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This book helps children learn how to think accurately with logic puzzles, challenges and activities. It encourages the reader to think outside the box, take risks and find new ways to do things. As well as puzzles, the book explores the stories of logical minds from history to help children learn from the brilliant men and women of the past. Project Logic helps children aged 8+ to test and improve their critical thinking skills. The books boost growth mindset, as the reader is asked to challenge themselves with fun puzzles and then discover how critical thinking can help us to solve everyday problems and issues. Titles in the series: PROVE IT! How to Think Rationally BE CREATIVE! How to Think Outside the Box TEST IT! How to Think Scientifically GET IT RIGHT! How to Think Accurately

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This book helps children learn how to think scientifically with logic puzzles, challenges and activities. It encourages the reader to approach problems in a methodical way using a scientific method, and reveals how thinking scientifically helps us to understand how the world works . As well as puzzles, the book explores the stories of scientific minds from history to help children learn from the brilliant men and women of the past. Project Logic helps children aged 8+ to test and improve their critical thinking skills. The books boost growth mindset, as the reader is asked to challenge themselves with fun puzzles and then discover how critical thinking can help us to solve everyday problems and issues. Titles in the series: PROVE IT! How to Think Rationally BE CREATIVE! How to Think Outside the Box TEST IT! How to Think Scientifically GET IT RIGHT! How to Think Accurately

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This book helps children learn how to learn to think rationally with logic puzzles, challenges and activities. It encourages the reader to think outside the box, take creative risks and find new ways to do things. As well as puzzles, the book explores the stories of rational and logical thinkers from history to help children learn from the brilliant men and women of the past. Project Logic helps children aged 8+ to test and improve their critical thinking skills. The books boost growth mindset, as the reader is asked to challenge themselves with fun puzzles and then discover how critical thinking can help us to solve everyday problems and issues. Titles in the series: PROVE IT! How to Think Rationally BE CREATIVE! How to Think Outside the Box TEST IT! How to Think Scientifically GET IT RIGHT! How to Think Accurately

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Our planet is in crisis. The way we live uses up more resources than Earth can produce. But all is not negative. If we change our habits with the help of new green technologies, we can turn towards eco-friendly living. So delve into the problems we are facing and the ingenius solutions inventors and scientists are thinking up.The four-book series Green Tech is an upbeat guide exploring fascinating technology from the past, present and cutting-edge of futuristic development that has the potential to help solve major ecological issues facing Earth, from the climate crisis to plastic pollution and the ongoing loss of biodiversity around the world.Enough with the negative, it's time to look at all the ingenious inventors who are all about trying to use technology for good.The series offers a balanced view of this technology, considering the practicalities, affordability, sustainability and possibleunintended long-term consequences of various hi-tech solutions. It introduces the importance of behaviour change by people in richer countries, and includes technology that facilitates this. It also highlights the need for technologies that benefit people in the world's poorest areas, who have done the least to cause the climate crisis but are already feeling its effects the most acutely.Perfect for readers aged 8 and up.

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A look at one of the biggest challenges facing our world today - inequality - and how we are tackling itWe are all unique human beings, with different talents and skills. As we go through life, our experiences shape who we are. But sometimes the different paths we take are caused by inequality - not being treated fairly, because of where we are born, our health or abilities or even the colour of our skin. And this may wrongly affect how healthy, wealthy or educated we are able to become.How can we build a better, fairer, more equal, cleaner world? This series seeks to answer this by exploring some of the greatest challenges facing our planet today - from disease to conflict, and from the energy crisis to the plight of refugees. It explains what is already being done to meet and tackle these challenges, and explores what more could and should be done, both individually and collectively, to ensure a better future for our planet, its people and its wildlife.Taking a positive, but realistic perspective, this series aims to empower young readers by helping them understand these complex and troubling issues, calm their anxieties, and promote empathy and understanding for the many millions of people suffering from for example, poverty or inequality.Perfect for readers aged 9 and upTitles in the series:Climate ChangeDiseaseInequalityMigrationPoverty & Food InsecurityWar & Conflict

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Learn all about sheep: do you know what they eat? Do you know what they need to be happy on the farm?Farms Animals is a simple and friendly series looking at some of the most common animals found on a farm, showing how they live, what they eat, how they are cared for and why they are important to us. Each book takes on animal and explains its life cycle and its place on the farm. This series is perfect for pre-school readers exploring their everyday world as well as older children learning about animals and food at KS1.

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The world''s most secretive state, North Korea is a tiny nation with a big voice on the world stage. Since its foundation in 1948, it has gained both friends and foes, and over the years has become increasingly isolated from the rest of the world. Travel is restricted in and out of the country, the government tightly controls the media and an ideology of self-reliance encourages citizens to pledge allegiance to the nation. This book looks at the challenges that lie ahead for North Korea, nationally and internationally, and asks: in an ever-changing world, can North Korea sustain its reclusive identity?

