Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The vanishing face of gaia	James Lovelock	Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called "green" products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In Surviving Gaia's …	OL12284107W
Poseidon's steed	Helen Scales	A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic…	OL13778607W
That Wild Berries Should Grow	Gloria Whelan	Elsa dreads spending the summer at her grandparents' house on Lake Huron, but she discovers the excitement of nature and the richness of friendship.	OL14866621W
Sketching outdoors in spring	Jim Arnosky	Provides drawings of landscapes, plants, animals, and other aspects of nature, accompanied by comments from the artist on how and why he drew them.	OL14922802W
The Usborne Complete First Book of Nature	Alwyne C. Wheeler,Cathy Kilpatrick,Rosamund Kidman Cox,Ruth Thomson,Barbara Cork	Almost all children are fascinated by living things. This book will help them towards a greater understanding and appreciation of the plants and animals around them. The beautifully detailed, inform…	OL14932881W
Where the sunrise begins	Douglas Wood	Reveals the part that each of us plays in the beginning of every day.	OL15002885W
Soft And Smooth, Rough And Bumpy	Dana Meachen Rau	The Amazing Body: The Five Senses Everything we know we learn through our senses. These engaging books take children through the basics of these body systems by using simple language and kid-friendly…	OL15042703W
North America	Kevin Hillstrom	North America, tells the story of this environmental awakening and the continuing problems that the continent faces. It tackles the tough issues, the complex problems, and the political controversies…	OL15058296W
A pocketful of poems	Nikki Grimes	Poems and haiku verses provides glimpses of life in the city.	OL15067192W
The circle of thanks	Joseph Bruchac	Fourteen poems with themes of thanksgiving and appreciation of nature, based in part on traditional Native American songs and prayers.	OL15069307W
Ordinary things	Ralph J. Fletcher	A collection of poems recall the sights and feelings experienced on a springtime walk--from home, through the woods, and back again.	OL15103955W
Plan bee	Susan M. Brackney	Featured recently in major national news stories because they are disappearing at an alarming rate, bees are the unsungand absolutely essential heroes of the food chain. Now they get their due in thi…	OL15106044W
Guinness world records.	Dina Anastasio,Ryan Herndon	For 50 years, Guinness World Records has been collecting cool facts about the world's most amazing record-breakers. In this collection, we focus on the animal and plant kindoms. From the friendliest …	OL15141413W
Pandora's Seed	Spencer Wells	In The Journey of Man, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells traced human evolution back to our earliest ancestors, creating a remarkable and readable map of our distant past. Now, in …	OL15172548W
How Can I Stop Climate Change	Friends of the Earth	Don’t just sit there, do something. But what? How Can I Stop Climate Change? explains what climate change is and what you can do to stop it. Written by the experts at Friends of the Earth, it gives y…	OL15175594W
Out and About	Jo Ellen Bogart	Watch out for winter!	OL15186683W
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm	Roger Deakin	For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal t…	OL15188844W
The Eloise Wilkin treasury	Jane Watson	A collection of stories originally published as Golden Books and illustrated by Eloise Wilkin, including "Baby, Dear," "At Sunset," and "Wonders of Nature." Includes a biographical sketch of Wilkin …	OL15215047W
Giving thanks	Jonathan London	A boy's father celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world through his daily words of thanks and assures his son, who finds it a little embarrassing to thank trees and such, that it become…	OL15286886W
AWWA/WEF Information Management & Technology Conference	Multiple Contributors,AWWA/WEF Information Management & Technology Conference (2004 Baltimore, Md.)	Proceedings of a joint conference of the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation, addressing a variety of subjects relating to water quality management.	OL15297138W