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Author
Publisher
Viking/Rodale
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This young adult version of the companion volume cuts the page count by about a third but preserves the original's cogent message and many of its striking visuals. After explaining that his interest in the environment predates even his mother's reading of Silent Spring aloud to him as a teenager, Gore proceeds to document steeply rising carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere, and then to link that to accelerating changes in temperature and precipitation...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.6 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the other way around? In this groundbreaking work, an evolutionary biologist dismantles racially-based theories and reveals the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. A whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire population. Here is a...
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