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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Take a stunning new look at our wild planet by turning the cameras around to show the world as it really is, with humans in the picture. Dr. M. Sanjayan journeys to the frontiers of where man and animal meet to discover how our relationship with the greatest natural history events on the planet can provide a key to preserving our present and enriching our future.
3) Silver Bay
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a surprising and moving romance set in an old-fashioned seaside town on the verge of unwelcome change Liza McCullen will never fully escape her past. But the unspoiled beaches and tight-knit community of Silver Bay offer the freedom and safety she craves-if not for herself, then for her young daughter, Hannah....
Author
Series
Hope Beach volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Libby inherits an old hotel from a father she'd never met. Although she wants to restore it, she can't afford the upkeep and things just keep getting worse. Her newfound brother and sister are convinced she's going to steal their birthright and when her business partner is kidnapped, Libby is suspected of the crime. She must prove her innocence or lose everything.
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Rescue Effect shows us the regenerative systems that help nature survive in the face of stressors like climate change, and how we can use this natural resiliency to help reverse it"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations, color map.
Language
English
Description
Explores what rain forests are and what they do for the Earth's climate and ecosystem. Warns of the dangers of deforestation and offers advice for how to help stop the destruction of the rain forests.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement-told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to save...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
50 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
The tiger is just one of thousands of animals -- including the ground iguana, the white-rumped vulture, and the partula snail -- currently in danger of becoming extinct, joining the dodo, the marsupial wolf, the great auk, and countless others we will never see again.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
320 p.
Language
English
Description
"From the veteran New Yorker staff writer and award-winning author of The Experience of Place: an urgent, resounding call to protect half the earth's land--and thereby millions of its species--by 2050, that gives us the tools to think big about the planet and our role in conserving it. Beginning in the North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest...
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Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Farmers were tilling soil to grow crops before the dawn of recorded history. This book examines how soil is formed and the history of agriculture and how it changed life for mankind. Students can learn what properties make soil fertile and which ones allow different crops to thrive in various regions. Finally, it reports on advances in soil science and what technology means for the future of farming. Detailed Table of Contents, Full-Color Photographs,...
Author
Publisher
DK/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
95 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Embark on the journey of a lifetime to 20 of the world's wildest places! Explore each environment and learn about the keepers who are working to preserve them for future generations. Meet the animals and plants who call the wilderness home, and discover how you can take active steps to make a difference"--Amazon.
Author
Language
English
Description
View our feature on Geraldine Books’s People of the Book.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and warIn 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiv, 242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following Bill Steever's travels under sail through Mexico's Gulf of California--the famous Sea of Cortez--we experience the region's dramatically underfunded but highly successful efforts to protect sea turtles. At the same time, Steever takes us beyond Mexico and past turtles to look at how some humans have changed their relationships with nature and how such changes may one day end the extinction crisis."--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"How do nonprofits and charities work? What problems do they need to solve? In World Wildlife Fund, readers will discover the ways this organization contributes positively to the world. Sidebars and backmatter ask questions for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included."-- Provided by publisher.
18) Islas Galápagos
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
127 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Viaja a las Galápagos y disfruta de sus extraordinarios tesoros naturales. Descubre cómo se formaron las islas a partir de volcanes submarinos y cómo la vida llegó a sus costas. Admira plantas y animales únicos que no se encuentran en ningún otro lugar de la Tierra, desde las famosas tortugas gigantes hasta los pequeños pinzones que inspriaron la teoría de la evolución de Darwin."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Forgotten Films & Video
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (VHS) (58 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
"Camp Forgotten explores the role of the CCC in Michigan. Some of their projects included the building of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Caberfae Ski Area, and the transport of moose from Isle Royale to the Upper Peninsula. The only Native American CCC camp in the nation was also in the state, Camp Marquette. Camp Forgotten includes interviews with over a dozen CCC members who vividly describe life in camp and how the experience changed their...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps supplied jobs to more than 77,000 Minnesotans during the Great Depression. In nearly one hundred interviews, the "boys" look back on their time in the CCC, during which many of them became men. African American enrollees tell of the segregated policies enforced in the army-run camps; workers for the CCC-Indian Division remember reservation projects that included rebuilding a fur trade-era stockade at Grand Portage....