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Jordan / by South, Coleman,1948-(CARDINAL)387427;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Geography -- Geographical areas, major cities, climate, water, the Dead Sea, flora and fauna -- History -- Ancient history, Middle age history, the 20th century, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, toward modern times, change of monarchs, new electoral laws -- Government -- Government structure, kings, citizens, and debts, western queens in the desert, minority group representation, law, order, and protection -- Economy -- Mining and manufacturing, agriculture, tourism, jobs, economic problems, transportation, what unemployment figures do not show -- Environment -- Water pollution, air pollution, waste disposal, land degeneration, endangered species, efforts to solve the problems -- Jordanians, population statistics, race and class, dressing, minority groups, attitude toward foreigners -- Lifestyle -- Socializing, cultural attitudes, importance of the family, women's roles, education, health, living quarters -- Religion -- Ancient religions, sunni Islam, the story of Islam, other religions and sects -- Language -- An ancient language, different styles, other differences, the script, body language, other languages -- Arts -- Ancient art, Islam effect on art, music, literature, writers, handicrafts, modern arts, architecture -- Leisure, dining, other activities, sports, cinema, radio, and television -- Festivals -- Weddings, religious festivals, other celebrations, dancing for life -- Food -- Meals, types of food, Arab fast food, in a Jordanian kitchen, daily shopping -- Map of Jordan -- About the economy -- About the culture -- Time line -- Glossary -- Further information --Bibliography -- Index."Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Jordan"--Provided by publisher.Accelerated Reader AR

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Jordan / by South, Coleman,1948-(CARDINAL)387427;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142) and index.Introduction -- Geography -- Geographical areas, major cities, climate, water, the Dead Sea, flora and fauna -- History -- Ancient history, Middle age history, the 20th century, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, toward modern times, change of monarchs, new electoral laws -- Government -- Government structure, kings, citizens, and debts, western queens in the desert, minority group representation, law, order, and protection -- Economy -- Mining and manufacturing, agriculture, tourism, jobs, economic problems, transportation, what unemployment figures do not show -- Environment -- Water pollution, air pollution, waste disposal, land degeneration, endangered species, efforts to solve the problems -- Jordanians, population statistics, race and class, dressing, minority groups, attitude toward foreigners -- Lifestyle -- Socializing, cultural attitudes, importance of the family, women's roles, education, health, living quarters -- Religion -- Ancient religions, sunni Islam, the story of Islam, other religions and sects -- Language -- An ancient language, different styles, other differences, the script, body language, other languages -- Arts -- Ancient art, Islam effect on art, music, literature, writers, handicrafts, modern arts, architecture -- Leisure, dining, other activities, sports, cinema, radio, and television -- Festivals -- Weddings, religious festivals, other celebrations, dancing for life -- Food -- Meals, types of food, Arab fast food, in a Jordanian kitchen, daily shopping -- Map of Jordan -- About the economy -- About the culture -- Time line -- Glossary -- Further information --Bibliography -- Index."Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Jordan"--Provided by publisher.Accelerated Reader AR

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Greenland / by King, David C.(CARDINAL)507384;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Greenland"--Provided by publisher.

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The river of kings : a novel / by Brown, Taylor,1982-author.(CARDINAL)342737;

"The Altamaha River, Georgia's "Little Amazon," has been named one of the 75 "Last Great Places in the World." Crossed by roads only five times in its 137-mile length, the blackwater river is home to thousand-year-old virgin cypress, descendants of 18th-century Highland warriors, and a motley cast of rare and endangered species. The Altamaha has even been rumored to harbor its own river monster, as well as traces of the most ancient European fort in North America. Brothers Hunter and Lawton Loggins set off to kayak the river, bearing their father's ashes toward the sea. Hunter is a college student, Lawton a Navy SEAL on leave; both young men were raised by an angry, enigmatic shrimper who loved the river, and whose death remains a mystery that his sons hope to resolve. As the brothers proceed downriver, their story is interwoven with that of Jacques Le Moyne, an artist who accompanied the 1564 expedition to found a French settlement at the river's mouth, which began as a search for riches and ended in a bloody confrontation with Spanish conquistadors and native tribes. In The River of Kings, SIBA-bestselling author Taylor Brown artfully weaves three narrative strands--the brothers' journey, their father's past, and the dramatic history of the river's earliest people--to evoke a legendary place and its powerful hold on the human imagination"--

