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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
After an alien race called the Shongari virtually conquers Earth, Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky and the rest of the humans must forge an alliance with Earth's vampires, who, once the enemies of the humans, now are willing to make amends--to defend the home planet they have in common.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Six interconnected stories that ask how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimens, and how hard that will push the definition of human"--
Author
Series
The final architecture volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 595 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Facing impending extinction, an Intermediary decides to help the Human Colonies stop the Architects who are back consuming entire planets after eighty years of a fragile peace, in the second novel of the series, following Shards of Earth.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"The average American spends ninety percent of their time indoors, and children are no exception. Today, kids can spend up to seven hours per day looking at screens. Not only does this phenomenon have consequences for our kids' physical and mental health, it calls into question their ability to understand and engage with anything beyond the built environment. We can talk about environmental stewardship, but until more people make meaningful contact...
Author
Publisher
Mango Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Reconnect With Your Inner Wild
From wild harvesting, finding your own paths and reading hiking guides, to just stepping outside and appreciating nature, Re-Wild brings you 50 practices to bringing nature home. Book a stay here!
Beginner’s hiking guide to pro wild harvesting. Divided by levels of difficulty, this nature guide book gives swaths of practical advice. From simple things like how to feel at home in nature and learning fun nature facts...
18) Human
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
512 p.
Language
English
Description
Robert Winston and Dr. Don E. Wilson, editorial consultants.
Author
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 disc : sound, color ; 4.75 inch dia.
Language
English
Description
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha. A mystery is at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the city.
20) The last human
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.