Gareth Palmer is a passenger on The New Adventurer, a starship travelling through space. One day Gareth finds something in the bottom of his shower. This discovery begins a love affair with a woman he has never seen. But how can they meet? Will they have
Sunnyvista is a city in the future, a place where all you have to do is sunbathe, watch TV and play sports. Nobody knows why they are in Sunnyvista or what is happening outside the city, but everybody is happy. Everybody except Dan. One day Dan decides t
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation's Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is bot…
Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12 helps teachers implement 14 optimal practices for thinking that create an ideal setting for deep mathe…
A picture book which combines story with information helps curious young minds learn about the waterbed antics of the eel. It features an accompanying CD with fun facts, songs, sound effects and a story reading by TV actor Stephen Tompkinson.