Subjects: Fiction.;

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The United Arab Emirates / by King, David C.(CARDINAL)507384;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of the United Arab Emirates"--Provided by publisher.Accelerated Reader AR

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Storm Lake : a chronicle of change, resilience, and hope from a heartland newspaper / by Cullen, Art,author.(CARDINAL)793498;

"From a 2017 Pulitzer-winning newspaperman, an unsentimental ode to America's heartland as seen in small-town Iowa--a story of reinvention and resilience, environmental and economic struggle, and surprising diversity and hope. When The Storm Lake Times, a tiny Iowa twice-weekly, won a Pulitzer Prize for taking on big corporate agri-industry for poisoning the local rivers and lake, it was a coup on many counts: a strike for the well being of a rural community; a triumph for that endangered species, a family-run rural news weekly; and a salute to the special talents of a fierce and formidable native son, Art Cullen. In this candid and timely book, Cullen describes how the rural prairies have changed dramatically over his career, as seen from the vantage point of a farming and meatpacking town of 15,000 in Northwest Iowa. Politics, agriculture, the environment, and immigration are all themes in Storm Lake, a chronicle of a resilient newspaper, as much a survivor as its town. Storm Lake's people are the book's heart: the family that swam the Mekong River to find Storm Lake; the Latina with a baby who wonders if she'll be deported from the only home she has known; the farmer who watches markets in real time and tries to manage within a relentless agriculture supply chain that seeks efficiency for cheaper pork, prepared foods, and ethanol. Storm Lake may be a community in flux, occasionally in crisis (farming isn't for the faint hearted), but one that's not disappearing--in fact, its population is growing with immigrants from Laos, Mexico, and elsewhere. Thirty languages are now spoken there, and soccer is more popular than football"--The first question: why? -- The next question: why not? -- "And ye shall have dominion over the land" -- Bringing home the bacon -- Lessons for life -- A tornado and an implosion -- Lust at first sight -- The newspaper is the family -- State slogan: a place to grow -- A purple hybrid -- The young men from Jalisco -- Saving a prairie pothole -- A challenge to industrial agriculture -- We can't go on like this -- Via Dolorosa -- A place to call home -- "We won!" -- We wish to remain what we are -- Where is that song coming from?.

Subjects: Storm Lake times; American newspapers; Journalism;

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The river of kings / by Brown, Taylor,1982-author.(CARDINAL)342737;

The Altamaha River, Georgia's "Little Amazon," has been named one of the 75 "Last Great Places in the World." Crossed by roads only five times in its 137-mile length, the blackwater river is home to thousand-year-old virgin cypress, descendants of 18th-century Highland warriors, and a motley cast of rare and endangered species. The Altamaha has even been rumored to harbor its own river monster, as well as traces of the most ancient European fort in North America. Brothers Hunter and Lawton Loggins set off to kayak the river, bearing their father's ashes toward the sea. Hunter is a college student, Lawton a Navy SEAL on leave; both young men were raised by an angry, enigmatic shrimper who loved the river, and whose death remains a mystery that his sons hope to resolve. As the brothers proceed downriver, their story is interwoven with that of Jacques Le Moyne, an artist who accompanied the 1564 expedition to found a French settlement at the river's mouth, which began as a search for riches and ended in a bloody confrontation with Spanish conquistadors and native tribes. In The River of Kings, SIBA-bestselling author Taylor Brown artfully weaves three narrative strands--the brothers' journey, their father's past, and the dramatic history of the river's earliest people--to evoke a legendary place and its powerful hold on the human imagination.

