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.
The 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.
Author: Kate EvansThe Art Of Seduction
Author: Robert GreenePublisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847651402
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.
