Author: Nalo Hopkinson
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1604866829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Nalo Hopkinson has been busily (and wonderfully) “subverting the genre” since her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won a Locus Award for SF and Fantasy in 1999. Since then she has acquired a prestigious World Fantasy Award, a legion of adventurous and aware fans, a reputation for intellect seasoned with humor, and a place of honor in the short list of SF writers who are tearing down the walls of category and transporting readers to previously unimagined planets and realms. Never one to hold her tongue, Hopkinson takes on sexism and racism in publishing in “Report from Planet Midnight,” a historic and controversial presentation to her colleagues and fans. Plus... “Message in a Bottle,” a radical new twist on the time travel tale that demolishes the sentimental myth of childhood innocence; and “Shift,” a tempestuous erotic adventure in which Caliban gets the girl. Or does he? And Featuring: Our Outspoken Interview, an intimate one-on-one that delivers a wealth of insight, outrage, irreverence, and top-secret Caribbean spells.
Report from Planet Midnight
Author: Nalo Hopkinson
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1604866829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Nalo Hopkinson has been busily (and wonderfully) “subverting the genre” since her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won a Locus Award for SF and Fantasy in 1999. Since then she has acquired a prestigious World Fantasy Award, a legion of adventurous and aware fans, a reputation for intellect seasoned with humor, and a place of honor in the short list of SF writers who are tearing down the walls of category and transporting readers to previously unimagined planets and realms. Never one to hold her tongue, Hopkinson takes on sexism and racism in publishing in “Report from Planet Midnight,” a historic and controversial presentation to her colleagues and fans. Plus... “Message in a Bottle,” a radical new twist on the time travel tale that demolishes the sentimental myth of childhood innocence; and “Shift,” a tempestuous erotic adventure in which Caliban gets the girl. Or does he? And Featuring: Our Outspoken Interview, an intimate one-on-one that delivers a wealth of insight, outrage, irreverence, and top-secret Caribbean spells.
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1604866829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Nalo Hopkinson has been busily (and wonderfully) “subverting the genre” since her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won a Locus Award for SF and Fantasy in 1999. Since then she has acquired a prestigious World Fantasy Award, a legion of adventurous and aware fans, a reputation for intellect seasoned with humor, and a place of honor in the short list of SF writers who are tearing down the walls of category and transporting readers to previously unimagined planets and realms. Never one to hold her tongue, Hopkinson takes on sexism and racism in publishing in “Report from Planet Midnight,” a historic and controversial presentation to her colleagues and fans. Plus... “Message in a Bottle,” a radical new twist on the time travel tale that demolishes the sentimental myth of childhood innocence; and “Shift,” a tempestuous erotic adventure in which Caliban gets the girl. Or does he? And Featuring: Our Outspoken Interview, an intimate one-on-one that delivers a wealth of insight, outrage, irreverence, and top-secret Caribbean spells.
Report Planet
Author: Philip Kidd
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982294434
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Author Philip Kidd examines the crises of the world in his second Report Planet book. Report Planet comprises a collection of stories around the world, covering topics from royalty to COVID-19 and through many topics in between in a report on the current state of our planet. Work done in the world exists in figures and numbers, and Report Planet translates that work into words. Kidd’s goal with this book is to take work in the world of a boss, statistician, or other expert, information that is muddied by reporter bias and misinformation, and compile it into one source to allow readers to learn what is wrong in the world and how to make it better. “Thank you for the opportunity to give you the important information in a nice way. I know from experience you will be better equipped to find your way around in our precious world.” —Philip Kidd Join Philip Kidd, a boss of the world,as he shares unfiltered stories and insights in Report Planet.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982294434
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Author Philip Kidd examines the crises of the world in his second Report Planet book. Report Planet comprises a collection of stories around the world, covering topics from royalty to COVID-19 and through many topics in between in a report on the current state of our planet. Work done in the world exists in figures and numbers, and Report Planet translates that work into words. Kidd’s goal with this book is to take work in the world of a boss, statistician, or other expert, information that is muddied by reporter bias and misinformation, and compile it into one source to allow readers to learn what is wrong in the world and how to make it better. “Thank you for the opportunity to give you the important information in a nice way. I know from experience you will be better equipped to find your way around in our precious world.” —Philip Kidd Join Philip Kidd, a boss of the world,as he shares unfiltered stories and insights in Report Planet.
Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425075920
Category : Astronautics and civilization.
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A collection of essays about space phenomena guides the reader on a tour of the universe
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425075920
Category : Astronautics and civilization.
