Download or read book Jesse and the Climate Monster written by Tom Medeiros and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse and the Climate Monster An Introduction for parents and teachers As the news of climate change and climate related disasters expands, our school age children are not immune to the feelings of fear and helplessness. Jesse and the Climate Monster, published as a bilingual (English/Spanish) book, allows young readers, their classmates and their families, an opportunity to begin to understand climate change as presented in an engaging tale. Within the story, early readers are exposed to many of the effects of climate change as Jesse relates the experiences of Jesse’s classmates. In addition to the story, the accompanying links, activities, and illustrated glossary allow younger students, their classmates and their families, further access to climate information in an age-appropriate format. This story provides a ray of optimism, and a feeling of empowerment to our young readers. Jesse y el Monstruo Climático Una introducción para padres y maestros Mientras que se difunden noticias de desastres relacionados con el clima, nuestros estudiantes jóvenes no son inmunes a sentimientos de miedo y desamparo. Jesse y el monstruo climático les brinda a los lectores jóvenes una oportunidad para empezar a entender el cambio climático a través de un cuento cautivador. Dentro del cuento, los lectores son expuestos a muchos de los efectos del cambio climático mientras Jesse relata las experiencias de sus compañeros de clase. Su uso de poderes recién descubiertos revela las múltiples posibles maneras de abordar el cambio climático. Además del cuento, los enlaces, actividades y glosario ilustrado les permiten a los estudiantes jóvenes profundizar su acceso a información climática en un formato apropiado para su edad. El cuento brinda un rayo de optimismo, citando evidencias de actividades respetuosas con el clima que todos pueden realizar.
Download or read book When the Climate Changed written by Val Wangler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fossil fuels run low, the power goes out, and three young friends learn what it means to make it on their own. Growing food, collecting rainwater, raising chickens and much more, Jesse, Angie, and Ricky survive in challenging times. Kids: What would it be like if there was no electricity? How would you find food? Clean water? Join three friends as they find out for themselves! Parents: Looking for reading that will teach your child about what it means to live sustainably in a changing world? This book is sure to get your child thinking about important environmental issues while having a great time. Please check this out! Teachers: A great complement to science class, this book will start many important conversations about global warming and the environment. Please contact the author to arrange for classroom sets.
Download or read book Swamp Story written by Dave Barry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author—and actual Florida Man—Dave Barry returns with a “hilariously funny” (Steve Martin) caper full of oddballs and more twists and turns than a snake slithering away from a gator. Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems—if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse has it. Meanwhile, Ken Bortle of Bortle Brothers Bait and Beer has hatched a scheme to lure tourists to his failing store by making viral videos of the “Everglades Melon Monster.” The Monster is, in fact, an unemployed alcoholic newspaperman named Phil wearing a Dora the Explorer costume head. Incredibly, this plan actually works, inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm into the swamp in search of the Monster at the same time villains are on the hunt for Jesse’s treasure. Amid this mayhem, a presidential hopeful arrives in the Everglades to start his campaign. Needless to say, it does not go as planned. In fact, nothing in this story goes as planned. This is, after all, Florida.
Download or read book 63 Documents the Government Doesn t Want You to Read written by Jesse Ventura and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of government documents dating back to 1950's.
Download or read book Making Climate Tech Work written by Alon Tal and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate tech is critical for averting planetary chaos. Half the greenhouse gas reductions required to reach "net-zero" climate targets in 2050 will need to come from technologies that have not yet been invented. Making Climate Tech Work is an insightful analysis of how smart government policies can make those technologies a reality. Which approaches can lead us to a sustainable economy, and which are likely to fall short? Learn how Denmark became a wind energy superpower, Germany incentivized renewables, Australia phased out incandescent bulbs, and why carbon taxes have failed around the world - but could be designed for success. Alon Tal expertly distills each policy's benefits and drawbacks, along with related ethical questions and public perceptions. The result is an essential primer for anyone interested in accelerating climate tech solutions.
Download or read book JESSE OWENS written by Narayan Changder and published by CHANGDER OUTLINE. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Race towards inspiration with 'Jesse Owens,' a compelling MCQ book that celebrates the life and triumphs of the legendary track and field athlete. Navigate through a collection of engaging multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that explore Owens' historic achievements, including his iconic performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Tailored for sports enthusiasts, students, and those inspired by tales of perseverance, this MCQ guide offers an insightful journey through Jesse Owens' impact on athletics and history. Sprint through the milestones, relive the victories, and download your copy now to embark on an exhilarating journey through the incredible legacy of 'Jesse Owens.'"
