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1) What a waste
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"Everything you need to know about what we're doing to our environment, good and bad, from pollution and litter to renewable energy and plastic recycling. This environmental book will teach keen young ecologists about our actions affect planet Earth. Discover shocking facts about the waste we produce and where it goes. Did you know that every single plastic toothbrush ever made still exists? Or that there's a floating mass of garbage larger than the...
2) What a Waste
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Comfort There's little love to giveAnd much to brood in hateFor the sexes are undoneLost in a bleak caveWith no way outBut why should anyoneLeave the comfort of their cellsWhen you have everythingThat you need right at your fingertipsFor what does it profit a manTo gain his soul, but lose the world?
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"What a Waste! explores the problem of garbage and how humans have dealt with it from prehistory to modern times. Topics include how archaeologists study ancient garbage; the growth of consumer culture and disposability; food waste; the environmental effects of garbage; "problem" garbage like electronic and toxic waste; sewage and dead bodies; and garbage in the oceans and in space. Sidebars highlight people and organizations around the world who...
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"Farm runoff, storm water, and sewer water all can be called wastewater. These aren't the only kinds of wastewater, though. Readers learn how wastewater is created in the first place and the problems it presents around the world. Perhaps most importantly, readers are introduced to water conservation efforts being made in many countries as well as things they can do at home to conserve water. Full-color photographs complement the main content while...
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"The world has a massive problem with the accumulation of waste and garbage, and the problem continues to grow worse. As the global population has steadily climbed, from 2.56 billion in 1950 to 7.7 billion in 2019, the waste situation has escalated to what many experts are calling an environmental crisis." --
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Jed Rasula is the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia. He is the author of nine scholarly books and three poetry collections and the coeditor of two anthologies. His recent books include Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century and History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism.
On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's...
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A fast-paced prequel mystery featuring all the What Doesn't Kill You female sleuths.
It's five years before Katie runs away to the islands, and this time her travels take her closer to home: back to her law school reunion. With Emily as her plus-one and Michele rounding out the party, their evening at a murder mystery dinner theater goes awry with weird former classmates, too many cocktails, and - oh yeah - a real murder onstage before the cast finishes...
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What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities-and how to get American higher education back on track
A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it?
Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its...
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Why has successful school reform been so difficult to achieve, despite decades of well-intentioned efforts, endless rhetoric, and billions of dollars of investment? Why do most U.S. schools continue to produce disappointing results? Why is there such a disconnect between the schools we need and the schools we have? In this thoughtful and insightful book, Ronald A. Wolk tackles these questions head-on, identifying key assumptions that have shaped the...
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From the food-stoked star of the A&E series Scraps and the National Chef of Sur La Table, a ground-breaking cookbook that reshapes the way you look at ingredients and makes the most out of every resource in the kitchen, featuring 150 color photographs and 100 ingenious recipes that expand your mind, the way you cook, and how you live.
Have you ever felt guilty throwing out food? Of course, you have, but that's all about to change. The stuff you always...
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What's the number one thing we all want more of? Time.
Time is our most valuable, precious, and limited commodity-and the key to lasting happiness and success. The Time Cleanse is a proven system that shows you how to do more, get more, be more by changing your...
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