Author: María Quintana Silva
Publisher: Cuento de Luz
ISBN: 841673318X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Winner at the 2019 Independent Press Awards. A beautiful story, printed on stone paper, about the importance, care, and preservation of trees, and the small steps we can all take to care for the planet. One night, the trees in the forest decided it’s time to uproot and leave. They yanked out their roots and dragged themselves off across the fields. On his way to school, Goran soon realized what is happening... All the trees had disappeared and holes could be seen where they used to be. Bewildered, he rushed home to find if the tree in his garden had vanished as well. He loved that tree, it used to be his friend during springtime when he swung from his branches, and also in summer when its leaves protected him from the hot sun. Understanding the consequences this would have for animals, humans, and the environment, he set off to counteract the damage that had already been done.
Author: Gretchen C. Daily
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595348530
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 67
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Through words and photographs, environmental scientist Gretchen C. Daily and photographer Charles J. Katz describe how one relict tree—the magnificent Ceiba pentandra in Sabalito, Costa Rica—carries physical and spiritual importance. The people in the town of Sabalito call the tree la ceiba, a term said to be derived from a Taíno word referring to a type of wood used for making canoes in the West Indies. Ceiba evokes times and places where people hollowed out the great cylindrical trunks and glided along languid rivers winding through lush tropical forest. Today the tree is known by different names in regions ranging from southern Mexico and the Caribbean to the southern edge of the Amazon Basin and in western Africa. The ceiba has survived what is probably the highest rate of tropical deforestation in the world. It is a legendary and vital tree in centuries-old forests in places like Costa Rica that were once almost completely forested (98 percent in the mid-twentieth century) and decades later have suffered devastating deforestation (34 percent by 1980). One Tree grew out of a conversation between photographer Chuck Katz and acclaimed ecologist Gretchen Daily about the relict tree—a single tree that remains standing in a pasture, for example, after the forest has been cleared from the land, and takes on iconic importance for the animals, plants, and people in the ecosystem. During a trip the authors took to Costa Rica, Katz focused his lens on the ceiba and a story was born. In descriptive language interwoven with scientific fact, Daily discusses the tree's historical and natural history and the ceiba species in general. She touches on the science of the Costa Rican rainforest and its deforestation and the cultural traditions, legends, and folklore of forests and relict trees. Katz's photographs of the massive tree and the village that takes care of it create an intimate work celebrating the visual and biological intricacies of trees.
Author: Helen Keller
Publisher: Editorial Renacimiento
ISBN: 848472736X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Autobiography of deaf and blind woman, and activist, Helen Keller.
Author: Angela Elwell Hunt
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 9780745945934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Three little trees stood and dreamed of what they wanted to become when they grew up.
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Publisher: Editorial Cumio
ISBN: 8415306857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Author: Ariana Huberman
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN: 1644698986
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. It introduces the work of Latin American authors and artists who have been inspired by Jewish Mysticism from the 1960s to the present focusing on representations of dybbuks (transmigratory souls), the presence of Eros as part of the experience of mystical prayer, reformulations of Zoharic fables, and the search for Tikkun Olam (cosmic repair), among other key topics of Jewish Mysticism. The purpose of this book is to open up these aspects of their work to a broad audience who may or may not be familiar with Jewish Mysticism.
Author: Arturo Torres
Publisher:
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Category : Spanish language
Languages : es
Pages : 488
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Author: Richard "Coco" Reyes
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662432747
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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My Family Tree Juan Carlos is visiting his grandparents at their tree farm. His grandfather takes him around the farm exploring trees that have "names." Along their way, they pick up pecans and broken branches. Grandmother is home, baking some wonderful pecan pies-yummmmmm. Grandfather has found a golden opportunity to teach Juan Carlos a lifelong lesson about family. Mi Arbol de Familia Juan Carlos está visitando sus abuelos en su granja de árboles. Su abuelo lo lleva alrededor de la granja para explorar los árboles que tienen nombres. A lo largo del camino, recogieron nueces y ramas quebradas. La abuela se quedó en casa, horneando deliciosos pastelitos de nueces, mmmm. El abuelo ha encontrado una oportunidad de oro para enseñar a Juan Carlos una lección de por vida acerca de la familia.
Author: José Manuel Herrera
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098095774
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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Si elegiste este libro es porque te llamó la atención o tienes la curiosidad de lo que él contiene. Y eso está bien, porque nos habla de una verdad de la cual nadie se atreve a hablar. Ya sea por miedo, inseguridad o ignorancia, las personas no se han interesado en ella o simplemente porque, en ocasiones, esa verdad la están ocultando. Desde el principio, el mundo ha sido envidioso, egoísta y solo unas cuantas personas se quieren beneficiar de los dones que se nos fueron entregados desde el inicio de nuestros tiempos. Los beneficios que hablamos son: bendiciones, protección y sabiduría, solo por mencionar algunos. Los cuales son una herramienta fundamental para encontrar nuestro propósito en esta vida. Pero, ¿por qué no podemos ser lo que Dios ha escrito en nuestro interior? Porque tenemos miedo a saber la verdad, la cual se encuentra escrita en este humilde libro. Leer este libro cambiará tu vida, ya no será la misma; prosperarás y tus sueños se realizarán. Que la gloria de Dios venga a ti. Amén.
Author: Jared Farmer
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465097855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sanctification, as old-growth forests succumbed to imperial expansion and the industrial revolution. Taking us from Lebanon to New Zealand to California, Farmer surveys the complex history of the world’s oldest trees, including voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. In a changing climate, a long future is still possible, Farmer shows, but only if we give care to young things that might grow old.
