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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $23.49
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Manufacturer: Earth Aware Editions
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Earth Aware Editions
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333
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Publication Date: 2007-11-28
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: From the creators of the highly acclaimed New York Times best-selling Day in the Life and America 24/7 series, Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt, Blue Planet Run provides readers with a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the water problems facing humanity on every continent, as well as some of the hopeful solutions and courageous “water heroes” focused on alleviating this crisis.
The large-format volume features more than 250 photographs by the world’s top photojournalists, illustrations by leading infographic artist Nigel Holmes, and provocative essays by Diane Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses), environmental leaders Paul Hawken and Bill McKibben, journalists Michael Specter and Jeffrey Rothfeder, Emmy Award-winning TV broadcaster Mike Cerre, Michael Malone, of ABC News and inventor Dean Kamen (the Segway scooter). Advisors and staff include Phillip Moffitt, former editor and owner of Esquire magazine and Stephen Petranek, former editor-in-chief of Discover magazine.
Blue Planet Run highlights the vital contributions of nonprofits around the world, including the groundbreaking work of the Blue Planet Run Foundation, which seeks to provide safe drinking water to 200 million people by 2027. The book includes coverage of the 2007 Blue Planet Run, an unprecedented, non-stop, around-the-world relay race designed as a wake-up call to the world. Twenty-one runners, representing 13 countries, began the race on June 1, 2007, at the United Nations and concluded in New York City on September 4, 2007, having circled the Earth in just 95 days while running over 15,000 miles across 16 countries in Europe, Asia and North America.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $14.94
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Schwartz
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 576.509
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Publication Date: 2008-04-30
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: The mystery of inheritance has captivated thinkers since antiquity, and the unlocking of this mystery—the development of classical genetics—is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. This great scientific and human drama is the story told fully and for the first time in this book. Acclaimed science writer James Schwartz presents the history of genetics through the eyes of a dozen or so central players, beginning with Charles Darwin and ending with Nobel laureate Hermann J. Muller. In tracing the emerging idea of the gene, Schwartz deconstructs many often-told stories that were meant to reflect glory on the participants and finds that the “official” version of discovery often hides a far more complex and illuminating narrative. The discovery of the structure of DNA and the more recent advances in genome science represent the culmination of one hundred years of concentrated inquiry into the nature of the gene. Schwartz’s multifaceted training as a mathematician, geneticist, and writer enables him to provide a remarkably lucid account of the development of the central ideas about heredity, and at the same time bring to life the brilliant and often eccentric individuals who shaped these ideas. In the spirit of the late Stephen Jay Gould, this book offers a thoroughly engaging story about one of the oldest and most controversial fields of scientific inquiry. It offers readers the background they need to understand the latest findings in genetics and those still to come in the search for the genetic basis of complex diseases and traits. (20080517)
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Price: $17.50
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Sale: $15.75
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Manufacturer: Stenhouse Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Sobel
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Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2071
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Publication Date: 2008-04-30
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Reading Level: 168
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $3.05
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James Lovelock
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577
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Publication Date: 2007-06-04
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory’s originator, that organism is now sick. It is running a fever born of increased atmospheric greenhouse gases. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but the human race faces a severe test. It is already too late, Lovelock says, to prevent the global climate from “flipping” into an entirely new equilibrium that will threaten civilization as we know it. But we can do much to save humanity. In the tradition of Silent Spring, this is a call to address a major threat to our collective future.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.80
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Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Betty Macdonald
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 979.7
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Publication Date: 1987-09-16
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall—through chaos and catastrophe—this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor. A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $19.79
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Manufacturer: TKF Foundation
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Stoner::Carolyn Rapp
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Publisher: TKF Foundation
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Dewey Decimal Number: 712
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Publication Date: 2008-09-15
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Reading Level: 191
