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Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Introduction: 'The Blue Marble' - Babylon: 'The four quarters of the Earth' -- Egypt: 'The black loam and the red sand' -- Persia: 'Order and deceit' -- Archaic Greece: 'The Shield of Achilles' -- The origins of Greek thought: 'Equally distant from all extremes' -- The Presocratics and Socrates: 'Floating on air' -- Plato: 'Flat or round, whichever is better' -- Aristotle: 'Necessarily spherical' -- Greek debate on the shape of the world: 'Either...
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the 11 years since this book was released, thousands of new species have been identified, and new revelations have redrawn the tree of life. Already featuring galleries of more than 5,000 species, Natural History now includes discoveries such as the olinguito (the "kitty bear" of the Andean cloud forest) and the painted mannakin of Peru. It takes advantage of the first living observations of the giant squid and the deep-sea anglerfish. And it...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A professor of history who specializes in slavery and constitutional law investigates one of the most significant--and unjustly forgotten--Supreme Court cases in American history involving the slave ship Antelope and the three hundred African lives at stake.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, a team of researchers carefully removed a plastic straw from a sea turtle's nostril off the coast of Costa Rica. The disturbing incident, which was captured on video, went viral, leading to corporate straw bans around the world. In this evocative book, the marine biologist behind the camera, Christine Figgener, recounts her own life spent studying and protecting sea turtles. Figgener describes patrolling the beach at night, swimming with...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Spring is a season of celebration! Join the fun with thirteen festive crafts that celebrate holidays from around the world. Create a colorful wall hanging for the Hindu holiday Holi. Plant a garden to commemorate Earth Day. It's always the season for crafting!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, brand-new audiobook for middle-grade listeners that looks at the early history of humankind.
Even though we’ll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry shark, humans are pretty impressive—and we’re the most dominant species on the planet. So how exactly did we become...
Even though we’ll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry shark, humans are pretty impressive—and we’re the most dominant species on the planet. So how exactly did we become...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie...
11) Vita Nova
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet returns with a book length sequence combining the ecstatic utterance of "The Wild Iris" with the worldly dramas elaborated in "Meadowlands" 64 pp.
12) Exploring nature: activity book for kids : 50 creative projects to spark curiosity in the outdoors
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Encourage young nature lovers to get outside and track, explore, discover, and create. This book is filled with hands-on, educational outdoor activities that kids will love to learn from, like crafting bird feeders out of fruit, pressing flowers, or creating sundials. They'll get their hands dirty and their imaginations revving while staying active outside.
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How can you be a good global citizen? By understanding the world we live in and how we can effect change. This book explores the issues around diversity in modern life from the positives around multiculturalism to prejudice, racism and discrimination. It features a case study on Apartheid and ideas for how we can activate against racism. The I'M A GLOBAL CITIZEN series explores the concept of 'Global Citizenship': recognising that the world we live...
Author
Publisher
Twirl
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the most unusual and impressive plants on Earth! Towering sequoias, giant Saguaro cacti, prehistoric plants, incredible palms and many more fill the pages of this large format book. The detailed illustrations are accompanied by fascinating facts about each plant." -- Chronicle Books website
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, Waters of the World is a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea: that the Earth has a global climate system made up of interconnected parts, constantly changing on all scales of both time and space. A prerequisite for the discovery of global warming and climate change,...
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 90
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Living in the Resurrection, winner of the 1994 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, is about the tensions between allegiance to the history and tradition of the author's birthplace in western Kentucky and a longing for a more expansive life beyond the confines of that dying culture. Crunk seeks to articulate and honor that which is sacred in the local, the particular, the mundane - in relations with the land, with family, and with one's forebears....
19) Fungi study
Author
Publisher
The Good and the Beautiful
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From the warm, humid forests of Madagascar to the frigid glaciers of Antarctica, and from the decomposing trunk of a fallen oak tree to the mystery leftovers in the back of your fridge, fungi are hard at work breaking down dead organic matter as the earth's recycling superstars. Get ready to be amazed, and enjoy exploring the captivating world of fungi!
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you suspect the origin of UFOs is one of the thousands of exoplanets that have been discovered or you believe they come from here on Earth or are a myth, this book will fill you in not only on the phenomenon itself but on how we, as individual human beings and as a society, have reacted to the phenomenon"--
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