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5) Vanishing rain forests: optimizing a balance of human impacts in humid tropical regions of Mexico
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. This book takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.
Author
Publisher
Lulu
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"'I live in a twelve-months-of-summer paradise. Every day I walk the beautiful wild beaches and take my surfboard out into the warm waves of this tropical Shangri-La. I sing, I dance, and I watch countless sunsets with my beloved wife and our fellow expat friends. But despite all of this, one day I found myself longing for a change of scenery and culture.' The book in front of you is a chronicle of the days spent on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the son of Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica's remote Pacific Coast. He carried a light backpack and machete. Cody emailed his father that he would do 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. He was never seen again. The authorities suspected murder. Dial was forced to confront the question: Was...
Author
Publisher
Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The co-owner of two Latin restaurants in Hoboken, New Jersey, presents 500 recipes from the Latin world ranging from Mexico to Argentina and all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean including adobos, sofritos, empanadas, tamales, ceviches, moles and flan.
Publisher
The University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The multiple, vivid colors of scarlet macaws and their ability to mimic human speech are key reasons they were and are significant to the Native peoples of the southwestern U.S. and northwest New Mexico. Although the birds' natural habitat is the tropical forests of Mexico and Central America, they were present at multiple archaeological sites in the region. Leading experts in southwestern archaeology explore the reasons why"--