Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet (Rusch Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet (Rusch Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

The true story of how a scientist saved the planet from environmental disaster. Mexican American Mario Molina is a modern-day hero who helped solve the ozone crisis of the 1980s. Growing up in Mexico City, Mario was a curious boy who studied hidden worlds through a microscope. As a young man in

Mario Y El Agujero En El Cielo / Mario and the Hole in the Sky: Cmo Un Qumico Salv Nuestro Planeta (Rusch Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

Una historia real sobre un cient fico contempor neo que salv la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un cient fico mexicoamericano y un h roe de nuestros d as que ayud a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la d cada de 1980. Se cri en la

You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People (Rusch Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

A 2021 YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALIST America is the greatest democracy in the world . . . isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government but, more importantly, offers ways for young people to fix them. The political landscape has never

I Am Marie Curie (Meltzer Brad)(Pevná vazba)

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, physicist and chemist Marie Curie is the 19th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series about heroes. (Cover may vary) This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can

In the Sky - Designs inspired by nature (Evans Harriet)(Pevná vazba)

Take to the skies and discover how nature's designs can become our

How Ships Work (Lonely Planet Kids)(Pevná vazba)

The latest in our How... series takes to the waves to reveal the wonders of ships, boats and ferries and answers the questions of how they do what they do, what they're used for and how they have changed over time. Featuring fantastic illustrations by James Gulliver Hancock and loads of flaps to

Overview Timelapse: How We Change the Earth (Grant Benjamin)(Pevná vazba)

250 stunning, all-new images documenting our impact on the planet--and how the planet reacts--from the creators of Overview and the Instagram sensation Daily Overview. Change is Earth's most important and influential constant. From the regular shifting of the seasons to the increasingly dramatic

Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey (Minnick Fred)(Pevná vazba)

Shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth 'Bessie' Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williamson quickly found herself joining the boys in the tasting room, studying the distillation process,

Father of Lions - How One Man Defied Isis and Saved Mosul Zoo (Callaghan Louise)(Pevná vazba)

This is a story of human decency in the midst of barbarism - how the zookeeper of Mosul Zoo saved the animals during the Isis rule of the city between 2014 and

The Power of Stars (Penprase Bryan E.)(Pevná vazba)

Our Experience of the Sky and Star Knowledge.- A World of Constellations in the Night Sky.- Creation Stories from Around the World.- World Systems: Models of the Universe Throughout Time.- Stars that Bind: Civilization, Calendars, and the Sky, Modern Timekeeping and the Development of the Science

And the Ocean Was Our Sky (Ness Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

The Girl in the Text (Smith Ann)(Pevná vazba)

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality. In

The Heroine with 1001 Faces (Tatar Maria)(Pevná vazba)

How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook for Hollywood, with its

Classic Tales Second Edition: Level 1: Lownu Mends the Sky (Arengo Sue)(Paperback)

Find out how Lownu mends all the holes in the day sky and in the night sky

A Child's Introduction to the Night Sky: The Story of the Stars, Planets, and Constellations--And How You Can Find Them in the Sky (Hamilton Meredith)(Pevná vazba)

This charming exploration of the night sky -- featuring a star finder and glow-in-the-dark stickers -- which has more than a quarter of a million young astronomers enjoying the night sky in countries around the world, is now completely revised and updated.A Child's Introduction to the Night Sky is

The Illustrated Guide to Fossils & Fossil Collecting: A Reference Guide to Over 375 Plant and Animal Fossils from Around the Globe and How to Identify (Parker Steve)(Pevná vazba)

Fossils offer an unparalleled insight into the amazing history of our planet. In this updated new edition author Steve Parker reveals what fossils are and how they fit into geological history, the sites in which they can be found, and what the study of fossils tells us about our natural world. An

Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet (Suneby Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

It's monsoon season in Bangladesh, which means Iqbal's mother must cook the family's meals indoors, over an open fire. The smoke from the fire makes breathing difficult for his mother and baby sister, and it's even making them sick. Hearing them coughing at night worries Iqbal. So when he learns

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves (MacKinnon J. B.)(Pevná vazba)

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet--but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping.We can't stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma. The economy

In Focus Space (Jenner Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

Ten illustrators blast off into outer space to explore the mysteries of our solar system and the galaxies and stars beyond

The Big One: The Cascadia Earthquakes and the Science of Saving Lives (Rusch Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

No one ever thought the Pacific Northwest was due for an earthquake, let alone a catastrophic one. But geologists are transforming our understanding of the grave dangers the population in the region of Cascadia face--will there be a big one? And what can be done to save lives? America's Pacific

Easternmost Sky - Adapting to Change in the 21st Century (Blaxland Juliet)(Pevná vazba)

The theme of The Easternmost Sky is adapting to change. By exploring how climate and social changes are already affecting coastal Suffolk, Juliet creatively forecasts the future we will all have to adapt to - on the Antarctic, in Venice, in Britain and across the

The Overstory (Powers Richard)(Pevná vazba)

An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent

Good Enough - The Myth of Success and How to Celebrate the Joy in Average (Ross Eleanor)(Pevná vazba)

Exploring the way in which our quest to succeed and our pursuit of perfection blinds us to what life is all about, Good Enough combines sobering memoir and the science, stats and people propping up the myth of

How Catholic Art Saved the Faith (Lev Elizabeth)(Paperback)

Not long after Martin Luther's defiance of the Church in 1517, dialogue between Protestants and Catholics broke down, brother turned against brother, and devastating religious wars erupted across Europe. Desperate to restore the peace and recover the unity of Faith, Catholic theologians clarified