King, Dean
Summary: "In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUIR, JOHN KINConrad, Vicki
Summary: "The Florida Everglades are made up of nine different ecosystems supporting an astonishing variety of wildlife-panthers, manatees, snails, frogs, and a rainbow of bird species. But for years, the Everglades were threatened. They needed a voice to speak up for them. Marjory Stoneman Douglas became that voice. Her book "A River of Grass" helped the world see the irreplaceable beauty and value of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUCoulter, Ann H.
Summary: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter attacks the immigration issue head-on, flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity," and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants -- all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that's tearing the country apart....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 COUSandalow, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320 SandaSproule-Jones, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: UBC Press 2002
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Summary: "An account of a former Republican political activist's horror as the party he loves becomes the party of Trump"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 MILSummary: This edition is the most up-to-date and comprehensive source for Environmental Resources and Statistics. Section I: Resources, provides detailed contact information for thousands of information sources, including Associations & Organizations, Awards & Honors, Conferences, Foundations & Grants, Environmental Health, Government Agencies, National Parks & Wildlife Refuges, Publications, Research...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey House Publishing 2017
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 363.7 ENVBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: An extraordinary and timeless biography that looks at the influence the natural world played on Theodore Roosevelt. Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his environmental values.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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Summary: "An adaptation of Douglas Tallamy's book Nature's Best Hope, but written for a middle school level readership"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2023
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Summary: During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the whole messy truth about the legacy of last century's big dam building binge has come to light. What started out as an arguably good government project has drifted oceans away from that original virtuous intent. Governments plugged the nation's rivers in a misguided attempt to turn them into revenue streams. Water control projects'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Patagonia 2023
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Summary: "In the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system. But the drift toward authoritarianism in red states has far deeper roots. We now have a country where tens of millions of people live under regimes that have spent years starving education and health care, empowering polluters, engaging in voter suppression, and neglecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 KLELinden, Eugene
Summary: "From a writer and climate-change expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant big-picture reckoning with the reasons for our shocking failure to this point, focusing on the malign power of key business interests, and arguing that those same interests could flip this story very quickly, if a looming economic catastrophe doesn't happen first. Eugene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 LINSummary: Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIVBegala, Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BEGGingrich, Newt.
Summary: The former Speaker of the House of Representatives examines the need for change in health care, immigration, energy and environmental policy, transportation, and national security, and discusses the difficulties politicians from both parties have in implementing new agendas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.60973 GINVan Rossum, Maya K.
Summary: "We have reached a critical tipping point in our fight for the environment: Corporations profit off climate change, natural disasters devastate homes, and the most vulnerable suffer the health effects of pollution. Yet our laws are designed to accommodate this destruction rather than prevent it. Without government support, it's no wonder people feel powerless. But there is a solution. In The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disruption Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 VANWalmsley, Naomi
Summary: Young children will be immersed in imaginative, messy play and crafts, while older ones can work on more complex activities like stone tool making and sourcing water. Whether in an organized setting, a group of friends or a family outing, the fun-filled games will build confidence, bonding and result in happy children. Entertaining anecdotes from the authors' own experience of surviving in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd. 2018
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Summary: "A timely and powerful chronicle of a generation's great civil rights battle as witnessed through the experiences of five young undocumented immigrants fighting to become Americans. We often call them DREAMers: young people who were brought or sent to the United States as children. They attend our local schools; work jobs that contribute to our economy. Some apply to attend university here,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 WIDFranken, Al.
Summary: Satirist Al Franken examines the political right, and uses their own words against them, taking on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 324 FRAHeos, Bridget.
Summary: "This hard-hitting look at climate change tackles the past, present, and future of global warming, examining the effects it's having across the world, the politics behind denial, and the ways in which we can all work to lessen the harsh effects of our warming world. Perfect for young environmentalists looking to learn about the ways in which we can take action against global warming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363.7 HEORabb, Steven
Summary: "If the Founding Fathers surveyed our nation today and together composed a single speech to America, what would they say? The prologue begins to answer that question as it chronicles a current-day reunion of America's Founding Fathers at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Through a stroke of Providence, the Founders have assembled once again to take up their pen and save the country they love....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty For All Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic RabbRobertson, Joanne
Summary: "A translation of The Water Walker into Anishinaabemowin. The book contains both Anishinaabemowin and English. The Water Walker is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother who walked around all of the Great Lakes to protect our water."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2019
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Summary: "An urgent call to protect America's public lands, told through New York Times bestselling author David Gessner's American road trip with our greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, as his guide"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.78 GESWright, Deborah Rowan
Summary: "Rather than continue to focus on discrete, geographically bounded bodies of water, ocean advocate and marine-policy researcher Deborah Wright urges a Plan Sea, which reimagines the oceans as the continuous ecosystem it is, not disconnected buckets of salt and plankton. This book proposes that the global marine environment be protected under the precautionary principle. It argues that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2020