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xii, 513 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species -- including our own -- out of existence. The answer: reducing gradually and non-violently the number of humans on the planet whose activities, industries and lifestyles are damaging the Earth.
"A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In...
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398 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment...
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Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries. Loyal mentars (artificial intelligences) and robots do most of society's work. The Boutique Economy has made redundant ninety-nine percent of the world's...
4) Elysium
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1 videodisc (approximately 109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
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159 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Concrete believes overpopulation to be an important issue, but does he want to become the spokesperson for a controversial population control program? ... This seventh volume of the Concrete trade editions colects the six-sissue series that made Time.com's Best of 2005 list and garnered creator Paul Chadwick the 2005 Eisner Award for best writer/artist"--Page 4 of cover.
8) Cinder
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Lunar chronicles volume 1
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409 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
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As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
9) Black gold
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In an attempt to save 75,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy, Tadesse Meskela searches for buyers willing to pay a fair price - and inadvertently begins to unravel a tangled web of greed and double-dealing that infiltrates the international trading system.
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