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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.6 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold
"One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation" (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans,
...2) Desert
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Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, demonstrates how it can reduce stress levels, improve the immune system, and promote health and happiness, and includes more than one hundred photographs from forests around the world.
Author
Publisher
[Helios Press]
Pub. Date
[2016.]
Language
English
Description
"The Holistic Home is based on an original lifestyle concept focused on creating a dynamic, healthy, and thoughtful space within yourself and your home by combining three planes of action-mind, body, and spirit-that result in profound change. The Mind portion covers the psychology of how you dwell; subconscious influences, decorating with intention, and how your emotional issues and challenges manifest in your space. The physical aspects, such as...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Will to Wild is an instruction manual to adventure. Your guide: enthusiastic outdoorswoman Shelby Stanger. Shelby has been teaching folks how to leap into the unknown since she taught her first surf class over twenty years ago. Over the years, she watched many of her students quit their jobs, end dysfunctional relationships, and move across the country for a healthier work-life-balance--all after spending a bit of time in nature. Shelby marveled...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
How we come to feel at home in our towns and cities is what Warnick sets out to discover in This Is Where You Belong. She dives into the body of research around place attachment--the deep sense of connection that binds some of us to our cities and increases our physical and emotional well-being--then travels to towns across America to see it in action. Inspired by a growing movement of placemaking, she examines what its practitioners are doing to...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible...
Publisher
Discovery Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
c2007, 2008
Language
English
Description
An up-close and personal look at one of Antarctica's lesser-known inhabitants: the human. Join Werner Herzog as he shows those amazing individuals who work, play, and struggle to live in some of the world's worst conditions.
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of...
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