The Last Caravan: 1970s in the Sahara: The Natural Disaster that Threatened a Nomadic People with Extinction 1504029879, 9781504029872

The Last Caravan is a powerful and dramatic account of how the great African drought of the early 1970s transformed the

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The Last Caravan: 1970s in the Sahara: The Natural Disaster that Threatened a Nomadic People with Extinction
1504029879, 9781504029872

This is a fascinating travel journey through the Sahara that began in 1912, by one of the most well- traveled women of t

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In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world,

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In the United States and Canada, thousands of species of native plants are edging toward the brink of extinction, and th

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Law in Crisis is an unsettling history of natural disaster and political subject formation in the modern world.

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Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meanin

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Playing Politics with Natural Disaster explains how the political decisions by local, state, and federal officials shape

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Scientists estimate more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced during Australia's Black Summer

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What every leader needs to know about dignity and how to create a culture in which everyone thrives

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The Tubus are a diversified pastoral nomadic people who speak two very similar dialects and form a single cultural commu

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