Heinecke, Liz Lee
Summary: "The Kitchen Pantry Scientist : Ecology for Kids features biographies of 25 leading ecologists, past and present, accompanied by accessible and engaging experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of ecology alive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023
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Summary: All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz must race to warn world leaders before it's too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2015
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Summary: With the planet still under attack by vicious animals, humans begin evolving into a barbaric species that has the power to save civilization--or destroy it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BookShots, Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PATLowman, Margaret
Summary: Foreword / by Sylvia A. Earle -- Ten tips of field biology for every aspiring astronaut -- Prologue: How to see the world tree (and what that means for the forest) -- From wildflower to wallflower : a girl naturalist in rural America -- Becoming a forest detective : first encounter with temperate trees from New England to Scotland -- One hundred feet in the air : finding a way to study leaves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOWMAN, MARGARET LOWMacy, Joanna
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2000
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Summary: Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant always felt worlds away from the white male adventurers she watched explore the wilderness on TV. She dreamed of a future where she could spend sleepless nights under the crowded canopies of the Amazon and the starry skies of the savanna. But as Rae set off on her own expeditions in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Get Lifted Books, a Zando imprint 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Justin, Charles & Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, DOUGLAS SIMWebb, Nick
Contents: Not from Guildford after all -- Finishing school -- St. John's, smokers, networks and friends -- The seedy flats -- The origin of the species -- Making it -- Hearing the music -- Whooshing by -- Hippodust, films and the Telly Saga -- On love -- More books, money and a sense of place -- Last chance to see -- The digital village -- Turtles all the way down -- Twenty-five years on -- Chronology of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, DOUGLAS WEBPatterson, James
Summary: All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it is too late. The attacks are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2012Hempton, Gordon.
Summary: Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton's trek across the United States to find and record the soothing sounds of nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.78 HEMMarkley, Stephen
Summary: In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARMills, Stephanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 MIL1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 333.72 MIL
White, Christopher P.
Summary: "In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they--and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice--will melt far faster than previously imagined. The Melting World...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.312 WHIHeinecke, Liz Lee
Summary: She Can STEM highlights the curiosity, creativity, and perseverance of 50 leading historical and modern physicists, chemists, biologists, and ecologists, pairing each biography with a hands-on project.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2024
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Summary: Describes what it was like to live as a settler in Colonial America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.2 TROPoole, Joyce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5092 POODreilinger, Danielle
Summary: "The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.92 DRESummary: Chronicles the lives of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Masters, a successful OB/GYN, is conducting a secret study of human sexuality. Soon, he meets Virginia Johnson, a former nightclub singer who is now part of the hospital secretarial staff. He enlists her help with his study, and she quickly proves to be an asset to Masters' work. Together, they delve deeper than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASKratt, Martin
Summary: "Meet Chris and Martin Kratt, two brothers who turned a love of animals into an amazing career! They have produced, written, directed, and starred in several PBS series and specials over the years. Most recently, they have become known for PBS's smash hit animated show Wild Kratts. Along the way, they traveled the world and encountered incredible creatures, all while combining science education...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHAGreenspan, Alan
Summary: The former Federal Reserve Board chairman reveals the financial close call that nearly resulted in an economic disaster after September 11, his efforts to safeguard American interests, and the personal and educational history that informed his choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.11092 GREFabiny, Sarah
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the American biologist, whose influential work, "The Silent Spring," inspired worldwide conservation movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CARStone, Tanya Lee
Summary: "An inspiring nonfiction picture book about Rosalind Franklin, the groundbreaking chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA, by the award-winning, bestselling author of Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? and Elizabeth Leads the Way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 FRASummary: Kinsey is a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and journey into the mystery of human behavior. His 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2005