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The end of meat [videorecording] / by Ball, Jason,on-screen participant.; Baur, Gene,on-screen participant.; Bethencourt, Ryan,on-screen participant.; Bredack, Jan,on-screen participant.; Cash, Lee,film producer.; Gais, Arabella,film producer.; Pierschel, Marc,film producer,screenwriter,film director.; Blackrabbit Images (Firm),production company,presenter.; Mindjazz Pictures (Firm),presenter.;
Music, Alice Bacher.Jason Ball, Gene Baur, Ryan Bethencourt, Jan Bredack, Jenny Brown.A feature documentary that explores the idea of a post-meat world. It includes interviews with philosophers, scientists, artists and activists who offer their insight and progressive ideas about the role of animals in society.E.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Animal welfare.; Human-animal relationships.; Veganism; Vegetarianism;
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Mimic makers : biomimicry inventors inspired by nature / by Nordstrom, Kristen.; Boston, Paul,1952-;
Includes bibliographical references."In biomimicry, scientists imitate traits found in nature. An engineer shapes the nose of his bullet train like a kingfisher's beak. A scientist models her solar cell on the mighty leaf. Discover how ten inventors were inspired by animals and plants to create cutting-edge technology"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Biomimicry; Inventions; Inventors; Technological innovations; Nature;
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Arctic wolf : the high Arctic / by DeLallo, Laura.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 31), Internet addresses, and index.Provides an overview of the natural history, physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of Arctic wolves, and recounts the adventures of two scientists who track and study them.LSC
Subjects: Gray wolf;
© c2011., Bearport Pub.,
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Return to Nim's island [videorecording] / by Irwin, Bindi,1998-; Lillard, Matthew,1970-; Maher, Brendan.; Orr, Wendy,1953-Nim at sea.Videorecording.; Wallace, Toby.; ARC Entertainment (Firm); Walden Media.;
Bindi Irwin, Toby Wallace, Matthew Lillard, John Waters.Nim is the precocious daughter of scientist father Jack. Nim, a bit older now, still has a gift to be "one with nature" and her amazing animal friends. But now that developers and poachers threaten her island, she and her dad must fight to preserve their pristine home and its abundant wildlife.MPAA Rating: PG.DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen; 5.1 Dolby digital.
Subjects: Orr, Wendy, 1953-; Children's films.; Feature films.; Islands; Marine animals; Poachers; Video recordings for children.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., ARC Entertainment,
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Sid the science kid. [videorecording] / by NCircle Entertainment,publisher.;
In this third volume, Sid and his friends learn all about simple machines, how animals communicate, the importance of dirt, what makes leaves special, bugs and more! Let's invent and investigate with our favorite scientist, Sid the Science Kid!G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Science; Science;
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Big little journeys [videorecording] / by Williams, Paul(Film producer),television director,television producer.; McKee, Elsa,television director.; Young, Amy(Film editor),television director.; Fabbri-Kennedy, Valeria,television director.; BBC Studios,distributor.;
Narrated by Aaron Pierre.Follow the real-life adventures of six tiny animals as they journey into the unknown - across rainforests, mountains and wetlands. The cast of animals includes a family of endangered golden-headed lion tamarins in Brazil, gymnastic bushbabies in South Africa and the rare Taiwanese Formosan pangolin - the world's most trafficked animal. Against the odds, the animals overcome huge obstacles, giant predators and natural disasters in their quest for food, family and survival. Working with scientists and conservationists around the world, the series captures the dramatic adventures faced by these tiny but mighty creatures.E.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Television mini-series.; Wildlife television programs.; Nature television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Animals; Animal behavior.; Body size.; Bush babies; Golden lion tamarin; Pangolins; Endangered species.; Arvicola; Chameleons; Turtles;
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Silk : a world history / by Prasad, Aarathi,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural history (and future) of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years"--
Subjects: Bombyx mori.; Lepidopterology; Sericulture; Silk; Silkworms.; Silkworms;
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Father of lions : one man's remarkable quest to save the Mosul Zoo / by Callaghan, Louise,1990-author.; Laith, Abu.;
"After two and a half years of ISIS occupation, and months of fighting between the militants and government forces, the Mosul Zoo was one of the few outdoor attractions still standing in Iraq's second city, its inhabitants kept alive by Abu Laith, a square-set 50-something mechanic and passionate animal lover. As the animals began to starve under the siege by advancing Iraqi army forces, Abu Laith, the "Father of Lions" and his protégées and family risked their lives to keep the animals alive. When liberation finally came, the city and the zoo were both on their last legs. It seemed as if all was lost, until a local former-government scientist, Hakam, saw a message on Facebook about a zoo nearby: a charity in Switzerland wanted to rescue the animals"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Laith, Abu.; Animal rescue; Zoo keepers; Zoos;
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The last animal / by Ausubel, Ramona,author.;
"A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's two "tagalong" teen daughters are there with her in the Arctic, and they're bored enough to cause trouble. Brilliant, fiery, sharp-tongued Eve is fifteen and willing to talk back to the male scientists in a way her mother is not. And sweet, thirteen-year-old Vera, who seems to absorb all the emotional burdens of her small family, just wants to be home in Berkeley, baking cakes and watching bad tv. When Eve and Vera stumble upon a 4,000-year-old baby mammoth that has been perfectly preserved, their discovery sets off a chain of events that pit Jane against her colleagues, and soon her status at the lab is tenuous at best. So what does a female scientist do when she's a passionate devotee of her field but her gender and life history hold her back? She goes rogue. As Jane and her daughters ping-pong from the slopes of Siberia to a university in California, from the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal farm in Italy, The Last Animal takes readers on an expansive, big-hearted journey that explores the possibility and peril of the human imagination on a changing planet, what it's like to be a woman and a mother in a field dominated by men, and how a wondrous discovery can best be enjoyed with family. Even teenagers"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Mothers and daughters; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Single mothers; Women scientists; Woolly mammoth;
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If Nietzsche were a narwhal : what animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity / by Gregg, Justin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal overturns everything we thought we knew about human intelligence, and asks the question: would humans be better off as narwhals? Or some other, less brainy species? There's a good argument to be made that humans might be a less successful animal species precisely because of our amazing, complex intelligence. All our unique gifts like language, math, and science do not make us happier or more "successful" (evolutionarily speaking) than other species. Our intelligence allowed us to split the atom, but we've harnessed that knowledge to make machines of war. We are uniquely susceptible to bullshit (though, cuttlefish may be the best liars in the animal kingdom); our bizarre obsession with lawns has contributed to the growing threat of climate change; we are sexually diverse like many species yet stand apart as homophobic; and discriminate among our own as if its natural, which it certainly is not. Is our intelligence more of a curse than a gift? As scientist Justin Gregg persuasively argues, there's an evolutionary reason why human intelligence isn't more prevalent in the animal kingdom. Simply put, non-human animals don't need it to be successful. And, miraculously, their success arrives without the added baggage of destroying themselves and the planet in the process.
Subjects: Animal intelligence.; Intellect.;
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