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005    20050314163834.0 
008    040728t20052005nyu      b    000 0 eng   
010      2004017804 
020    1582344795|q(hardcover) 
020    9781582344799|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)56730357 
035    (Sirsi) i1582344795 
040    DLC|beng|cDLC|dIEB|dC#P|dGNU 
043    n-us-me 
049    GNUA 
050 00 QL181|b.H65 2005 
082 00 577.5/6/09741|222 
100 1  Holmes, Hannah,|d1963- 
245 10 Suburban safari :|ba year on the lawn /|cHannah Holmes. 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury :|bDistributed to the trade by 
       Holtzbrinck Publishers,|c[2005] 
264  4 |c©2005 
300    262 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259). 
505 0  Introduction -- Spring. A flood of feathers ; Bugs in my 
       belfry ; Lawn of many waters -- Summer. I love you, now 
       spit out my Azalea ; The army of earth movers ; The 
       freedom lawn -- Fall. Before ; The stately and scheming 
       trees ; Sifting secrets from the air -- Winter. The 
       thirteen coldest days of the year ; Melting pot blues ; 
       Strange family.  
520    More than 550 square miles of new lawns unfold each year 
       in the U.S. alone. Although new research shows that these 
       lawns aren't nearly as "unnatural" as ecologists once 
       thought, no one has offered an accessible exploration of 
       this novel habitat--until now. Equipped with a lawn chair 
       and her infectious curiosity, science writer Holmes spends
       a year on her lawn hoping to discover exactly what's going
       on out there. Under her examination, the lawn teems with 
       life, populated by a bewilderment of birds, a mess of 
       mammals, and a range of plants that record the history of 
       this little piece of ground. As the seasons progress, she 
       guides us through this bustling community, inviting over 
       biologists, ecologists, botanists, entomologists, and 
       energy experts to further unveil the complexities of life 
       in the 'burbs.--From publisher description. 
650  0 Urban animals|zMaine. 
650  0 Household animals|zMaine. 
650  0 Urban ecology (Sociology)|zMaine. 
650  7 Household animals.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00962060  
650  7 Urban animals.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01162360  
650  7 Urban ecology (Sociology)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01733718  
651  7 Maine.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204270   
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