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Pub. Date
c2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Japan. March 11, 2011. 2:46 P.M. The biggest earthquake in Japan's history-and one of the world's five most powerful since 1900-devastated the Tohoku region, 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of Tokyo. It triggered a huge tsunami that left crippling damage in its wake. More than 13,000 people drowned, and thousands of buildings and homes were reduced to rubble. As people assessed the damage, they made the most frightening discovery of all:...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
An introduction to creating web-based user-generated content for such things as social networking, sharing ideas, and creating online information, and discusses some of the online tools and Web sites for sharing information, including blogs, widgets, Twitter, Facebook, and wikis.
226) Can you survive?
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"You choose what to do in three life-or-death experiences. You choose what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to safety ... or to your doom!"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"This book is a must for anyone concerned with protecting their well-being, that of loved ones, and other species. From the personal, the political, and the planetary, you will never see things the same way again."-B. Blake Levitt, former New York Times contributor, Author, Electromagnetic Fields, A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves Keys, wallet, cell phone. ready to go! Cell phones have become ubiquitous fixtures of 21st...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Chronic obesity is on the rise; our food is laced with additives and chemicals; and the environment is being devastated by factory farming, pesticides, fertilizers and monoculture. It is time to re-evaluate what we eat and how we eat it, and re-think the practices of agribusiness, food processing manufacturers and supermarkets. This insightful volume unpacks the growth of obesogenic environments in which fast-food outlets proliferate and a diet heavy...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Just before high noon on May 30th, 1964, the Indy 500 stopped for the first time in history. Seven cars had crashed in a fiery accident, killing two drivers, and threatening the very future of the 500. In this tight, fast-paced narrative, Art Garner expertly reconstructs the events, circumstances, and fatal decisions leading up to the sport's blackest day. Recalling a bygone era when drivers lived hard, raced hard, and at times died hard, Black Noon...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. Her reporting is serious yet entertaining and illuminates deep truths about ourselves and the lives we create online. In her debut book, Extremely Online, she reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and creating whole new sectors of the economy. Lorenz shows this...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Claims that technology brings families closer together seem out of sync with kids who retreat to their mobile devices for hours at a time. Assurances of amazing technology learning opportunities are contradicted by kids' obsessive use of entertainment technologies-video games, social networks, and texting-that supplant their focus on school. In Wired Child, child and adolescent psychologist Dr. Richard Freed exposes the powerful myths that underlie...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Full of mother-wisdom, reassurance, and support, Sweet Sleep is the first book on nights and naps for breastfeeding families. It is a comprehensive how-to guide for making sane and safe decisions on how and where your family sleeps, backed by the latest research in pediatric care"--Provided by publisher.