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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands' namesakes--the giant tortoises--as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark...
502) In ascension
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life. Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study...
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After their break from Cyclops and Utopia, Wolverine and half of the X-Men return to Westchester County, New York, where they resurrect Xavier Institute as the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, with Wolverine as Headmaster. The new school will have immediate challenges, however, in the form of Kade Kilgore's new Hellfire Club and a clasic villain.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Scientists estimate that 99% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct. Whoa. So, it's not unreasonable to predict humans are doomed to become fossil records as well. But what could lead to our demise? Supervolcanos? Asteroids? The sun going dark? Climate change? All the above?! Packed with science, jokes, and black and white illustrations, Save the People! examines the worst-case scenarios that could (but hopefully won’t) cause the...
Series
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After destroying Apocalypse, Magneto and his X-Men seek out Weapon X to help fight Sinister and the force he has unleashed. Includes four Age of Apocalypse sories that detail the origin of Generation X, the first meeting of Sabretooth and Wild Child, Weapon X's first run-in with Mariko, and how they survived the threat of nuclar holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Follow Victorian naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace on his intrepid journeys across the globe and find out how he developed his own theory of evolution in this beautiful illustrated gift hardback. In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace's travels in the Amazon Basin and Malay Archipelago led him to discover natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. Darwin's Rival traces Wallace's life from his childhood in the Welsh countryside to his rise...
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This graphic biography highlights [Charles] Darwin's youthful push to become a naturalist--against the wishes of his stern father. It also shares a look at his field research, collaboration, and scientific breakthroughs"--Backcover.
Author
Publisher
Pandion Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From wave-cut rock cliffs and sea caves to gravel beaches and coastal dunes, Californias coastline provides visitors with unparalleled topographical variety and great intellectual challenge. What forces shaped such an extraordinary landscape? Miles O. Hayes and Jacqueline Michel have been mapping the coast of California since the 1980s as part of a larger initiative to protect coastlines around the world from hazardous oil spills. A Coast to Explore...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in the wilds of northwest Canada in the early 1800s, Logan and Victor, two half-brothers with special powers grow up amid violence. Eventually they will become the near-indestructible warriors known as Wolverine and Sabretooth. William Stryker is a sinister government operative whose Weapon X program experiments keep pulling Wolverine back inches Kayla Silverfox shares a peaceful Canadian co-existence with Wolverine as he tries to drop out...
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On Isle Royale, a unique national park more than fifty miles from the Michigan shore and about fifteen miles from Minnesota, a thrilling drama is unfolding between wolves and moose, the island’s ultimate predator and prey. For over sixty years, in what has been known as the longest study of predator and prey in the world, scientists have studied the wolves and moose of Isle Royale and the island’s ecology to observe and investigate wildlife populations....
513) The cruelest cut
Author
Series
Uncanny X-Men the new age volume 2
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An investigation of a series of murders in New York City reveals that the victims were sliced up by adamantium steel blades. If Wolverine didn't do it, who did? Plus, the X-Men discover that the Hellfire Club has been reformed and is even deadlier than before.
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Marooned in Los Angeles by the pandemic, a marine biologist rediscovers the delights and wonders of the natural world in her own backyard"--
"Marooned in Los Angeles by the pandemic, a marine biologist rediscovers the delights and wonders of the natural world in her own backyard. Conservationist and marine biologist Maddalena Bearzi made her career studying the wild creatures of the deep, but when COVID-19 made landfall on the California coast...
516) The mysteries
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns"--
"From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and...
518) Fort Freak
Author
Series
Wild cards volume 21
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Follows the beats and adventures with the sergeants, detectives, and patrol officers of Jokertown's Fifth Precinct, "Fort Freak," where the person seated behind every other desk is not quite human.
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This instantly scored practice test familiarizes candidates with the official entrance exam timing and format, and provides a personalized analysis so students know how to prepare for success on the official exam. The test measures skills, abilities, and knowledge in the core entrance exam subject of Biology. It features 50 biology questions similar to those found on the current HOAE entrance exams.
Author
Series
Ronin Island volume 2
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Hana and Kenichi have been separated, forced to find their own ways back to the Island. Kenichi, cast out in exile, must learn to survive the wilderness on his own without the support his noble upbringing previously provided. Hana must also survive a dangerous foreign environment, as she travels alongside the Shogun's caravan back towards the Island and contends with the cutthroat political in-fighting of the elite."--Provided by publisher.
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