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A collection of essays about space phenomena guides the reader on a tour of the universe
Living Planet Report 2018
Author: M. Grooten
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782940529902
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782940529902
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Writing Winning Reports
Author: Sandy Woolley
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
ISBN: 9781593631512
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Written reports have been a favorite format for sharing knowledge in schools since the invention of paper and pen. Writing Winning Reports stresses not only producing a polished report but also gaining important research and organizational skills in the process. It presents guidelines for 15 broad research topics. Each unit provides an outline of how to organize the report, a point breakdown for grading, a list of alternative projects. Guidelines are open enough to allow for individual creativity but organized to assure successful presentation. This is easy-to-use format is the beginning of winning reports. Book jacket.
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
ISBN: 9781593631512
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Written reports have been a favorite format for sharing knowledge in schools since the invention of paper and pen. Writing Winning Reports stresses not only producing a polished report but also gaining important research and organizational skills in the process. It presents guidelines for 15 broad research topics. Each unit provides an outline of how to organize the report, a point breakdown for grading, a list of alternative projects. Guidelines are open enough to allow for individual creativity but organized to assure successful presentation. This is easy-to-use format is the beginning of winning reports. Book jacket.
How to Become a Planet
Author: Nicole Melleby
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
ISBN: 1643750364
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
For Pluto, summer has always started with a trip to the planetarium. It’s the launch to her favorite season, which also includes visits to the boardwalk arcade, working in her mom’s pizzeria, and her best friend Meredith’s birthday party. But this summer, none of that feels possible. A month before the end of the school year, Pluto’s frightened mom broke down Pluto’s bedroom door. What came next were doctor’s appointments, a diagnosis of depression, and a big black hole that still sits on Pluto’s chest, making it too hard to do anything. Pluto can’t explain to her mom why she can’t do the things she used to love. And it isn’t until Pluto’s dad threatens to make her move with him to the city—where he believes his money, in particular, could help—that Pluto becomes desperate enough to do whatever it takes to be the old Pluto again. She develops a plan and a checklist: If she takes her medication, if she goes to the planetarium with her mom for her birthday, if she successfully finishes her summer school work with her tutor, if she goes to Meredith’s birthday party . . . if she does all the things that “normal” Pluto would do, she can stay with her mom in Jersey. But it takes a new therapist, a new tutor, and a new (and cute) friend with a checklist and plan of her own for Pluto to learn that there is no old and new Pluto. There’s just her.
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
ISBN: 1643750364
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
For Pluto, summer has always started with a trip to the planetarium. It’s the launch to her favorite season, which also includes visits to the boardwalk arcade, working in her mom’s pizzeria, and her best friend Meredith’s birthday party. But this summer, none of that feels possible. A month before the end of the school year, Pluto’s frightened mom broke down Pluto’s bedroom door. What came next were doctor’s appointments, a diagnosis of depression, and a big black hole that still sits on Pluto’s chest, making it too hard to do anything. Pluto can’t explain to her mom why she can’t do the things she used to love. And it isn’t until Pluto’s dad threatens to make her move with him to the city—where he believes his money, in particular, could help—that Pluto becomes desperate enough to do whatever it takes to be the old Pluto again. She develops a plan and a checklist: If she takes her medication, if she goes to the planetarium with her mom for her birthday, if she successfully finishes her summer school work with her tutor, if she goes to Meredith’s birthday party . . . if she does all the things that “normal” Pluto would do, she can stay with her mom in Jersey. But it takes a new therapist, a new tutor, and a new (and cute) friend with a checklist and plan of her own for Pluto to learn that there is no old and new Pluto. There’s just her.
Report of Proceedings - National Academy of Sciences
Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
The Plundered Planet
Author: Paul Collier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199752893
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of natural resources. Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the developed world could further impoverish them. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues. Grounded in a belief in the power of informed citizens, Collier proposes a series of international standards that would help poor countries rich in natural assets better manage those resources, policy changes that would raise world food supply, and a clear-headed approach to climate change that acknowledges the benefits of industrialization while addressing the need for alternatives to carbon trading. Revealing how all of these forces interconnect, The Plundered Planet charts a way forward to avoid the mismanagement of the natural world that threatens our future.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199752893
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of natural resources. Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the developed world could further impoverish them. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues. Grounded in a belief in the power of informed citizens, Collier proposes a series of international standards that would help poor countries rich in natural assets better manage those resources, policy changes that would raise world food supply, and a clear-headed approach to climate change that acknowledges the benefits of industrialization while addressing the need for alternatives to carbon trading. Revealing how all of these forces interconnect, The Plundered Planet charts a way forward to avoid the mismanagement of the natural world that threatens our future.
Drawdown
Author: Paul Hawken
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524704652
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
• New York Times bestseller • The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world “At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” —Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming “There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” —David Roberts, Vox “This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” —Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524704652
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
• New York Times bestseller • The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world “At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” —Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming “There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” —David Roberts, Vox “This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” —Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.
Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the Year ...
Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description