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Bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town and the conflicting forces at its heart - hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. Told through a cast of characters whose...
4) The Lorax
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English
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The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem.
10) Ah, Wisconsin
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[1990]
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136 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
12) Conservation
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2003.
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Describes some of the earth's natural resources, their importance, and how they can be safeguarded.
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English
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Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits.Richard Heinberg's latest landmark work goes to the heart of the...
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"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the "Wood Wide Web." Fungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause...
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2006.
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x, 232 pages, A1, B7, C4, D1 : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm x 35 cm
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English
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Report to identify places to be most important in meeting Wisconsin's conservation and recreation needs over the next fifty years and to determine where protection efforts should be focused.
17) The Lorax
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[2012]
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
18) White heat
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2011.
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English
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Investigating the murder of an adventurist under her watch, half-Inuit Arctic guide Edie Kiglatuk teams up with police sergeant Derek Palliser when she realizes that the victim's tour group was searching for something specific.
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Ames County novels volume 6
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[2014]
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xi, 254 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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2021.
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xii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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"From the veteran New Yorker staff writer and award-winning author of The Experience of Place: an urgent, resounding call to protect half the earth's land-- and thereby millions of its species-- by 2050, that gives us the tools to think big about the planet and our role in conserving it. Beginning in the North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest...
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