Author: MATHILDA. MASTERSPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500296035
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
321 Seriously Smart Things You Need to Know
Author: Mathilda MastersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500296028
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Did you know that: * A giraffe can lick its own ears clean? * You can weigh your head by putting it in a bucket of water? * Astronauts urinate into a vacuum cleaner? What the encyclopaedia was to the 20th century, this book is to the 21st. Twelve elegantly designed chapters brim with 321 fascinating - and often surprising - facts, enabling people to dazzle their friends and family with their encyclopaedic knowledge of sports, science, plants and insects, famous people and space. The facts are all grouped together by topic, so readers can dip in and pick and choose the topics that they find most interesting. This well-structured collection of smart things you need to know will be fun for all the family.
Author: David Cotton
Author: New Zealand. Ministry of CommerceClimate Change
Author: Joseph RommPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190866105
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change." - New York Magazine"The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane." - The Daily Beast"A must-read." - The GuardianThe essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our time, Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG is a clear-eyed overview of the science, conflicts, and implications of our warming planet.From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National Geographic's Years of Living Dangerously series and one of Rolling Stone's "100 people who are changing America," Climate Change offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questionssurrounding what climatologist Lonnie Thompson has deemed "a clear and present danger to civilization."Questions about climate change addressed in this guide include:* How will climate change affect day-to-day life in the coming decades?* What are the implications of owning coastal property in the age of climate change?* Is retirement to South Florida (or the U.S. Southwest, or even Southern Europe) safe?* What are the implications of the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty?* What does Donald Trump's presidency mean for climate action in the United States and around the globe?* Are efforts to combat climate change making a difference?As the global response to climate change continues to evolve, Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG offers smart, unbiased answers to the most difficult questions in an area dogged by misunderstanding and politicization.
Climate Change Facts
Author: Cayden MarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Get up to speed on Climate Change in just 2.5 hours! This short Climate Change Book will show you the important Global Warming Facts and Truth and reads like a thriller. Terror attacks and murder suicide wrapped in global warming, while providing the latest facts. Captivating, educational, exciting to read. The first chapter alone will blow you away. Discover what you never heard before, connections you never knew about and see surprising solutions. No boring graphs, no boring lists, no science jargon - this book will absolutely surprise you. Global Warming leads to droughts, droughts lead to war, the Pentagon has warned us. Learn more about these pressing issues: - Container Ships - Coal Ash Pollution - Exploding Tundra - Industrial Wastewater - Cruise Ships - Landfills - Financial Corruption - Animal Agriculture - Overfishing - Climate Change Refugees And that's not even all the bad news. You probably heard bits and pieces, but did you know that climate change has added more fighters to ISIS, that container ships are polluting more than all the cars on our planet, or that the Tundra will keep exploding even if we were not here anymore? Can you imagine that we are about to run out of fresh water? Can you fathom the idea that we produced more CO2 in the last 30 years than we did in the previous 800.000 years combined? There is a way to implement solutions and most people cannot imagine what that could be. Find out how bad it is and see the solutions that we have at our disposal. Not all is lost, yet. If you care about your family and kids, there is something happening on our planet that you need to know about. It's all in here. Get up to speed and know more than most people you know, in just under 3 hours. You gonna love it.
Work Optional
Author: Tanja HesterPublisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316450871
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A practical action guide for financial independence and early retirement from the popular Our Next Life blogger. In today's work culture, we're expected to hustle around the clock. But what if you could escape the traditional path and get on one that doesn't require working full-time until age 65? What if you could wake up every day without an alarm clock and do the things you love most? Tanja Hester and her husband Mark left their crazed careerist lifestyle to live their dream life in Lake Tahoe, retiring early from high-stress careers. Now Tanja will help you map out a customized plan for freedom and make it easy to succeed, whether you're good at math and budgeting -- or not! Work Optional is more than just a financial plan: it's a plan for your whole life -- designed by you, not by an employer or clients. Tanja walks you through envisioning your dream life, accounting for variables such as health care and children, protecting yourself from recessions and future unknowns, and achieving a purpose-filled early retirement, semi-retirement, or career intermission with completely doable, non-penny-pinching steps. You can live a happier, more meaningful life, free from the daily grind. Regardless of where you are in your career, Work Optionalwill get you there.
Author: Kate EvansThe Brainiac's Book of the Climate and Weather
Author: Rosie CooperPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500652465
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fresh approach to science for young brainiacs, this book on climate and weather includes incredible but true stories, interactive activities, and quirky infographics. What’s the difference between climate and weather? How do we know the climate is changing? The need-to-know answers to these and many other pressing questions are explained in this volume through incredible stories, infographics—including how many farts animals add to the atmosphere each year—and fun activities like engineering a solar oven from a pizza box. Budding brainiacs will love reading “Need- to- Know” stories, diving into interactive “Try This” activities, and building a trove of fascinating facts from a series of infographic “Data Dumps.” Featuring the artwork of Harriet Russell, the illustrator of the bestselling This Book Thinks You’re a . . . series, The Brainiac’s Book of Climate and Weather demonstrates how fun and relevant science is to our everyday lives. This brainiac’s book makes the subject interactive, interesting, and easy to relate to for young readers.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Author: Al GorePublisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1635651085
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A New York Times bestseller! The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth and companion to Vice President Al Gore’s new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, this new book is a daring call to action. It exposes the reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and delivers hope through groundbreaking information on what you can do now. Vice President Gore, one of our environmental heroes and a leading expert in climate change, brings together cutting-edge research from top scientists around the world; approximately 200 photographs and illustrations to visually articulate the subject matter; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness (and with humor, too) that the fact of global climate change is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be assuredly disastrous if left unchecked. Follow Vice President Gore around the globe as he tells a story of change in the making. He connects the dots of Zika, flooding, and other natural disasters we've lived through in the last 10+ years—and much more. The book also offers a comprehensive how-to guide on exactly how we can change the course of fate. With concrete, actionable advice on topics ranging from how to run for office to how to talk to your children about climate change, An Inconvenient Sequel will empower you to make a difference—and lets you know how exactly to do it. Where Gore’s first documentary and book took us through the technical aspects of climate change, the second documentary is a gripping, narrative journey that leaves you filled with hope and the urge to take action immediately. This book captures that same essence and is a must-have for everyone who cares deeply about our planet.
