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1601) Yemen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A book for young readers about the history and culture of the country of Yemen.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the story of humans and fire and how we've changed the world. It's a story about our cilivisation and our environment, about wildfires and glaciers, war and wilderness. It's about tiny ocean creatures, giant machines and teenagers protesting on city streets. It's about climate change and the millions of people who are already taking action to do something about it. This is an invitation to join in.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the borderlands between the United States and Mexico, America's largest cat--the jaguar--is fighting to regain its kingdom. Added to the endangered species list in 1997, the jaguar has declined in population mainly due to habitat fragmentation created by roads, farms, mines, and most controversially, the border wall. Such human-made barriers prevent free movement of many wild animals for predation and mating, thereby threatening their reproduction,...
1604) Flyover country: poems
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 112 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land, to animals, to refugees, to the people of distant countries, and to one another. Drawing on memories of his childhood on a dairy farm in Illinois, Austin Smith explores the beauty and cruelty of rural life, challenging the idea that the American Midwest is mere "flyover country," a place that deserves passing over. At the same time, the collection suggests...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
314 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food : salmon. For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild--thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV, perhaps. For others, it's the catch of the day on a restaurant menu, or a deep red fillet at the market. For others still, it's the jolt of adrenaline on a successful fishing trip. Our fascination with these superlative...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability? The quick answers are: Build topsoil. Fix creeks. Eat meat from pasture-raised animals. Soil scientists maintain that a mere 2 percent increase in the carbon content of the planet's soils could offset...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
252 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In the second "Sapiens" volume, Yuval Noah Harari tells the story of how we took over the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; and how war, famine, disease, and inequality became a part of the human condition. The origins of modern farming are introduced through Elizabethan tragedy, the changing fortunes of domesticated plants and animals are tracked in the columns of the Daily Business News, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A detailed business biography of George Washington, focusing on his many innovations and inventions. George Washington: general, statesman, businessman? Most Americans don't know that Washington was the country's first true entrepreneur, responsible for revolutionizing several industries. In George Washington, Entrepreneur, John Berlau gives us a tour of Mount Vernon, explaining how our founding father is at the heart of American innovation. Some...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book is about one of the great zoological wonders of the world. No, it's not about the tears of the elephant, the smile of the dolphin, or the politics of the chimpanzee. It is about a scrawny, brainy ape with the habit of helping strangers, at times even risking life and limb to do so. It's about you and me, and how we treat everybody else. In short, it answers one of the biggest questions science has ever faced: Why do we give a damn about...
1610) First aid, CPR, and AED
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
xi, 421 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jungle tells a deep new history of the world, arguing that tropical rainforests played an outsize and overlooked role in our lives. Although we now recognize the crucial role tropical forests play in regulating planetary systems like the atmosphere, we still tend to think of them as a kind of "green hell," as inhospitable, prehistoric wildernesses, largely irrelevant to our lives. This has made it easier for private interests to exploit rainforest...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvii, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wesley McNair's story-like poems have long celebrated eccentrics and misfits, the hopeful and the lost, with a tenderness that transcends the everyday. This career-spanning collection brings together his very best poems from the past four decades alongside his newest poems. Since the publication of his first book in the early 1980s, Wesley McNair has earned a reputation as a poet of place, an intimate observer of the speech and character of New England....
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English
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The authoritative source on ASL is better than ever with more than 50 new phrases For more than 20 years, The American Sign Language Phrase Book has been the go-to guide for the hearing impaired and those who need to communicate with them-family, teachers, and friends. Now this classic by ASL leader Lou Fant has been updated by his wife Barbara Fant to include signs for today's lifestyle.
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