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Torched
by April HenryWhen Ellie's parents are busted for possession of marijuana, the FBI gives her a choice: infiltrate the Mother Earth Defenders (MED), a radical environmental group, or her parents will go to jail. At first Ellie is more than willing to entrap the MEDics, but the more time she spends undercover-particularly with Coyote, the green-eyed MEDic that she can't stop thinking about-the more she starts to believe in their cause. When talk turns to murder, Coyote backs out, but Ellie is willing to risk everything to save her family-even if it means losing Coyote and putting her own life on the line. April Henry, author of the acclaimed YA thriller Shock Point, pulls an issue straight from the headlines as she deftly explores what happens when good intentions get out of hand. With the environment a hot topic, this blend of explosive action and romance will make Torched a must-read for all suspense lovers.
Tornado
by Betsy ByarsA tornado is coming, and once Pete the farmhand gathers the family safely in the storm cellar, he distracts them with a favorite tale about a tornado from his childhood--and the surprise it brought: Among the debris left by this twister was a doghouse, complete with a dog inside! Pete goes on to tell more stories about this hole-digging, cardtrick-playing dog, aptly named Tornado; and it isn't hard to see how Tornado, and the stories about him, soon become a part of both past and present families.
Tornado
by Betsy Byars Doron Ben-AmiA tornado appears in the distance, and Pete, the farmhand, gathers everyone into the storm cellar. While they wait for the storm to pass,he tells the family about the dog dropped down by a tornado when Pete was a boy. Named Tornado, Pete's pet was no ordinary dog -- he played card tricks, saved a turtle's life, and had a rivalry with the family cat. By the time Pete tells all of Tornado's lively stories, the storm has passed, and another family has been entertained by this very special dog.
Tornado Alley: Tornado Alley (Disaster Strikes #2)
by Marlane KennedyWhen disaster strikes, the only thing you can count on is yourself!Wyatt Anderson isn't thrilled that his prissy cousin is visiting his family's Oklahoma ranch. But it turns out Wyatt has bigger problems to deal with when a pair of dueling tornadoes lock the prairie in their sights....Wyatt, Alison, and neighbors Joshua and Jackson have nowhere to run. And when the old barn is battered by the tornadoes' ferocious winds, the animals that live inside are in danger. Will Wyatt and his friends risk their own lives to protect them?
Tornado Hunter: Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth
by Stefan Bechtel Tim SamarasOf nature's weapons, tornadoes are among the most unforgiving. Here is an unforgettable portrait of these storms and one extraordinary man who challenged them.
Tornado Hunter: Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth
by Tim SamarasOf all nature's weapons, tornadoes are among the most unforgiving, and here is an unforgettable portrait of these storms and one extraordinary man who challenged them, and produced the first-ever photographs snatched from a rampaging twister's black heart.
Tornado!
by Jeffrey Fuerst Amanda Jenkins Laura NikielPerform this script about a tornado that is heading towards a home.
Tornadoes (Wild Earth Science)
by Jaclyn JaycoxFunnel cloud. Sirens sound. Take shelter! Tornadoes are a force of nature that can quickly spin across the land. Their powerful winds can cause lots of damage. But you can be prepared! Learn about tornadoes, pay attention to warnings, and stay safe.
Tornadoes: Extreme Weather (Theme Sets)
by Josie GreenTornadoes are caused by cold fronts and updrafts
Toro
by Joseph SmithUn toro vive tranquilo en una granja, su vida cotidiana supone largas estancias en un corral, donde se dedica a la contemplación de las matas, de la tierra y de las estrellas. Y sin embargo, en poco tiempo, se pone en juego una lucha de fuerzas entre el animal y el hombre. Dignidad y orgullo. Un toro cautivo y consciente de su naturaleza de bestia. La lucha entre la posibilidad de huir y el miedo a la libertad. Esta es una novela que habla de la condición humana y de la fuerza animal y de la naturaleza."Es difícil explicar la maravillosa conmoción que provoca la lectura de El lobo. Desde la primera a la última de sus breves pero intensísimas páginas, llenas de imágenes cautivadoras y símbolos, el lector sigue sobrecogido la peripecia de ese animal terrible, hambriento e inicialmente despiadado."El País"Una novela espléndida e intensa."La Vanguardia"Escribe con una intensidad que deja al lector pasmado."Público"Un éxito constatado por lectores y crítica."La RazónUno de los mejores 50 libros de 2010 según Amazon.
