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The Gulf : the making of an American sea
Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporitng human life for millennia. Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, both beautiful and life-giving, though fated to exploitation by esuriant oil men and real-estate developers. Davis shares previously untold stories, parading a vast array of historical characters past our view: sports-fishermen, presidents, Hollywood executives, New England fishers, the Tabasco king, a Texas shrimper, and a New York architect who caught the \"big one\". Sensitive to the imminent effects of climate change, and to the difficult task of rectifying the assaults of recent centuries, this book suggests how a penetrating examination of a single region's history can inform the country's path ahead. --adapted from book jacket.
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Everglades providence
No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve and boundless energy of this implacable elder won the hearts of an admiring public while confounding her opponents—growth merchants intent on having their way with the Everglades. Douglas's efforts ultimately earned her a place among a mere handful of individuals honored as a namesake of a national wilderness area.
In the first comprehensive biography of Douglas, Jack E. Davis explores the 108-year life of this compelling woman. Douglas was more than an environmental activist. She was a suffragist, a lifetime feminist and supporter of the ERA, a champion of social justice, and an author of diverse literary talent. She came of age literally and professionally during the American environmental century, the century in which Americans mobilized an unprecedented popular movement to counter the equally unprecedented liberties they had taken in exploiting, polluting, and destroying the natural world.
The Everglades were a living barometer of America's often tentative shift toward greater environmental responsibility. Reconstructing this larger picture, Davis recounts the shifts in Douglas's own life and her instrumental role in four important developments that contributed to Everglades protection: the making of a positive wetland image, the creation of a national park, the expanding influence of ecological science, and the rise of the modern environmental movement. In the grand but beleaguered Everglades, which Douglas came to understand is a vast natural system that supports human life, she saw nature's providence.
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Moose tracks!
A homeowner remembers visits from all the animals whose tracks, feathers, and other traces are visible--except for the moose whose prints are everywhere.
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This body's not big enough for both of us
During a seance, spirit of Queen Victoria moves into Zack's body.
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Booms, Blooms, and Doom: The Life of the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
According to a 2003 United Nations Environment Programme report, seasonal and year-round dead zones doubled in number every decade since the 1960s. 16 Tristan Donovan, Fizz: How Soda Shook up the World (Chicago, 2014), 181-85, 222; Michael F. Jacobson, Liquid Candy: How Soft Drinks are Harming Americans' Health (Washington, D.C., 2005), iv. 17 The original glass bottles had a slight green tint. 18 Donovan, Fizz, 193; Samara Joy Neilson and Barry M. Popkin, \"Changes in Beverage Intake between 1977 and 2011,\" American Journals of Preventative Medicine 27 (2004): 205-10. 20 Jonathan Franzen, Freedom: A Novel (New York, 2010), 110; United States Department of Agriculture, Why are Americans Consuming Less Fluid Milk? A Look at Generational Differences in Intake Frequency, Economic Research Report No. 149 (May 2013): 1-10; Roberto A. Ferdman, \"The Mysterious Case of America's Plummeting Milk Consumption,\" Washington Post, June 20, 2014. 25 Williams, \"Dead Serious,\" 396; Brian Clark Howard, \"Mississippi Basin Water Quality Declining Despite Conservation,\" National Geographic, April 12, 2014, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140411-water-qualitynutrients-pesticides-dead-zones-science/ (accessed August 2016); Carolyn Lochead, \"Dead Zone in Gulf Linked to Ethanol Production,\" SFGate, July 6, 2010; R. E. Turner and N. N. Rabalais, \"Predicting Summer Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Redux,\" Marine Pollution Bulletin 64 (2012): 319-24; S. S. Rabotyagov, et al., \"The Economics of Dead Zones: Causes, Impacts, Policy Changes, and a Model of the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone,\" Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 8 (winter 2014), https://reep.oxfordjournals. org/content/early/2014/01/04/reep.ret024.full (accessed September 2016); James Bovard, \"Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study...
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The misfortune cookie
Zack visits a very strange Chinese restaurant called Wun Dum Guy and finds that the fortunes in his fortune cookies start coming true.
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My teacher ate my homework
After she eats his homework, Zack suspects that his substitute teacher Mrs. Wolfowitz is a werewolf and uncovers her bizarre secret.
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‘Conservation is now a Dead Word’: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Transformation of American Environmentalism
Davis profiles environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas. As an expert on Florida history and environment, Douglas published \"The Everglades: River of Grass\" which became the green bible of environmentalists. Douglas received countless honors and awards for her excellent work as a writer and environmentalist.
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