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- How recycling works / by Barker, Geoffrey,1963-;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.Paper, metal, and glass are all commonly recycled items. Most cities have a recycling program in place to make it easier for residents to contribute items to the process. But waste is still a big problem! Readers will be encouraged to reduce, reuse, and recycle containers and items that they are done using or have used up. Science and social studies content offers a look at what happens to each material as it s recycled, including the cool process of composting food and other organics. From fact boxes highlighting the ecological issues surrounding waste and recycling to sidebars giving up-close information about more technical topics, the knowledge readers will gain can help them be better informed about how their actions and the waste they produce affect Earth. Full-color photographs will drive home the importance of reducing landfills, as well as amaze readers at what recycling can create.345
- Subjects: Recycling (Waste, etc.);
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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- How renewable energy works / by Barker, Geoffrey,1963-;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.Homes and businesses around the world have solar panels to harness the sun s energy for electricity. But even more remarkably, NASA powered an airplane using solar power in 2001! Achievements in renewable energy are encouraging as the world s reserves of oil, natural gas, and coal continue to be depleted. Readers will learn the state of nonrenewable resources on Earth in addition to information about the renewable energy technology that will power cars and homes in the future. Discussion of greenhouse gases and climate change provide readers with basic knowledge about the changing needs of Earth. Detailed sidebars and fact boxes augment science and social studies information, offering readers both pros and cons of solar, wind, and water energy, among others. Colorful photographs will further engage readers with these important topics as they begin to form opinions using their new knowledge.345
- Subjects: Renewable energy sources;
- Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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- Discover Pakistan / by Barker, Geoff,1963-(CARDINAL)492171;
Includes bibliographical references (page 32) and index.Discovering Pakistan -- Landscape and climate -- Population and health -- Settlements and living -- Family life -- Religion and beliefs -- Education and learning -- Employment and economy -- Industry and trade -- Farming and food -- Transportation and communications -- Leisure and tourism -- Environment and wildlife -- Glossary.Accelerated Reader AR
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- Poems to read : a new favorite poem project anthology / by Pinsky, Robert.(CARDINAL)170987; Pinsky, Robert.(CARDINAL)170987; Dietz, Maggie.(CARDINAL)657572;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331) and index.
- Subjects: Poetry; English poetry.; American poetry.;
- Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 13
