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Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World's Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context...
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In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?
This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF.
Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.
In this urgent audiobook, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist,
4) Desert
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1994
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63 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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x, 327 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"When Manjula Martin moved from the city to the woods of Northern California, she wanted to be closer to the wilderness that she had loved as a child. ... But the landscape that Martin treasured was an ecosystem already in crisis. Wildfires fueled by climate change were growing bigger and more frequent. ... In 2020, when a dry lightning storm ignited hundreds of simultaneous wildfires across the West and kicked off the worst fire season on record,...
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Criterion collection volume 842
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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日本語
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Unfolding in a series of mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa brings eight of the beloved director's own nighttime visions, informed by tales from Japanese folklore, to cinematic life.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the near future, breathable air does not exist. Almost all of humanity has vanished, and those chosen to restore society live in a contained state of suspended animation. Two engineers taxed with guarding the last hope for mankind attempt to sustain their own sanity and lives while conducting their vital task.
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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In spring 2000, Mozambique has been hit by huge flooding: 800 people died and millions of people become homeless. These natural disasters leave traces: erosion, ocean advancing over land and island disappearance. People migrate to survive, and realise that they have to quickly react to cope with weather threats and protect their natural habitat.
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Oxford University Press
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2014.
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xix, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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English
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In The Improbable Primate, Clive Finlayson takes an ecological approach to our evolution, considering the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability of water, played a critical role in shaping the direction of human evolution, contributing to our spread and success. He asserts that our ancestors carved a niche for themselves by leaving...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2022.
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IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 6
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ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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"A book for middle-school-aged children about previous extinctions and possible threats to humans, from volcanoes, to asteroids, to pollution and diseases"--
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2023.
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xxv, 695 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of...
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