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21) Under their skin
Author
Series
Under their skin volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and most important, why their lives are in danger.
22) End Times
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 CDs (12 1/2 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In End Times, Walsh examines threats that emerge from nature and those of our own making: asteroids, supervolcanoes, nuclear war, climate change, disease pandemics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial intelligence. Walsh details the true probability of these world-ending catastrophes, the impact on our lives were they to happen, and the best strategies for saving ourselves, all pulled from his rigorous and deeply thoughtful...
23) 9
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When rag doll 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone. It is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the newest member of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive and they will need to discover...
Author
Series
Climate novels volume 3
Publisher
Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A novel set both in the distant past and the dystopian future explores extinction and survival, family and hope.
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
p2012, c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the life and career of Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki as he delivers a lecture on human ecology and the web of life. David Suzuki, iconic Canadian scientist, educator, broadcaster, and activist, delivers a lecture on the eve of his 75th birthday, which he describes as a distillation of his life and thoughts, his legacy, what he wants to say before he dies. Filmed before a live audience, in front of a memory box of moving, distilled...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Investigates what would happen if every single person on Earth simply disappeared. The Earth would be a world where city streets would still be populated by cars, but without drivers. Nobody to fix bridges, repair buildings, or maintain power facilities. After being controlled by humanity for millennia, the Earth would be reclaimed by nature. See how long skyscrapers and our homes would last if abandoned.
Publisher
PBS
Formats
Description
Thousands of prehistoric footprints left by Ice Age humans and animals stretch for miles across the blinding white surfaces of New Mexico's White Sands National Park. The phenomenal collection of prints preserves a unique series of snapshots of life and behavior, capturing moments when humans crossed paths with extinct Ice Age beasts, including enormous ground sloths and mammoths.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Packed with ingenious scientific work and spectacular fossils, Nova's Ice Age Death Trap reveals intimate secrets of the life and death of North America's most exotic and extreme creatures: mastodons, saber tooth cats and camels, giant bison with six-foot horns, and ground sloths as big as elephants. Most tantalizing of all, the excavation, organized by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, unearths startling and controversial evidence of what...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
258 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Description
The acclaimed naturalist celebrates his native Australia and one of its most extraordinary creatures as he examines how the kangaroo both shapes and is shaped by its environment, looks at Australia's natural history, and traces the evolution of the kangaroo.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Most days, Sarya doesn't feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. Most days, she's got other things on her mind. Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station. Or making sure her adoptive mother doesn't casually eviscerate one of their neighbors. Again. And most days, she can almost accept that she'll never know the truth--that she'll never know why humanity was deemed too dangerous...
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.
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