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Useful Girl
by Marcus StevensAfter her mother's sudden death, Erin Douglass is virtually alone in the world. When she witnesses the exhumation of a Cheyenne girl along the side of a dirt road, life in her Montana town indelibly changes. The girl's remains, gently wrapped in a faded army coat, with silver thimbles on her right hand, are more than a hundred years old. Though her father makes every attempt to keep the discovery quiet, Erin is haunted by questions: how did this young girl end up here, in the middle of nowhere, with no marker and all alone? Who was she?
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
by Jerry DennisIn an effort to deepen his understanding of the Great Lakes, the author sails on a yacht from the upper reaches of Lake Michigan, through the lakes and the Erie Canal, down the Hudson and up the Atlantic coast to Maine. Along the way he encounters life-threatening squalls, meets a gallery of colorful characters, and reflects upon the past and future of the inland seas. In a series of asides he describes shipwrecks, historic battles, and ecological challenges.
The First Day of Winter
by Denise FlemingA snowman comes alive as the child building it adds pieces during the first ten days of winter.
Who Cares? I Do
by Munro LeafWho cares if people leave trash on the sidewalk, parks, roads or anywhere? Author Munro Leaf tells why we should all care.
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution
by Carolyn MerchantHow the scientific revolution sanctioned the exploitation of nature, commercial expansion, and the subjugation of women.
Let's Call Him Lau-wiliwili-humuhumu-nukunuku-nukunuku-âpua'a-'oi'oi
by Tim MyersFrom the book: When a proud triggerfish, swimming "joyfully and boyfully" and a proud butterflyfish, swimming "whirlfully and girlfully," marry and have a fish child, an argument erupts over what to name the child. The happy resolution will appeal to parents and children alike-and speaks particularly to families in which the parents are from different ethnic groups.
Earth Rising: American Environmentalism In The 21St Century
by Philip ShabecoffA general history of environmentalism in the United States.
Minus 148 Degrees: First Winter Ascent of Mt. McKinley
by Art DavidsonArt Davidson recounts the exciting adventures of the first winter ascent of Mt. McKinley in Alaska.
Narcotics: Nature's Dangerous Gifts
by Norman TaylorInformation on marijuana, opium, morphine, heroin, coca, cocaine, alcohol, tobacco, ololiuqui, peyotl (mescaline), pituri, fly agaric, caapi, kava, betel, coffee, chocolate and tea.
Hershey's Easy Baking
by Hershey Foods CorporationThese easy recipes will delight dessert lovers. Butterscotch, chocolate, white chocolate, and all sorts of combinations make this a book no cook should be without. Blondies, chocolate-cherry bars, giant chocolate chip cookies, macaroons ... mmmm!!!
The Long Emergency
by James Howard KunstlerKunstler discusses the implications of peak oil, where oil production will eventually start to decrease as most of the easily-accessible oil has been used already. He gives some historical background and then discusses various proposed alternatives to oil and natural gas for providing transportation and electricity. He is skeptical that anything will be able to replace the abundant supply of energy that has been supplied by oil, with the possible exception of nuclear energy for electricity, and believes that the age of globalization will come to an end with declining standards of living. He discusses what he sees as the implications for different parts of the country and the world, each having their unique situations.
Kicked, Bittten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers
by Amy SutherlandWalking cougars on leashes, teaching a mandrill to get an injection, working with elephants, and teaching rats to run up mazes are some of the things students in the Exotic Animal Training and Management program do at Moore Park College. Follow the "first year" students as they learn and grow to develop confidence in handling animals and improve their ways of managing each other. Good read for anyone interested in any type of animal training.
Wild Animals of the Southwest
by George Corey FranklinA collection of short stories about some wild animals that can be found in the southwestern United States. Each takes a unique look at a different animal.
Zorra
by George Corey FranklinZorra a small red fox grows up in the Colorado Rockies and befriends a dog. This story tells their adventures as they grow up together and survive all the wild animals of the mountains
Límites Socioculturales de la Educación Ambiental (Acercamiento desde la experiencia cubana)
by Carlos Jesús Delgado DíazEs evidente que el progreso científico-tecnológico, el bienestar de las sociedades industrializadas y el deterioro del medio ambiente se encuentran profundamente relacionadas. Al minarse las bases de los ciudadanos, la preocupación social por lo ambiental se ha manifestado como una institución social de ese vínculo con la naturaleza demandando una nueva educación que incluya la reflexión y modificación de su relación material con el mundo.
