, about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. This intriguing deck of cards investigates more earthly, and more satisfying, questions. (For one thing, they are answerable.) The urge to enumerate is as strong in Homo sapiens as the imperative to name. Indulging our fondness for tallying, How Many? addresses 48 aspects of animal behavior, earth science, and our doings on the planet in a Q&A format that is a surefire remedy against boredom.
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The Sierra Club: How Much In A Day?
 By Don Root.
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Description: How Much In A Day takes a different approach to quantifying the natural world. Focusing on meteorological forces, animal behavior (including that of humans), and other everyday phenomena, it exposes both the wonders and horrors that transpire on a daily basis.

Sample card: How many people are born worldwide in a day? Answer: According to the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, DC, as of mid-2004 about 368,000 people were coming into the world every day while around 158,000 were dying. That leaves the world with nearly 80 million additional people each year. 		Description: Tips for Saving Energy & Ecosystems, Water & Wildlife

Here are significant ways we all can help overcome pollution and energy consumption, such as using a ceiling fan, the water-saving value of a shower vs. a bath, and the value of recycled paper. Also included are relevant topics like whether you should let your car idle at stoplights, how to check for "silent" water leaks, and gardening without toxic pesticides. The first 47 cards in the deck convey these tips and topics in an entertaining but informative Q&A format; card 48 tells you how to contact politicians regarding saving the planet.
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The Sierra Club: Speaking of Nature
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Description: The classic sources of insight into the natural world--Muir, Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau--are present in this deck. They are joined by twentieth-century masters of nature writing (Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard, Peter Matthiessen, Barry Lopez), scientists (Rachel Carson, James D. Watson), activists (David Brower, Dave Foreman), politicians (Stewart Udall, Bill Clinton), and many others with a love of the earth and a way with words. Each of Speaking of Nature's 48 cards presents a thoughtful observation on one side; the other provides biographical notes about the speaker. Whether they are Charles Darwin's unexpectedly funny words on beetles, Edward Abbey's cranky asperity, or an Ernest Hemingway eulogy for a fellow outdoorsman, these quotations reaffirm our profound connection with Earth and remind us to tread lightly. Description: Have you ever wondered about the identity of a tree in your neighborhood? Do you sometimes get confused as to which trees are native to this continent? Would you like to learn more about the practical benefits that trees provide and the traditions associated with them? Then this deck is just for you. It spotlights 48 of North America’s most prominent trees, including many state trees, several threatened species, and a few whose extraordinary features have made them renowned worldwide. Each card presents a hand-drawn color illustration of a particular tree, complete with details of its leaves, flowers, or fruit. The other side of the card lists the species’ common and scientific names, characteristics, habitat, distribution, and points of interest. The beautiful artwork and engaging text make this deck fun to browse, while the careful renderings and concise descriptions will help sharpen your tree identification skills.
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The Sierra Club: Urban Wildlife
 By Lori Pottinger
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Description: Urban Wildlife: Fascinating Facts About Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in Your Neighborhood

 This frequently funny deck presents bizarre and surprising facts about animals and insects. No exotic critters here—most of the subjects are common to backyards, basements, vacant lots, and the like. A potentially great teaching tool for kids, this application is perfect for the classroom, long car rides, or rainy Saturdays. 		Description: As a substance, water constitutes 50 to 65 percent of each of us and covers 70 percent of the planet's surface. As a subject. water rewards contemplation with fascination. This engaging Q&A deck presents 48 concise examinations of worldwide water and our often troubled relationship with it. What is Earth's wettest place? Where is the saltiest seawater found, and why does salinity vary? Consult these cards for lucid answers rendered in appealingly casual prose. A lively test-your-knowledge game for multiple players, Water contains enough erudition to satisfy the solitary reader as well.
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The Sierra Club: What's The Difference?
 Text by J. Baldwin. Published by Pomegranate Communications. All Rights Reserved.

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 Text by J. Baldwin.
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 Description: Being able to distinguish a manatee from a dugong could tell you which continent you're on (if you're in doubt). Knowing the difference between a porcupine and a hedgehog lowers your risk of grievous bodily puncture. Deducing that the wiggly thing underfoot is a king snake and not a coral snake could save your life.

This deck of 48 Knowledge Cards offers entertaining illumination on the characteristics that set one animal (or plant or geological feature or meteorological event) apart from its seemingly similar neighbor. 		 Description: This deck of 48 Knowledge Cards invites you to determine a location on the basis of certain clues. A clue--for example, "Suddenly, all is calm after days of rafting on thick, red water through furious rapids in Arizona's high desert. Where in the World Are You?"--appears on one side of each card. The opposite side answers the question and furnishes notes and observations on such topics as the location's geological formation, ecology, and features. The cards' content is as diverse as their subjects, but all yield solid information, dry humor, and fine entertainment for the agile of mind.
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The Sierra Club: Wilderness Survival Skills
 Text by J. Baldwin.
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Description: Everyone who ventures into the backcountry goes equipped with tips for preventing or treating the injuries and maladies that can arise there . . . don't they?

This deck of 48 Knowledge Cards will see that you do, at least. Its Q&A quiz format means that you'll be entertained while you learn; and its contents deal with most of the nasties that the outback can inflict on a visitor. Each card poses a question on the front--How might you retrieve a lost companion? Treat frostbite, snakebite, heat stroke? What could you do in a mountain lion encounter?--with a knowledgeable, succinct answer on the back.

These cards are the work of a lifelong outdoorsman and river guide. They're excellent company, at home or on a wilderness trip. 		 
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