Download or read book Plastic written by Susan Freinkel and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This eloquent, elegant book thoughtfully plumbs the . . . consequences of our dependence on plastics” (The Boston Globe, A Best Nonfiction Book of 2011). From pacemakers to disposable bags, plastic built the modern world. But a century into our love affair, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this eye-opening book, we’re at a crisis point. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. We’re drowning in the stuff, and we need to start making some hard choices. Freinkel tells her story through eight familiar plastic objects: a comb, a chair, a Frisbee, an IV bag, a disposable lighter, a grocery bag, a soda bottle, and a credit card. With a blend of lively anecdotes and analysis, she sifts through scientific studies and economic data, reporting from China and across the United States to assess the real impact of plastic on our lives. Her conclusion is severe, but not without hope. Plastic points the way toward a new creative partnership with the material we love, hate, and can’t seem to live without. “When you write about something so ubiquitous as plastic, you must be prepared to write in several modes, and Freinkel rises to this task. . . . She manages to render the most dull chemical reaction into vigorous, breathless sentences.” —SF Gate “Freinkel’s smart, well-written analysis of this love-hate relationship is likely to make plastic lovers take pause, plastic haters reluctantly realize its value, and all of us understand the importance of individual action, political will, and technological innovation in weaning us off our addiction to synthetics.” —Publishers Weekly “A compulsively interesting story. Buy it (with cash).” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature “What a great read—rigorous, smart, inspiring, and as seductive as plastic itself.” —Karim Rashid, designer

Download or read book Roadmap to the Grade 10 MCAS English Language Arts written by Gloria Levine and published by The Princeton Review. This book was released on 2003-11-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Students Need to Know It, It's in This Book This book develops the English and language arts skills of high school students. It fosters skill mastery that helps them succeed both in school and on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). Why The Princeton Review? We have more than 20 years of experience helping students master the skills needed to excel on standardized tests. Each year we help more than 2 million students score higher and earn better grades. We Know the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Our experts at The Princeton Review have analyzed the MCAS, and this book provides the most up-to-date, thoroughly researched information possible. We break down the test into its individual skills to familiarize students with the test's structure while increasing their overall skill level. We Get Results We know what it takes to succeed in the classroom and on tests. This book includes strategies that are proven to improve student performance. We provide - content review based on Massachusetts standards and objectives - detailed lessons, complete with skill-specific activities - 2 complete practice MCAS English language arts tests.

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Download or read book MCAS English Language Arts Grade 10 written by J. Brice and published by Research & Education Assoc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REA ... Real review, Real practice, Real results. REA's Massachusetts Grade 10 MCAS English Language Arts Study Guide! Fully aligned with the Learning Standards in the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks Are you prepared to excel on this state high-stakes assessment exam? * Required for a high school diploma * Find out what you know and what you should know * Use REA's advice and tips to ready yourself for proper study and practice Sharpen your knowledge and skills * The book's full subject review refreshes knowledge and covers both components on the official exam, Language/Literature and Composition * Smart and friendly lessons reinforce necessary skills * Key tutorials enhance specific abilities needed on the test * Targeted drills increase comprehension and help organize study * Color icons and graphics highlight important concepts and tasks Practice for real * Create the closest experience to test-day conditions with two full-length practice tests * Chart your progress with detailed explanations of each answer * Boost confidence with test-taking strategies and focused drills Ideal for Classroom, Family, or Solo Test Preparation! REA has helped generations of students study smart and excel on the important tests. REA’s study guides for state-required exams are teacher-recommended and written by experts who have mastered the test.

Download or read book MTEL written by and published by Learning Express (NY). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are preparing for a teaching career in Massachusetts, passing the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL) Communication and Literacy Skills (01) test is an essential part of the certification process. This easy-to-use e-book helps you develop and practice the skills needed to achieve success on the MTEL. It provides a fully updated, comprehensive review of all areas tested on the official Communication and Literacy Skills (01) assessment, helpful information on the Massachusetts teacher certification and licensing process, and the LearningExpress Test Preparation System, with proven techniques for overcoming test anxiety, planning study time, and improving your results.

