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Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
Fire Weather is John Vaillant’s gripping account of the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire, one of the most destructive and fast‑moving fires in modern history. Through vivid storytelling and meticulous research, Vaillant reconstructs how a perfect storm of record heat, drought, wind, and flammable urban design turned a Canadian oil‑sands city into an inferno that forced 88,000 people to flee in…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780525434245
- Collation
- 432 pages, 5.14 x 0.91 x 7.92 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 363.379 VAI f
Silent Spring
Silent Spring is Rachel Carson’s landmark exposé on the devastating environmental and health impacts of indiscriminate pesticide use. Drawing on scientific research and vivid case studies, Carson reveals how chemicals such as DDT accumulate in soil, water, wildlife, and human bodies, disrupting ecosystems and threatening biodiversity.
- Edition
- Anniversary Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780618249060
- Collation
- 400 pages, 5.5 x 0.88 x 8.25 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 363.738 CAR s
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond’s sweeping explanation of why human societies developed along such different trajectories. Rejecting racial or cultural superiority theories, Diamond argues that geography, climate, and the availability of domesticable plants and animals shaped the rise of agriculture, population growth, technology, and political organization.
- Edition
- 20th Anniversary
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780393354324
- Collation
- 528 pages, 6.1 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.4 DIA g
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
The Blue Machine is Helen Czerski’s vivid and accessible exploration of the ocean as a single, interconnected engine that powers life on Earth. She explains how sunlight, water temperature, salinity, gravity, and tectonic movement combine to create vast flows of energy and matter—from deep‑sea currents to coral reefs, estuaries, and polar ice.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781324086345
- Collation
- 464 pages, 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.3 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 551.46 CZE b
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman is a graphic memoir that tells the story of the author’s father, a Jewish survivor of The Holocaust during World War II. Through a unique graphic narrative style, the book portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats while recounting the experiences of persecution, survival, and loss during the Holocaust.
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780679406419
- Collation
- 296 pages, 6.7 x 1.17 x 9.42 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 940.5318 SPI t
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