The Rough Guide to Green Living is a fact-filled, user-friendly guide to living a low-carbon, eco-friendly life. The guide provides hundreds of going green tips on all the key consumer areas - from greener shopping and recycling to producing your own electricity and reducing your carbon footprint. Extended Description
Ryan & Jimmy: And The Well In Africa That Brought Them Together (Issues > World)
The true story of a young Canadian boy who built a well halfway around the world and his life-changing friendship with a Ugandan boy. In Agweo, Uganda, when Ryan’s Well was built, life changed for the better. Hardcover
Saving Planet Earth is the BBC's follow–up to the multi award winning, international bestseller Planet Earth. The new 11 part BBC 1 series, plus a three hour special, will show what is happening to the fantastic animals and plants you saw in Planet Earth, why they are threatened (as nearly all of them are) and, perhaps most importantly, what you can do to prevent their destruction. Hardcover 256 Pages Extended Description
Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. The six degrees of the title refer to the terrifying possibility that average temperatures will rise by up to six degrees within the next hundred years. Extended Description
SPACE IS THE FINAL FRONTIER and these ten women have established their place on it. This collection of ten biographies features women who have made an important contribution to the exploration of space. Included are Jerrie Cobb, who could only dream of flying above the atmosphere; some of the first women in space, Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride; and members of the current generation of women astronauts such as Julie Payette and Ellen Ochoa. This book shows the particular challenges faced by women in their quest to discover more about our universe. Photographs and sidebars containing fun facts and quotes are included.Paperback 111 pages
An educational and fun tour through centuries of research and discoveries, sure to inspire future scientists! In Super Women in Science, meet ten women from ancient times to today,.. Softcover Extended Description
David, the Oscar-winning producer of "An Inconvenient Truth," and author Gordon have teamed up for this powerful book filled with facts about global warming and its disastrous consequences plus suggestions on how kids can help combat global warming in their homes, schools, and communities. Full colour. Paperback 112 pages Extended Description
The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time.
For anyone who cares about the health of our planet, this invaluable guide offers hundreds of simple, actionable steps readers can take to help save the Earth. Softcover
Australia’s involvement with East Timor began in World War II when many Australian commandos would have died without the aid of the East Timorese. But in the 1970s Australia and other neighbouring nations stood by while tiny East Timor was crushed by an Indonesian invasion. Extended Description
Kids everywhere are deciding they can't wait to become adults to change the world. Theyre acting right now to fight hunger and poverty, promote health and human rights, save the environment, and work for peace in their communities and around the globe. Paperback 134 pages Extended Description
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