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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy--now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number-one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports...
22) Renegades
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Find, Claim, Profit," In a post-Covenant War galaxy littered with scrap, it's the salvager's motto - and Rion Forge certainly made her mark on the trade. All she wanted was to grow her business and continue the search for her long-lost father, but her recent discovery of a Forerunner debris field at the edge of human-occupied space has now put her squarely in the crosshairs of the Office of Naval Intelligence and the violent remains of the Covenant....
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Space Odyssey series volume 2
Language
English
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Haywood Floyd, director of the original Discovery mission, sets out to discover what happened to HAL 9000 and comes face to face with something claiming to be Dave Bowman.
24) Ghost ship
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], ©2002
Language
English
Description
Salvagers discover the Antonia Graza, an Italian luxury liner with a dark secret. The passenger ship has been missing since 1962, floating adrift on the Bering Sea, the salvagers claim the vessel as their own. But the Antonia Graza in not uninhabited. Once towing of the ghost ship towards harbor has begun, a series of bizarre ocurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Featuring 40 easy-to-follow designs with step-by-step full-color photos, including a hanging shelf, deck chair, coffee table and decorative wall art, this charming DIY guide shows how easily accessible wood pallets are an eco-friendly, low-cost way to personalize a home.
26) The foraged home
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A celebration of both sustainability and design, this book presents beautiful interiors filled with salvaged, recycled, and repurposed objects from around the world. Artful home interiors are born from curiosity, creativity, and imagination, yet many of us fail to see a potential curtain rod in a bamboo stick or a kitchen counter in an old carpenter's bench. Anyone can create a beautiful home without expensive store-bought pieces simply by foraging...
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Publisher
Berkley Calibre
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Shadow Divers, this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550, the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle in which it was sunk. On April 16, 1944, the SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-550 off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. In return the sub was driven to the surface with depth charges, and then sent to the bottom...
28) Point of Light
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Publisher
Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"August 2558. Rion Forge was once defined by her relentless quest for hope amidst the refuse and wreckage of a post-Covenant War galaxy--years spent searching for family as much as fortune. But that was before Rion and the crew of her salvager ship Ace of Spades encountered a powerful yet tragic being who forever altered their lives. This remnant from eons past, when the Forerunners once thrived, brought with it a revelation of ancient machinations...
29) The family plot
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dahlia Dutton's father is thrilled when the aged and esteemed Augusta Winthrow appears in his office and makes a deal for his company, Music City Salvage, to take over and liquidate her massive family estate in Chattanooga. He gives the job to Dahlia, who gathers a crew and a couple of trucks and heads for the estate--an ancient house, a barn, a carriage house, and a small, overgrown cemetery that Augusta Winthrow left out of the paperwork. She left...
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Publisher
Scarletta Junior Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"With easy step-by-step instructions, this book will help kids get creative and recycle and repurpose their trash into handmade treasures. All projects feature common everyday items to reuse in a fun new way. From bottle-top pop art to felted tin-can organizers, kids will love making useful crafts and helping the environment. Great tips and advice on reusing, garage sales, and spotting treasures are also provided. So start your upcycling with these...
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Twenty collectors open their homes to reveal the weird and wonderful world of natural objects. This new generation of naturalists are using their collections to craft creative careers and decorate their homes with their finds and this book provides a wealth of inspiration for celebrating the beauty of the world around us more sustainably.
From the cabinets of curiosity of the 19th century to today's interest in foraged decorations, obsessive and...
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