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Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. Millions of animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment wildlife populations into inbred clusters, disrupt migration for creatures from antelope to salmon, allow invasive plants...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
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Poetry combined with intricate cut-paper illustrations to celebrate an active, vital, changing, and growing universe. They also show how we humans--the curious ones, the storytellers--are active, vital, changing, and growing, too.
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English
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Pandemics have been a constant presence throughout human history, as humans and disease have lived side by side for millennia. Over the centuries, our ability to react to these sweeping killers has evolved, most notably through the development of vaccines. The story of disease eradication is one of science-- and politics, culture, and deeply personal. Schama ranges across continents and centuries as he unpacks the stories of the often-unknown individuals...
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Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First graphic edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams's beloved story of a group of rabbits on an epic journey in search of home."Every rabbit that stays behind is in great danger. We will welcome any rabbit who joins us." Watership Down is a classic tale of survival, hope, courage, and friendship that has delighted and inspired readers around the world for more than fifty years. Masterfully adapted by award-winning author James Sturm...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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...
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Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([6] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (71 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two billion years in the future, humanity finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that remains are lone, surreal monuments; the futuristic, solemn, Brutalist stone slabs erected during the communist era in the former Yugoslav republics, arrestingly photographed in luminous 16mm black-and-white. The filmmaker conjures a world of surreal and phantasmagorical monuments, once intended as symbols of unity and brotherhood, now abandoned beacons...
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