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Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
Idris Telemmier has uncovered a secret that changes everything: the Architects' greatest weakness. A shadowy Cartel scrambles to turn his discovery into a weapon against these alien destroyers of worlds. But between them and victory stands self-interest. The galaxy's great powers would rather persue their own agendas than stand together against this shared terror.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
186 pages : color illustrations ; 21cm
Description
"From the smallest piece of plastic in the oceans to the largest glacier at the north or south pole, scientists can see the effects of climate change. And it is all caused by burning fossil fuels-coal, oil, and natural gas-that release carbon dioxide intoour atmosphere. Fossil fuels are the fuels for the world's industry. They are the world's greatest achievement but they are also the fuel for our world's biggest problem: climate change. There is...
Author
Publisher
Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xv, 187 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Description
"From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, brand-new illustrated book for middle-grade readers 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 "unstoppable"? The answer to that is...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
A spellbinding novel that places one family's tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself. Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to "reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain." He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Earth's natural resources include air, minerals, plants, soil, water, and wildlife. Conservation is the care and protection of these resources so that they can persist for future generations. It includes maintaining diversity of species, genes, and ecosystems, as well as functions of the environment, such as nutrient cycling. As well as discovering the effects conservation could have across the world, this book will help you discover practical ways...
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A world wide odyssey to capture the images which transcend language to tell the story of the earth's evolution and of human diversity, interconnectedness between humans and nature, and man's impact on the surrounding world. Shot in 24 countries on six continents.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Description
"Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental collapse, humanity asks an artificial intelligence to find a solution. Its answer is simple: remove humans from the ecosystem. Sen Anon is assigned to be a witness for the Department of Transition, recording the changes in the environment as the world begins to rewild. Abandoned by her mother in a cabin somewhere in Upstate New York, Sen will observe the monumental ecological shift known as...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 157 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The climate crisis that our nation currently faces, from rising temperatures, unfathomable drought, devastating floods, unprecedented fires, just to name a few, are alarming precursors to what awaits us if we continue on our current path. In this adaptation for young adults from the journalist David Wallace-Wells tells it like it is, and it is much worse than anyone might think. Global warming is effecting the world, if left unchecked, it promises...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In this memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska. In this striking blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. Throughout the journey she...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Description
Merry, a small owl, yearns to go on a big adventure like the other birds in the forest and gets her wish when Hark, a Norway spruce, is picked to be the Rockefeller Christmas tree and both Merry and Hark are whisked away from their home. Based on the real-life tale of the tiny owl found in the 2020 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (colour), 1 map (colour) ; 29 cm
Description
"A plastic footprint is the metric used to measure how much plastic your lifestyle contributes to our global trash pile, and by understanding the production and prevalence of plastic and measuring your own use, you can begin changing your plastic habits. Your Plastic Footprint sets out to do just that. Science writer Rachel Salt first walks you through the history and science of plastic production, the enormity of our plastic problem and the everyday...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This series continues the exploration of a world wiped clean of humanity, using cinematic CGI to reveal, in scientific detail, the fate of the man-made world in the hours, days, months, and years after people disappear.
Author
Publisher
Debate, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
252 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
El historiador y filosofo mas influyente de la actualidad nos narro de forma extraordinaria la compleja trama de la historia de la humanidad en su libro Sapiens. De animales a dioses. Con la ayuda de David Vandermeulen y las maravillosas ilustraciones de Daniel Casanave, este otono publicamos Sapiens. El nacimiento de la humanidad, la adaptacion grafica de un best seller internacional que lleva quince millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo....
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