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Under a White Sky
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AND BARACK OBAMA AS A SUMMER READ Meet the biologists trying to save the world's rarest fish; the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; the researchers trying to develop a 'super coral'; and the physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most important writers on the environment. Here she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the natural world and asks - can we save the natural world in time?
The Wolf of Dalriada
‘Gaelic calls spin a web through the mist in arcs of soft sound. Fear unsteadies the unseen flocks on the scrub heather hillside as men and dogs weave a trap around them in the darkling night. Once the flocks are penned, then the lanterns are turned towards the south. The watchers wait in silence.’ It is 1793... As Europe watches the French Revolution’s bloody progress, uneasy Scottish landowners struggle to secure their wealth and power. And, in Dalriada – the ancient Kingdom of Scotland – fractured truths, torn loyalties and bloody atrocities are rife. Can anyone ride the maelstrom of these dangerous times? Only, it seems, Malcolm Craig Lowrie – the legendary Wolf of Dalriada. ...
Collected Biographies
Collected Biographies provides descendant reports for the Barns, Gates, Montgomery, Nye, Pierce, Rose, and Rowland families, the earliest of which date back to the seventeenth century. About the Author John H. Rowland is a retired professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Wyoming, where he taught for thirty-five years. He also taught at the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Nevada in Reno as well as visiting positions held at Brown University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Systems Development Cooperation in Santa Monica, California. He grew up in State College, Pennsylvania where his father was a professor of accounting at Penn State. Through activities in the Boy Scouts, he became interested in back-packing, cannoning, and downhill skiing. In Laramie he became fascinated with tennis and competed in many tournaments in Wyoming and Colorado.
The Gates Ajar
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Reform and Revolution
The author made use of recently available collections of personal letters and documents of Progressive reformer Raymond Robins in the papers of his sister, Elizabeth Robins, at the Fales Library of New York University to develop this complete analysis of Robins and his work.
The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Friends' Library
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Crook Chronicles: The Descendants of Henry & Margareth Crook - Volume 1
A genealogical compilation of the descendants of Henry & Margareth Crook and their seven children. The couple was married circa 1812 in South Carolina and by 1828 could be found in Rankin County, Mississippi. Many of the descendants are traced to the present, including biographies and photographs when available.
