Plasticus Maritimus
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Cassandra Cavalli
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- Honorbale Mention—Bologna Ragazzi Award
- A valuable, middle-grade resource to help kids learn about the effects of waterborne plastics and how they are affecting our world’s oceans and the planet itself.
- Combines science, activism, and art into a multifaceted and highly comprehensive book ideal for school and home libraries.
- Pêgo’s approach is positive and practical, inspiring listeners to not only learn about the problem, but to also become part of the solution.
- Critiques current “solutions” to the plastics crisis, such as recycling, and offers better, more informed solutions, which kids and adults can try at home.
- A fun “field guide” shares how to identify plastics as an invasive species: how to categorize it, collect it, and safely move it elsewhere.
- Includes colorful images of plastics found “in the wild” in locations around the world.
LEVELING
Guided Reading Level: W
Common Core State Standards
W.6.1,2,3,4,8,9,9b,10
RI.6.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
L.6.3,4,4a,4b,4d,5,5a,5b,5c,6
SL.6.1,1c,1d,2,3,4,5,6
Next Generation Science Standards
MS-LS1-From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
MS-LS2-Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
MS-LS4-Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
MS-ETS1-Engineering Design
MS-ESS3-Earth and Human Activity
MS-ESS2-Earth's Systems
MS-PS1-Matter and its Interactions
MS-PS2-Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts - one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists - leads listeners on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on Earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MUST READ!
- De E en 11-28-17
De: Callum Roberts
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Garbology
- Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
- De: Edward Humes
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime, and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash - what's in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A phenomenal read & serious eye-opener
- De Andy Feicht en 10-07-18
De: Edward Humes
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Slime
- How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
- De: Ruth Kassinger
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In Slime we'll meet the algae innovators working toward a sustainable future: from seaweed farmers in South Korea, to scientists using it to clean the dead zones in our waterways, to the entrepreneurs fighting to bring algae fuel and plastics to market. Ruth Kassinger takes listeners on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes, and into-the-kitchen tour. Whether you thought algae was just the gunk in your fish tank or you eat seaweed with your oatmeal, Slime will delight and amaze with its stories of the good, the bad, and the up-and-coming.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fairly entertaining and informative...but
- De Timothy en 08-27-19
De: Ruth Kassinger
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How to Invent Everything
- A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
- De: Ryan North
- Narrado por: Ryan North
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 372
What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past...and then broke? How would you survive? With this book as your guide, you'll survive - and thrive - in any period in Earth's history. Best-selling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North tells you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted - from first principles. This manual contains all the science, engineering, art, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Get the book
- De Tim McNerney en 11-26-18
De: Ryan North
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The Nature of Nature
- Why We Need the Wild
- De: Enric Sala
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 61
In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Lars Pardo en 11-21-24
De: Enric Sala
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Plastic-Free
- How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too
- De: Beth Terry
- Narrado por: Beth Terry
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 121
Like many people, Beth Terry didn't think an individual could have much impact on the environment. But while laid up after surgery, she read an article about the staggering amount of plastic polluting the oceans and decided then and there to kick her plastic habit. Now she wants to teach you how you can too.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De JJ en 07-04-18
De: Beth Terry
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The Most Perfect Thing
- De: Tim Birkhead
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shapes they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks? How are the colours and patterns of eggshells created, and why do they vary? And which end of an egg is laid first - the blunt end or the pointy end?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book about eggs!!
- De Timothy en 03-24-21
De: Tim Birkhead
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Sex in the Sea
- Our Intimate Connection with Kinky Crustaceans, Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
- De: Marah J. Hardt
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome while holding their breath; full-moon sex parties of groupers; and daily mating blitzes by blueheaded wrasse. Deep-sea squid perform inverted 69s while hermaphrodite sea slugs link up in giant sex loops.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How to laugh while learning/ learn while laughing
- De Miamigrrl en 07-27-16
De: Marah J. Hardt
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The Upcycle
- Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance
- De: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve them as we use them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "must read" for the environmental movement.
- De Love owls en 07-09-13
De: William McDonough, y otros
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The Book of General Ignorance
- De: John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
- Narrado por: uncredited
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 435
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 328
Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British best seller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more, The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting.
- De A. Hawkbird en 12-07-08
De: John Mitchinson, y otros
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The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- De: Henry Nicholls
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to exotic creatures and dramatic volcanic scenery. In The Galapagos, science writer Henry Nicholls offers a lively natural and human history of the archipelago, charting its evolution from deserted wilderness to scientific resource (made famous by Charles Darwin) and global ecotourism hot spot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought-Provoking
- De Jean en 10-23-18
De: Henry Nicholls
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The Triumph of Seeds
- How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
- De: Thor Hanson
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,692
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,502
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,508
We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and the humble peppercorn drove the Age of Discovery, so did coffee beans help fuel the Enlightenment and cottonseed help spark the Industrial Revolution. And from the fall of Rome to the Arab Spring, the fate of nations continues to hinge on the seeds of a Middle Eastern grass known as wheat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightfully simplistic!
- De Adrian en 03-30-16
De: Thor Hanson
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Biomimicry
- Innovation Inspired by Nature
- De: Janine M. Benyus
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes listeners into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; and many more examples.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dated but good
- De stephen taylor en 09-05-21
De: Janine M. Benyus
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No Immediate Danger
- Carbon Ideologies, Volume One
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important issues of our age. Now, Vollmann turns to a topic that will define the generations to come - the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Look at the brightside always and die in a dream!
- De Darwin8u en 04-14-19
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The Knowledge
- How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
- De: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 522
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 446
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 441
Regarded as one of the brightest young scientists of his generation, Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the fundamentals upon which they are built. The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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We might be screwed, but... science!
- De Ryan en 11-28-15
De: Lewis Dartnell
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- De: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th Hour, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture's blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- De Jana en 04-24-20
De: Thom Hartmann, y otros
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Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- De: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 170
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent insight of industrial farming
- De Grazyna en 04-19-14
De: Philip Lymbery, y otros