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Pillage d'eau, fracturation du sous-sol, contamination de l'air, danger de l'industrie nucléaire, privatisation des montagnes, érosion de la biodiversité… Si le Québec a pu échapper jusqu'ici à diverses tentatives d'agressions envers son territoire, c'est grâce à des groupes mobilisés, qui demeurent en alerte.
Les récits de lutte présentés dans cet ouvrage témoignent de l'engagement de citoyennes et citoyens qui se sont invités dans...
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Emergencia climática no es solo una advertencia, es una exploración sin complejos de un mundo en llamas, que desafía a los lectores a enfrentarse a verdades incómodas y a tomar partido antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Con un lenguaje directo y sencillo, que rehúye el academicismo y evita la avalancha de datos, Andreu Escrivà nos explica todo lo que hay que saber sobre el cambio climático, desmontando los mitos y los discursos negacionistas....
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From RattleSinker inventor Grey Myerson, "an extraordinary story of one man's obsession, a tale of passion, brutality, tragedy, and redemption...a book about a love of fishing that tackles the deepest themes of life" (Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk).
Born to Fish tells the tale of a man who led a harrowing, sometimes dissolute life until he turned himself around, thanks to his rod and reel. Overcoming learning disabilities, substance...
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The central role of education in responding to climate change is noted by stakeholders of all kinds. Yet for education to act as a vehicle of change it must become more holistic, inclusive, critically reflexive, and transformative. Most critically, it must transcend the grip of Western hegemonic reasoning-of modern colonial habits of seeing, perceiving, relating, and structuring-as the only legitimate means of making sense of life and the earth we...
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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2024.
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"Holly Foster knows that nothing lasts—not hometowns or schools, or even family. It’s just safer to keep herself uninvolved. So when she’s sent to spend part of the summer with her uncle, she knows better than to get attached to him…or any part of his small Vermont town of Arden. But when she arrives, she’s drawn into the drama that’s split the town: The local plastic factory is trying to tear down the trees in the center of Arden to build...