Total Environmental Compliance: A Practical Guide for Environmental Professionals
by Bert P. Krages IITotal Environmental Compliance: A Practical Guide for Environmental Professionals gives you the background and skills you need to ensure total environmental compliance in your organization. Instead of dryly describing theoretical management systems or reciting regulatory provisions, the author delves into the challenging issues of why organizations
Total Garbage: A Messy Dive into Trash, Waste, and Our World
by Rebecca DonnellyTotal Garbage by Rebecca Donnelly dives into the messy truth about trash, garbage, waste, and our world—it's a fact-filled and fascinating illustrated middle grade environmental read!Trash has been part of human societies since the beginning. It seems like the inevitable end to the process of making and using things—but why? In this fascinating account of the waste we make, we'll wade into the muck of history and explore present-day STEM innovations to answer these important questions: What is garbage?Where does our garbage come from?Why do we make so much garbage?Where does our garbage go?What can we learn from our garbage?How bad is our garbage problem?How can we do better?Rebecca Donnelly tackles the extraordinary, the icky, and the everyday, helping us see how our choices, personal and societal, impact our world and our planet—and encouraging us make a change.Back matter includes a timeline of the history of waste management, selected bibliography, and index."clear, engaging writing. . . [and] whimsical, informative, detailed teal-tone line drawings add to a captivating and important book. . . A fact-filled and fascinating dumpster dive of a book." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review on Total Garbage"this book makes garbage fun to read about and is a great choice for browsable nonfiction shelves and curricular tie-ins" —School Library Journal on Total Garbage"Readers will need strong stomachs for some of the nauseating facts Donnelly dishes in her deep dumpster dive, but they’ll emerge a heartier lot that’s armed with awareness and the tools to clean up their acts, environmentally speaking. " —Booklist on Total Garbage
Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
by Edward HumesAn investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how individuals and communities are making a real difference for health, prosperity, quality of life and the fight against climate change, by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalistWhat happens to our trash? Why are our oceans filling with plastic? Do we really waste 40 percent of our food 65 percent of our energy? Waste is truly our biggest problem, and solving our inherent trashiness can fix our economy, our energy costs, our traffic jams, and help slow climate change—all while making us healthier, happier and more prosperous. This story-driven and in-depth exploration of the pervasive yet hard-to-see wastefulness that permeates our daily lives illuminates the ways in which we've been duped into accepting absolutely insane levels of waste as normal. Total Garbage also tells the story of individuals and communities who are finding the way back from waste, and showing us that our choices truly matter and make a difference. Our big environmental challenges – climate, energy, plastic pollution, deforestation, toxic emissions—are often framed as problems too big for any one person to solve. Too big even for hope. But when viewed as symptoms of a single greater problem—the epic levels of trash and waste we produce daily--the way forward is clear. Waste is the one problem individuals can positively impact—and not just on the planet, but also on our wallets, our health, and national and energy security. The challenge is seeing our epic wastefulness clearly. Total Garbage will shine a light on the absurdity of the systems that all of us use daily and take for granted--and it will help both individuals and communities make meaningful changes toward better lives and a cleaner, greener world.
Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement
by David Naguib PellowWhen in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF&’s communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group&’s customary brief. Drawing connections between the harms facing the myriad animals who make their home in the trees and the struggles for social justice among ordinary human beings resisting exclusion and marginalization, the dispatch declared, &“all oppression is linked, just as we are all linked,&” and decried the &“patriarchal nightmare&” in the form of &“techno-industrial global capitalism.&” In Total Liberation, David Naguib Pellow takes up this claim and makes sense of the often tense and violent relationships among humans, ecosystems, and nonhuman animal species, expanding our understanding of inequality and activists&’ uncompromising efforts to oppose it. Grounded in interviews with more than one hundred activists, on-the-spot fieldwork, and analyses of thousands of pages of documents, websites, journals, and zines, Total Liberation reveals the ways in which radical environmental and animal rights movements challenge inequity through a vision they call &“total liberation.&” In its encounters with such infamous activists as scott crow, Tre Arrow, Lauren Regan, Rod Coronado, and Gina Lynn, the book offers a close-up, insider&’s view of one of the most important—and feared—social movements of our day. At the same time, it shows how and why the U.S. justice system plays to that fear, applying to these movements measures generally reserved for &“jihadists&”—with disturbing implications for civil liberties and constitutional freedom. How do the adherents of &“total liberation&” fight oppression and seek justice for humans, nonhumans, and ecosystems alike? And how is this pursuit shaped by the politics of anarchism and anticapitalism? In his answers, Pellow provides crucial in-depth insight into the origins and social significance of the earth and animal liberation movements and their increasingly common and compelling critique of inequality as a threat to life and a dream of a future characterized by social and ecological justice for all.
Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons: Environmental Fate, Toxicity, and Remediation
by Naga Raju Maddela Kadiyala Venkateswarlu Saranya Kuppusamy Mallavarapu MegharajThe term “total petroleum hydrocarbons” (TPHs) is used for any mixture of several hundred hydrocarbons found in crude oil, and they represent the sum of volatile petroleum hydrocarbons and extractable petroleum hydrocarbons. The petrol-range organics include hydrocarbons from C6 to C10, while diesel-range organics are C10-C28 hydrocarbons. Environmental pollution by petroleum hydrocarbons is one of the major global concerns, particularly in oil-yielding countries. In fact, there are more than five million potentially contaminated areas worldwide that represent, in general, a lost economic opportunity and a threat to the health and well-being of humans and the environment. Petroleum-contaminated sites constitute almost one-third of the total sites polluted with chemicals around the globe. The land contamination caused by industrialization was recognized as early as the 1960s, but less than a tenth of potentially contaminated lands have been remediated due to the nature of the contamination, cost, technical impracticability, and insufficient land legislation and enforcement. This book is the first single source that provides comprehensive information on the different aspects of TPHs, such as sources and range of products, methods of analysis, fate and bioavailability, ecological implications including impact on human health, potential approaches for bioremediation such as risk-based remediation, and regulatory assessment procedures for TPH-contaminated sites. As such, it is a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students, technicians in the oil industry and remediation practitioners, as well as policy makers.
Total Survival: How to Organize Your Life, Home, Vehicle, and Family for Natural Disasters, Civil Unrest, Financial Meltdowns, Medical Epidemics, and Political Upheaval
by James C. JonesKnowing that no survival book can cover every conceivable aspect of surviving in every conceivable situation, in Total Survival, veteran survivalist James C. Jones delivers tips that cover the most likely needs of readers and for which there is useful and practical instruction. His goal is to share a variety of practical survival skills, principles, and ideas in an easy-to read format that will aid the reader in becoming stronger, safer, and more self-reliant. The ten principles of survival that Jones sets out are derived from analysis of true survival accounts. Studies of why some people survived fires, plane crashes, assaults, and other deadly situations while others in the same situations perished confirm that these principles made the difference. Although the data and concepts in Total Survival are derived from accounts of acute disasters—such as tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and epidemics—they apply equally well to chronic disasters, such as economic decline, shortages, unemployment, climate change, and personal family or health issues. In reality, all of life is a survival challenge, and a survival emergency is just a high-intensity life test. These ten survival principles are the key to success in everyday life, especially during an emergency.
Totems of Seldovia: An Alaska Children's Adventure Mystery
by Grossman MartinOne dark night on a windswept Alaska beach, The Teller of Tales tells a story never heard before. An aura of mystery surrounds the tale and draws you in like a warm fire on a cold winter's night. He challenges only those who believe his story to face the hazards of the trail and to go on the adventure of a lifetime. Three children answer his call and try to unravel the clues that surround The Mystery of the Totems of Seldovia. As the story unwinds you will find yourself hiding from a hungry bear, traveling along a dusty road where Dust Devils rise to meet you, or looking for clues in the old cemetery while two ominous ravens stare at you like you're their next meal. Totems of Seldovia will take you on a roller coaster adventure in the age of innocence and a search for treasure beyond your wildest dreams--so come along with our young explorers in a search for the secrets of the Totems of Seldovia.
Tots som la Greta: Un manifest per a salvar el planeta
by Valentina GianellaTots som la Greta, i només nosaltres podem salvar el planeta. Què és el canvi climàtic?L'hem causat nosaltres?Quines conseqüències té?Som a temps de solucionar-ho? Amb tot just setze anys, la Greta no solament s'ha fet aquestes preguntes, sinó que ha aconseguit mobilitzar milions de joves d'arreu del món per protegir el nostre planeta i projectar un futur ple d'esperança. Si les seves idees et resulten inspiradores, ara és el moment d'unir-te a la missió més important de la nostra història: salvar el planeta del canvi climàtic.
Touch The Top Of The World: A Blind Man's Journey To Climb Farther Than The Eye Can See
by Erik WeihenmayerThe incredible, inspiring story of world-class climber Erik Weihenmayer, from the terrible diagnosis that foretold of the loss of his eyesight, to his dream to climb mountains, and finally his quest to reach each of the Seven Summits. Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would progressively unravel his retinas. Erik learned from doctors that he was destined to lose his sight by age thirteen. Yet from early on, he was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling, exciting life. In Touch the Top of the World, Erik recalls his struggle to push past the limits placed on him by his visual impairment--and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would restore her son's sight; the father who encouraged him to strive for that unreachable mountaintop. Erik was the first blind man to summit McKinley. Soon he became the first blind person to scale the infamous 3000-foot rock wall of El Capitan and then Argentina's Aconcagua, the highest peak outside of Asia. He was married to his longtime sweetheart at 13,000 feet on the Shira Plateau on his way to Kilimanjaro's summit, and recently Erik scaled Polar Circus, the 30,000-foot vertical ice wall in Alberta, Canada. Erik's story is about having the vision to dream big; the courage to reach for near impossible goals; and the grit, determination, and ingenuity to transform our lives into "something miraculous. "To download an audio excerpt from Touch the Top of the World, visit the American Foundation for the Blind Web site.
