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"The real-life answers to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Unruly Places explores the most extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places on the planet. Alastair Bonnett's tour of the planet's most unlikely micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands shows us the modern world from surprising new vantage points, bound to inspire urban explorers, off-the-beaten-trail wanderers, and armchair travelers. He connects what we see on maps...
5) Forests
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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There are many different kinds of forests that have many different kinds of trees. Discover what trees are found in each kind of forest and how dead trees help young trees grow.
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English
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Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution. Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vast infinity. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores, whether it was the Vikings, the...
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National Geographic
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[2017]
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English
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A comprehensive, up-to-date atlas encompasses more than three hundred thematic maps, along with more than six hundred color photographs, illustrations, charts, and graphs, that document the world's natural and cultural wonders.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers...
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What do you do when someone tells you, "It can't be done"?
This is the extraordinary story of three people - an explorer, an engineer and a statesman - who repeatedly proved critics and naysayers wrong.
Roald Amundsen - the Norwegian explorer
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - the greatest engineer the world has ever seen
Teddy Roosevelt - the cowboy turned statesman
Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results reveals the outsized risks and setbacks each faced in...
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On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed....
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Deutsch
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Es ist 2019. In Deutschland und der Welt treten Jugendliche in das Licht der Öffentlichkeit und rufen: Wir streiken, bis ihr handelt!. Fridays for Future ist geboren. Was als Protestaktion einer schwedischen Schülerin begann, wurde binnen weniger Monate zu einer globalen Bewegung. Wer sind diese jungen Menschen? Was sind die Strategien von Fridays for Future? Und warum sind sie erfolgreich? Maurice Conrad ist seit Anfang an dabei: er vertritt die...
18) Earthopolis
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This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennium tour of the world's cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new consequences and opening prospects for new hope. In...
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A journalist explores how our world's borders came to be and how self-proclaimed countries across the globe could change the map. What is a country? While certain basic criteria-borders, a government, and recognition from other countries-seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating investigates what happens in areas of the world that exist as exceptions to these rules. Invisible Countries looks at semiautonomous countries such as Abkhazia, Kurdistan, and...
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Oliver Le Carrer brings us a fascinating history and armchair journey to the world's most dangerous and frightful places, complete with vintage maps and period illustrations in a handsome volume. This alluring read includes 40 locations that are rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity, and death. The locations gathered here include the dangerous Strait of Messina, home of the mythical sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis; the coal town of Jharia,...
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