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421) The story of seeds: from Mendel's garden to your plate, and how there's more of less to eat around the world

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"With the growth of genetically modified foods, the use of many seeds is dwindling--of 80,000 edible plants, only about 150 are being cultivated. With a global cast of men and women, scientists and laypeople, and photographic documentation, Nancy Castaldo chronicles where our food comes from, and more importantly, where it is going as she digs deeper into the importance of seeds in our world"--Amazon.com.

422) Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security

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Miller, Todd

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RECIPIENT OF THE 2018 IZZY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

"Every so often a book comes along that can dramatically change, or elevate, one's thinking about a global problem. Much like Naomi Klein's books, Todd Miller's Storming the Wall is such a book and deserves far more attention and discussion."—Izzy Award Judges, Ithaca College

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Named one of the "15 Books on

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423) Sparing nature: the conflict between human population growth and earth's biodiversity

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McKee, Jeffrey Kevin

424) soon vol 2

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425) The songs of trees: stories from nature's great connectors

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Haskell, David George

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WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING

“Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.” —Science Friday

The author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits...

426) Slime: how algae created us, plague us, and just might save us

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Kassinger, Ruth

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Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist. There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant oceans, and coral reefs. Crude oil is made of dead algae, and algae are the ancestors of all plants. Today, seaweed production is a multi-billion...

427) The sixth extinction: an unnatural history

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Kolbert, Elizabeth

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"Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult nonfiction, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the Anthropocene...

428) Silent spring revisited

429) Silent Spring Revisited

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Jameson, Conor Mark

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American scientist and author Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring in 1962. She made vivid the prospect of life without birdsong. But has her warning been heeded?
Fifty years on, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on the growth of environmentalism since Silent Spring was published. His revealing and engaging tale plots milestone events in conservation, popular...

430) Silent spring

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Carson, Rachel

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Sentry edition

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THE CLASSIC THAT LAUNCHED THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT

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"Rachel Carson is a pivotal figure of the twentieth century...people who thought one way before her essential 1962 book Silent Spring thought another way after it."—Margaret Atwood

Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that.

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431) Shinrin-yoku: the Japanese art of forest bathing

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Miyazaki, Yoshifumi

432) shattered sky

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433) The self-sufficient-ish bible: an eco-living guide for the 21st century

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Hamilton, Andy

434) The selected poems of Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell

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This poetry collection about nature, community, and tradition is a stunning primer on the poetic works of the award-winning Kentucky writer, environmentalist, and cultural critic.

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry gathers one hundred poems written between 1957 and 1996. Chosen by the author, these pieces have been selected from each of nine previously published collections. The rich work in this volume reflects the development...

435) Seeds on ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault

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Fowler, Cary

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Closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast global seed bank buried within a frozen mountain. At the end of a 130-meter long tunnel chiseled out of solid stone is a room filled with humanity's precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collection ever assembled: more than a half billion seeds containing the world's most prized crops, a safeguard against catastrophic starvation....

436) seeds of time

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437) Seeds of Change: the living treasure : the passionate story of the growing movement to restore biodiversity and revolutionize the way we think about food

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Ausubel, Ken

438) The secret wisdom of nature: trees, animals, and the extraordinary balance of all living things : stories from science and observation

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Wohlleben, Peter

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Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 3

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"In The Secret Wisdom of Nature, master storyteller and international sensation Peter Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. In this tour of an almost unfathomable world, Wohlleben describes the fascinating interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what...

439) The sea around us

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Carson, Rachel

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National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth’s most precious, mysterious resource—the ocean—with the author of Silent Spring.
With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in 1951 and cemented Carson’s status as the preeminent natural history writer of her time. Her inspiring,...

440) rising tides

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