Touch and Feel Baby Animals
by DkCome inside and discover the different textures of adorable baby animals.
Touch the Earth (Julian Lennon White Feather Flier Advent #1)
by Bart Davis Smiljana Coh Julian LennonA New York Times bestseller that TODAY calls “beautiful” and “stunning!”This interactive book immerses children in a fun and unique journey. Jump aboard the White Feather Flier, a magical plane that can go wherever you want! Just press a button printed on the page, and point the plane up in the air to fly, or down to land it! Fly to the top of a mountain! Send clean water to thirsty people! Dive deep into the ocean (the Flier turns into a submarine!) to pick up pollution and bring back the fish! Explore the planet, meet new people, and help make the world a better place!The Flier's mission is to transport readers around the world, to engage them in helping to save the environment, and to teach one and all to love our planet.An inspiring, lyrical story, rooted in Lennon's life and work, Touch the Earth is filled with beautiful illustrations that bring the faraway world closer to young children. The book includes words to a special poem written by Julian Lennon, specifically for Touch the Earth.This is the first book in a planned trilogy. A portion of the proceeds from book sales will go to support the environmental and humanitarian efforts of the White Feather Foundation, the global environmental and humanitarian organization that Lennon founded to promote education, health, conservation, and the protection of indigenous culture.
Toughboy and Sister
by Kirkpatrick HillTwp Athabascan (Native American) children are stranded in a faraway fishing camp when their father dies. This is the story of how they survived several months before they were rescued.
Tourism Management in Warm-water Island Destinations
by Michelle McLeod Robertico CroesWarm-water islands are a cohesive group of islands distinguished by their geography and remoteness, history as former colonial territories, and dependence on external stakeholders for their economic and social development. Warm-water island destinations also have a year-round tourism industry. These island tourism destinations are facing unprecedented adjustment challenges in the wake of increasing globalization and susceptibility to external shocks, and are in search of appropriate policy responses to that globalization. It is critical for small islands to understand how these challenges affect tourism performance and how they impact their residents. Tourism Management in Warm-water Island Destinations unearths the critical aspects that contribute to tourism development and growth in islands. Particular emphasis is placed on destinations such as the Caribbean, with lessons learned that are applicable to other island tourism contexts in the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and the Pacific. · Presents emerging research themes and methodology; · Provides insight into factors that result in successful and unsuccessful cases; · Features a focus on Cuba and its reintroduction to the tourism landscape. This book provides a platform for emerging systemic perspectives of the various aspects of island tourism, with the view that strategies for the management and development of tourism in island environments can be improved and will be of interest to those studying and researching within destination management.
Tourism Transformations in Protected Area Gateway Communities
by Gianna Moscardo C. Michael Hall Kynda R. Curtis Professor Chris Ryan Dorothee Bohn Andrea Zita Botelho Kelly S. Bricker Robert S. Bristow Karina H. Casimiro Rosa Suárez Chaparro Ana Cristina Costa Margaret J. Daniels Edieser Dela Santa Manuel Ramón Herrera Russell M. Hicks Julie Judkins N. Qwynne Lackey Natalya Lawrence Gustavo C. Machado Jake Powell Sidnei Raimundo Mary Anne Ramos-Tumanan Milena Manhães Rodrigues Renato De Santos Jessica A. Schottanes Ole R. Sleipness Maria Anunciação Ventura Therez B. WalkerGateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management. Economic dependency remains a serious challenge for these communities, especially in a climate of neoliberalism, top-down policy environments, and park closures related to environmental degradation or government budgets. The collection of works in this edited book provide bottom-up, informed, and nuanced approaches to tourism management using local experiences from gateway communities and protected areas management emerging from a decade of guidelines, rulemaking, and exclusive decision-making. Global perspectives are presented and contextualized at the local level of gateway communities in an attempt to balance nature, community, and commerce, while supporting the triple bottom line of sustainable tourism. While anticipating a post-COVID 19 global shift, readers are encouraged to think through transformation and resiliency in regard to how the flux of supply vs demand alters gateway community perspectives on tourism. Specific features of this book include: · Focus on transformations, which provides insight into the complex and dynamic nature of gateway communities. · Multidisciplinary, multi-cultural insights into protected area management. · Applied and conceptual chapters from global perspectives.