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xv, 269 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
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English
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John Crocker spent eight months in the Gombe forest working with Jane Goodall. He would follow families of wild chimpanzees and learn the fundamental behavioural traits of these chimps as they raised their offspring. Upon returning home and becoming a doctor, Crocker found himself incorporating the lessons he learned into his work as a father and physician.
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xxx, 240 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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This book is a call to action for those seeking to live extraordinary lives and bring about transformational change. When National Geographic Chairman Jean Case set out to investigate the core qualities of great change makers, past and present, from inventors to revolutionaries, she found five surprising traits all had in common. They weren't wealth, privilege, or even genius. It was that all of these exceptional men and women chose to make a "big...
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xiv, 511 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Druker discusses how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world's food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, hundreds of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have systematically contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of its products--and get them onto our dinner plates.
11) Elephant family
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 x 16 cm.
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English
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Follows a herd of elephants through the round of its daily activities and explores the relationship between members.
12) Doctor White
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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Every day, a small white dog goes to the hospital to visit sick children and help them recover.
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258 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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Español
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"Es inútil negarlo: vivimos en una era realmente difícil. Una pandemia global, una crisis climática que no deja de empeorar, conflictos armados, desigualdad económica creciente... Ciertamente, sentir esperanza cuando el mundo tiene retos tan complejos puede parecer una proposición difícil, ingenua, incluso utópica. Pero sin duda es necesarísima para hallar nuevos caminos propicios para la humanidad y el resto de los habitantes del planeta....
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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World-renowned naturalist and UN Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall offers a nondenominational prayer for peace and equality that emphasizes the effect that humans have on the Earth and all its creatures.
"Jane Goodall is a world-renowned naturalist who brings her passion and her quest for understanding between all the Earth's creatures to the fore in this beautiful and affecting prayer for world peace. She asks us all to rise above our dogmas, to bring...
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1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jane Goodall returns to the Gombe Stream Research Station in Tanzania to visit the chimpanzees she has known for 43 years. However, when she arrives she finds that there is trouble among the chimpanzees.
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xvi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"[A] compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating details and anecdores, it traces twists and turns in our construction of primate knowledge over five hundred years. Chris Herzfeld outlines the development of primatology and its key players and events, including well-known long-term field studies, notably the pioneering...
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xvii, 339 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
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English
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"There is perhaps no population of U.S. carnivores better studied than the wolves of Yellowstone. These iconic predators were reintroduced to the park in 1995, having been hunted nearly to the brink of extinction. From 1995 to 1997, 41 wild wolves from Canada and northwest Montana were released in to the park, and in the intervening decades scientists followed their every move-from predation to mating to wolf-pup play. The Yellowstone reintroduction...
18) Jane
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the...
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