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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.6 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the other way around? In this groundbreaking work, an evolutionary biologist dismantles racially-based theories and reveals the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. A whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire population. Here is a...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
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Language
English
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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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Publisher
Skinned Knee Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A poem that celebrates the interconnectedness of the world and reminds humans to come together to protect the Earth and care for each other. -- Publisher.
A vibrantly illustrated lyrical picture book that celebrates empathy, understanding, and respect. We Are All Connected reminds us that it is up to all of us to care for each other and the earth. When we celebrate differences, stand up for each other and work together, the world is a better place....
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