Historia natural de los ricos
by Richard ConniffRichard Conniff indaga acerca de si la vieja pregunta ¿son los ricos diferentes del resto de la gente? es cierta y concluye que, efectivamente, son unos animales completamente distintos. Observa con mucho sentido del humor esta especie social única, develando sus estrategias de dominación y sumisión, su comportamiento exhibicionista, sus intrincados mecanismos jerárquicos, así como sus poco ortodoxas prácticas de apareamiento. Comparándola con otras especies exóticas, Conniff descubre sorprendentes coincidencias. ¿En qué medida la aduladora actitud de los ricos se parece a la de los babuinos? ¿Cómo logró la aristocracia británica convertirse en la jerarquía animal más perfecta del planeta? ¿Por qué el aislamiento acaba haciendo de los ricos una subespecie? Un cautivador y desternillante análisis sobre la idiosincrásica existencia de los muy ricos, a través de la aguda lente de un naturalista. "Richard Conniff es un escritor espléndido, lleno de frescura, claridad y ninguna condescendencia." The New York Times Book Review
To the Edge and Back: My Story from Organ Transplant Survivor to Olympic Snowboarder
by Steve Jackson Chris KlugStory of Chris Klug, Olympic snowboarder. His life, dreams, and organ transplant survival.
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergence of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by Al GoreOur climate crisis may appear to be happening slowly but in fact it is happening very quickly, and has become a true planetary emergency.
Elsa: The Story of the Famous Lioness of "Born Free"
by Joy AdamsonFrom the Book Jacket: The true story of a lioness who was brought up from cubhood by JOY ADAMSON and her husband, a senior game warden; they taught her to stalk and kill for herself so that she could be set free into the African Jungle With Picture Descriptions
Friends From The Forest
by Joy AdamsonFrom the Book Jacket: Foreword by Juliette Huxley In these two animal studies we have a last, touching testimony of Joy Adamson's gift for eliciting trust from creatures of the wild. The home of her later years, Elsamere, is a bungalow set on large wooded grounds bordering on the remnants of wild forest. To Joy's delight, two fascinating sets of visitors settled near Elsamere: picturesque Colobus monkeys, with their marvelously expressive faces, and a family of Verreaux's eagle owls, the third largest owl in the world and the largest in Africa, with a wingspan of twenty-three inches.
Elsa And Her Cubs
by Joy AdamsonFrom the Book Jacket: In 1956, George Adamson, Senior Game Warden of the Northern Frontier District in Africa, killed a lioness, who had charged him, and brought home to his wife, Joy, three little lionesses only a few days old. Two of the cubs were sent to a zoo in Holland. The third, Elsa, remained with the Adamsons as an affectionate member of the household. In time Elsa had cubs of her own in the bush and brought them to meet the Adamsons. Because of the many photographs the Adamsons have taken of Elsa and her cubs, Mrs. Adamson has made another book so that others may share and enjoy them. She tells here the story of Elsa's cubs from the first time Elsa brought them to camp until they were taken to the Serengeti National Game Park when they were fifteen months old. With picture Descriptions.
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
by Noam Chomsky David Barsamian[From the book cover] Timely, illuminating, and urgently needed, this volume of interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing U.S. policies in the increasingly unstable post-9/11 world. In these exchanges, appearing for the first time in print, Chomsky offers his frank, provocative, and informed views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of preemptive strikes against so-called rogue states, and the growing threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive for domination. In his inimitable style, Chomsky also dissects the propaganda system that fabricates a mythic past and airbrushes inconvenient facts out of history.
La isla del tesoro
by Robert Louis StevensonLa isla del tesoro (1883), una vibrante historia sobre la búsqueda de un tesoro enterrado, presenta el bien bajo la forma de Jim, un niño que se ve envuelto en la aventura y que a su vez debe descubrir por sí mismo la cara del bien y del mal entre sus bondadosos amigos y los piratas Pew y Long John Silver.
State of the World 2004
by Linda StarkeIt focuses on consumption-one of the most central and also one of the most neglected elements in the global search for a sustainable future.