Download or read book Making a Monster written by Dawn Keetley and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twelve-year-old Jesse Pomeroy tortured seven small boys in the Boston area and then went on to murder two other children, one of the most striking aspects of his case was his inability ever to answer the question of why he did what he did. Experts tried to explain his horrible acts -- and distance the rest of society from them -- but the mystery remains. This book details the crimes and explores the two reigning theories at the time -- that he was shaped before birth when his pregnant mother visited a slaughterhouse and that he imitated brutal acts found in popular dime novels. The author then offers a new theory: that Pomeroy suffered a devastating reaction to a smallpox vaccination which altered his brain, creating a psychopath who revealed the human potential for brutality.
Download or read book Scooby Doo and the Eerie Ice Monster written by Jesse Leon McCann and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a Halloween cruise in Galcier Bay, Alaska, to visit Velma's goldminer Uncle Brad, Scooby-Doo and his friends encounter ice monsters from a melting glacier, creatures the ship's captain tells them are a sign of bad luck.
Download or read book Climate of Denial written by Allen MacDuffie and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. This book argues that this structure of feeling has roots that can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when Western culture encountered the profound shock of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin's theory made it increasingly difficult for secular humanists to flatly deny that humans are animals, fully enmeshed in natural systems and processes. But like those of us confronting climate change today, many writers and scientists struggled to integrate its depersonalizing vision into their understanding of the place of humans in the natural order. The result was that the radical environmental implications of The Origin of Species were evaded as soon as they were articulated, abetted by a culture of denial structured by the illusions of capital and empire. In light of the climate emergency, Climate of Denial recontextualizes nineteenth-century texts to offer rich insight into the defensive strategies used—then and now—to avoid confronting the unsettling realities of our situation on this planet.
Download or read book Jesse James The Man and his Machines written by Mike Seate and published by . This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, with his collection of skulls, pet sharks, pit bulls and tattoos, Jesse James is the consummate motorcycle outlaw. Some of this comes naturally - after all, his great-great-grandfather was the famous outlaw's cousin. But this image is only a small part of Jesse James' persona. There's also his passion as an artisan and his success at custom building bikes (chronicled in Discover Channels video productions Motorcycle Mania and Motorcycle Mania 2). Now Jesse puts his talents to good use as the master builder in the popular new Discovery Channel series Monster Garage.
Download or read book Hot Equations written by Jesse S. Cohn and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds of literary and political “realism” that continue to suppress the radical imagination. Alluding both to the ongoing climate catastrophe and to Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”—that famous touchstone of “hard science fiction”—Hot Equations reads the crises of our "post-normal" moment via works that increasingly subvert genre containment and spill out into the public sphere. Drawing on archives and contemporary theory, author Jesse S. Cohn argues that these imaginative works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror strike at the very foundations of modernity, calling its basic assumptions into question. They threaten the modern order with a simultaneously terrible and promising anarchy, pointing to ways beyond the present medical, ecological, and political crises of pandemic, climate change, and rising global fascism. Examining books ranging from well-known titles like The Hunger Games and The Caves of Steel to newer works such as Under the Pendulum Sun and The Stone Sky, Cohn investigates the ways in which science fiction, fantasy, and horror address contemporary politics, social issues, and more. The “cold equations” that established normal life in the modern world may be in shambles, Cohn suggests, but a New Black Fantastic makes it possible for the radical imagination to glimpse viable possibilities on the other side of crisis.
Download or read book How I Saved the World written by Jesse Watters and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of national distrust and despair, one tanned TV host holds the key to the future. In How I Saved the World, Jesse Watters takes readers on a tour of his life from basement-dwelling Fox minion to pampered champion of right-thinking Americans. He has divined great truths about the nature of our country while stumbling across beaches asking oblivious college students basic political questions and while stumbling out of Air Force One with the President. Interspersed are his thoughtful suggestions for overcoming left-wing radicalism, maintaining American democracy, moving beyond aging hippies (like his long-suffering, loving parents), saving the world from social justice warriors and the deep state—all while smirking his way through life in only the nicest way. Watters outlines the stark choice ahead of us between all-American hamburgers and leftist Green New Deal breadlines (okay, maybe that one is a no-brainer) and shows the way for order and fairness to be restored. A manifesto and a call-to-arms from a man for all seasons, How I Saved the World is a hilarious, enlightening, entertaining book with a reasonable chance of winning a Nobel Prize in every category, even chemistry.
