Search Results: Returned 16 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 16
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-- Ten plants that shook the world[2013], Juvenile, Annick Press Call No: 581.6 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Profiles ten plants that have had an impact on world history, from chocolate and tea to corn and papyrus. Details the international impact of each of these plants and considers how our lives today would be different without them.
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-- Ten plants that shook the world[2013]., Juvenile, Annick Press Call No: 581.63 Richardson Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Profiles ten plants that influenced human history, including cotton, sugar, rubber, and potatoes.--
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c2003., HarperResource Call No: 578.09 7 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A field guide to North American wildlife covers the mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, trees, wildflowers, and other flora and fauna that make up the continent.
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[1985], Knopf Call No: 574.5 2652 0978 Edition: A Chanticleer Press Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Audubon Society nature guides
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2018., Juvenile, Nomad Press Call No: 904 CUMMINGS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Mystery & mayhemSummary Note: Presents a series of true stories about disasters caused by eruptions and explosions, such as the volcano of Indonesia or the disaster of Chernobyl.
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2013., Broadway Books Call No: 363.17 Ive Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Full body burden is Kristen Iversen's story of growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets -- both family secrets and government secrets. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what they made at Rocky Flats -- best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities. As this memoir unfolds, it reveals itself as a brilliant work of investigative journalism -- a shocking account of the government's sustained attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic and radioactive waste released by Rocky Flats, and of local residents' vain attempts to seek justice in court. Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut beautifully written book promises to have a very long half-life -- P. [4] of cover.
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2005., Greenhaven Press Call No: 615 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History of drugs
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2005., Greenhaven Press Call No: 616.863 WIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The history of drugsSummary Note: Presents a series of essays that address the use of hallucinogens such as LSD and other psychedelic agents and discusses their origin, the CIA's experimentation with LSD, the hippie movement of the 1960s, and contemporary views of hallucinogens. addiction, and more.
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2003., Heinemann Library Call No: 974.7 STE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Heinemann state studiesSummary Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index. Describes the diverse habitats of New York state and the many animals and plants that live there, including those which are now extinct or endangered.
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2003., Heinemann Library Call No: 974.7 STE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Heinemann state studiesSummary Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index. Describes the diverse habitats of New York state and the many animals and plants that live there, including those which are now extinct or endangered.
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[1985]., Knopf Call No: 574.92 MCC Edition: A Chanticleer Press ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Audubon Society nature guides
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2012., Juvenile, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: 580.75 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tigers, drowning, fever, and murder: in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, explorers and scientists risked their lives searching for new and unusual plants.
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1992., Juvenile, Dorling Kindersley ; distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co. Call No: 591.52 642 Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: Look closerSummary Note: Describes various animals that live on or in trees, including the butterfly, woodpecker, and tree frog.
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[1985], Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: 574.909 52 0978 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Audubon Society nature guides
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[1985], Knopf Call No: 574.5 26325 097 Edition: A Chanticleer Press Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Audubon Society nature guides