Author: Rena Korb
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1602704058
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Learn about rocks in these easy-to-read books. Minerals, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rocks are explained with simple text and matching illustrations. A science activity, fun facts section, glossary, and index aid students in learning about the rocks around them. Special thanks to content consultant Daniel V. Sola professional geologist.
Author: Ashton Applewhite
Publisher: Celadon Books
ISBN: 1250297249
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author
Author: Will Hurd
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781432923082
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Introduces rocks, discussing the different types of rocks, where they are found, the changes they undergo, and how weathering and erosion occur.
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Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Author: Noah Heringman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801441271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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This book reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of geology, rocks, and landforms.
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465403523
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Did you know culinary salt is the mineral halite? Or that the pigment vermillion is powdered cinnabar, a mineral whose name comes from the Persian for "dragon's blood"? Discover the extraordinary mineral treasures that form our planet and that today we use in everything, from makeup and cookery to agriculture and high-tech. Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals is your essential collector's companion, with illustrated entries on hundreds of minerals, gems, and rocks from actinium to zirconium. Its breathtaking array includes organic minerals, such as pearls and corals, as well as silicates and "native elements" like gold. Browse to find wonderful gems, including opals, or pyropes - a deep-red garnet the size of a hen's egg. Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals reveals each mineral's defining characteristics and explains how and where they were formed, how they were first identified, their uses, and their chemical composition. Whether you are a geology student or starting your own collection, this fact-packed book is both a fascinating read and an essential identification guide.
Author: Hugh Miller
Publisher:
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Category : Bible and evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Author: Rebecca Hirsch
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1629687006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Get ready to get your hands dirty with The Rock Cycle. With its reader-friendly and interactive approach, this title covers key curriculum Earth science topics in an engaging way. This title explores the natural processes, how geologists study the rock cycle, and how the rock cycle relates to the reader's daily life. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author: Hugh Miller
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
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