Download or read book The Adventures of Water written by Malcolm Rose and published by Egmont UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to splash your way through an interactive adventure? Water has been here for millions of years. There's a lot of it around, but where did it come from and why do we need it? On this fantastic journey of discovery, find out where the wettest place on earth is, why pee is yellow, how many thunderstorms occur per minute, and much more! Intriguing facts and clear explanations make the water cycle fun and accessible, while engaging novelty elements - pull tabs, wheels, and pop-ups - provide a hands-on approach to science.
Download or read book Drinking Water written by James Salzman and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the changing approaches that environmentalists, governments, and the open market have taken to water through the lens of world history. When we turn on the tap or twist open a tall plastic bottle, we probably don’t give a second thought about where our drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to the glass is far more convoluted than we might think. In this revised edition of Drinking Water, Duke University professor and environmental policy expert James Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time. He adds eye-opening, contemporary examples about our relationship to and consumption of water, and a new chapter about the atrocities that occurred in Flint, Michigan. Provocative, insightful, and engaging, Drinking Water shows just how complex a simple glass of water can be. “A surprising, delightful, fact-filled book.” —Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel “Instead of buying your next twelve-pack of bottled water, buy this fascinating account of all the people who spent their lives making sure you’d have clean, safe drinking water every time you turned on the tap.” —Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet “Drinking Water effortlessly guides us through a fascinating world we never consider. Even for people who think they know water, there is a surprise on almost every page.” —Charles Fishman, bestselling author of The Big Thirst and The Wal-Mart Effect “Salzman puts a needed spotlight on an often overlooked but critical social, economic, and political resource.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book What to Drink with What You Eat written by Andrew Dornenburg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 IACP Cookbook of the Year Award Winner of the 2007 IACP Cookbook Award for Best Book on Wine, Beer or Spirits Winner of the 2006 Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year Award Winner of the 2006 Gourmand World Cookbook Award - U.S. for Best Book on Matching Food and Wine Prepared by a James Beard Award-winning author team, "What to Drink with What You Eat" provides the most comprehensive guide to matching food and drink ever compiled--complete with practical advice from the best wine stewards and chefs in America. 70 full-color photos.
Download or read book Drop written by Emily Kate Moon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A water ride like you've never experienced before, featuring the cutest drop of water in all of precipitation. Meet Drop. She's water! And she's seen a thing or two. Yep, even dinosaurs; she's four and a half billion years old, after all. Everywhere Drop flows--and she flows everywhere--she keeps things moving, making life on earth possible, and having a great time doing it. (Have you ever plummeted from a rain cloud? Or took a thousand-year nap in a glacier? Drop knows how to live right.) With delightful panache and a steady stream of funny one-liners, Drop takes readers on an adventure through the water cycle and beyond. Filled with irresistible artwork, funny asides, and a steady sprinkle of kid-enticing facts, Drop is the story about water you never knew you were thirsting for. "Splashy and original." —Kirkus "A stand out from others of its type." —SLC “An endearing, conversational introduction to the water cycle.” —PW
Download or read book Thirsting for Living Water written by Michael J. Mantel and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When personal and global events threw Mike Mantel into a dark night of the soul, he embarked on a journey around the world to rediscover God's holistic gospel driven by compassion, justice, and mercy. Embark on your own adventure and open your eyes to the ways God is already at work at home, among neighbors, and to the ends of the earth.
Download or read book The Big Thirst written by Charles Fishman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fishmen examines the passing of the golden age of water and reveals the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor.
Download or read book Not a Drop to Drink written by Mindy McGinnis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of classic frontier survival stories, as well as readers of dystopian literature, will enjoy this futuristic story where water is worth more than gold. New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant says Not a Drop to Drink is a debut "not to be missed." With evocative, spare language and incredible drama, danger, and romance, Mindy McGinnis depicts one girl's journey in a frontierlike world not so different from our own. Teenage Lynn has been taught to defend her pond against every threat: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and most important, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty—or doesn't leave at all. Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest. But when strangers appear, the mysterious footprints by the pond, nighttime threats, and gunshots make it all too clear Lynn has exactly what they want, and they won't stop until they get it. . . . For more in this gritty world, join Lynn on an epic journey to find home in the companion novel, In a Handful of Dust.
Download or read book Water written by Frank Asch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water is beautiful and useful and, in its many forms, vital to life. In this lyrical companion to The Earth and I, Frank Asch encourages young readers to appreciate anew one of our most precious resources.
Download or read book Living Things Need Water written by Bobbie Kalman and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the importance of water to all life on earth.
Download or read book Adventure Racing written by Jacqueline Ching and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the do's and don't's of this high-powered and high-risk series of events that take place often in exotic locales.
Download or read book Waterlogged written by Timothy Noakes and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Drink as much as you can, even before you feel thirsty." That's been the mantra to athletes and coaches for the past three decades, and bottled water and sports drinks have flourished into billion-dollar industries in the same short time. The problem is that an overhydrated athlete is at a performance disadvantage and at risk of exercise-associated hyponatremia (EAH)--a potentially fatal condition. Dr. Tim Noakes takes you inside the science of athlete hydration for a fascinating look at the human body’s need for water and how it uses the liquids it ingests. He also chronicles the shaky research that reported findings contrary to results in nearly all of Noakes’ extensive and since-confirmed studies. In Waterlogged, Noakes sets the record straight, exposing the myths surrounding dehydration and presenting up-to-date hydration guidelines for endurance sport and prolonged training activities. Enough with oversold sports drinks and obsessing over water consumption before, during, and after every workout, he says. Time for the facts—and the prevention of any more needless fatalities.
