Jahren, Hope

Before meeting Huckleberry Finn, Mary Jane faces deadly illness, treacherous landowners, and swindlers as she goes on her own thrilling journey down the Mississippi in pre-Civil War America.

"[This] young adult adaptation details the science behind key inventions, clarifying how electricity, large-scale farming, and automobiles have both helped and harmed our world. [The author] explains the . . . consequences of unchecked global warming, from superstorms to rising sea levels, resulting from the . . . amounts of greenhouse gases being released into our atmosphere. The links between human consumption habits and our endangered existence are very real, with consequences leading to a crossroads of survival and extinction. Still, [the author] maintains that our . . . science-based knowledge can help us counter this dilemma. The . . . information provided in [this book] will help readers understand the path . . . [to] make informed choices"--Provided by publisher.

Geochemist and geobiologist Hope Jahren discusses the consequences of unchecked global warming, and explains how human consumption habits have contributed to climate change. Includes additional resources.

"[This] young adult adaptation details the science behind key inventions, clarifying how electricity, large-scale farming, and automobiles have both helped and harmed our world. [The author] explains the . . . consequences of unchecked global warming, from superstorms to rising sea levels, resulting from the . . . amounts of greenhouse gases being released into our atmosphere. The links between human consumption habits and our endangered existence are very real, with consequences leading to a crossroads of survival and extinction. Still, [the author] maintains that our . . . science-based knowledge can help us counter this dilemma. The . . . information provided in [this book] will help readers understand the path . . . [to] make informed choices"--Provided by publisher.

In The Story of More, Hope Jahren illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions?from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles?that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming?from superstorms to rising sea levels?and the actions that we all can take to fight back.

The author learned to appreciate nature in a unique way---by focusing on one plant species at a time, then one single plant, and then the single components of that plant. In so doing she came to understand that to really see the natural world is to understand everything in it.

"Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home"--OCLC.

"Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home"--OCLC.