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2015.
Language
English
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A portrait of the German naturalist reveals his ongoing influence on humanity's relationship with the natural world today, discussing such topics as his views on climate change, conservation, and nature as a resource for all life. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. In North America, his name still graces counties, towns, a river, parks, bays, lakes, and mountains. His restless life...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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As a young boy, David Attenborough became an avid collector of fossils and plants. His great love for living things led him into science, and his passion for people led him to broadcasting television. Determined to make the wonder of the natural world accessible to everyone, David changed the way we thing about our planet. This inspiring story features a facts and photos section at the back.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Follow Victorian naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace on his intrepid journeys across the globe and find out how he developed his own theory of evolution in this beautiful illustrated gift hardback. In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace's travels in the Amazon Basin and Malay Archipelago led him to discover natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. Darwin's Rival traces Wallace's life from his childhood in the Welsh countryside to his...
47) Charles Darwin
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Series
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Charles Darwin.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Women's History - Tweens
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In rural Texas in 1901, thirteen-year-old Callie nurses a butterfly with a broken wing and delivers a baby lamb, despite her mother's disapproval of Callie's "unladylike behavior."
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The collected wisdom of some of the world's most influential environmental movers and shakers is brought together in this one book. The chosen gurus consists both of "thinkers"--Those who have set the agenda, and of "doers"--those business people who made the green cause their mission long before it became so prominent. The book covers a broad range of environmental issues as they apply to business, including the economic viability of choosing green...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Weaves natural history around Thoreau's life and times in a richly illustrated field notebook format that can be opened anywhere and invites browsing on every page. Beginning each season with quotes from Thoreau's schoolboy essay about the changing seasons ... through the fields and woods of Concord, the joys and challenges of growing up, his experiment with simple living on Walden Pond, and his participation in the abolition movement, self-reliance,...
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Language
English
Description
Jennifer Browdy Ph. D. coined the term "purposeful memoir" to describe the contemplative process of looking backward in order to understand the present more fully, necessary inner work for all who wish to change the world for the better. In this lyrical, hard-hitting memoir, one American woman's journey is set against the larger landscape of political upheaval, global climate disruption, and the recovery of our primary connection to the Earth. In...
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