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62) NOVA: Bird Brain
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Join NOVA to witness the brainpower of birds. Long mocked as empty-headed, our feathered friends hide surprisingly acute intelligence. But how smart are they? Watch as scientists test avian aptitude and challenge our basic notions of intelligence.
63) Nature art workshop: tips, techniques, and step-by-step projects for creating nature-inspired art
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Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nature Art Workshop is a visual resource for any artist or crafter desiring to combine their artistic talents with their love of the natural world. Each page engages, inspires, and encourages artists to see the world around them in a new light while they learn to create their own nature-inspired art. Four talented visual nature artists guide readers through finding and prepping traditional media and natural elements to use in creating fun and unique...
64) Killer Volcanoes
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
NOVA's expert team looks for the signature of a volcanic eruption big enough to have blasted a huge cloud of ash and sulfuric acid into the atmosphere. Killer Volcanoes spotlights the search for the mystery volcano that plunged the globe into a deep freeze and inflicted famine on medieval Europe.
66) Thai Cave Rescue
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Follow the harrowing operation to rescue 12 boys stranded in a flooded cave in Thailand, and discover the scientific ingenuity that made the rescue possible.
69) Nocturnal
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From @wilderpoetry comes a heavily expanded revised edition of Nocturnal , a collection of poetry and beautifully illustrated black-and-white imagery inspired by darkened days and sleepless nights. Poetry meets presentation in each of the four sections (Dusk," "Northern Lights," "Howl," "Lucid Dreams,"), which trace the author's continuing journey of self-discovery while illuminating a path for others along the way. Ink stains, landscapes, dreamlike...
71) Blue sky
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Throughout the day and into the night, a boy and his family observe the constantly changing sky.
72) Season 1
Publisher
HISTORY
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In ALONE, ten men are left in solitude, and separated from each other, in the harsh Vancouver Island wilderness. With no camera crews or producers, they have to survive using only what they can stuff into a backpack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"A "superbly written, richly illustrated" guide to the animals who lived 450 million years ago -- in the fossil-rich area where Cincinnati, Ohio now stands ( Rocks & Minerals ). The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years ago -- some 250 million years before...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Throughout the history of civilisation, traditional crafts have been passed down from hand to skilled hand. Blacksmithing, brewing, beekeeping, baking, milling, spinning, knitting and weaving: these skills held societies together, and so too shaped their folklore and mythology.
Exploring the folklore connected with these rural crafts, Telling the Bees examines the customs, superstitions and stories woven into some of the world's oldest trades. From...
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English
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"In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From a single beginning, countless millions of stories from the animal kingdom have - and continue to - run their course.
Museum objects allow us to investigate some of those stories. Animal Kingdom journeys through both the evolutionary history of animals, and the ways that people have interpreted them in museums. Animals in museums are not only representatives of their entire species, but they also tell us something about the time in which they...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. Alexander the Great used them, Hannibal took them over the Alps, and Kublai Khan encountered them in India. However, it is only the last hundred years that the existence of the African elephant has been, threatened. Once the 'Great White Hunters' with their special elephant guns arrived, elephants in the south of the continent were, decimated. 'Blood Ivory' tells the story...
78) Thank you, world
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Children from eight different countries celebrate the common joys of childhood, with illustrations that show how each boy and girl experiences sunshine, clouds, swings, and a mother's love.
79) Our angry earth
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gives a clear picture of the current state of the planet and provides social, economic, and political reforms needed to solve environmental problems.
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Language
English
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Jack London's novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations, and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the twentieth century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. The author's restless spirit, taste for a life of excitement, and probing mind led him on a series of hard-edged adventures from the Klondike to the South Seas. Out of these sometimes
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