Download or read book Monster Cruise written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans will scream…with laughter when reading this silly and spooky 8x8 storybook retelling of the hilarious monster movie. Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 3—starring Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez—hits theaters July 13, 2018! Everyone agrees: Drac should take a break. So Mavis surprises him with a trip—a monster cruise with his friends and family! There they meet a mysterious woman who catches Drac’s eye and makes Mavis’s suspicious. Mavis is determined to uncover her secret before Drac ends up on a permanent vacation…or worse. ™ & © 2018 Sony Pictures Animation Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art Visual Culture and Climate Change written by T. J. Demos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly shaped by climate breakdown? Foregrounding a decolonial and climate-justice-based approach, this book joins efforts within the environmental humanities in seeking to widen considerations of climate change as it intersects with social, political, and cultural realms. It simultaneously expands the nascent branches of ecocritical art history and visual culture, and builds toward the advancement of a robust and critical interdisciplinarity appropriate to the complex entanglements of climate change. This book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners of contemporary art and visual culture, environmental studies, cultural geography, and political ecology.
Download or read book Whatever Happened To Hollywood written by Jesse L Lasky, Jr and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. tells his Hollywood tales as an insider, with stories and insights sparkling with poetry, humor and the heat of first-hand observation. He grew up as the son of Jesse Lasky, the man who produced Hollywood's first feature film, and formed a company that became Paramount. Jesse's book is the history of the film industry, the birth of an art form, and a compelling personal memoir. There are revealing portraits of Lasky, Sr. and his partners Samuel Goldwyn and Cecil B. De Mille (for whom Jesse wrote 8 films, including The Ten Commandments and Samson & Delilah) - and friends and colleagues such as Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Cohn, Darryl Zanuck, Nick Ray and Sam Fuller. From dating Jean Harlow to writing for Gary Cooper, Edward G. Robinson and Yul Brynner, here are the artists and the conmen, the breathtaking creativity and the destructive treachery, described by a man who knew everyone and saw everything.New edition with 353 exclusive photographs and Foreword by Lasky's stepson, Dr. Richard Niles."Jesse Lasky, the son of one of filmland's great founders, has written a bitter-sweet memoir of his life as a Hollywood screenwriter. It evaporates the mist of fantasy surrounding the Hollywood dream factory to reveal the realities that built the fairy-tale image." -Joan Crawford"It is certainly many notches above most of the other books on 'Hollywood'."-Douglas Fairbanks, Jr."One of the best books I've read of Hollywood for a long, long time-maybe ever"-Pola Negri"... a nostalgic, romantic and frequently hilarious account... impressive!"-Variety"... a good, honest, readable, funny book. I loved it!"-Larry Adler, New Society"...one of the best books about the growth and decline of Hollywood... written with insight, wit and an unusual lack of vanity." -Films In Review"Hollywood at its best-and worst... something special, an insider's view, robustly witty, enlightening and full of charm, The next best thing to having been there!" - Cosmopolitan"Lasky's portraits of the greats with whom he has worked are razor sharp... his style is captivating." - Films Illustrated
Download or read book Anthropocene Reading written by Tobias Menely and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and critical method. Entering into conversation with geologists and geographers, this volume reinterprets the cultural past in relation to the anthropogenic transformation of the Earth system while showcasing how literary analysis may help us conceptualize this geohistorical event. The contributors examine how a range of literary texts, from The Tempest to contemporary dystopian novels to the poetry of Emily Dickinson, mediate the convergence of the social institutions, energy regimes, and planetary systems that support the reproduction of life. They explore the long-standing dialogue between imaginative literature and the earth sciences and show how scientists, novelists, and poets represent intersections of geological and human timescales, the deep past and a posthuman future, political exigency and the carbon cycle. Accessibly written and representing a range of methodological perspectives, the essays in this volume consider what it means to read literary history in the Anthropocene. Contributors include Juliana Chow, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Thomas H. Ford, Anne-Lise François, Noah Heringman, Matt Hooley, Stephanie LeMenager, Dana Luciano, Steve Mentz, Benjamin Morgan, Justin Neuman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Derek Woods.
Download or read book Medusa written by Jessie Burton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling, lyrical YA retelling of Greek myth, from Jessie Burton, internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. "A powerfully feminist, elegiac, and original twist on this old story." -Madeline Miller, bestselling author of The Song of Achilles If I told you that I'd killed a man with a glance, would you wait to hear the rest? The why, the how, what happened next? Exiled to a far-flung island by the whims of the gods, Medusa has little company except the snakes that adorn her head instead of hair. But when a charmed, beautiful boy called Perseus arrives on the island, her lonely existence is disrupted with the force of a supernova, unleashing desire, love, betrayal . . . and destiny itself. With stunning, full-color illustrations and a first person narrative illuminating the fierce, vulnerable, determined girl behind the myth, this astonishing retelling is perfect for readers of Circe, and brings the story of Medusa to life for a new generation.
