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Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
565 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Description
De un renombrado historiador llega una narrativa innovadora sobre la creacion y evolucion de la humanidad, un bestseller internacional numero uno, que explora las formas en que la biologia y la historia nos han definido y mejorado nuestra comprension de lo que significa ser "humano". Hace cien mil anos, al menos seis especies diferentes de humanos habitaban la Tierra. Sin embargo, hoy solo existe uno: el homo sapiens. Que le paso a los otros? Y que...
Author
Publisher
Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xv, 187 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Description
"From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, brand-new illustrated book for middle-grade readers that looks at the early history of humankind. Even though we'll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry shark, humans are pretty impressive-and we're the most dominant species on the planet. So how exactly did we become "unstoppable"? The answer to that is...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Ekař
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
41 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Description
"Hace decenas de miles de ąos, los humanos viv̕amos como parte de la naturaleza. Fabric̀bamos todo lo que ten̕amos, caz̀bamos o recolect̀bamos toda nuestra comida, y nos guìbamos con las estrellas en el cielo . Una cautivadora mirada sobre nuestro lugar en el mundo desde tiempos prehist̤ricos hasta el d̕a de hoy."--
Author
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Seguro que has experimentado el efecto tranquilizador de la naturaleza. Sin embargo, tal vez no sepas que un simple paseo por el bosque posee un inmenso poder sanador corroborado por la ciencia. Es lo que Clemens G. Arvay, biólogo y escritor, denomina "efecto Biofilia". Las plantas se comunican directamente con nuestro sistema inmunológico y nuestro cerebro inconsciente y, de ese modo, preservan nuestra salud. Es un hecho demostrado científicamente:...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Description
"Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental collapse, humanity asks an artificial intelligence to find a solution. Its answer is simple: remove humans from the ecosystem. Sen Anon is assigned to be a witness for the Department of Transition, recording the changes in the environment as the world begins to rewild. Abandoned by her mother in a cabin somewhere in Upstate New York, Sen will observe the monumental ecological shift known as...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Blood is survival for seventeen-year-old Bly, who lives in the poverty-stricken human villages caught between enemy vampire and witch kingdoms. Most of the time, vampires and witches live in uneasy truce, buying human blood for their food and spells. But for two weeks a year, the ceasefire dissolves, and they hold the Revenant Games. Any human can play in the games for either the witches or the vampires. Alongside life-changing riches, the witches...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xi, 563 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
"A ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy....[This story depicts] the exotic odyssey of Duncan's no-ship as...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (colour), 1 map (colour) ; 29 cm
Description
"A plastic footprint is the metric used to measure how much plastic your lifestyle contributes to our global trash pile, and by understanding the production and prevalence of plastic and measuring your own use, you can begin changing your plastic habits. Your Plastic Footprint sets out to do just that. Science writer Rachel Salt first walks you through the history and science of plastic production, the enormity of our plastic problem and the everyday...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Description
Merry, a small owl, yearns to go on a big adventure like the other birds in the forest and gets her wish when Hark, a Norway spruce, is picked to be the Rockefeller Christmas tree and both Merry and Hark are whisked away from their home. Based on the real-life tale of the tiny owl found in the 2020 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024].
Physical Desc
x, 327 pages : black and white maps ; 25 cm
Description
"H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means— now— to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin...
12) Out of darkness
Publisher
Decal, Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
45,000 years ago, six people searched for a new home in an inhospitable landscape. When night falls, hope turns to fear as they realize they are not alone. Stalked by a terrifying enemy, the group fractures as everyone fights for survival.
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