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Author : Tim Timmerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578072173
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (721 download)
Download or read book A Bigger World Yet written by Tim Timmerman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Van Buren
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1589256034
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (892 download)
Download or read book I Love You As Big As the World written by David Van Buren and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show your little one just how strong your love is with this sweet rhyme! Features soft, padded covers and sturdy board pages that make this a perfect choice for preschoolers. Big Bear and Little Bear love each other very much! Their love stretches down to the bottom of the sea, to the top of the highest mountain, and as far away as a star. The two spend the day together exploring the ocean, basking in the warm of the Sun on the beach, climbing a tree, and snuggling close at bedtime. The soft padded covers, rounded corners and sturdy board pages make this title a perfect fit for preschoolers.
Author : Hans Rosling
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 125012381X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Factfulness written by Hans Rosling and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.
Author : Ole Könnecke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 177657012X
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)
Download or read book The Big Book of Animals of the World written by Ole Könnecke and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large format board book of animals from all over the world, illustrated with charm and humor. Each spread in this big book focuses on a continent or ocean and features animals unique to that part of the world. Simple but charming, this is a great mix of world tour and day at the zoo, with plenty of room for spontaneous storytelling.
Author : Davina Bell
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925923355
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (259 download)
Download or read book The End of the World Is Bigger than Love written by Davina Bell and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtakingly original novel about love and destruction, from an award-winning Australian children’s author.
Author : Rose George
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429925485
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Big Necessity written by Rose George and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “extraordinary” look at the stubborn problem of human waste disposal: “Among the best nonfiction books of the new millennium.” —The New York Times Acclaimed as “valuable and often entertaining” (Los Angeles Times), The Big Necessity defies the taboo on bodily waste—something common to all and as natural as breathing. We prefer not to talk about it, but we should—even those of us who take care of our business in pristine, sanitary conditions. Disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Even in America, nearly two million people have no access to an indoor toilet. Yet the subject remains unmentionable. Moving from the underground sewers of Paris, London, and New York (an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen) to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, The Big Necessity breaks the silence, revealing everything that matters about how people do—and don’t—deal with their own waste. With razor-sharp wit and crusading urgency, mixing levity with gravity, Rose George has turned the subject we like to avoid into a cause with the most serious of consequences. “One smart book . . . delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name.” —Newsweek “Makes a passionate argument for putting sanitation at the top of the world’s development agenda.” —Time “With irreverence and pungent detail, George breaks the embarrassed silence over the economic, political, social and environmental problems of human waste disposal. Full of fascinating facts . . . an intrepid, erudite and entertaining journey through the public consequences of this most private behavior.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : Doreen Rappaport
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536409895
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Helen's Big World written by Doreen Rappaport and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the life and legacy of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan.
Author : Marc Olson
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506455514
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Curious Kid's Guide to the World Jesus Knew written by Marc Olson and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual guide to the history and culture of the world during Jesus's time, with vibrant illustrations and maps.
Author : Euna Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780307749932
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (499 download)
Download or read book The World is Bigger Now written by Euna Lee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euna Lee, an American journalist who was captured and detained by the North Korean government in 2009, chronicles her harrowing experience.
Author : Kristi Yamaguchi
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402266464
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book It’s a Big World, Little Pig! written by Kristi Yamaguchi and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy, the adorable, persistent, dreaming-big pig, has a new adventure in store for her: the World Games ice-skating championship in Paris! Poppy is nervous about meeting so many new people in a new place. But, ever courageous and supported by her family (Emma, too!), Poppy embarks upon this exciting adventure head-on. She meets a snowboarding Panda, a Maltese who skies, and two fellow skaters, a Crane and a Kangaroo. Poppy begins to realize that although these animals look different, act different, and are from different places, they are all the same at heart. They all smile in the same language!
Author : Michael Keating
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912387824
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Small Nations in a Big World written by Michael Keating and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small northern European states have been a major point of reference in the Scottish independence debate. For nationalists, they have been an 'arc of prosperity' while in the aftermath of the financial crash, unionists lampooned the 'arc of insolvency'.Both characterisations are equally misleading. Small states can do well in the global market place, but they face the world in very different ways. Some accept market logic and take the 'low road' of low wages, low taxes and light regulation, with a correspondingly low level of public services. Others take the 'high road' of social investment, which entails a larger public sector and higher taxes. Such a strategy requires innovative government, flexibility and social partnership.Keating and Harvey compare the experience of the Nordic and Baltic states and Ireland, which have taken very different roads and ask what lessons can be learnt for Scotland. They conclude that success is possible but that hard choices would need to be taken. Neither side in the independence debate has faced these choices squarely.
Author : Nancy L. Carlson
Publisher : Viking Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780670035809
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)
Download or read book There's a Big, Beautiful World Out There! written by Nancy L. Carlson and published by Viking Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a book about facing one's fears as a young girl ventures out of her home to take part in an array of new experiences and adventures. 4 yrs+
Author : Hanna Abi Akl
Publisher : Waterton Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1733623345
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)
Download or read book It's a Big Big World written by Hanna Abi Akl and published by Waterton Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The world was against me.’ As up-and-coming writer John Kaliba anticipates the publication of his first book – which he thinks will propel him to literary fame – he also faces the challenges of making it in a foreign country. As John contemplates the day-to-day hustle that comes with integrating a new system, he must manage between preserving his love for Diane, fending off his relentless publisher, and resisting institutionalization. In this novel, Hanna Abi Akl gives an upfront, comical, and brutal account of the mind of an outcast fighting for survival in the voice of his fictional alter-ego, Kaliba.
Author : Mary Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974954189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (541 download)
Download or read book Big World written by Mary Miller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Mary Miller's BIG WORLD is the second book and first work of fiction to come out of Short Flight/Long Drive Books, a publishing arm of the independent literary journal Hobart. The characters in Mary Miller's debut short story collection BIG WORLD are at once autonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a cynicism regarding their ability to do so, whether they're holed up in a motel room in Pigeon Forge with an air gun shooting boyfriend as in "Fast Trains" or navigating the rooms of their house with their dad after their mother's death as in "Leak." Mary Miller's writing is unapologetically honest and efficient and the gut-wrenching directness of her prose is reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge, if Gaitskill's and Eldridge's stories were set in the south and reeked of spilt beer and cigarette smoke.
Author : Marcus Chown
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571278426
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book What a Wonderful World written by Marcus Chown and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wit, colour and clarity, What A Wonderful World quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works. From economics to physics and biology to philosophy, Marcus Chown explains the complex forces that shape our universe. Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing? In What a Wonderful World, Marcus Chown, bestselling author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You and the Solar System app, uses his vast scientific knowledge and deep understanding of extremely complex processes to answer simple questions about the workings of our everyday lives. Lucid, witty and hugely entertaining, it explains the basics of our essential existence, stopping along the way to show us why the Atlantic is widening by a thumbs' length each year, how money permits trade to time travel why the crucial advantage humans had over Neanderthals was sewing and why we are all living in a giant hologram.
Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374279127
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Tree of Smoke written by Denis Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Author : Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0679645985
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
