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2019 was the year of rebellion. It was the year nurses, poets, nine-year olds and grandparents came together to say: we know the truth about climate change – But what words describe this crisis? What words can help our children come to terms with the future they will inherit? Earlier this year, Culture Declares Emergency invited people from all around the world to find those words by writing a letter to the earth. The invitation was open to all...
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With her award-winning cookbooks, Anna Jones blazed the trail of modern and creative vegetable-centered cuisine, and in her new book, she makes cooking mouthwatering meals simpler and greener than ever before. “One: Pot, Pan, Planet” delivers all the goods: delectable recipes that are easy to prepare and that keep sustainability at the center of every dish. And with Jones guiding the way, the variety, and depths of flavors possible using just...
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35 of the World's Leading Thinkers Map Your Path Forward to a Bright Future
This vital book leads us beyond today's crisis-and conflict-prone world to a higher stage of our evolution. We have reached a historic turning point-a "point of bifurcation"-at which we must find new ways to upshift our individual and collective consciousness to ensure the desired resolution of these crises.
Ervin Laszlo and David Lorimer, drawing on their holistic expertise...
4) Pogo Planet
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Pogo Planet by Donald A. Wollheim - Introducing that modest little superman, that shrinking violet of destiny, Ajax Calkins, and a world where you had to hop, in some way, to get where you wanted to go!
As my ship hit the darkness that was the outer atmosphere of Midplanet, I thrilled to the thought that I, Ajax Calkins, had at last achieved my rightful place among the pioneers of space. Even when my ship bounced on the green soil, flew end over...
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Powering Our Planet: How Clean Energy Will Transform the Future
Embark on a visionary journey into the heart of clean energy innovation with "Powering Our Planet." This illuminating book unveils the cutting-edge technologies and sustainable solutions that are shaping a brighter, greener future for our planet.
⚡ The Clean Energy Revolution: Explore the dynamic landscape of renewable energy sources, from solar and wind power to geothermal and...
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Introduce your children to four information books about animals around the world, touching on topics such as migration and animal welfare, plus a bonus animal-themed poetry collection.
· Coral Reefs
· Volcanoes
· Changing Land
· Oceans Alive Bonus track: Mighty Mountains, Swirling Seas
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Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. These adaptations can be truly extraordinary: fish that walk or lay eggs on leaves in mid-air; snakes that fly; flightless birds that graze like deer; and bears that grow hair on...
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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996), born in Brooklyn, NY, was an American astronomer and astrophysicist. His best-known scientific contribution was his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by exposure to light. He assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, which...
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Colm O'Regan grew up on a small farm where his family planted lots of trees and grew most of their own food, but his father - who took Dutch elm disease personally - also happened to burn rubbish out the back and loaded the soil with 10-10-20. Now a father himself, Colm O'Regan tries to do his bit by cycling and recycling, but he still ends up putting his foot in the mulch. Most of us would like to live more sustainable lives, but what's the point...
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Viewed in over 100 countries and selling hundreds of thousands of tickets, Schwartzberg's documentary Fantastic Fungi has brought the mycological revolution to the world stage. This is the film's official companion audiobook, that expands on the documentary's message: that mushrooms and fungi will change your life—and save the planet.
Paul Stamets, the world's preeminent mushroom and fungi expert is joined by leading ecologists, doctors, and explorers...
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In “The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet”, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home.
This book tells the story of an idea that spread from city to city, describing a new way of looking at living that addresses many of the most intractable...
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Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and up into space without missing any must-see sights - or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether you're Lord of the shoestring-budget or Luxe Skywalker - Notes from Small Planets is your pastiche passport through the best worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Your ultimate travel guide to all the must-see locations in the worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy. The perfect...
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"George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years host of This Week and Good Morning America, recounts never-before-told crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy...
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A Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan), exploring the history of the vegan movement and its present-day tensions, grapples with the most fundamental questions of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat?, which results in an eye-opening portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates--and our planet.
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"Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying -- and often failing -- to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home bat invasions, an obsession with online personality tests, and the mortification of taking ballroom dance lessons with her actor husband. She describes hilarious red-carpet fiascos and other observations from the sidelines of fame, while also...
16) The jazzmen
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz--Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie--who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.
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"The story of one woman's remarkable work with a trio of charismatic, endangered bird species-and her discoveries about the devastating threats that imperil them. In Feather Trails, wildlife biologist and birder Sophie A. H. Osborn reveals how the harmful environmental choices we've made-including pesticide use, the introduction of invasive species, lead poisoning, and habitat destruction-have decimated Peregrine Falcons, Hawaiian Crows, and California...
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Empireworld traces the legacies of the British empire across the globe. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound.
"2.6 billion people inhabit former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter-planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound from the spread of Christianity by missionaries,...
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"Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures--the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discovering...
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