This Fragile Earth

Author : Susannah Wise
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473232358

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This Fragile Earth by Susannah Wise Pdf

What would you do to protect your family if the world stopped working? Not long from now, in a recognisable yet changed London, Signy and Matthew lead a dull, difficult life. They've only really stayed together for the sake of their six year old son, Jed. But they're surviving, just about. Until the day the technology that runs their world stops working. Unable to use their phones, pay for anything, even open the smart door to their flat, Matthew assumes that this is just a momentary glitch in the computers that now run the world. But then the electricity and gas are cut off. Even the water stops running. And the pollination drones - vital to the world, ever since the bees all died - are behaving oddly. People are going missing. Soldiers are on the streets. London is no longer safe. A shocking incident sends Signy and Jed on the run, desperate to flee London and escape to the small village where Signy grew up. Determined to protect her son, Signy will do almost anything to survive as the world falls apart around them. But she has no idea what is waiting for them outside the city...

Author : David Remnick,Henry Finder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780063017566

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The Fragile Earth by David Remnick,Henry Finder Pdf

A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book One of the Daily Beast’s 5 Essential Books to Read Before the Election A collection of the New Yorker’s groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change—including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more Just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the Earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind’s heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read now, McKibben’s work is heroically prescient. Since then, the New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face. The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change—its past, present, and future—taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben’s seminal essay “The End of Nature,” the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.

Author : Edward Barbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781108830829

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Economics for a Fragile Planet by Edward Barbier Pdf

As global environmental challenges mount, this book offers a policy blueprint for building a safer, sustainable and more inclusive world.

Author : Kerby Rosanes
Publisher : LOM Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1912785250

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Fragile World by Kerby Rosanes Pdf

With over 50 endangered and vulnerable creatures and landscapes to colour, this book will raise awareness of our fragile world and inspire conservation.

Author : The Xivth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1896559735

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This Fragile Planet by The Xivth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso Pdf

An ethical approach to dealing with the urgent issues of climate change and taking care of our delicate ecosystems. This Fragile Planet features 80 inspiring quotations from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on environment, matched with 120 eye-catching photos and visuals from a dozen professional photographers - all carefully curated and edited by Tibet expert Michael Buckley. The book lays out the vision of His Holiness concerning secular ethics and environmental protection, great respect for all living beings, the importance of interdependence, and the concept of universal responsibility for protecting Mother Earth. Material in the book is as current as Earth Day 2021. The Dalai Lama's 1989 Nobel Peace Prize was the first ever awarded on the basis of environmental protection. Over the decades since, His Holiness has worked tirelessly as an environmental activist, making this one of his key commitments in life. He is a staunch advocate of the value of education of the heart - the need for compassion and ethics, inspiring the coming generations - and has worked closely with educators to realise this vision.

Author : Kenneth Steven
Publisher : Lion Children's Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780745967943

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Stories for a Fragile Planet by Kenneth Steven Pdf

How the Seasons Came to Be The Hunter and the Swan The Saint and the Blackbird The Tale of the Lion Grey-eye and the Whale A Fishy Tale The Panda's Tale Maha and the Elephant The Shepherd and the Stone The Story of the Tower

Author : Charles M. Sell
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1981-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0880700343

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Achieving the Impossible by Charles M. Sell Pdf

Author : Peter Essick
Publisher : Rocky Nook
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Landscape photography
ISBN : 1937538346

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Our Beautiful, Fragile World by Peter Essick Pdf

This book features a career-spanning look at the images of photojournalist Peter Essick while on assignment for National Geographic magazine. In this book, Essick showcases photographs from the most beautiful natural areas in the world and documents contemporary environmental issues, such as climate change and nuclear waste. Our Beautiful, Fragile World takes the reader on a journey around the globe, from the beautiful Oulanka National Park near the Arctic Circle in Finland to the Adelie penguin breeding grounds in Antarctica. Our Beautiful, Fragile World will interest photographers of all skill levels. It carries an important message about conservation, and the photographs provide a compelling look at our environment that will resonate with people of all ages who care about the state of the natural world.

Author : Dana Desonie
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business
ISBN : 9781438105659

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Geosphere by Dana Desonie Pdf

Details how sustainability is gaining ground with individuals, communities, regions, and even nations, and shows readers how they, too, can become involved.

Author : Susan Meissner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451492203

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The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner Pdf

April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear. From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity.

Author : James Raffan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501155383

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Ice Walker by James Raffan Pdf

From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce. Nanurjuk, “the bear-spirited one,” is hunting for seals on Hudson Bay, where ice never lasts more than one season. For her and her young, everything is in flux. From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometers of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu’s ancestors have roamed this great expanse, living, evolving, and surviving alongside human beings in one of the most challenging and unforgiving habitats on earth. But that world is changing. In the Arctic’s lands and waters, oil has been extracted—and spilled. As global temperatures have risen, the sea ice that Nanu and her young need to hunt seal and fish has melted, forcing them to wait on land where the delicate balance between them and their two-legged neighbors has now shifted. This is the icescape that author and geographer James Raffan invites us to inhabit in Ice Walker. In precise and provocative prose, he brings readers inside Nanu’s world as she treks uncertainly around the heart of Hudson Bay, searching for nourishment for the children that grow inside her. She stops at nothing to protect her cubs from the dangers she can see—other bears, wolves, whales, human beings—and those she cannot. By focusing his lens on this bear family, Raffan closes the gap between humans and bears, showing us how, like the water of the Hudson Bay, our existence—and our future—is tied to Nanu’s. He asks us to consider what might be done about this fragile world before it is gone for good. Masterful, vivid, and haunting, Ice Walker is an utterly unique piece of creative nonfiction and a deeply affecting call to action.

Author : Dana Desonie
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Earth sciences
ISBN : 9781438105680

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Oceans by Dana Desonie Pdf

Earth's seas play a tremendous role in the planet's systems: Ocean currents transfer water and heat around the globe. Offering photographs and illustrations, this work shows how protecting the oceans requires protecting the entire planet, and describes the importance of setting aside marine reserves to save vital ecosystems.

Author : Dana Desonie
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : 9781438105635

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Biosphere by Dana Desonie Pdf

Earth's astonishing diversity of life - in coral reefs, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, deep-sea hot springs, and many others - is amazing for its beauty and for the ecosystem services it provides. This book discusses how ecosystems must be set aside, habitats restored, and global warming thwarted.

Author : Lewis Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780684843025

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Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas Pdf

The author's insights about a variety of natural phenomena contribute to our understanding of some of the great medical puzzles of the era. -- Back cover.

Author : Cherie Dimaline
Publisher : DCB
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770864870

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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Pdf

Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden — but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.