In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their […]
The Death and Life of the Great American School System : How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library in memory of John Alioto by the New England Wire Sales Department. The New York Times – Alan Wolfe: Attending high school in Houston in the 1950s, Diane Ravitch came into contact with a teacher named Ruby Ratliff. A passionate lover of literature and a fierce editor of homework, […]