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- St. James guide to Black artists / by Riggs, Thomas,1963-(CARDINAL)210287;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-597) and index.Carl Abrahams -- Tayo Adenaike -- Terry Adkins -- Aleijadinho -- Tina Allen -- Charles Alston -- Amalia Amaki -- Emma Amos -- Benny Andrews -- Emanoel Araujo -- Octavio Araujo -- Pastor Argudin y Pedroso -- William Ellisworth Artis -- Ellsworth Ausby -- Herman "Kofi" Bailey -- Malcolm Bailey -- James Ball -- Antonio Bandeira -- Ellen Banks -- Henry Bannarn -- Edward Bannister -- Jose Barbosa -- Ernie Barnes -- Richmond Barthe -- Jean-Michel Basquiat -- Gloretta Baynes -- Romare Bearden -- Phoebe Beasley -- Gwendolyn Bennett -- Rigaud Benoit -- Wilson Bigaud -- John Biggers -- Camille Billops -- Willie Birch -- Robert Blackburn -- Betty Blayton-Taylor -- Skunder Boghossian -- Leslie Bolling -- Shirley Bolton -- Frank Bowling -- David Bustill Bowser -- David Boxer -- Sonia Boyce -- William Ernest Braxton -- Edgar Brierre -- Murat Brierre -- Karl Broodhagen -- Everald Brown -- Grafton Tyler Brown -- Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. -- Vivian Browne -- Beverly Buchanan -- Jimoh Buraimoh -- Selma Burke -- Calvin Burnett -- Millie Burns -- Margaret Burroughs -- David Butler -- Carole Byard -- Sokari Douglas Camp -- Elmer Simms Campbell -- Arthur Carraway -- Carol Ann Carter -- Nanette Carter -- Yvonne Pickering Carter -- George Washington Carver -- Yvonne Parks Catchings -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Eddie Chambers -- Dana Chandler -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Albert V. Chong -- Claude Clark -- Ed Clark -- Irene Clark -- LeRoy Clark -- Robert Colescott -- Houston Conwill -- Eldzier Cortor -- Raimundo da Costa e Silva -- Ernest Crichlow -- Allan Rohan Crite -- Emilio Cruz -- Manuel da Cunha -- Alonzo Davis -- Bing Davis -- Charles Dawson -- Roy DeCarava -- Avel DeKnight -- Beauford Delaney -- Joseph Delaney -- Nadine DeLawrence -- Henry DeLeon -- James Denmark -- Murry DePillars -- Milton Derr -- Rashid Diab -- Thorton Dial -- Mestre Didi -- Jeff Donaldson -- Aaron Douglas -- Robert M. Douglass, Jr. -- John Dowell -- David Driskell -- Robert S. Duncanson -- John Dunkley -- Edouard Duval-Carrie -- Felix Eboigbe -- William Edmondson -- Melvin Edwards -- Uzo Egonu -- El Anatsui -- Ibrahim El Salahi -- Erhabor Ogieva Emokpae -- Ben Enwonwu -- Tomas Esson -- Minnie Evans -- Frederick Eversley -- Lamidi Fakeye -- Malaika Favorite -- Mhlaba Zwelidumile Mgxaji Feni -- Amos Ferguson -- Thomas Fleet, slave of -- Sherman Fleming -- Frederick Flemister -- Agboola Folarin -- L'Merchie Frazier -- Allan Freelon -- Robert Freeman -- Roland Freeman -- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller -- Reginald Gammon -- Herbert Gentry -- Milton George -- Sam Gilliam -- Ablade Glover -- Christopher Gonzalez -- Paul T. Goodnight -- Russell Gordon -- Rex Gorleigh -- Gladys Barker Grauer -- Renee Green -- Jefferson Eugene Grigsby, Jr. -- David Hammons -- James Hampton -- Marvin Harden -- Inge Hardison -- John Wesley Hardrick -- Edwin Harleston -- William A. Harper -- Michael D. Harris -- Bessie Harvey -- Maren Hassinger -- Cynthia Hawkins -- Palmer Hayden -- Vertis Hayes -- Benjamin Hazard -- Barkley Hendricks -- Janet Olivia Henry -- Leon Hicks -- Freida High -- Lubaina Himid -- Adrienne Hoard -- Geoffrey Holder -- Alvin Hollingsworth -- Charnelle D. Holloway -- Varnette Honeywood -- Earl J. Hooks -- Humbert Howard -- Mildred Howard -- Julien Hudson -- Manuel Hughes -- Margo Humphrey -- Richard Hunt -- Clementine Hunter -- Hector Hyppolite -- Ovia Idah -- Harlan Jackson -- May Howard Jackson -- Oliver L. Jackson -- Suzanne Jackson -- Martha Jackson-Jarvis -- Wadsworth A. Jarrell -- Wilmer Jennings -- Leandro Joaquim -- Malvin Gray Johnson -- Sargent Claude Johnson -- Stephanie A. Johnson -- William H. Johnson -- Joshua Johnston -- Serge Jolimeau -- Ben Jones -- Lois Mailou Jones -- Napoleon Jones-Henderson -- Barbara Jones-Hogu -- Tam Joseph -- Kapo -- Kofi Kayiga -- Paul Keene -- Souleymane Keita -- Mohammad Omer Khalil -- Bodys Isek Kingelez -- Gwen Knight -- Khalid Kodi -- Vincent Kofi -- Laura Jean Lacy -- Wifredo Lam -- Artis Lane -- Doyle Lane -- Akinola Lasekan -- Christian Lattier -- Jacob Lawrence -- Hughie Lee-Smith -- James Lewis -- Joseph Lewis -- (Mary) Edmonia Lewis -- Norman Lewis -- Samella Lewis -- Georges Liautaud -- Glenn Ligon -- Arturo Lindsay -- Jules Lion -- Thomas Lloyd -- Jon Lockard -- Juan Logan -- Ed Love -- Al Loving -- Maria Magliani -- Gregory Maloba -- Edna Manley -- Kerry James Marshall -- Richard Mayhew -- Valerie Maynard -- Manuel Mendive -- Yvonne Cole Meo -- Tom Miller -- Lev Mills -- Priscilla Mills -- Moke -- Evangeline Montgomery -- Ronald Moody -- Philip Moore -- Scipio Moorhead -- Clarence Morgan -- Norma Morgan -- Keith Morrison -- Archibald Motely -- Thomas Mukorobgwa -- Abdias do Nascimento -- Teixeira Nash -- Iba N'Diaye -- Nefertiti -- Senga Nengudi -- Valente Malangatana Ngwenya -- Joseph Norman -- Amir Nour -- Philome Obin -- C. Uche Okeke -- Asiru Olatunde -- Ademola Olugebefola -- Omari Ra -- Aina Onabolu -- Mary Lovelace O'Neal -- Bruce Onobrakpeya -- Ouattara -- Hayward Oubre -- John Outterbridge -- Joe Overstreet -- William Pajaud -- Gordon Parks -- Marion Perkins -- James Phillips -- Delilah Pierce -- Elijah Pierce -- Anderson J. Pigatt -- Howardena Pindell -- Adrian Piper -- Keith Piper -- Rose Piper -- Horace Pippin -- Michael B. Platt -- Stephanie Pogue -- Prentice Herman Polk -- Charles Ethan Porter -- James Porter -- Georgette Powell -- Harriet Powers -- Debra Priestly -- Nelson Primus -- Nancy Elizabeth Prophet -- Noah Purifoy -- Martin Puryear -- Rachelle Puryear -- Teodoro Ramos-Blanco -- Helen Ramsaran -- Patricia Ravarra -- Patrick Henry Reason -- Robert Reid -- John Rhoden -- Gary Rickson -- John Riddle -- Faith Ringgold -- Haywood "Bill" Rivers -- Malkia Roberts -- John H.D. Robinson -- Mahler Ryder -- Alison Saar -- Betye Saar -- Robert St. Brice -- Cheri Samba -- Raymond Saunders -- Augusta Savage -- Elizabeth Scott -- John T. Scott -- Joyce Scott -- William Edouard Scott -- Charles Searles -- Charles Sebree -- Gerard Sekoto -- Ahmad Mohammed Shibrain -- Durant Sihlali -- Thomas Albert Sills -- Gary Simmons -- Carroll Simms -- Jewel Woodward Simon -- Lorna Simpson -- Merton Simpson -- William H. Simpson -- Clarissa Sligh -- Albert Alexander Smith -- Al(fred) Smith -- Alvin Smith -- Frank Smith -- Vincent Smith -- William E. Smith -- Gilda Snowden -- Sylvia Snowden -- Genilson Soares -- Amadou Sow -- Therman Statom -- Raymond Steth -- Nelson Stevens -- Renee Stout -- Thelma Johnson Streat -- Richard Stroud -- Robert Stull -- Kaylynn Sullivan Twotrees -- Papa Ibra Tall -- Ann Graves Tanksley -- Henry Ossawa Tanner -- Terciliano, Jr. -- Alma Thomas -- Matthew Thomas -- Mildred Thompson -- Robert Thompson -- Dox Thrash -- Mose Tolliver -- Bill Traylor -- Curtis Tucker -- Yvonne Edwards Tucker -- Leo Twiggs -- Twins Seven-Seven -- Obiora Udechukwu -- Rubem Valentim -- James Van Der Zee -- Ruth Waddy -- S. Irein Wangboje -- Eugene Warburg -- Barbara Ward -- Denise Ward-Brown -- Laura Wheeler Waring -- Gregory Warmack -- Barrington Watson -- Osmond Watson -- Carrie Mae Weems -- Joyce Wellman -- James Lesesne Wells -- Pheoris West -- Rene Westbrook -- Charles White -- Jack Whitten -- Aubrey Williams -- Frank Williams -- Michael Kelley Williams -- Pat Ward Williams -- William T. Williams -- Philemona Williamson -- Ed Wilson -- Ellis Wilson -- Fred Wilson -- John Wilson -- Vernon Winslow -- Beulah Woodard -- Hale Woodruff -- Shirley Woodson -- Richard Yarde.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Dictionaries.; African American artists; Art, Black.; Artists, Black;
- Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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