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Books of Bayern volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in an enemy land.
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English
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"Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
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English
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As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness -- the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural -- to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows...
4) Samsara
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wordless global tour exploring the sights and sounds of the human condition.
5) Baraka
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wordless global tour exploring the sights and sounds of the human condition.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shows different habitats around the world, exploring how humans have adapted to adverse climates and how they learn to live with and use the creatures that share their surroundings.
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English
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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this ... symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ... podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale--from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar"--
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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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 power to upset the delicate balance of this complex organism. Modern overexploitation has driven many species to the verge of extinction, from tiny but indispensable biota to magnificent creatures like tuna, swordfish, and great whales. Since the mid-20th century about half our coral reefs have...
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English
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"It's the near future, and tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. The loss is not total, though: the DNA sequences of many species are being digitized and uploaded to a global network of "biobanks," together with brain and body scans, recordings of behavior in the wild, microbiota profiles, and so forth, in the hope that the extinct victims of humanity's destructiveness might one day be resurrected. Then comes the day when the...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alan Alda meets the unique wildlife that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and talks to scientists who try to protect it from alien invaders and ecotourists.
12) Into the Amazon
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the 1914 journey undertaken by President Theodore Roosevelt and Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the Amazon rainforest.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
x, 324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Roaming across the salt flats and skirting the salt lake, Richard, a geologist working for an oil company, hunts for fossils under the spell of Clarissa, the local beauty who plans to use her share of their plunder to get out of small, dusty Midland for good. A generation earlier, a Depression-era couple, Max and Marie Omo, numbly mines for salt along the banks of the briny lake until the emotional terrain of their marriage is suddenly and irrevocably...
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989, 1978
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In traveling through the American Southwest and Alaska, Lopez finds new, once hidden, meanings in natural phenomenon -- flocks of geese and Arctic fox tracks -- and remnants of lost human cultures. The land and humans, he concludes, share a strong spiritual bond that echoes and impacts the universe's great rhyme of life. Elegantly told against a haunting and beautiful melodic backdrop, Crossing Open Ground propels us into a new posture -- indeed a...
Author
Publisher
Northland Pub
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This Otoe Indian legend explains how, after a magically harmonious period in the world when Man and the animals lived in peace, Man changed and became abusive, so that only Dog and Horse have remained close.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What will the world be like when mankind is extinct? The pyramids may stand forever, but the cities will disappear. Our greatest masterpieces will fade and crumble. As global warming and the depletion of natural resources become ever more pressing issues it is critical to consider how we can reduce our impact on the planet. Journey to locations around the globe already going through the processes of a lack of human intervention. See the changes wrought...
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English
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her. Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in recent decades, conservationists have brought wolves back to the Rockies, igniting a battle over the very soul of the West. With novelistic detail,...
19) Micro: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Three men are found dead in the locked second-floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being...
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Publisher
EDC, Usborne Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (color), map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The climate crisis is real. It is already changing the world around us. This book will help you to understand how we know this to be true, and what effect it might have in the future. The good news is that we have a plan. But the big question still remains--will we choose to do it?"--Back cover.
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