Sentences with phrase «books about the environment»

My 6th grade teacher predicted that 20 years later I would be raising horses and writing books about the environment.

Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change.

His is the author of more than a dozen books about the environment, most recently Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist.

He is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change.

There have been numerous popular films and books about the environment and now two poets are sharing their views.

Not exact matches

He won an Apex Award for a book he wrote several years ago called Principled Profit, which was one of the first to challenge the conventional wisdom about the place of ethics and the environment in business successand that self - published book was republished by mainstream publishers in both India and Mexico.

Cahill begins this book by treating the three concentric circles that made up the world of Jesus and those who were influenced by him and wrote about him» namely, the Roman social and political environment, the Greek cultural and philosophical world, and the Jewish spirit that was both indebted to and suspicious of the other two.

It is well known the Obama's are not very «spiritual» people as niether one of them grwe up in that kind of environment according to the many many books written about them on both sides.

Now, I've watched all the documentaries and read science books and magazines and pamphlets warning me about our impact on the environment, but to no avail, even though I cognitively understood the problem.

And so I believe we all bear some responsibility for creating an environment in which controversial Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll can write a book about sex and marriage that tops the Amazon bestseller list.

Just re-reading one of your books - = - and having a fantasy of heading to the CIA as an academic to learn about academics in a new environment as I am obsessed with food... but that is not my profession...

This book's «I - spy» format creates a great environment for talking about the animals your child finds.

The cookbook author and regular New York Times contributor has written a book about how the food we eat is doing damage to the environment, what changes to make, and why.

By reading potty training books that will get her excited about potty training and by also always having a potty chair accessible to her, they are hoping to create a pressure free environment for young Suri!

But in this new book you really change the frame to talk about the environments children encounter that can foster or diminish these skills.

The books are a great springboard to start conversations about protecting our environment.

Diaper services - I don't know much about them, but I did hear that some launder the diapers multiple times, which in my book is not a good idea, for the diaper of the environment.

Read books, talk about growth, and teach them about the environment.

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs» (Defra) 2015 Food Pocket Book supplies some headline figures about where our food comes from.

Extracts of the book published last month by the Daily Mail have already made a series of damaging claims about Cameron including involvement in a drug - taking environment at university, knowledge of Ashcroft's offshore tax status, and his now infamous alleged involvement in a bizarre dinner club ritual involving a pig's head.

I thought briefly about voting for John Anderson, a Republican who was running as an independent, but ultimately gravitated to someone with even less of a chance, Barry Commoner, running on his own Citizens» Party line, who had written worthwhile books on poverty and the environment.

I last wrote about her in 2010 when her book Packing for Mars came out, which dealt in part with the unfortunate realities of hitting the head in a weightless environment.

Dear EarthTalk: Some friends of mine were talking about a book called Plan B that proposes a plan for rescuing the environment and ending poverty around the world.

«By understanding how this animal adapts to changes in the environment, we can determine what we really need to be concerned about and what we really should be doing,» says Stephen DeStefano, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of the new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia (Harvard University Press, 2010).

Three university professors have written a book called Seven Popular Myths about Livestock Grazing on Public Lands, which debunks all claims that cattle harm the environment.

Besides his smokescreen about «evenly distributed errors» (a phrase in which he has inadvertently provided us with an apt characterization of his whole book), Lomborgs further defense of his having presented an impossibly precise 43 percent value for a completely imprecise quantity is that he found it in somebody elses book: «Moreover, the 43 percent is actually described right off one of the best - selling college environment books by professor Miller is Holdren also claiming that he is wrong?»

You can find more about biohacking, the art of changing your environment and your biology so you perform better in his new book The Bulletproof Diet, and also on The Bulletproof Executive website.

You can find more about biohacking, the art of changing your environment and your biology, so you perform better in his book The Bulletproof Diet, and also on The Bulletproof Executive website, Facebook, and Twitter.

Dear Roger Williams wasn't aware of this fact when he wrote the Biochemical Individuality book I described above (although he hypothesized about a genetic influence on propensity to thrive on specific diets), but variants of these genes are now known to hinder or help absorption or the efficient use of nutrients in foods, which means that — depending on your genetic makeup, microbiota, health history and living environment — you should consume more or less folate, choline, vitamin C, fatty acids, starches, caffeine and beyond.

With this book, Marta Zaraska sets out to answer age - old questions about meat, including why humans eat meat at all, why it's so hard to give up, and how it affects the environment.

In this one, Gavin Hood talks about space camp, training for Zero G and the challenges of bringing the imaginative environments of the book as well as Ender's (mostly internal) struggle to the screen.

Based on the biographical book authored by sci - fi writer David Gerrold about his own experience adopting his son Sean, this sentimental film makes a strong statement about giving challenged children a loving environment in which to grow.

«Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials» star Ki Hong Lee talks about the sequel's new environments, new cast members, and comparisons to the books.

One of the things I believe is most appealing about this book is its relevance across a range of subjects and stages of schooling — it is up to you as the pedagogue to adopt or adapt according to the needs of your students and broader teaching and learning environment.

Learn about Native American Indian homes with an informational book on how Native Americans used local resources to create homes right for their diverse environments.

The kids learn Biology, they go on a field trip, they write poems about their environment and what they're learning rather than just [reading a book that doesn't relate to their learning or individual context].

The book is an important tool for raising awareness about the need to scan the environment, stay in touch with a fast - changing world, and consider plans for the future.

(Walter Enloe, coauthor of Project Circles and Learning Circles and former lead teacher and principal of the Paideia School and Hiroshima International School) This book offers a rare combination?a fresh perspective on student learning, a serious effort to measure success, and a practical way to inform discussions about schools as a learning environments.

One of the many things I loved about this book is the emphasis on meeting the needs of students as a foundation for creating a positive learning environment.

[Of course, since the Common Core frowns on so - called fiction, our children won't even be learning about how books like 1984 and The Trial foretold the coming of the political environment that is sweeping across our nation.]

«This book offers a rare combination — a fresh perspective on student learning, a serious effort to measure success, and a practical way to inform discussions about schools as a learning environments.

She has developed and published thematic curriculum units on «Young Children Learning About Ancient China Through Archeology, Ancient Nubia and Egypt», and «Learning to Read Nature's Book,» an interdisciplinary project - based unit through the study of the environment and social justice (2005, co-authored with Bisse Bowman).

This book was a direct response to working in an authoritative school environment that was more about controlling students than teaching them.

The Trillium imprint publishes books about Ohio and the Midwest in an effort to help the citizens of the state learn more about the unique history, the diverse culture, and the natural environment of the state of Ohio.

The book handles the issues in a way that will make readers think about not just what it means to protect the environment, but also what it means to provide a livelihood in an imperfect world.

The only factor that this, and most books about specific environment issues, seems to avoid discussing entirely is the overwhelming factor that is at the heart of all of our environmental issues - there are just too many people on our little planet!

So, how do authors go about ethically securing quality book reviews in such a competitive environment?

Our areas of interest will mostly be history, young adult (but not children's), fiction (including world and crime), poetry, weird stuff and spirituality, left politics, landscape / built environment, lesbian and gay, psychology, counterculture, language and books about books.

About the Book Title: Rourke Author: Marie Johnston Genre: Paranormal Romance Left an orphan, Grace Otto was a vampire child adopted by humans and raised in a secluded but loving environment.

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