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  • The First Human

    by Ann Gibbons ...
    In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the “missing link”–the fossil of the earliest human ancestor–Gibbons ventures to Africa, where she encounters a fascinating ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The First Human

    The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

    by Ann Gibbons ...
    Narrated by Renée Raudman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind.The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first appeared is one of the most exciting and challenging of all scientific pursuits. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ecoviews

    Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales

    by J. Whitfield Gibbons, Anne R. Gibbons ...
    The authors offer a fun-to-read perspective on natural history, ecology as a field of study, and the current environmental issues that face our communities and the world.This lively and entertaining book provides a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the ecology of animals, plants, and their habitats and promotes awareness of pressing environmental issues. The eight informative chapters ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ecoviews Too

    Ecology for All Seasons

    by J. Whitfield Gibbons, Anne R. Gibbons ...
    Ecoviews Too examines various human attitudes toward wildlife and the environment, focusing on seasonal occurrences and natural adaptations, in an engaging and informative manner.Whit Gibbons and Anne R. Gibbons’s Ecoviews Too: Ecology for All Seasons is based on the popular weekly column “Ecoviews,” published by numerous newspapers for more than thirty years. A follow-up to Ecoviews: Snakes, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Zibaldone

    by Giacomo Leopardi ...
    Translated by Kathleen Baldwin, Richard Dixon, David Gibbons, Ann Goldstein, Gerard Slowey, Martin Thom, Pamela Williams ...
    A groundbreaking translation of the epic work of one of the great minds of the nineteenth centuryGiacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers from Nietzsche to Beckett as one of the towering literary figures in Italian history. To many, he is the finest Italian poet after Dante. (Jonathan Galassi's translation of Leopardi's Canti was ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • What Is Crime?

    Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It

    by Stuart Henry, Stuart Henry, Marc Gertz, Scott Greer, John Hagan, Gary Kleck, Jerome Michael, Dragan Milovanovic, Charles Otto, Paul Schnorr, Herman Schwendinger0, Julia Schwendinger1, Mark M. Lanier2, Mortimer J. Adler3, Kathyrn Ann Farr4, Don C. Gibbons5, Leroy C. Gould6, Katheryn K. Russell7, Dennis C. Sullivan8, Paul W. Tappan9, Larry L. Tifft0, Ray Surette1 ...
    For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal if the victims are black, lower class, or foreigners? When corporations victimize workers is ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Healthy and Sustainable Fundraising Activities

    Mobilizing Your Community Toward Social Responsibility

    by Jenine M. De Marzo, Anne Gibbone, Greg Letter, Catherine Klein ...
    For most schools and organizations, fundraisers bridge the gap between budgets and the money they need in order to operate. Despite the continued rise in childhood and adult obesity and increased attention to humankind’s ecological impact, many fundraisers still rely on the sale of high-calorie, low-nutrient foods or ask supporters to become consumers of incidental items and paper products “to ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Healthy and Sustainable Fundraising Activities

    Mobilizing Your Community Toward Social Responsibility

    by Jenine M. De Marzo, Anne Gibbone, Catherine Klein, Greg Letter ...
    For most schools and organizations, fundraisers bridge the gap between budgets and the money they need in order to operate. Despite the continued rise in childhood and adult obesity and increased attention to humankind’s ecological impact, many fundraisers still rely on the sale of high-calorie, low-nutrient foods or ask supporters to become consumers of incidental items and paper products “to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Social Inequality

    Forms, Causes, and Consequences

    by Heather Fitz Gibbon, Anne Nurse, Charles Hurst ...
    The eleventh edition of Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences is an introduction to the study of social inequality. Fully updated statistics and examples convey the pervasiveness and extent of social inequality in the United States. The authors use an intersectional perspective to show how inequality occurs, how it affects all of us, and what is being done about it.With more resources ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • A Careful Revolution

    Towards a Low-emissions Future

    by David Hall, Maria Bargh, Jonathan Boston, Dave Frame, Anne Gibbon, Sam Huggard, Kya Raina Lal, Judy Lawrence, Richard Kaipo Lum, Sylvia Nissen0, Amelia Sharman1, Matt Whineray2 ...
    Series Book 74 - BWB Texts
    Climate crisis is upon us. By choice or necessity, New Zealand will transition to a low-emissions future. But can this revolution be careful? Can it be attentive to the disruptions it inevitably creates? Or will carefulness simply delay and dilute the changes that future people require of us? This timely collection brings together eleven authors to explore the politics and practicalities of the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ellen Foster

    by Kaye Gibbons ...
    Narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 52 min

    "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Virtuous Woman

    by Kaye Gibbons ...
    Narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister, Tom Stechschulte ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 49 min

    A “vivid, unsentimental, powerful” (Publishers Weekly) portrait of a Southern marriage by the New York Times bestselling author of Ellen Foster.When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous ... Read more

    $17.99 USD