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Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right / by Mayer, Jane,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers?"--Publisher.
Subjects: Koch, David H., 1940-; Koch, Charles G. (Charles de Ganahl), 1935-; Political activists; Libertarianism; Conservatism; Political culture; Radicalism; Corporations; Corporate speech;
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The summer Canada burned : the wildfire season that shocked the world / by Zurowski, Monica,editor,author.;
"The Summer Canada Burned tells the dramatic story of Canada's wildfires in 2023-a story that provides a case study of the changing climate and its impacts on our environment. It reflects evolving attitudes about approaches to wildfires and the role all people can play in prevention. Most importantly, however, the story of Canada's wildfires is a story of loss and of survival. From the ashes, people rise, communities rebuild and seeds of new growth sprout."--
Subjects: Wildfires; Wildfires; Wildfires;
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Rowing the Northwest Passage : adventure, fear, and awe in a rising sea / by Vallely, Kevin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In this gripping first-hand account, four seasoned adventurers navigate a sophisticated, high-tech rowboat across the Northwest Passage. One of the "last firsts" remaining in the adventure world, this journey is only possible because of the dramatic impacts of global warming in the high Arctic, which provide an ironic opportunity to draw attention to the growing urgency of climate change."--
Subjects: Vallely, Kevin; Rowing;
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Cull of the wild : killing in the name of conservation / by Warwick, Hugh,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In Cull of the Wild, Hugh Warwick investigates the ethical and practical challenges of one of the greatest threats to biodiversity: invasive species. From cane toads in Australia to Burmese pythons and tortoises in the US, and from the Galapagos islands to Anglesey and the Outer Hebrides, The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks invasive species as a major threat to biodiversity on par with habitat loss, climate change, and pollution.
Subjects: Biodiversity conservation.; Biodiversity conservation; Biodiversity.; Biological invasions; Biological invasions; Introduced organisms.; Introduced organisms; Introduced organisms; Wildlife conservation; Wildlife management.;
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Zeroed out [graphic novel] : a sci-fi rom-com / by Munroe, Jim,1972-author.; Kim, Eric,1977-illustrator.;
When the aliens took over the planet, they made everything better ... so why is Matias' life only getting worse? Sure, the offworlders may have gentrified Earth, but they also ended the pandemics and climate change--oh, and cured cancer. Despite this, Matias finds it a struggle to adapt to the changes. Might have something to do with them causing him to be dumped and fired in the same week. Now he's a glorified data shredder, and his Cro-Magnon, shapeshifting boss wants them to work weekends on a "special project" together. Which sounds terrible, until Matias discovers a side to his boss he never imagined.
Subjects: Romance comics.; Graphic novels.; Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; Interpersonal attraction; Interpersonal relations; Shapeshifting;
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Reproduction : a novel / by Hall, Louisa,1982-author.;
"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Motherhood; Pregnancy; Women novelists;
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Design like nature : biomimicry for a healthy planet / by Clendenan, Megan,1977-; Woolcock, Kim Ryall.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Did you know that lamps can be powered by glowing bacteria instead of electricity? That gloves designed like gecko feet let people climb straight up glass walls? Or that kids are finding ways to make compostable plastic out of banana peels? Biomimicry, the scientific term for when we learn from and copy nature, is a revolutionary way to look to nature for answers to environmental problems such as climate change.LSC
Subjects: Biomimicry; Technological innovations;
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Wayfinding : the science and mystery of how humans navigate the world / by O'Connor, M. R.,1982-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision -- especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. O'Connor explores the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state, becoming amnesiacs incapable of finding their way, recalling the past, or imagining the future. Studies have shown that the more we exercise our cognitive mapping skills, the greater the grey matter and health of our hippocampus. O'Connor talks to scientists studying how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, depression and PTSD. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species' profound capacity for exploration, memory and storytelling results in topophilia, the love of place"--
Subjects: Orientation (Physiology); Space perception.;
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The last polar bear / by George, Jean Craighead,1919-; Minor, Wendell.;
Tigluk and his grandmother paddle out into the Arctic Ocean where they find a young polar bear whose mother has died because of the changes brought about by the warming climate, and they bring the cub back to their town so they can teach it how to survive in a changing world.
Subjects: Bears; Global warming; Polar bear;
© 2009., Laura Geringer Books,
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Earth [videorecording] / by Packham, Chris,1961-narrator.; Hewitson, Tom(Producer),television director.; Liddell, Rob(Television producer and director),television producer.; Cohen, Andrew,1954-television producer.; BBC Studios,publisher.;
Narrator, Chris Packham.The revealing documentary of Earth explores the planet's most epic moments. From the first raindrops that turned it into a water world to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us. But humans take a back seat in this narrative. Instead, Earth is placed center stage. We see what happened to our world before we even crawled from the mud, including massive bombardments from space, extreme changes in climate and the collision of whole continents.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.; Historical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Evolutionary paleoecology.; Mass extinctions.; Asteroids; Historical geology.; Paleogeography.; Paleoclimatology.; Continental drift.; Global environmental change.; Glacial epoch.; Earth temperature;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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