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Author has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls).

Stranded for six months in the Rocky Mountains following an airplane crash, a 15-year-old boy is taken in by an old hermit who teaches him the ways of the wilderness.

This book is a passionate call to action from one of the leading voices in the global struggle for universal access to the earth's most vital elementa sequel to the acclaimed Blue Gold. In their international bestseller Blue Gold, Maude Barlow and co-author Tony Clarke exposed how a handful of corporations are gaining ownership and control of the earth's dwindling water supply, depriving millions of people around the world of access to this most basic...

"In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires-and a stark exploration of our dawning era of climate catastrophes"--

An examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives.

Explains how people have disrupted ecological chains, and what should be done now to protect our natural resources.

From Bear Dens to the Oval Office is an insiders view of the challenges managing national parks through a collection of true stories involving wildlife management, search and rescue, educational services, amusing visitor incidents, and land conservation projects to improve national parks. During his career, the author met or hosted numerous dignitaries including President Clinton, President Obama (and the First Family), the Emperor and Empress of...