Writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.
Human ecology
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Author:White, JonathanSummary: - Author:Robertson, JoanneSummary:
"This is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother (Nokomis) Josephine Mandamin and her great love for Nibi (Water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi for future generations, and for all life on the...
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Author:Suzuki, DavidSummary: -
Author:Harris, ColeSummary:Describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the 15th century to the late 1860s and early 1870s.
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Off the eastern coast of Inda lies an extraordinary cluster of islands known as the Sundarbans. It is a raw but a beautiful sea--a place of man-eating tigers, river dolphins, huge crocodiles and devistating tides that sweep across the...
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Author:Ghosh, AmitavSummary: - Author:Turner, Nancy J.Summary:
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Author:Parr, JoySummary:Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. If our environment changes at an unsettling pace, how will we make sense of a world that is no longer familiar? One of Canada's premier historians...
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Author:Thistle, JohnSummary:"Explores the ecology and history of the grassland and the people who lived there by looking closely at these eradication efforts. In the claims of 'range improvement' and 'rational land use, ' Thistle uncovers more complicated stories...
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Author:Heinberg, RichardSummary:Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique...
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Author:Jensen, DerrickSummary: - Author:Kolbert, ElizabethSummary:
À travers l’histoire, notre planète a connu cinq grandes extinctions de masse. Les scientifiques estiment aujourd’hui que nous nous dirigeons vers la sixième et la plus dévastatrice des extinctions depuis la disparition des dinosaures...
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Author:Kheraj, SeanSummary:In early December 2006, a powerful windstorm ripped through Vancouver's Stanley Park. The storm transformed the city's most treasured landmark into a tangle of splintered trees and shattered a decades-old vision of the park as timeless...
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Green City: People, Nature, and Urban Places looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations,...
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Author:Suzuki, David T.Summary:This book "takes an unflinching look at where we are at this unprecedented moment in history. It reveals that a clear and present environmental danger is staring us in the face - but there is good news. We still have time to avoid...
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Author:Massie, MerleSummary: -
Author:Wiebe, Sarah MarieSummary:"Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada's densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, members of this Indigenous community report a declining...
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Author:Summary:The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, calls for a critical re-thinking of the nature of our democracy and citizenship. This work...
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