Download or read book The Adventure written by Lynn Johnson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a gripping, brutally honest, true story of the author's journey through five psychotic episodes. At the age of 53, she was diagnosed with depression and psychosis. Over the next four years and five hospitalizations, the diagnosis became a schizo-affective disorder. This mental illness is considered a more severe form of schizophrenia. The author interweaves her psychosis with her life-long spiritual journey and looks for the gifts that this illness has brought to her. She believes that her experiences deepened her compassion for other beings and her relationship to the Universe. She gives practical examples of how to engage a person mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. She believes that these aspects of a person, including someone with a mental illness, cannot be separated. The author hopes that those who have a mental illness and their caregivers, family, friends, nurses, counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists, as well as the general public, may gain new insights into the treatment and nature of mental illness.
Download or read book The Adventures of Amir Hamza written by Ghalib Lakhnavi and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic: a panoramic tale of magic and passion, a classic hero’s odyssey that has captivated much of the world. It is the spellbinding story of Amir Hamza, the adventurer who in the service of the Persian emperor defeats many enemies, loves many women, and converts hundreds of infidels to the True Faith before finding his way back to his first love. In Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s faithful rendition, this masterwork is captured with all its colorful action and fantastic elements intact. Appreciated as the seminal Islamic epic or enjoyed as a sweeping tale as rich and inventive as Homer’s epic sagas, The Adventures of Amir Hamza is a true literary treasure. Praise for The Adventures of Amir Hamza: “The Iliad and Odyssey of medieval Persia, a rollicking, magic-filled heroic saga... in an interpretation so fluent that it is a pleasure to sit down and lose oneself in it.” –The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous dovetailing of fantasy, history and religion . . . This sensitive new translation by Musharraf Ali Farooqi is filled with lyrical resonance. . . . [Readers] will love losing themselves in this complex yet ancient world of the imagination.” –The Washington Post Book World “It’s hard to think of an epic more dazzlingly splendid . . . Farooqi has given world literature a gift.” –Time “With prose as embroidered as the tales themselves, the book should be savored under the covers like a secret lover.” –The Austin Chronicle “[A] revelatory translation of a masterpiece of world literature . . . unequivocally an amazing piece of publishing history.” –The Buffalo News
Download or read book Life s Adventure Virtual Risk in a Real World written by Roger Bate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a dangerous world. Numerous hazards can strike us down from infectious diseases and genetic disorders to food poisoning and car crashes. Furthermore, the advances in information technology enable consumers to be more aware of these problems as the latest data on new hazards is spun around the world in a matter of seconds. As part of the opinion forming sector (as a think tank researcher and opinion editorial writer) Roger Bate has contributed to this information exchange. His writing over the past five years, as reflected in this book, has focussed on 5 key themes: 1. Hazards are as likely to come from natural as from man-made substances. 2. The linear no-threshold hypothesis is rubbish (i.e. the dose makes the poison). 3. An entire industry has developed to scare us into stopping certain activities, or making us feel guilty for continuing them, or lobbying to have them banned by government. 4. The public are quite capable of making decisions that involve complex trade-offs if only we would let them; indeed not letting them causes enormous problems as government bodies do not have the dispersed knowledge to do this, and are subject to interest group pressure. 5. There are innumerable benefits, as well as costs, from risk taking. Most articles concerning risk avoid mentioning any of the above five themes. The articles for this book were originally published in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economic Affairs, and The Sunday Times. An introduction will draw all the articles together.
Download or read book The Water Tales written by Michelle Wise Wright and published by Carpenter's Son Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Water Tales: Ten Life Lessons from "My Water Buddy & Family®" is an adventurous collection of ten short children stories that uses anthropomorphic body and organ characters to tell ten different tales centered around the importance of water. Each tale is cleverly built around each of the eleven members of My Water Buddy & Family® who are all focused on the beneficial impact of water for our bodies, the earth, the environment, and the extended family of all living species. The Main character of the brand is My Water Buddy®, a unique personification of water (H20) and the human body. My Water Buddy embodies "The Family", which consists of various anthropomorphic body components and organ characters that drinking water positively impacts, including: Airy and Breezy the Twin Lungs, Boney the Bone, BRAWNY the Muscle®, Flowy the Blood Drop, Flushy and Gushy the Twin Kidneys, Pumpy the Heart, Tummy the Stomach, and Whizzy the Brain. In addition to motivating young readers to drink water, the stories tap into life topics important to children: bullying, self-esteem, peer pressure, etc.
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Download or read book Every Last Drop written by Michelle Mulder and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ "An excellent resource on the topic." —School Library Journal, starred review In the developed world, if you want a drink of water you just turn on a tap or open a bottle. But for millions of families worldwide, finding clean water is a daily challenge, and kids are often the ones responsible for carrying water to their homes. Every Last Drop looks at why the world’s water resources are at risk and how communities around the world are finding innovative ways to quench their thirst and water their crops. Maybe you’re not ready to drink fog, as they do in Chile, or use water made from treated sewage, but you can get a low-flush toilet, plant a tree, protect a wetland or just take shorter showers. Every last drop counts!