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, 1533?-1588; Brothers; Fathers; Fathers.;

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The river of kings, [sound recording] by Brown, Taylor,1982-author.(CARDINAL)342737; Bramhall, Mark,narrator.(CARDINAL)348903;

Read by Mark Bramhall.The Altamaha River, Georgia's "Little Amazon," has been named one of the 75 "Last Great Places in the World." Crossed by roads only five times in its 137-mile length, the blackwater river is home to thousand-year-old virgin cypress, descendants of 18th-century Highland warriors, and a motley cast of rare and endangered species. The Altamaha has even been rumored to harbor its own river monster, as well as traces of the most ancient European fort in North America. Brothers Hunter and Lawton Loggins set off to kayak the river, bearing their father's ashes toward the sea. Hunter is a college student, Lawton a Navy SEAL on leave; both young men were raised by an angry, enigmatic shrimper who loved the river, and whose death remains a mystery that his sons hope to resolve. As the brothers proceed downriver, their story is interwoven with that of Jacques Le Moyne, an artist who accompanied the 1564 expedition to found a French settlement at the river's mouth, which began as a search for riches and ended in a bloody confrontation with Spanish conquistadors and native tribes. In The River of Kings, SIBA-bestselling author Taylor Brown artfully weaves three narrative strands--the brothers' journey, their father's past, and the dramatic history of the river's earliest people--to evoke a legendary place and its powerful hold on the human imagination"--(Publisher)

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, 1533?-1588; Brothers; Fathers; Fathers.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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Milking the rhino [videorecording] / by Simpson, David E.; Quinn, Gordon.; Fifer, Sally Jo.(CARDINAL)205016; Corporation for Public Broadcasting.(CARDINAL)139760; Illinois Arts Council.; Independent Television Service.(CARDINAL)219292; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.; Kartemquin Films.; National Endowment for the Arts.(CARDINAL)138252;

Includes bonus scenes (ca. 32 min.) ; updates (slideshow).Photographed by Jason Longo ; original music, Mark Bandy.Narrator, Munyikombo Bukusi."A ferocious kill on the Serengeti; warnings about endangered species... These clichés of nature films ignore a key landscape feature: villagers just off-camera who endure the dangers and costs of living with wild animals. The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia's Himba -- two of earth's oldest cattle cultures -- are emerging from a century of 'white man's conservation,' which threw them off their lands, banned subsistence hunting and fueled resentment. They are discovering that earnings from wildlife tourism can rival the benefits of livestock. But change is not easy. Charting the collision of ancient ways with Western expectations, [this film] offers complex, intimate stories of Africans at the forefront of community-based conservation"--Container.Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, and others.DVD.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Community-based conservation; Community-based conservation; Maasai (African people); Himba (African people); Wildlife conservation; Wildlife conservation;

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Birds and us : a 12,000-year history from cave art to conservation / by Birkhead, Tim,author.(CARDINAL)319000;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-412) and index.Of peculiar interest: Neolithic birds -- Inside the catacombs: The birds of ancient Egypt -- Talking birds: The beginnings of science in Greece and Rome -- Manly pursuits: Hunting and conspicuous consumption -- Renaissance thinking: The parts of the birds -- The new world of science: Francis Willughby and John Ray discover birds -- Depending on birds: Inconspicuous consumption -- The end of God in birds: Darwin and ornithology -- A dangerous type of bigamy: Killing time -- Watching birds: And seeing the light -- A boom in bird studies: Behaviour, evolution and ecology -- Ghost of the great auk: Third mass extinction.Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to the Renaissance fascination with woodpecker anatomy--and from the Victorian obsession with egg collecting to today's fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats. Spanning continents and millennia, Birds and Us chronicles the beginnings of a written history of birds in ancient Greece and Rome, the obsession with falconry in the Middle Ages, and the development of ornithological science. Moving to the twentieth century, the book tells the story of the emergence of birdwatching and the field study of birds, and how they triggered an extraordinary flowering of knowledge and empathy for birds, eventually leading to today's massive worldwide interest in birds--and the realization of the urgent need to save them. Weaving in stories from Birkhead's life as scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in Spain and the bustling guillemot colonies of the Faroe Islands, this rich and fascinating book is an unforgettable account of how birds have shaped us, and how we have shaped them.

Subjects: Illustrated works.; Instructional and educational works.; Birds; Birds; Birds; Human-animal relationships.;

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