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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date:
[2025]
Language:
English
Description:
"Humanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe to grow food, and our food system generates a third of our carbon emissions. By 2050, we're going to need a lot more calories to fill nearly 10 billion bellies, but we can't feed the world without frying it if we keep tearing down an acre of rainforest every six seconds. We are eating the earth, and the greatest challenge facing our species will be to slow our relentless expansion of farmland...
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Language:
English
Description:
Climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought, heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world's population is expected to grow another 30 percent by midcentury. So how, really, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades? Journalist Amanda Little spent three years traveling through a dozen countries and as many U.S. states in search...
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Publisher:
T.Y. Crowell
Pub. Date:
1990
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Explains various changes in humanity's beliefs about the shape of the earth, from the flat earth theories of the ancients to the round earth theories which were proven true by the voyages of Columbus and Magellan.
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Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle--tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient...
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"In this convincing book, MIT climate scientist Susan Solomon argues against the hopeless passivity we too often feel when confronted with dire predictions about the future of our planet. Her antidote is to provide the inside story of past environmental victories, to extract from this neglected history the essential elements of what works, and to show that we have not just the popular will but the specific means to save the planet. In each case, she...
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Publisher:
Seahorse Publishing
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
I Read! You Read! books are designed for shared reading between a young reader and an adult. Jump into orbit around one planet in our amazing solar system: Earth! Take a fact-filled flight to learn what makes our home planet so special. Explore its watery surface, its protective atmosphere, and more.
Author:
Publisher:
Seahorse Publishing
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
I Read! You Read! books are designed for shared reading between a young reader and an adult. Jump into orbit around one planet in our amazing solar system: Earth! Take a fact-filled flight to learn what makes our home planet so special. Explore its watery surface, its protective atmosphere, and more.
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Publisher:
Seahorse Publishing
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
Spanish
Description:
I Read! You Read! books are designed for shared reading between a young reader and an adult. Jump into orbit around one planet in our amazing solar system: Earth! Take a fact-filled flight to learn what makes our home planet so special. Explore its watery surface, its protective atmosphere, and more. Features include comprehension questions, educational front/back matter, full-color photographs, glossary of key words, index, note to parents and educators,...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Learn about the man who wrote The Lord of the Rings in this Middle-earth treasury. Full of answers to common questions about Middle-earth and the fandom, this book about Tolkien celebrates Why We Love Middle-earth. The Lord of the Rings omnibus for all. Who wrote The Lord of the Rings? What details are in the movies, books, maps, and other stories-and how do they tie together? Intrigued by Amazon's new show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power?...
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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
"A fascinating look at the cutting-edge science and technologies that are on the cusp of changing everything from where we'll live, how we'll look, and who we'll be, by the popular science broadcaster and bestselling author Jay Ingram. Where will we live? How will we get around? What will we look like? These are just some of the questions bestselling author and popular science broadcaster Jay Ingram answers in this exciting examination of the science...
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Publisher:
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
This volume describes the techniques with which astronomers and astrophysicists seek out worlds similar to our native planet throughout the vastness of the universe. Breaking down sometimes complicated concepts for beginning students of the cosmos, it includes the history of this planetary quest from ancient to modern times, contemporary methods used to find exoplanets, and their sheer diversity. Altogether, this otherworldly exploration, visually...
Author:
Publisher:
Mango Media
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
For Fans of the Tales of Tolkien, Middle-earth, and More " great resource for readers and film-viewers who are new to Tolkien and curious about all things Middle-earth." -Corey Olsen, The Tolkien Professor and president of Signum University #1 New Release in British & Irish Literary Criticism and Encyclopedias Learn about the man who wrote The Lord of the Rings in this Middle-earth treasury. Full of answers to common questions asked by readers to...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous...
18. The prophet
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Presents the Lebanese poet and philosopher's inspirational essays on love, marriage, work, joy, sorrow, freedom, pain, teaching, friendship and death.
19. The Odyssey
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Lexile measure:
830L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
20. Paradise lost
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Language:
English
Description:
Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in English literature, and Milton's Satan one of its most compelling figures. The controversy has been exceeded only by its tremendous influence: countless masters of English verse have paid homage to Milton and Paradise Lost. A profound meditation on the role of man under God, ParAdise Lost is essential reading.