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1) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period...
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers
With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom.
He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers-from activist Tim DeChristopher to collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht, grassroots strategist...
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Combining history and science, a sweeping look at the smallest substance and the biggest challenges facing people and the planet
Four and a half billion years ago, planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from the birth of the sun. Within the next one hundred years, life on Earth would be profoundly changed by heat, drought, fire, and, again, dust. Dust is a legacy of twentieth-century progress and...