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Download or read book High Tech Trash written by Elizabeth Grossman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2006-05-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients. High Tech Trash is a wake-up call to the importance of the e-waste issue and the health hazards involved. Americans alone own more than two billion pieces of high tech electronics and discard five to seven million tons each year. As a result, electronic waste already makes up more than two-thirds of the heavy metals and 40 percent of the lead found in our landfills. But the problem goes far beyond American shores, most tragically to the cities in China and India where shiploads of discarded electronics arrive daily. There, they are "recycled"-picked apart by hand, exposing thousands of workers and community residents to toxics. As Grossman notes, "This is a story in which we all play a part, whether we know it or not. If you sit at a desk in an office, talk to friends on your cell phone, watch television, listen to music on headphones, are a child in Guangdong, or a native of the Arctic, you are part of this story." The answers lie in changing how we design, manufacture, and dispose of high tech electronics. Europe has led the way in regulating materials used in electronic devices and in e-waste recycling. But in the United States many have yet to recognize the persistent human health and environmental effects of the toxics in high tech devices. If Silent Spring brought national attention to the dangers of DDT and other pesticides, High Tech Trash could do the same for a new generation of technology's products.

Download or read book Trouble in a Fur Coat written by Janette Oke and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two bear cubs spend their first year discovering the wonders and dangers of a forest with their mother.

Download or read book Cracking the MCAS written by Gloria Levine and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2001-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Princeton Review realizes that acing the MCAS Grade 10 English Language Arts exam is very different from getting straight As in school. TPR doesn't try to teach students everything there is to know about language--only what they'll need to score higher on the exam. "There's a big difference. In Cracking the MCAS Grade 10 English Language Arts, The Princeton Review will teach test takers how to think like the test makers and: *Score higher by knowing what will be on the test: composition, literature, grammar terms and rules, and more *Ace the open-response questions with TPR's outlines and checklists *Earn more points by stocking your MCAS toolkit with handy techniques like Process of Elimination *Get familiar with the format of the exam to avoid surprises on test day **This book includes 2 full-length simulated MCAS Grade 10 English Language Arts exams. The questions are just like the ones test takers will see on the actual exam, and The Princeton Review fully explains every solution. "Contents Include: Introduction to the MCAS Exams Structure and Strategies II Subject Review The Language Part of the Language and Literature Exam Reading Comprehension The Literature Part of the Language and Literature Exam Cracking the Open-Response and Composition Sections III The Princeton Review Practice Tests

Download or read book Moonbird written by Phillip Hoose and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It's time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind. He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this gritty, four-ounce marathoner has flown the distance to the moon—and halfway back! B95 is a robin-sized shorebird, a red knot of the subspecies rufa. Each February he joins a flock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, nine thousand miles away. Late in the summer, he begins the return journey. B95 can fly for days without eating or sleeping, but eventually he must descend to refuel and rest. However, recent changes at ancient refueling stations along his migratory circuit—changes caused mostly by human activity—have reduced the food available and made it harder for the birds to reach. And so, since 1995, when B95 was first captured and banded, the worldwide rufa population has collapsed by nearly 80 percent. Most perish somewhere along the great hemispheric circuit, but the Moonbird wings on. He has been seen as recently as November 2011, which makes him nearly twenty years old. Shaking their heads, scientists ask themselves: How can this one bird make it year after year when so many others fall? National Book Award–winning author Phillip Hoose takes us around the hemisphere with the world's most celebrated shorebird, showing the obstacles rufa red knots face, introducing a worldwide team of scientists and conservationists trying to save them, and offering insights about what we can do to help shorebirds before it's too late. With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird. Moonbird is one The Washington Post's Best Kids Books of 2012. A Common Core Title.

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Download or read book The Seven Keys of Balabad written by Paul Haven and published by Yearling Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homesick for New York City, twelve-year-old Oliver feels very much out of his element in war-torn Balabad, until he gets caught up in a centuries-old mystery involving stolen artifacts and buried treasure.

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Download or read book The Best Test Preparation for the MCAS English Language Arts Grade 10 written by Research and Education Association and published by Research & Education Assoc.. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REA ... Real review, Real practice, Real results. REA's Massachusetts Grade 10 MCAS English Language Arts Study Guide! Fully aligned with the Learning Standards in the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks Are you prepared to excel on this state high-stakes assessment exam? * Required for a high school diploma * Find out what you know and what you should know * Use REA's advice and tips to ready yourself for proper study and practice Sharpen your knowledge and skills * The book's full subject review refreshes knowledge and covers both components on the official exam, Language/Literature and Composition * Smart and friendly lessons reinforce necessary skills * Key tutorials enhance specific abilities needed on the test * Targeted drills increase comprehension and help organize study * Color icons and graphics highlight important concepts and tasks Practice for real * Create the closest experience to test-day conditions with two full-length practice tests * Chart your progress with detailed explanations of each answer * Boost confidence with test-taking strategies and focused drills Ideal for Classroom, Family, or Solo Test Preparation! REA has helped generations of students study smart and excel on the important tests. REA’s study guides for state-required exams are teacher-recommended and written by experts who have mastered the test.

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