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Into the Raging Sea
Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR NON FICTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
ONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS...
by María García Hurtado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Realizar y distinguir los procedimientos de limpieza y desinfección de las zonas de trabajo, instalaciones, maquinaria y equipos de producción. Reconocer las medidas de higiene personal y general relacionadas con el trabajo para evitar riesgos de alteración o deterioro de los productos alimentarios....
Land of Plenty
A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
**Golden fields, ripening apples, lowing cattle: our idea of the landscape has been shaped by agriculture, as has the land itself. But in a fast-changing world, how does the great British countryside continue to provide the food we eat?**Most people living in Britain today must go back several generations...
Disaster Planning for Libraries
Process and Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Libraries are constantly at risk. Every day, many libraries and their collections are damaged by fire, flooding, high winds, power outages, and criminal behaviour. Every library needs a plan to protect its staff, sites and collections, including yours. Disaster Planning for Libraries provides a practical...
Making Parks Work
Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Mscientists and researchers working in tropical areas are convinced that parks and protected areas are the only real hope for saving land and biodiversity in those regions. Rather than giving up on parks that are foundering, ways must be found to strengthen them, and Making Parks Work offers a vital...
The Elements of Power
Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate of our planet depend on them. These metals have become the building...
by Florencia Ramirez
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Experts predict two-thirds of people living on this planet in 2030 will experience water scarcity, a situation expected to result in the deaths of millions and an unprecedented rise in military conflicts. Can we as individuals hope to have any effect on the global scale of water misuse?
Yes,...
Thunder & Lightning
Weather Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Note: This eBook file contains many richly detailed full-color images and makes use of unconventional page layouts. Because of this, readers will be required to zoom in on each page to read the text and see the finer detail of the artwork. [It has not been optimized for devices that display only in...
by なかせよしみ
Language: Japanese
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Language: Japanese
Release Date: June 2, 2013
われわれは炭素。はじめは宇宙を漂っていた…。
炭素原子を主役に語った地球史。CO2と地球の関係を判り易く解説。 2008年2月に自費出版で発行の短編読切り漫画。
by Alan Davidson, John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Fleur's an unusual superhero because she's a hen - a free ranging secret agent who's given a mission to release hundreds of her sisters from their grim prison camp. Fast moving action and humour abound in this classic satire. First published in 1995 and still in print. Wonderful cartoon-style illustrations...
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
**The New York Times bestseller.
"This book is full of wonders...Loose teeth, chewing gum, it all becomes noble, almost holy, under Knausgaard’s patient, admiring gaze. The world feels repainted.”
—The New York Times**
From the author of the monumental My Struggle series,...
Alive!
Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People Who Survived Deadly Tornadoes, Avalanches,Shipwrecks, and More
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Alive! is a heart-stopping collection of survival stories from the archives of Reader’s Digest’s ‘Drama in Real Life’ series. Editors have mined the Reader’s Digest archives to bring readers Alive! Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People Who Survived Deadly Tornadoes, Avalanches, Shipwrecks...
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter
2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world...
by Henry Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...