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The Waterberg Plateau is a space where agriculture, conservation, and extraction coexist and intersect. Marcatelli examines the connections between neoliberalism, race, and the environment by showing that racialized property relations around water and land are still recognized and protected by the post-apartheid state to sustain green growth. She argues that the government depicts growth as the best, if not only, solution to inequality. 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This study matter contained in this book is for the apprenticeship of those initiated in the Yoruba religion and those initiated in the religion of the Congo. Since they were initiated in both religious cultures they contract a compromise With the God of the religious cultures they belong, that consist in the intention to cure the physicals and spirituals illness of their godsons and others persons that seek for relief and cure for their illness. This book contains a treasure of knowledge about the kingdom of the plants, holder of an infinite source of energy, Increasing the field of power and work, by teaching them to exploit so valuable source for the good of the human race and the Universe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duran, Armando","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43515451506864,"sku":"1420853864","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/717agk9d_oL._SL1360.jpg?v=1714419047"},{"product_id":"troubled-waters","title":"Troubled Waters","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with what it means to heal when the world is on your shoulders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe world is burning, and Corinne will do anything to put out the flames. After her brother died aboard an oil boat on the Mississippi River in 2013, Corrine awakened to the realities of climate change and its perpetrators. Now, a year later, she finds herself trapped in a lonely cycle of mourning both her brother and the very planet she stands on. She’s convinced that in order to save her future, she has to make sure that her brother’s life meant something. But in the act of honoring her brother’s spirit, she resurrects family ghosts she knows little about—ghosts her grandmother Cora knows intimately.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCora’s ghosts have followed her from her days as a child desegregating schools in 1950s Nashville to her new life as a mother, grandmother, and teacher in Mississippi. As a child of the Civil Rights movement, she’s done her best to keep those specters away from her granddaughter. She faced those demons, she reasons to herself, so that Corinne would never know they existed. Cora knows what it feels like to carry the weight of the world—and that it can crush you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Corrine’s plan to stage a dramatic act of resistance peels back the scabs of her family wounds and puts her safety in jeopardy, both grandmother and granddaughter must bring their secrets into the light to find a path to healing and wholeness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn heartfelt, lyrical prose based on her own family’s history, Mary Annaïse Heglar weaves an unforgettable story of the climate crisis, Black resistance, and the enduring power of love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerfect for fans of Jesmyn Ward, Yaa Gyasi, and Tayari Jones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStand-alone novel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook length: 84,000 words\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIncludes discussion questions for book clubs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Heglar, Mary Annaïse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43711974178992,"sku":"1400235987","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/91N6IWsvWmL._AC_UY218.jpg?v=1718220617"},{"product_id":"lola-plants-a-garden","title":"Lola Plants a Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn this Lola Reads picture book, Lola learns how to plant a flower garden in this simple and sweet story about gardening and patience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter Lola reads a book of garden poems, she wants to plant some flowers. She gets books from the library and chooses her plants. Then Lola and her mommy buy the seeds, make the garden, and mark the rows. Lola finds it hard to wait, but at last the flowers bloom. Now it's time for a party with her friends!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Lola Reads series celebrates family time and togetherness through reading, special activities, and new adventures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"McQuinn, Anna ; Beardshaw, Rosalind","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43714375188656,"sku":"1580896944","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/917DSNsv34L._SY342.jpg?v=1718286956"},{"product_id":"the-nature-journal-a-backyard-adventure","title":"The Nature Journal: A Backyard Adventure","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA charming and nature-filled picture book about a young boy who connects with his busy dad over their love of nature. 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And after looking through his dad’s old nature journals, Tim gets sleepy and goes on some dreamy adventures of his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn imaginative and heartwarming story about the bond between Tim and his dad, and the beautiful adventures that lie waiting in the world, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Nature Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a sweet story of love and nature for the youngest budding explorers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Allen, Savannah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43727635972272,"sku":"0593524934","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/710VpJl9ogL._AC_UY218.jpg?v=1718835153"},{"product_id":"wild-life-finding-my-purpose-in-an-untamed-world","title":"Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“As sensitive and touching as it is urgent . . . 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Dr. Wynn-Grant's richly-told, revelatory journey will surely have remarkable ripples for generations―and have you on the edge of your seat.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAyana Elizabeth Johnson, cofounder Urban Ocean Lab\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Rae Wynn-Grant explores\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ethe ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant always felt worlds away from the white male adventurers she watched explore the wilderness on TV. She dreamed of a future where she could spend sleepless nights under the crowded canopies of the Amazon and the starry skies of the savanna. But as Rae set off on her own expeditions in the wild, she saw nature’s delicate balance in a new light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWild Life\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efollows Rae on her adventures and explorations in some of the world’s most remote locales. Hers is a story about a nearly twenty-year career in the wild―carving a niche as one of very few Black female scientists―and the challenges she had to overcome, expectations she had to leave behind, and the many lessons she learned along the way. 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To create one picture, he takes dozens of photographs, each time focusing the camera on a slightly different part of the subject. Then, using computer software, he combines the images into one perfectly focused composite image. Finally, he cleans up the image pixel by pixel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe result is almost three-dimensional photographs of animals and plants, with such sharpness and brilliance that they appear to leap from the page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCreatures Close Up\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e includes a selection of amazing photographs of flora and fauna -- snakes, frogs, insects, spiders, lizards and other creatures. 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What began for Hugh Fitzsimons as a mission to expose local ecological hazards from hydraulic fracking has turned into a lifelong ache to understand the more complicated story of how his family changed the land inherited from his grandfather, and deeper still, how the land irrevocably changed the family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWater is the lens through which this fifth-generation rancher tells his story. While the discovery of oil in this part of Texas fueled the region's growth, water has the upper hand, determining where people live and how they make their living. Agriculture, ranching, drilling for oil, and now fracking all require water, with each pursuit requiring more and more but giving back less and less to the communities they’ve helped enrich. 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Stay Foolish.” Steve Jobs’s endorsement of these words as his code to live by is fitting; Brand has played many roles, but one of the most important is as a model for how to live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contradictions are striking: A blond-haired WASP with a modest family inheritance, Brand went to Exeter and Stanford and was an army veteran, but in California in the 1960s he became an artist and a photographer in the thick of the LSD revolution. While tripping on acid on the roof of his building, he envisioned how valuable it would be for humans to see a photograph of the planet they shared from space, an image that in the end landed on the cover of his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhole Earth Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the defining publication of the counterculture. 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As Markoff makes marvelously clear, the streams of individualism, respect for science, environmentalism, and Eastern and indigenous thought that flow through Brand’s entire life form a powerful gestalt, a California state of mind that has a hegemonic power to this day. 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As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlong the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author—and from us. 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It appraises current management strategies, assesses the biological and physical effects of climate change on natural systems in Cameroon and designs a planning and management framework for each natural system within the context of global warming. Climate change poses a complex bewildering array of problems for ecosystems. The key question is, what can be done - in addition to efforts to reduce CO2 emissions - to increase the resistance and resilience of these natural systems to climate change? This book seeks to answer the above question by drawing from the vast array of scientific data available on the subject, and which may not be readily available to policy makers, resource planners, resource managers, environmentalists, students of geography, conservation biology and agronomy. It constitutes an important manual for those ready to confront the impacts of climate change. 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