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Description: Open Spaces Sacred Places is a book that dramatically demonstrates how nature has the power to heal and unify in our increasingly frenetic 21st-century world. It is a series of inspirational stories told through the voices of "firesouls," those passionate and persistent people who have brought communities together to create public areas of respite.The book depicts a wide variety of sacred places, including a meditation garden inside the walls of a prison, a sculpture garden built by at-risk youth in the inner city, and a therapeutic healing garden at a rehabilitation hospital. These public green spaces are places of peace and refreshment, where people can tap into their own deep wisdom and find an antidote for the stressful, divisive, and isolating effects of life in today’s complex world.While each of the profiled spaces has its own unique focus and character, they all have one common element—a bench with a journal attached where each visitor has the opportunity to anonymously reveal private thoughts and feelings. The journal entries, collected over 12 years, reinforce the essential human need to take time out in nature. Open Spaces Sacred Places also contains more than 200 beautifully photographed images that bring these spaces to life.With a foreword by G. Martin Moeller, Jr., Open Spaces Sacred Places provides helpful information for those who have the desire to become active firesouls by spearheading community efforts to create public green spaces.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.03
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ernst Haeckel
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.0222
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Publication Date: 1974-06-01
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Reading Level: 100
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Description: Multitude of strangely beautiful natural forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Ciliata, diatoms, calcareous sponges, Siphonophora, star corals, starfishes, Protozoa, flagellates, brown seaweed, jellyfishes, sea-lilies, moss animals, sea-urchins, glass sponges, leptomedusae, horny corals, trunkfishes, true sea slugs, anthomedusae horseshoe crabs, sea-cucumbers, octopuses, bats, orchids, sea wasps, seahorse, a dragonfish, a frogfish, much more. |
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.82
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John N. Maclean
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 979
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Publication Date: 2008-05-27
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: “Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting.”—National Geographic Adventure The Thirtymile Fire in the North Cascade Range near the Canadian border of Washington began as a simple mop-up operation; in a few hours, a series of catastrophic errors led to the entrapment and deaths of four members of the fire crew—two teenage girls and two young men. Each had brought order and meaning to their lives by joining the firefighting world. Then the very flames they pursued turned on them, extinguishing their lives. Weaving together the astonishing stories told by the fire’s witnesses and, later, the victims’ family members and the response to the official reports, John N. Maclean creates a riveting account of the deadly Thirtymile Fire and the controversy and recriminations that raged in its aftermath. |
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $12.95
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Manufacturer: Harper
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Marcus Du Sautoy
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Publisher: Harper
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Dewey Decimal Number: 516.1
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Publication Date: 2008-03-01
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Symmetry is all around us. Our eyes and minds are drawn to symmetrical objects, from the pyramid to the pentagon. Of fundamental significance to the way we interpret the world, this unique, pervasive phenomenon indicates a dynamic relationship between objects. In chemistry and physics, the concept of symmetry explains the structure of crystals or the theory of fundamental particles; in evolutionary biology, the natural world exploits symmetry in the fight for survival; and symmetry—and the breaking of it—is central to ideas in art, architecture, and music. Combining a rich historical narrative with his own personal journey as a mathematician, Marcus du Sautoy takes a unique look into the mathematical mind as he explores deep conjectures about symmetry and brings us face-to-face with the oddball mathematicians, both past and present, who have battled to understand symmetry's elusive qualities. He explores what is perhaps the most exciting discovery to date—the summit of mathematicians' mastery in the field—the Monster, a huge snowflake that exists in 196,883-dimensional space with more symmetries than there are atoms in the sun. What is it like to solve an ancient mathematical problem in a flash of inspiration? What is it like to be shown, ten minutes later, that you've made a mistake? What is it like to see the world in mathematical terms, and what can that tell us about life itself? In Symmetry, Marcus du Sautoy investigates these questions and shows mathematical novices what it feels like to grapple with some of the most complex ideas the human mind can comprehend.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $3.70
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Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Javna::Sophie Javna::Jesse Javna
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Publisher: Hyperion
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.70525
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Publication Date: 2008-04-01
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Together, We Can Make a Difference
Today's environmental problems may seem too overwhelming for one person to tackle . . . but you don't have to do it alone. Now you have partners--50 of them.
50 Simple Things, the revolutionary 1990 bestseller, is back in a completely revised, updated edition . . . and it's just as innovative and groundbreaking as the original. The authors have teamed up with 50 of America's top environmental groups, including The Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Wildlife Federation, and Rainforest Action Network. Each group has chosen one issue and provided a simple, step-by-step program that will empower you and your family to become citizen activists in the fight to save the Earth.
It's easy to get started. Just pick one!
- Fight global warming "one city at a time" with the Sierra Club's Cool Cities Campaign
- Roll up your sleeves and save an endangered species with the Wilderness Society
- Protect coral reefs and create a marine reserve with Seacology
- Get your congregation excited about protecting God's creations with Interfaith Power and Light
- Invite songbirds into your neighborhood with the National Audubon Society
All it takes is a little effort. When we work together, we can work miracles! Get started now!
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