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2014.
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This informative guide provides an important survey of current key marijuana laws in the state of Colorado, with an emphasis on production, trade and consumption. The first book of its kind, libraries will find that this book is relevant to both business experts and recreational users across the state.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Immigration has been a controversial topic throughout American history. Debates about whether or not immigrants adversely affect the American economy, exacerbate crime, threaten American values and quality of life, and should or should not be allowed into the country existed since the first European settlers came to America. However, these controversies intensified during the last four decades of the 20th century and spilled over into the 21st century...
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[2018]
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Publisher's description: Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.6 miles of waterlines, and 102 propane bottles. Even as efforts to legalize marijuana accelerate, such "trespass grows" spread exponentially--as does their effect on the environment....
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Pub. Date
2021
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"Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the tactics that we've been told can slow climate change. But most of these recommendations are a result of a multi-pronged marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals. Fossil fuel companies have followed the example of other industries deflecting blame (think "guns don't kill people, people kill people")...
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[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Describes the experience of Chinese immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century, their work on the transcontinental railroad, and also discusses the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese workers from entering this country.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts."-- From dust jacket flap.
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2015.
Description
"Federal agencies apply GIS to a wide variety of solutions and workflows, such as targeting financial aid, combating the effects of climate change, protecting forests, and conserving water resources. The maps in this volume tell compelling stories of how GIS adapts to countless disciplines, engages citizens, and presents limitless opportunities to transform our nation and our planet"--From Foreword.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War. In fact, some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height of that conflict. Yet conversations about nuclear bombs generally happen in past tense. In Countdown, science journalist Sarah Scoles uncovers a different atomic reality: the unclear age's present. Drawing from years of on-the-ground reporting at the nation's nuclear weapons...
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[2021]
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"While ICE officials and others concerned about the presence of undocumented immigrants may understand the anxiety associated with living in the U.S. without authorization, they say the issue boils down simply to right and wrong. And therein lies the enormous challenge facing the nation, from small towns in Mississippi to Congress and the White House: How should America deal with undocumented immigrants. There are an estimated 11 million undocumented...
1552) Fracking
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
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Discusses the benefits and drawbacks of fracking.
1553) Until someone listens
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When Estela Juarez's mom is deported to Mexico, Estela knows she has to speak up for her family. Told in Estela's own words, Until Someone Listens is a true story about a young girl finding her voice and using it to make change.
Estela's family lives together in a happy home full of love. Or, at least, they used to... until their home was torn apart.
My mom had to go back,
to the other side of the river,
because she wasn't born in this country.
For...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change,...
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
In "IBM and the Holocaust, " a "New York Times" bestseller, Black unearthed proof that IBM collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. Now he delivers a startling investigation of America's century-long attempt to create a master race through mass sterilization and human breeding programs. 30 illustrations
1559) Plutopia: nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia--the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias--communities of nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Brown shows that the plants' segregation of permanent and temporary workers and of nuclear and non-nuclear...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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"In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens. Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008-09, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to...