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The road to Ubar: finding the Atlantis of the sands
Par Nicholas Clapp. 1998
A day-by-day account of two expeditions to Arabia in search of the site of the fabled city of Ubar. Inspired…
by a 1980 trip to return endangered Arabian oryxes to their native habitat, Clapp became intrigued with the legend of Ubar and obtained government radar imagery to help locate the ancient remains. Bestseller. 1998.The revenge of Gaia: why the earth is fighting back - and how we can still save humanity
Par J. E Lovelock. 2006
British scientist who originated the Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a superorganism assesses the impact of human activity on the…
planet. Lovelock supports a transition to nuclear energy and advocates preparation for inevitable climate and social changes in the twenty-first century as a result of global warming. 2006.The riddle of the Rosetta Stone: key to ancient Egypt
Par James Giblin. 1990
Before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799, Egyptian hieroglyphic writing -- composed of pictures of animals, birds, and…
geometric shapes -- was a mystery. For nearly 1400 years the meanings had been lost. The author chronicles the fascinating story of how the stone was discovered and, after countless attempts, finally deciphered by scholars. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 1990.Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves stories of unpredicted natural disaster with those of scientific discovery.…
The result is a journey from ancient man's first crude tide predictions to today's advanced early warning ability based on the Global Ocean Observing System, as we search for ways to predict tsunamis and rogue waves and critical aspects of climate change. Some descriptions of violence. c2010.The plundered planet: why we must, and how we can, manage nature for global prosperity
Par Paul Collier. 2010
Natural resources can transform the poorest countries or tear them apart, while the actions of the rich world could further…
impoverish them. Collier proposes standards that would help poor countries rich in natural assets better manage them, policy changes that would raise world food supply, and a new approach to climate change. c2010.The oil man and the sea: navigating the Northern Gateway
Par Arno Kopecky. 2013
As oil and gas behemoth Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway pipeline proposal nears approval, Arno Kopecky and Ilja Herb set forth…
in a forty-one-foot sailboat to explore the controversial tanker route. Novice sailors both, Kopecky and Herb followed whale highways and indigenous creation stories through the largest tract of temperate rainforest on the planet, confronted Enbridge hacks and the activists who opposed them, while struggling to stay afloat. c2013.The optimistic environmentalist: progressing towards a greener future
Par David R Boyd. 2015
The world faces substantial environmental challenges - climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the good news is that we have…
solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial progress is ongoing on others: endangered species pulled back from the precipice of extinction; thousands of new parks, protecting billions of hectares of land and water; the salvation of the ozone layer, vital to life on Earth; the growth of renewable energy powered by wind, water, and sun; remarkable strides in cleaning up the air we breathe and the water we drink; the banning of dozens of the world’s most toxic chemicals. Past successes will pave the way for even greater achievements in the future. 2015.The once and future world: nature as it was, as it is, as it could be
Par J. B MacKinnon. 2013
J.B. MacKinnon argues that we are living in the midst of an ecological disaster and we hardly notice it. We…
have forgotten what nature can be, and adapted to a diminished world of our own making. The author invites us to remember nature as it was, to reconnect to nature in a meaningful way, and to remake a wilder world everywhere. Bestseller. 2013.The lost Ark of the Covenant: solving the 2,500 year old mystery of the fabled biblical ark
Par Tudor Parfitt. 2008
Historian-adventurer, author of "Journey to the Vanished City: The Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel", recounts his quest for…
the ancient sacred chest that once held the Ten Commandments. Parfitt begins among a remote African people who claim such a box lies in a mountain cave. 2008.The legacy: an elder's vision for our sustainable future
Par David T Suzuki. 2010
The world witnessed an explosion of scientific knowledge as well as a tripling of the world's population, a greatly increased…
ecological footprint through the global economy, and a huge growth in technological capacity. These changes have had a dire effect on Earth's ecosystems and consequently on our own well-being. We must accept that the laws of nature have priority over the forces of economics, and join together to respond to the problems we face. Bestseller. 2010.The last panda
Par George B Schaller. 1993
From 1980 to 1985, George and Kay Schaller lived among the pandas on the Wolong panda reserve in China's Sichuan…
province. By the 1990s, there were fewer than 1,000 living in the wild -- despite efforts by the World Wildlife Fund International. Schaller describes his study of the panda in its natural habitat and efforts to save it, as well as discussing various factors -- such as human greed -- that have placed the panda in critical danger. 1993.The legacy of Luna: the story of a tree, a woman, and the struggle to save the redwoods
Par Julia Butterfly Hill. 2000
The author writes of the more than two years she spent living high in a thousand-year-old California redwood tree called…
Luna. Her "treesit" was to protest Luna's slated destruction in an environmentally destructive clear-cutting. In December 1999 Hill, twenty-five, descended after an agreement was reached to preserve Luna and surrounding trees. 2000.The Jesus family tomb: the discovery, the investigation, and the evidence that could change history
Par Simcha Jacobovici, Charles R Pellegrino. 2007
Jerusalem, 1980. Following the accidental bulldozing of a tomb, archaeologists arrived to find ten ossuaries - limestone boxes that served…
as first-century coffins. Six had inscriptions, including Jesus, son of Joseph; two Marys; and Judah, son of Jesus, which the team concluded were merely coincidence. Twenty-five years later, journalist Jacobovici tracked down the ossuaries and the tomb, and soon found that the archaeologists were unaware of key evidence that made this the discovery of a lifetime. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language. 2007.Our choice: a plan to solve the climate crisis
Par Albert Gore. 2009
Picks up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on…
Mr. Gore's forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates the real solutions to the climate crisis and describes a comprehensive global strategy to implement them urgently. 2009.An inconvenient sequel: truth to power
Par Albert Gore. 2017
Al Gore has been advocating on earth's behalf for twenty-five years. Here he recounts and contextualizes the critical issues and…
moments in the climate change movement since the release of An Inconvenient Truth more than ten years ago, and highlights the real solutions we have at hand to change the planet for the better. 2017.Orchid fever: a horticultural tale of love, lust and lunacy
Par Eric Hansen. 2000
In 1993 Eric Hansen led an expedition through the steaming jungles of Borneo to find the world's rarest orchid. Five…
years later he was still on the trail of the true story behind one of the world's strangest plants and humanity's oddest obsessions. 2000.Hidden treasure (Time detectives)
Par Geoffrey Trease. 1989
Trease demonstrates how archaeologists and historians piece together evidence of past civilizations to give us a picture of how people…
once lived. He discusses archaeological digs in such places as Troy, Sutton Hoo, and the tomb of Tutankhamen. 1989.Inventing the future
Par David T Suzuki. 1989
Suzuki wrote regular newspaper columns on environmental and scientific matters for the "Toronto Star" and "Globe and Mail" during the…
1980s. This collection of those columns is organized into categories such as genetics, technology and its effects, science and the military, the importance of education about science and the environment, and the aboriginal worldview. 1989.2 minutes a day for a greener planet
Par Marjorie Lamb. 1990
Use a rag instead of paper towels; turn off the tap while brushing your teeth; take your own shopping bags…
to the supermarket. These are just some of the suggestions listed in this book that provides easy, practical ways to help the environment.In the rainforest
Par Catherine Caufield. 1985
An account of the author's travels through the tropical rain forests of South and Central America, Indonesia, New Guinea, Africa…
and the Philippines. She discovers that indiscriminate logging, cattle ranching and farming destroy the forests at the rate of 50 million acres per year. 1985.