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Books of Bayern volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in anenemy land.
2) Enna burning
Author
Series
Books of Bayern volume 2
Language
English
Description
Enna hopes that her new knowledge of how to wield fire will help protect her good friend Isi--the Princess Anidori--and all of Bayern against their enemies, but the need to burn is uncontrollable and puts Enna and her loved ones in grave danger.
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English
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"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""--
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY
Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic. When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea-bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A three-decade report on the Adélie penguins reveals how rapid global warming in the western Antarctic Peninsula poses formidable challenges to their survival, in an account that chronicles a memorable field season in Antarctica.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Earth is full of suffering and war until one little girl seeks Old Turtle, who tells her about a "broken truth" and how mending it will help her community to understand the common bond of all humanity.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Environmental expert Michael Shellenberger unleashes a scientific, fact-based broadside against eco-alarmism and the excesses of the New Left, arguing that climate change isn't a 30-year problem, but a 300-year problem"--
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into an unusual (but mere) line of red rock; why some museums and churches might be the last human creations standing; how rats and roaches would struggle without
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YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Develop extraordinary energy in your meditation. In Searching for superhumans, viewers will see amazing energy masters and astonishing mental abilities. Join David Verdesi and Lee Holden as they seek the world's greatest masters to discover how far human potential can go.
Publisher
YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Explore extraordinary connections between your energy and mind. In Searching for superhumans, viewers will see amazing energy masters and astonishing mental abilities. Join David Verdesi and Lee Holden as they seek the world's greatest masters to discover how far human potential can go.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A NASA astrobiologist outlines optimistic messages about humanity's future in the face of climate change, explaining how the human role in managing the planet's evolution is determining the course of life,"--NoveList.
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English
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"In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature."--Amazon.
15) Earth emergency
Publisher
PBS Distrbution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Listen to the scientists. That's the refrain of climate activist Greta Thunberg. Climate scientists explain how warming caused by human activity is setting in motion Earth's own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet.
Publisher
YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Learn how the ordinary becomes extraordinary. In Searching for superhumans, viewers will see amazing energy masters and astonishing mental abilities. Join David Verdesi and Lee Holden as they seek the world's greatest masters to discover how far human potential can go.
Author
Publisher
Hot Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries....
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Language
English
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Description
"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu - on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch:...
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