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1) 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
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
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most...
Author
Publisher
High Bridge
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (ca. 360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
The author answers the question: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? He dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 290 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Traces the ongoing challenges to endangered turtle populations, evaluating the global trade practices, limited supply, and increasing demand in high-population world regions that have compromised conservation efforts." --
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 592 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive history of the Gulf of Mexico and its identity as a region marked by hurricanes, oil fields, and debates about population growth and the environment demonstrates how its picturesque ecosystems have inspired and reflected key historical events.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
449 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style--thorough, yet riveting--famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book "is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the wolf in our backyards, as well as its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering...