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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

How We Created the Anthropocene

A remarkable exploration of the science, history, and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts

 

"A relentless reckoning of how we, as a species, got ourselves into the mess we're in today, . . . told with determination and in chiseled, almost literary prose."--Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street Journal

 

Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, and plate tectonics--the old forces of nature--have transformed Earth for millions of years. They are now joined by a new geological force--humans. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our home planet's 4.5-billion-year history a single species is increasingly dictating Earth's future.



To some the Anthropocene symbolizes a future of superlative control of our environment. To others it is the height of hubris, the illusion of our mastery over nature. Whatever your view, just below the surface of this odd-sounding scientific word, the Anthropocene, is a heady mix of science, philosophy, and politics linked to our deepest fears and utopian visions.



Tracing our environmental impacts through time, scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin reveal a new view of human history and a new outlook for the future of humanity in the unstable world we have created.

The Human Planet

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#hardcover #Nature #Weather #Planet #Forces #Earth #Volcanoes #Disasters #Photography #Illustrative box : oversized 

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Extreme Planet

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X-Library Copy
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#homeschool #teach #earth #earthday #nonfiction #environment #volcanoes #experiments #planet #educational #classroom

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Science

Uses facts, stories, activities, and experiments to showcase different environments including mountains, deserts, forests, and the ocean.

Planet Earth

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

So old it lists Pluto as a planet still

A concise reference by a best-selling astronomy author.

The Guide to Stars and Planets is a practical guide to the night sky featuring detailed maps of the moon and constellations, plus a host of recommendations on what to look for and when. In a compact format, this book is illustrated with charts, maps, and stunning photographs from the world's finest Earth- and space-based telescopes.

A concise introduction offers a practical guide to telescopes, home observatories and astronomical photography for amateur astronomers. Detailed entries describe the following astronomical objects, organized by the closest to the furthest from Earth:

 * The moon
 * The sun
 * The planets
 * Solar system debris
 * The stars
 * The galaxies
 * The constellations
 * Observing eclipses, comets and meteors.

The book highlights the most interesting objects that can be observed using the naked eye, binoculars or telescope. Detailed moon maps and charts identify significant features, and practical tips explain how to observe the sun safely.

The Guide to Stars and Planets is an ideal introduction to astronomy and a concise reference for hobbyists of all levels of experience.

Guide to Stars and Planets

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A genius way to ease kids into the new adventure that is kindergarten."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

This clever picture book will prepare young explorers to boldly go where they have never gone before: Planet Kindergarten. Suit up for a daring adventure as our hero navigates the unknown reaches and alien inhabitants of this strange new world. Hilarious and confidence-boosting, this exciting story will have new kindergarteners ready for liftoff!

Planet Kindergarten

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#pantheon #england #archaelogy #memoir #planet #time #history

Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land

Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Shortly after her husband's death, Blackburn became fascinated with Doggerland, the stretch of land that once connected Great Britain to Continental Europe but is now subsumed by the North Sea. She was driven to explore the lives of the people who lived there--studying its fossil record, as well as human artifacts that have been unearthed near the area.

In Time Song, Blackburn brings us along on her journey to discover what Doggerland left behind, introducing us to the paleontologists, archaeologists, fishermen and fellow Doggerland enthusiasts she meets along the way. She sees the footprints of early humans fossilized in the soft mud of an estuary alongside the scattered pockmarks made by rain falling eight thousand years ago. She visits a cave where the remnants of a Neanderthal meal have turned to stone. In Denmark she sits beside Tollund Man, who seems to be about to wake from a dream, even though he had lain in a peat bog since the start of the Iron Age. As Doggerland begins to come into focus, what emerges is a profound meditation on time, a sense of infinity as going backward and an intimation of the immensity of everything that has already passed through its time on earth and disappeared.

Time Song

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Maryland

InHellhole Awakening,the exhilarating sequel to Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson'sHellhole, the stakes on planet Hallholme have been raised to new heights.

After declaring his independence from the corrupt Constellation, rebel General Adolphus knows the crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together the struggling Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. Even then, he doubts his desperate measures will be enough.

Diadem Michella Duchenet has collected a huge space fleet led by Commodore Escobar Hallholme, son of the hero who originally defeated Adolphus. They expect resistance from the General's rebels, but who could possibly stand up to such a mighty fleet?

Adolphus knows he's running out of time, but he still has some hope--the shadow-Xayans have banded together to defend their sacred planet with "telemancy," but can they discover new powers to protect all the stored alien lives on the already devastated world? And when all hope seems lost, the awakened Xayans reveal information hidden even from their own followers--the existence of a bigger threat that makes even the Constellation fleet seem insignificant.

Disaster has come for General Adolphus and Hellhole...and this time there is no escape.

Hellhole Awakening

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#hardcover #animalplant #animal #planet #giraffe #children #educational 

Tennessee

Take a Walk on The Wild Side

"Dedan has a good life on the African savanna. His days pass pleasantly, as he crunches and munches tree leaves neck and neck with other giraffes. On this day, Dedan helps his herd find safety. Hooray for Dedan! He saves the day"--Jacket.

Dedan Saves the Day

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New York

A space age mystery!

Twelve-year-old Violynne Vivant wants answers. Orphaned and anguished, she wonders daily what happened to her parents, archaeologists who went digging for the ancient city of Ninthon and vanished into the red sands of Lindos never to return.

Things heat up when a thief breaks into the Vivant's house, looking for Violynne. Suddenly, she is swept into a maze of powerful adult forces: from the planetary ruler called the Arbiter to the murky underworld figure, the Coil'they all have a sudden deep interest in Violynne. Why? And what does it have to do with her parent's disappearance? It becomes apparent that only Violynne herself can uncover her parents? whereabouts'along with age-old secrets of the mysterious planet that many would rather stay buried . . .

Imaginative and gripping, this unique blend of sci-fi and mystery will captivate young readers.



Lost Time

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#hardcover #planet #earth #education #learning #watee 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Michigan

Do Rivers Ever End? 

Hugo and Nebula Award Winner #paperback #scifi #nancykress #moon #probability #planet #thriller 

Humankind has expanded out into interstellar space using star gates-technological remnants left behind by an ancient, long-vanished race. But the technology comes with a price. Among the stars, humanity encountered the Fallers, a strange alien race bent on nothing short of genocide. It's all-out war, and humanity is losing.
In this fragile situation, a new planet is discovered, inhabited by a pre-industrial race who experience "shared reality"-they're literally compelled to share the same worldview. A team of human scientists is dispatched-but what they don't know is that their mission of first contact is actually a covert military operation.
For one of the planet's moons is really a huge mysterious artifact of the same origin as the star gates . . . and it just may be the key to winning the war.


Probability Moon

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New Hampshire

Why We Must--And How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity

Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of natural resources.

Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the developed world could further impoverish them. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues.

Grounded in a belief in the power of informed citizens, Collier proposes a series of international standards that would help poor countries rich in natural assets better manage those resources, policy changes that would raise world food supply, and a clear-headed approach to climate change that acknowledges the benefits of industrialization while addressing the need for alternatives to carbon trading. Revealing how all of these forces interconnect, The Plundered Planet charts a way forward to avoid the mismanagement of the natural world that threatens our future.


The Plundered Planet

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#1091 #hardcover #climatechange #environment #weather #planet #timflannery #weathermakers

Idaho

How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Ni#65533;o ever recorded, the most devastating hurricane in two hundred years, the hottest European summer on record, and one of the worst storm seasons ever experienced in Florida. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Along with a riveting history of climate change, Tim Flannery offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals, from investing in renewable power sources like wind, solar, and geothermal energy, to offering an action plan with steps each and every one of us can take right now to reduce deadly CO2 emissions by as much as 70 percent.

The Weather Makers

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Small bend to cover from reading. Like New Book.

District of Columbia

Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change

Winner of the 2002 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

Mankind has recently come to the shocking realization that our ancestors survived hundreds of abrupt and severe changes to Earth's climate. In this unique travelogue, William H. Calvin takes us around the globe and back in time, showing us how such cycles of cool, crash, and burn provided the impetus for enormous increases in the intelligence and complexity of human beings--and warning us of human activities that could trigger similarly massive shifts in the planet's climate.

A Brain for All Seasons

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#paperback #earth #hallindsey #planet #science 

Iowa

The Final Chapter

Mr. Lindsey's 'Final Chapter' continues his asiduous efforts detailing the finish of mankind's history.

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Answers to approximately 135 of kids' science questions about people, animals, and the natural world, such as why cats purr and why our fingers wrinkle in water.

How Come? Planet Earth

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Covers outer space, rockets, spacecraft, satellites, space shuttles, the Moon landing, space probes, weather, climate, the solar system, and the stars

Land and Space

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A Wrinkle in Time is the story of Meg Murry, a high-school-aged girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces that hold him prisoner on another planet.

 #adventure #centaur #YA #fiction #fantasy #tesseract #scientist #evil #planet

Georgia

A wrinkle in Time 

Illinois

A Green Millionaire is someone who recognizes that "going green" is investing in the future as well as enjoying life today.

The Green Millionaire

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#hardcover #planet #exploring #national #geographic #society #nature

Theories about the earth's origins are explained and such topics as the causes of earthquakes and volcanoes are covered briefly.

Exploring Our Living Planet

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Gridlinked is a science fiction adventure in the classic, fast-paced, action-packed tradition of Harry Harrison and Poul Anderson, with a dash of cyberpunk and a splash of Ian Fleming added to spice the mix.

Cormac is a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future where "runcibles" (matter transmitters controlled by AIs) allow interstellar travel in an eye blink throughout the settled worlds of the Polity. Unfortunately Cormac is nearly burnt out, "gridlinked" to the AI net so long that his humanity has begun to drain away. He has to take the cold-turkey cure and shake his addiction to having his brain on the net.

Now he must do without just as he's sent to investigate the unique runcible disaster that's wiped out the entire human colony on planet Samarkand in a thirty-megaton explosion. With the runcible out, Cormac must get there by ship, but he has incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath called Arian Pelter, who now follows him across the galaxy with a terrifying psychotic killer android in tow. And deep beneath Samarkand's surface there are buried mysteries, fiercely guarded.

This is fast-moving, edge-of-the-seat entertainment, and a great introduction to the work of one of the most exciting new SF talents in years.

Gridlinked

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Cute kids book about taking care of the planet #planet #animals #trees #kids #learning #numbers 

Introduce your toddler to different kinds of trees found across the United States with this colorful counting primer, from the creators of BabyLit.

Learn to count from 1 to 10 with this captivating collection of illustrations featuring different kinds of amazing trees found across the United States. Have fun reading--and finding--with your child as you search for trees such as 1 Mangrove Tree, 5 Giant Sequoia Trees, and 8 Quaking Aspen Trees. One you're finished counting, the last spread contains 10 more objects hidden throughout the book for you to find next, as well as a page dedicated to explaining fun facts all about the trees you just read about.

Trees: a Count and Find Primer

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Please see all pictures. Smoke-free home. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Lot of (2) Dan Simmons HYPERION + Rise of Endymion, vintage paperback, Epic Fantasy Science Fiction

Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists

From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment.
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Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices have a huge impact on the environment; others are of negligible importance. To those of us who care about our quality of life and what is happening to the earth, this is a vastly important issue. In these pages, the Union of Concerned Scientists help inform consumers about everyday decisions that significantly affect the environment. For example, a few major decisions--such as the choice of a house or vehicle--have such a disproportionately large affect on the environment that minor environmental infractions shrink by comparison.
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This book identifies the 4 Most Significant Consumer-Related Environmental Problems, the 7 Most Damaging Spending Categories, 11 Priority Actions, and 7 Rules for Responsible Consumption. Learn what you can do to have a truly significant impact on our world from the people who are at the forefront of scientific research.

Simon L. Lewis; Mark A. Maslin

The Human Planet

Philip Steele; Neil Morris; Nicola Barber

Extreme Planet

Two-Can Publishing Ltd. Staff (Contribution by)

Planet Earth

Patrick Moore

Guide to Stars and Planets

Sue Ganz-Schmitt; Shane Prigmore (Illustrator)

Planet Kindergarten

Julia Blackburn; Enrique Brinkmann (Illustrator)

Time Song

Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

Hellhole Awakening

Thea Feldman

Dedan Saves the Day

Susan Maupin Schmid

Lost Time

Ask me (Southwestern)

Do Rivers Ever End?

Nancy Kress

Probability Moon

Paul Collier

The Plundered Planet

Tim Flannery

The Weather Makers

William H. Calvin

A Brain for All Seasons

Hal Lindsey

Planet Earth

Kathy Wollard

How Come? Planet Earth

Charles Schulz (Illustrator); Random House Value Publishing Staff; Snoopy's World Staff

Land and Space

madeline L'engle

A wrinkle in Time

Nigel Williams; Myra Elayda (Cover Design by)

The Green Millionaire

Robert D. Ballard; Jonathan B. Tourtellot (Editor)

Exploring Our Living Planet

Neal Asher

Gridlinked

Greg Paprocki (Illustrator)

Trees: a Count and Find Primer

Dan Simmons

Lot of (2) Dan Simmons HYPERION + Rise of Endymion, vintage paperback, Epic Fantasy Science Fiction

Michael Brower; Warren Leon

The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices