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Climate change / by Morgan, Sally.;
Discusses how and why Earth's climate is changing, how climate change has damaged Earth, and what can be done to stop it from changing too much.
Subjects: Climatic changes; Global warming; Greenhouse gases;
© 2010., Sea-to-Sea,
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Climate change / by Woodward, John,1954-;
Earth's climate -- The greenhouse effect -- Checks and balances -- Natural climate change -- Human impact -- Burning the forests -- Fossil fuels -- Our carbon culture -- Adding to the problem -- Heatwaves and droughts -- Melting ice -- Warming oceans -- Oceanic research -- Living with the heat -- Plight of the polar bear -- Climate models -- This century -- What scares the scientists? -- Who is most vulnerable? -- Adapting to climate change -- Combating climate change -- Cutting the carbon -- Nuclear power -- Renewable energy -- Power for the people -- Energy efficiency -- Green transport -- Your carbon footprint -- Greenhouse-gas producers.Explains why human activities are making the planet heat up--and how we know for sure that this is the case. Explores the effects of the changing climate, from more frequent hurricanes and wildfires to melting ice caps and rising sea levels. Shows how scientists predict how the climate will change in the future and what actions we can all take to combat climate change.LSC
Subjects: Climatic changes; Global warming; Environmental protection;
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More and More and More. by Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste.;
Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / General; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General;
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The all-new vegetarian passport : 350 healthy recipes inspired by global cuisines / by Woolven, Linda.; Furbacher, Michelle.;
LSC
Subjects: Vegetarian cooking.; Cookbooks.;
© c2013., Whitecap Books,
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Ghost work : how to stop Silicon Valley from building a new global underclass / by Gray, Mary L.,author.; Suri, Siddharth,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Labor supply; Automation; Artificial intelligence; Technological unemployment.;
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Tracers in the dark : the global hunt for the crime lords of cryptocurrency / by Greenberg, Andy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, taking once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence and holding them up to the light. Black markets have always thrived in the shadows of society. Increasingly, these enterprises--drug dealing, money laundering, human trafficking, terrorist funding--have found their shadows online. Digital crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have operated more freely than their analog counterparts could have ever dreamed of. At the heart of their massive conspiracies: cryptocurrency. By transacting not in dollars or pounds but in Bitcoin--a currency with anonymous ledgers, overseen by no government, beholden to no bankers--black marketeers robbed law enforcement for years of their chief method of cracking down on criminal markets, namely, following the money. But what if the centerpiece of this dark economy held a secret, fatal flaw? What if their currency wasn't so cryptic after all? An investigator using the right mixture of technical wizardry, financial forensics, and old-fashioned persistence could crack open an entire world of crime. With unprecedented access to the major players in federal law enforcement and private industry, veteran cybersecurity reporter Andy Greenberg tells an astonishing saga of criminal empires built and destroyed. He introduces an IRS agent with a defiant streak; a Bitcoin-tracing Danish entrepreneur; and a colorful ensemble of hardboiled agents and prosecutors as they delve deep into the crypto-underworld. The result is a thrilling, globe-spanning story of dirty cops, drug bazaars, sex-abuse rings, and the biggest takedown of an online narcotics market in the history of the internet. This is a cat-and-mouse story and a tale of a technological one-upmanship that's utterly of our time. Filled with canny maneuvering and shocking twists, it answers a provocative question: How would some of the world's most brazen criminals behave if they were sure they could never get caught?"--
Subjects: Commercial crimes.; Computer crimes.; Cryptocurrencies.; Transnational crime.;
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Eat, poop, die : how animals make our world / by Roman, Joe,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the volcanoes of Iceland to the tropical waters of Hawaii, the great plains of the American heartland, and beyond, Eat, Poop, Die takes readers on an exhilarating and enlightening global adventure, revealing the remarkable ways in which the most basic biological activities of animals make and remake the world-and how a deeper understanding of these cycles provides us with opportunities to undo the environmental damage humanity has wrought on the planet we call home"--
Subjects: Animal behavior.; Animal-plant relationships.; Animals.; Animals; Climatic changes.; Global warming; Nature.; Nature;
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Crashed : how a decade of financial crises changed the world / by Tooze, J. Adam,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.; Financial crises;
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Ice walker : a polar bear's journey through the fragile Arctic / by Raffan, James,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-152)."From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, the water in this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometres of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu's ancestors have roamed this great expanse, living, evolving, and surviving alongside humans in one of the most challenging and unforgiving habitats on earth. But that world is changing. In the Arctic's lands and waters, oil has been extracted and spilled. As global temperatures have risen, the sea ice that Nanu and her young need to hunt seal and fish has melted, forcing them to wait on land where the delicate balance between them and their two-legged neighbours has now shifted. This is the icescape that author and geographer James Raffan invites us to inhabit in Ice Walker. In precise and provocative prose, he brings readers inside Nanu's world as she treks uncertainly around the heart of Hudson Bay, searching for nourishment for the children that grow inside her. She stops at nothing to protect her cubs from the dangers she can see,other bears, wolves, whales, humans and those she cannot. By focusing his lens on this bear family, Raffan closes the gap between humans and bears, showing us how, like the water of the Hudson Bay, our existence and our future is tied to Nanu's, and asks us to consider what might be done about this fragile world before it is gone for good. Masterful, vivid, and haunting, Ice Walker is an utterly unique piece of creative non-fiction and a deeply affecting call to action."--
Subjects: Polar bear; Polar bear; Global warming; Climatic changes; Global temperature changes;
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Climate crisis for beginners / by Prentice, Andrew(Andy); Reynolds, Eddie.; Primo Ramón.;
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Subjects: Climatic changes; Global warming; Climate change mitigation;
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