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Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Books
Pub. Date
2002, ©2001
Language
English
Description
"Discover 1000 Facts on Animals, an amazing guide to the animal kingdom. Short, sharp facts combine with hundreds of pictures and illustrations to deliver information with punch. You'll find all the things you ever wanted to know, plus so much more, in one fascinating book. Key subject areas are clearly highlighted; finding information is effortlessly simple with the use of buttonlike icons. Compact and easy to use, this really is the complete references...
465) Science kids: Hurricanes, tornadoes, bomb cyclones, atmospheric rivers, floods, and extreme weather
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about extreme weather. What are hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones? What is the Coriolis Effect? What are bomb cyclones, tornadoes, and atmospheric rivers? How is climate change leading to more flooding and other extreme weather? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with this exciting video and dynamic graphics that reinforce important concepts.
Series
Publisher
Hastings House
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
The Colorado Guide is one of the shining accomplishments of the Federal Writers, who were recruited by the WPA in the days of the great depression to record the dynamic story of their State. So fruitful were their door-to-door inquiries that the public has acclaimed their labors and called for their book ever since. In the last few years it has become evident that the state was outgrowing its guide. The spectacular facts of history remained unaltered,...
468) Camp River Dubois
Publisher
Solstice Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The epic story of the Lewis and Clark expedition begins at the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Here the men built a log fort, gathered supplies, and forged the team that would spend the following two years exploring what is now the Western U.S.
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Crisis and Care reveals what is possible when activists mobilize for the radical changes our society needs. In a time of great uncertainty, fear, and isolation, Queer activists organized for health equity, prison abolition, racial justice, and more. Nobody who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic will soon forget the challenges, sacrifices, and incredible loss felt during such an uncertain time in history. Crisis and Care anthologizes not what happened...
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
". . . [This book] puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass, to help us look much, much closer at images we might have thought we knew well. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen help us become detectives of details, solving the mysteries of a masterpiece through its most small and subtle elements. Is the bride pregnant? Why is just one candle burning in the chandelier?...
Author
Publisher
RV Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Buying an RV is a major investment. It is likely to be second only to buying a house. Especially if this is your first RV purchase, where do you begin to get the information you need to make the right choice? In How to Choose and Buy an RV you will find everything you need to become an informed and well-prepared buyer. Collyn Rivers, one of the foremost authorities on RVs in Australia, breaks down the pros and cons of the many sorts of recreational...
Publisher
ComicMix
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mine! is a comics anthology with the proceeds going to Planned Parenthood. With stories about trailblazing women, civil rights leaders, a person's first time going to a PP clinic, debunking myths about sex, STI screenings, HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, fantastical stories with superheroes, Greek mythology, and a future both with and without Planned Parenthood.
Publisher
Community Supported Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
(Campaign for a new American): "An Indian immigrant's daughter campaigns to be elected as the first woman of color to the city-council of a working class town that has always been a magnet for immigrants. The town, 38% new immigrant, is still being run by the offspring of last century's immigrants. Win or lose--the new folks on the block will sooner or later take the reins of power and responsibility--or will they?"--Community Supported Film website.
(She's...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The DC and DC's Young Animal--a grassroots mature reader imprint, creatively spearheaded by Gerard Way--crossover is here! Now some of the world's most famous superheroes appear alongside the DC's Young Animal misfits for some thrilling crime-fighting adventures. What happens when the Doom Patrol team of misfits meets Justice League of America, or the new Gotham vigilante Mother Panic comes face to face with Batman? Will Shade the Changing Girl be...
Author
Publisher
Continuum
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This title provides a fresh look at the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging current thinking and presenting an innovative perspective. It offers an innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging the dominant narrative in the field. In the widely held version of events, the U.S. environmental movement was born with the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 and was driven...
Publisher
Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
St. Louis is undoubtedly fragmented, physically so in that the city is dissected by rivers, highways, walls, and fences; but also in a more insidious way. It?s a city (like many) where race, class, religion, and zip code might as well be cards in a rigged poker game, where the winners? prize is the ability to ignore that the losers have drastically shorter life expectancies. But it's also a city of warmth, love, and beauty?especially in its contrasts....
478) Rethinking work
Series
Reference shelf volume 88, no. 4
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From debates around the high pressures of the corporate work environment to those around the present day labor movement, discussions about work prevail in popular thinking and the media. Do the wealthiest, most powerful corporations today reward their white-collar employees with outstanding vacation and family-leave packages or exploit their workforce by demanding unreasonable hours and unrealistic goals? And how do their blue-collar employees fare?...
479) What if Latin America ruled the world?: how the South will take the North through the 21st century
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
For too many of us, Latin America exists "below the fold," an echo barely heard beyond the roar of U.S. economics, politics, and culture; the source of little more than dance steps, mesmerizing soccer, spicy food, and questionable politics. But Latin America has been a vital part of the global community since the seventeenth century, when the Spanish silver peso became the world's first global currency instrument. Today it is home to six hundred million...
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