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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future"--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"A humorous and engaging nonfiction book about bugs"--
"The praying mantis is the only animal on Earth with one ear--and it's in the middle of its chest. Aphids are born pregnant. Moths can't fly during an earthquake. If you didn't know these things, you soon will. Packed full of jaw-dropping facts, Buzzkill presents the big picture on bugs. You might think ew, gross. Insects are icky. Or scary. Or dangerous. They can be. But there's so much more...
25) Hollow kingdom
Author
Language
English
Description
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®.Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, and S.T. starts to feel like something isn't quite right. His most tried-and-true remedies--from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis--fail...
27) The end of men
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Glasgow, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours he dies. The mysterious illness sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. This is how it begins. The victims are all men. Dr Maclean raises the alarm, but the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe. Threatening families. Governments. Countries. Can they find a cure before it's too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world...
Author
Publisher
Circle of Compassion Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Homo Sapiens has ravaged the earth. Warnings of species extinction and ecosystem collapse are escalating. But while we tremble to see the damage our species has done, we are, at the same time, heading for a massive paradigm shift in human consciousness that can bring us and all earthlings out of these dark times and into a new way of living that works. We are becoming aware of our true heart which sees all life as sacred and interconnected. We are...
32) Homo sapiens
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
None
Description
A film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age. What will remain of our lives after we're gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared. Now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature after being taken from it so long ago. An ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario....
Publisher
8th In Line Productions Pty Ltd. ; Filmfest Limited ; Screen Australia ; Screenwest
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A self obsessed man makes his way to a huge crazy party on the last day of Earth but ends up saving the life of a little girl who is searching for her father. Their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.
40) Once & future giants: what Ice Age extinctions tell us about the fate of earth's largest animals
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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