Author: Trisha Sugarek
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781071216743
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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Mass shootings are a part of our current culture. Not until now did I have something to say (write) about this mass murder. This ten minute play for teens in the classroom is to honor and memorialize the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. It focuses on a small class of students hidden away in safety by their English teacher and what happens while they wait for the shooting to stop. But the question begs will they ever be safe again? The Parkland mass school shooting has not been allowed to be forgotten due to a large group of brave teenagers.
Author: John Terborgh
Publisher: Shearwater Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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For ecologist John Terborgh, Manu National Park in the rainforest of Peru is a second home; he has spent half of each of the past twenty-five years there conducting research. Like all parks, Manu is assumed to provide inviolate protection to nature. Yet even there, in one of the most remote corners of the planet, Terborgh has been witness to the relentless onslaught of civilization. Seeing the steady destruction of irreplaceable habitat has been a startling and disturbing experience for Terborgh, one that has raised urgent questions: Is enough being done to protect nature? Are current conservation efforts succeeding? What could be done differently? What should be done differently? In Requiem for Nature, he offers brutally honest answers to those difficult questions, and appraises the prospects for the future of tropical conservation. His book is a clarion call for anyone who cares about the quality of the natural world we will leave our children. Terborgh examines current conservation strategies and considers the shortcomings of parks and protected areas both from ecological and institutional perspectives. He explains how seemingly pristine environments can gradually degrade, and describes the difficult social context –a debilitating combination of poverty, corruption, abuses of power, political instability, and a frenzied scramble for quick riches –in which tropical conservation must take place. He considers the significant challenges facing existing parks and examines problems inherent in alternative approaches, such as ecotourism, the exploitation of nontimber forest products, "sustainable use," and "sustainable development." Throughout, Terborgh argues that the greatest challenges of conservation are not scientific, but are social, economic, and political, and that success will require simultaneous progress on all fronts. He makes a compelling case that nature can be saved, but only if good science and strong institutions can be thoughtfully combined.
Author: Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 655
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An analysis of JFK's assassination and its surrounding conspiracy theories draws on forensic evidence, key witness testimonies, and other sources to explain what really happened and why conspiracy theories have become so popularized.
Author: Trevor Harrison
Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN: 9781551642062
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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This is the story of Stockwell Day--a small-town politician of modest accomplishments--whom the big boys with the big money, and the handlers with the smarts, thought could be sold as the Great Right Hope. This book chronicles it all: the people, personalities, and politics. Throughout, the question of media image is placed front and centre as the book explores the growing problem of rational democratic politics in an era of celebrity, image, and instant culture.
Author: Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347621
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 655
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"Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America." —Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book Review Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November) is the exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The film—starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, and Billy Bob Thornton—follows a group of individuals making split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event: the doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the chief of the Dallas Secret Service, the cameraman who captured what has become the most examined film in history, the FBI agents who had gunman Lee Harvey Oswald within their grasp, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson who had to take control of the country at a moment’s notice. Based on Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History—Parkland is the story of that day—the movie is produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman (Game Change, Charlie Wilson’s War), Nigel Sinclair (End of Watch, Snitch), Matt Jackson (End of Watch, Snitch), and Bill Paxton, and written and directed by Peter Landesman.
Author: John Dufresne
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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In the tragicomic mode of his bestselling "Louisiana Power & Light" comes Dufresne's hilarious and tenderhearted novel about a son's attempts to save his dysfunctional family.
Author: François Leydet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coast redwood
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Contains beautiful illustrations that emphasize the urgent need for continued measures to preserve the redwoods as a public treasure.
Author: C. Thomas Somma
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781432746476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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These are stories of spirits gone, all too soon, whose tragic existence and passage on this earth were never told. Let these tales stand as testimony to their existence, and serve as a fitting requiem for the one they were denied.
Author: Lauren Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788856617009
Category : Fiction
Languages : it
Pages : 336
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Author: Ronald Senator
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Dita was an inmate of Auschwitz as a young girl - she and her father were the only surviving members of her Czech-Hungarian family. Ronald, a Londoner, was the victim of a dangerous and unnecessary prefrontal leucotomy, against his will, in the knife-happy days when this operation was common and left a pathetic trail of zombies vegetating in the asylums.
