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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In many ways the heart of indigenous India, mineral rich Jharkhand is and has been at the core of India's industrial development after Independence. The indigenous Adivasi people of Jharkhand have borne the brunt of what is arguably India's most fundamental developmental conflict, which has pushed them to the verge of extinction as an agricultural people.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this richly narrated and authoritative work--combining environmental and societal history--Giulio Boccaletti begins with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. He describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt. He examines how this sedentary farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, resulted in an explosion...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In comparison to !Kung San: Traditional Life, this video shows some of the dramatic changes in life-style that Ju/'hoansi had experienced by 1986. No longer able to rely on hunting and gathering for subsistence, Ju/'hoansi collect mealie meal welfare, spend money earned from army jobs on alcohol and consumer goods, and live in a crowded area with increased fighting and illness.
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 2
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Max and her CMI friends attempt to use their smarts to find solutions to a water crisis, while a greedy corporation with an eye on capturing Max seems to know their every move.
48) The Hoover Dam
Author
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Hoover Dam traces the incredible story of the colossal structure, from its construction to its important modern-day use#x0;including preventing floods and providing electricity to millions of people. Large color photos, maps, and fact boxes enrich the captivating story, which is sure to excite even the most reluctant readers." --
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ju/'hoan farming communities multiply during the 1980s only to face a new threat. The Department of Nature Conservation wants to create a game reserve on Ju/'hoan territory. People will be forbidden to raise livestock or crops. Instead, Ju/'hoansi will be encouraged to act like "Bushmen" and hunt for the amusement of tourists. Urgent grass roots organizing ensues as the people seek to control their traditional lands.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For thousands of years Ju/'hoansi have lived in the Nyae Nyae region in northeastern Namibia. In the 1950s, most Ju/'hoansi had been exterminated or were dispossessed by white colonists and black farmers, but in Nyae Nyae Ju/'hoansi were still the only permanent inhabitants.
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an endless cycle of drugs, booze, models--repeat. But 10 years in, desperately unhappy and morally bankrupt, he asked himself, "What would the exact opposite of my life look like?" Walking away from everything, Harrison spent the next 16 months on a hospital ship in West Africa and discovered his true calling. In 2006, with no money and less than no...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps. Many are to blame: the EPA,...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"There's Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so "we're all aware that it has a price." But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst--one...
58) The Hoover Dam
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
History of the Hoover Dam.
Series
Reference shelf volume 93, no. 3
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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