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Author
Publisher
Big Kid Science
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"Únete a Max cuando despega en su nueva y apasionante aventura, esta vez en compañía de los astronautas que realizan la primera misión con tripulación humana a Marte. Equipado con un traje espacial especialmente diseñado, Max olfatea para descubrir indicios de vida microscópica en Marte. ¿Tendrá éxito?"--Dust jacket.
Come with Max as he takes off on his next exciting science adventure, this time joining astronauts on the first human mission...
Author
Publisher
Cicerone
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Known as 'the Roof of the World', Tajikistan is one of the most mountainous countries on Earth, with 93% of its landmass considered mountainous territory. This is where the mighty Himalaya meet the Tian Shan, Karakoram and Hindu Kush, and a centuries-old network of trails criss-crosses the remote terrain, linking isolated villages and shepherds' camps. Although infrastructure is fragile and tourism in its infancy, this Central Asian nation presents...
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there. When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lost-but millions of heroes rose to the challenge. In such a far-reaching conflict, not many of the stories of these heroes, both human and alien, have a chance to become legend. This collection...
164) Aquarela
Language
Russian
Description
A deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Filmed at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth's most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia's Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela's mighty Angels Falls, water is the main character, with director Victor Kossakovsky...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The interior of Antarctica is an utterly pristine wilderness; a desolate landscape of ice, wind, and rock; a landscape so unfamiliar as to seem of another world. This place is known to only a handful of early explorers and the few scientists fortunate enough to have worked there. Edmund Stump is one of the lucky few. Having climbed, photographed, and studied more of the Transantarctic Mountains than any other person on Earth, this geologist is uniquely...
Author
Publisher
Polity Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their beauty, their mysteries and their strange power of attraction. Part-algae and part-fungus, lichens call into question our customary ways of classifying forms of life, and allow us...
167) Revolutionary wealth
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Social analysts Alvin and Heidi Toffler turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. This book is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But 21st-century wealth, they argue, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. They write about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to...
Series
Among the Victorians and modernists volume 5
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From a growing awareness of the depletion of energy resources and the perils of environmental degradation to the founding of self-sufficient communities and the establishment of the National Trust, the concept of sustainability began to take on a new importance in the Victorian period. An emerging sense of the fragility and instability of human and natural resources, and the deeply complex interweaving of the two, led many Victorians to consider how...
Series
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Third Doctor and Jo Grant face the combined might of the Daleks and Master in two classic 1973 adventures. Frontier in Space - (6 eps.) In the year 2450 the Doctor is arrested as a spy as the fragile peace between Earth and Draconia is threatened. Planet of the Daleks - (6 eps.) The TARDIS arrives on the inhospitable planet of Spiridon, which is hiding a terrible secret about the Doctor's oldest enemy.
Author
Publisher
Albin Michel
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Français
Description
"Over the past century, humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little, more people die from old age than from infectious diseases, and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonald's than from...
171) Melancholia
Author
Publisher
Porto Editora
Pub. Date
setembro de 2022.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Ao longo de um ano, entre um encontro literário na Póvoa de Varzim e o início da pandemia, ninguém soube do paradeiro de Cristina Pinho Ferraz, escritora extravagante, premiada e temida. Até que, nos jardins românticos do Palácio de Cristal, no Porto, a coberto da copa das árvores, apareceu um corpo enterrado sob a terra, dividido em várias partes. Porém, a nova investigação do inspetor Jaime Ramos (que entretanto fora substituído na...
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This is one confusing animal. Related to the rhinoceros, called a mountain cow, and with a flexible nose like an elephant, Baird's tapirs have to be seen to be believed.
The endangered California condor has a new, and out-of-state home: the Vermilion Cliffs of Arizona.
Short story discussing the odd creature that is the duck-billed platypus. Researcher Alberto Vale captures a live platypus and collects data.
Once facing extinction in Japan due...
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