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Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
A companion to the celebrated scientist's popular podcast and National Geographic Channel series combines the subjects of his favorite talks with comprehensive facts, sidebars, and imagery.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha. A mystery is at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the city.
83) Baraka
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A world wide odyssey to capture the images which would tell the story of the earth's evolution and of human diversity, interconnectedness and impact on the surrounding world.
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
Series
Scientific American Library volume no. 63
Publisher
Scientific American Library
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
x, 221 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we've learned more about the ocean than in all previous human history combined. But, even as our knowledge has exploded, so too has our...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush.
Between 1849 and 1874, almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons...
92) Jennie
Author
Publisher
Forge, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
xi, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Description
On a research trip to West Africa, Dr. Hugo Archibald of the Boston Museum of Natural History encounters an orphaned baby chimpanzee. Archibald decides to bring the ape, whom he names Jennie, back to Boston and raise her alongside his own two young children as a kind of scientific experiment. Jennie captures the hearts of everyone she encounters. She believes herself to be a human being. She does almost everything a human child can, from riding a...
Author
Publisher
Time Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xv, 253 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
McKibben's earliest warnings about global warming went largely unheeded. In this book, he argues that we can meet the challenges of a new "Eaarth"--still recognizable but suddenly and violently out of balance--by building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth."--Container.
97) Earth emergency
Publisher
PBS Distrbution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
98) Life from above
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cameras in space tell stories of life on the planet from a brand new perspective, revealing its incredible movements, colors, patterns, and just how fast it is changing.
99) Samsara
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, it explores the wonders of the world from sacred grounds to industrial sites, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man's spirituality and the human experience. Photographed entirely in 70mm and transferred to 4K digital projection format, its mesmerizing images of unprecedented clarity illuminate the links between humanity...
Publisher
Discovery Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An up-close and personal look at one of Antarctica's lesser-known inhabitants: the human. Join Werner Herzog as he shows those amazing individuals who work, play, and struggle to live in some of the world's worst conditions.
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