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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
First Published in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations ... Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen,...
2) Oil spill!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains why oil spills occur and how they are cleaned up and suggests strategies for preventing them in the future.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Examines America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11 and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked-- we can restore the world and revive America at the same time
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region's beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical landscape of the region but also the psychological landscape, and with it the narratives we compose about ourselves. Exceptional Mountains is a cultural history of the Northwest volcanoes and the...
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