Автор: John Leben Название: Amy and the Tortoise: How Animals Saved the Planet ISBN: 1667834509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781667834504 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 6647.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Amy and the Tortoise" is an environmental cautionary tale for young readers. Combining vibrant images with compelling storytelling, this book shares our worlds bleak future if humanity does not put a lid on global warming. It is illustrated with Lebens surrealistic imagery, tempering the message with the humorous solutions of technocrats called bald-headed suiters. Although the content is relevant for all ages, the book is aimed at mid-grade kids to raise awareness of the environmental problems that are plaguing our world. The story of "Amy and the Tortoise" was also produced as a movie by John Leben, the author and illustrator. The movie version is also published at the end of the book as a QR code for readers who would also like to watch the movie. Amy, a twelve year old girl, lives under a glass dome and sometimes has to wear a gas mask when the elephants let her go outside. Her outside friend is Gus, a grumpy 100 year old tortoise, who barely survived the ravages of global warming in his younger days. Amy narrates Guss story of environmental disaster when humanity almost destroyed the planet. Gus remembers a worsening environment beset by storms, floods and unbreathable air when technocrats called Bald-Headed Suiters created habitats where people could live. But the Suiters cared little about the planet or the animals that populated it. Their solutions were short-sighted, only focused on the survival of humanity. After the forests burned in the fires of global warming, the Suiters collected the few remaining trees and preserved them under glass domes. They called them Tree Museums. The Suiters did nothing to replant the forests, but, using their Tree Museum technology, they also built villages under giant glass domes. The people survived under the domes, but they felt like prisoners, like the trees in the Tree Museums. With humanity isolated under glass, a funny thing happened... the world began to heal. Humanity, and especially the Bald-Headed Suiters, were like a virus, sickening the planet. The animals, including Gus the tortoise, noticed the change and went to work rebuilding the forests... their homes that were devastated by the fires of global warming. As the new forests grew, the Suiters dreamt of rebuilding their cities and reestablishing their dominance over nature, setting the stage for an epic struggle between the animals and the Suiters. This story, although frightening, is deeply relevant for children. Addressing the climate crisis starts with education and awareness so future generations have the necessary knowledge and resources to come together and save our beautiful planet Earth.
Автор: Lilley Название: Mapping Medieval Geographies ISBN: 1316620271 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316620274 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the connections between geography and cartography during the Middle Ages. Drawing from primary sources, the volume will appeal to historians concerned with visual and textual modes of geographical representation and transmission, as well as the spaces and places of knowledge creation and consumption.
Автор: Gonzalez Joaquin Jay III, Kemp Roger L. Название: Immigration and America`s Cities: A Handbook on Evolving Services ISBN: 0786496339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786496334 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Generations ago, droves of immigrant populations came to the U.S. from Europe and Africa. Now they are arriving mainly from Latin America and Asia. Most are authorized, but there is a large number who are not. While the U.S. Congress, federal, and most state governments, have done little to directly confront pressing immigration and immigrant issues, except for U.S. border areas and ports of entry, public officials and community-based organizations in cities, towns, counties, and other local jurisdictions, have been busily delivering commonsense and pragmatic services to accommodate and incorporate these new members of our American society. This edited volume is a compilation of these municipal level trends, practices, and experiences. It is an easy to read handbook for public officials and citizens on developing good immigrant services.
Автор: Varlik Название: Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World ISBN: 1107013380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107013384 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17266.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies and travellers` accounts, as well as recent scientific research, this book is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.
Автор: Canepa, Matthew P. Название: Two eyes of the earth ISBN: 0520294831 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520294837 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, This title investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires.
Автор: William N Hess Название: ‘Down to Earth` Strafing Aces of the Eighth Air Force ISBN: 184176437X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841764375 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This title covers the Eighth Air Force, which was the only fighting arm in World War II to give ground skills the same classification as aerial victories. It shows just how important a document "Down to Earth" was to the teaching of tyro fighter pilots in heading for action in the ETO. More leading aces were lost to flak whilst ground strafing than to German fighters.
Автор: Emahiser Nicole Название: Order 14133: The Law That Is Saving the Planet ISBN: 1098349164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098349165 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 2357.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In this study, Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations, parameters, and articulations of US and Canadian citizenship that are enacted, renegotiated, and revised in modern literary texts, particularly during periods of emergence and crisis.
Автор: Carnell, Rachel Название: Stewardship and the Future of the Planet ISBN: 103211245X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032112459 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Betts Название: Mobilising the Diaspora ISBN: 110715992X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107159921 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Over half the world lives under authoritarian regimes. For these people, the opportunity to engage in politics moves outside the state`s borders. This book offers the first in-depth examination of the internal politics of transnational mobilisation. Studying Rwandans and Zimbabweans, it exposes the power, interests, and unexpected agendas animating diaspora politics.
Between the late twelfth century and the mid fourteenth, Castile saw a reordering of mental, spiritual, and physical space. Fresh ideas about sin and intercession coincided with new ways of representing the self and emerging perceptions of property as tangible. This radical shift in values or mentalit s was most evident among certain social groups, including mercantile elites, affluent farmers, lower nobility, clerics, and literary figures--middling sorts whose outlooks and values were fast becoming normative.
Drawing on such primary documents as wills, legal codes, land transactions, litigation records, chronicles, and literary works, Teofilo Ruiz documents the transformation in how medieval Castilians thought about property and family at a time when economic innovations and an emerging mercantile sensibility were eroding the traditional relation between the two. He also identifies changes in how Castilians conceived of and acted on salvation and in the ways they related to their local communities and an emerging nation-state.
Ruiz interprets this reordering of mental and physical landscapes as part of what Le Goff has described as a transition from heaven to earth, from spiritual and religious beliefs to the quasi-secular pursuits of merchants and scholars. Examining how specific groups of Castilians began to itemize the physical world, Ruiz sketches their new ideas about salvation, property, and themselves--and places this transformation within the broader history of cultural and social change in the West.
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Автор: Stanislawski Dan Название: Portugal`s Other Kingdom: The Algarve ISBN: 0292741820 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292741829 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 4552.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The geography and culture of an isolated province of Portugal as it first felt the impact of industrialization.
Автор: Agier Michel Название: Borderlands ISBN: 0745696805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745696805 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world.
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