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"Climate change has become one of the most polarizing issues of our time. Extremists on the left regularly issue hyperbolic jeremiads about the impending destruction of the environment, while extremists on the right counter with crass, tortured denials. But out in the vast middle are ordinary people dealing with stronger storms and more intense droughts than they've ever known. This middle ground is the focus of Betting the Farm on a Drought, a lively,...

From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.

In Shajarpur, everyone is always happy. The weather is always perfect. But newcomer Savi, a lonely seventeen-year-old, doesn't know what happiness means anymore. If she were to make a list of things that were the absolute worst, moving to Shajarpur would be right on top. Well, right after missing her father, who just died of a heart attack. As Savi grapples with loss in a strange new town, she discovers something startling. Not only can she communicate...

"This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers, illustrated with photographs throughout, explores how animals are fighting the climate crisis by living, breathing and pooping."--

This book travels to the heart of power, inequality and injustice in water politics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, Astrid B. Stensrud explores the impact of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), an extractivist global water paradigm that views water as a finite resource in need of management. Where the local bureaucracy has adapted to IWRM and a new water culture is being fostered amongst the population, Stensrud examines...

When his wife, Ada, vanishes from their bed one night, with their son, Gilles, in the next room, Danny discovers mothers around the world are vanishing from their homes and wonders if the mystery is linked to the forest she seemed magnetically drawn to.

The DVD contains eight, roughly 20-minute master class lectures, one for each GD topic.