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A look at two of the biggest challenges facing our world today - poverty and food insecurity - and how we are tackling themPoverty and hunger are inextricably linked and are present in virtually every country in the world today. We have enough food to feed the world's 8 billion people but good, nutritious food is often unaffordable or inaccessible to the world's most vulnerable, while too much food is wasted by the world's higher-income countries. At the same time, climate change and conflict are complicating the global picture. What can we do to help those most in need? How can we build a better, fairer, more equal, cleaner world? This series seeks to answer this by exploring some of the greatest challenges facing our planet today - from disease to conflict, and from the energy crisis to the plight of refugees. It explains what is already being done to meet and tackle these challenges, and explores what more could and should be done, both individually and collectively, to ensure a better future for our planet, its people and its wildlife.Taking a positive, but realistic perspective, this series aims to empower young readers by helping them understand these complex and troubling issues, calm their anxieties, and promote empathy and understanding for the many millions of people suffering from for example, poverty or inequality.Perfect for readers aged 9 and upTitles in the series:Climate ChangeDiseaseInequalityMigrationPoverty & Food InsecurityWar & Conflict

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This book helps children learn how to think scientifically with logic puzzles, challenges and activities. It encourages the reader to approach problems in a methodical way using a scietntific method, and reveals how thinking scientifically helps us to understand how the world works . As well as puzzles, the book explores the stories of scientific minds from history to help children learn from the brilliant men and women of the past. Project Logic helps children aged 8+ to test and improve their critical thinking skills. The books boost growth mindset, as the reader is asked to challenge themselves with fun puzzles and then discover how critical thinking can help us to solve everyday problems and issues. Titles in the series: PROVE IT! How to Think Rationally BE CREATIVE! How to Think Outside the Box TEST IT! How to Think Scientifically GET IT RIGHT! How to Think Accurately

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The four-book series Green Tech is an upbeat guide exploring fascinating technology from the past, present and cutting-edge of futuristic development that has the potential to help solve major ecological issues facing Earth, from the climate crisis to plastic pollution and the ongoing loss of biodiversity around the world.Enough with the negative, it's time to look at all the ingenious inventors who are all about trying to use technology for good.The series offers a balanced view of this technology, considering the practicalities, affordability, sustainability and possibleunintended long-term consequences of various hi-tech solutions. It introduces the importance of behaviour change by people in richer countries, and includes technology that facilitates this. It also highlights the need for technologies thatbenefit people in the world's poorest areas, who have done the least to cause the climate crisis but are already feeling its effects the most acutely.Perfect for readers aged 8 and up.

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A look at arguably the biggest challenge facing our world today - climate change - and how we are tackling itClimate change has become an inescapable reality in today's world, as global temperatures rise and extreme weather becomes more and more frequent. But what is causing this shift in Earth's weather patterns? More importantly, what can we all do to help slow or even reverse climate change?How can we build a better, fairer, more equal, cleaner world? This series seeks to answer this by exploring some of the greatest challenges facing our planet today - from disease to conflict, and from the energy crisis to the plight of refugees. It explains what is already being done to meet and tackle these challenges, and explores what more could and should be done, both individually and collectively, to ensure a better future for our planet, its people and its wildlife.Taking a positive, but realistic perspective, this series aims to empower young readers by helping them understand these complex and troubling issues, calm their anxieties, and promote empathy and understanding for the many millions of people suffering from for example, poverty or inequality.Perfect for readers aged 9 and up.What is climate change?/Taking action/Changing weather/The Amazon Rainforest/Melting ice/Ocean impact/Energy for buildings/The food we eat/The way we travel/Shopping habits/The power of tech/Reduce, repair, reuse, recycle/Speaking out/Glossary/Further information/Index Titles in the series:Climate ChangeDiseaseInequalityMigrationPoverty & Food InsecurityWar & Conflict

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This book helps children learn how to think accurately with logic puzzles, challenges and activities. It encourages the reader to think outside the box, take risks and find new ways to do things, especially being accurate with numbers and maths. As well as puzzles, the book explores the stories of logical and mathematical minds, inventors and engineers from history to help children learn from the brilliant men and women of the past. Project Logic helps children aged 8+ to test and improve their critical thinking skills. The books boost growth mindset, as the reader is asked to challenge themselves with fun puzzles and then discover how critical thinking can help us to solve everyday problems and issues. Titles in the series: PROVE IT! How to Think Rationally BE CREATIVE! How to Think Outside the Box TEST IT! How to Think Scientifically GET IT RIGHT! How to Think Accurately

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This book helps children learn how to learn to think rationally with logic puzzles, challenges and activities. It encourages the reader to think outside the box, take creative risks and find new ways to do things. As well as puzzles, the book explores the stories of people from history to help children learn from the brilliant men and women of the past. Project Logic helps children aged 8+ to test and improve their critical thinking skills. The books boost growth mindset, as the reader is asked to challenge themselves with fun puzzles and then discover how critical thinking can help us to solve everyday problems and issues. Titles in the series: PROVE IT! How to Think Rationally BE CREATIVE! How to Think Outside the Box TEST IT! How to Think Scientifically GET IT RIGHT! How to Think Accurately

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Explore the technology that will save our world by making water clean and safe!Access to clean water is vital for the survival of people, plants and animals. With a changing climate and increased demand, we need to carefully manage our water supplies. We also have some big challenges, so let's look at the technology which will help us collect and purify more water, reduce our water use and even protect areas from flooding.The four-book series Green Tech is an upbeat guide exploring fascinating technology from the past, present and cutting-edge of futuristic development that has the potential to help solve major ecological issues facing Earth, from the climate crisis to plastic pollution and the ongoing loss of biodiversity around the world.The series offers a balanced view of this technology, considering the practicalities, affordability, sustainability and possible unintended long-term consequences of various hi-tech solutions. It introduces the importance of behaviour change by people in richer countries, and includes technology that facilitates this. It also highlights the need for technologies thatbenefit people in the world's poorest areas, who have done the least to cause the climate crisis but are already feeling its effects the most acutely.Perfect for readers aged 8 and up.

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Explore the wide world of fascinating facts with this fully illustrated title. Did you know that around 550 people have been to space, but only around 20 people have been to the bottom of the ocean? Or that the deepest hole ever dug by people is deeper than the deepest part of the ocean, but still only 530th of the distance to the centre of the Earth? Or that Mawsynram, a town in India, receives over 11 metres of rain a year, while there are parts of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica that haven't seen any rain in over 2 million years? This book is packed with amazing facts and incredible contrasts, brought to life by stunning illustrations and imaginative infographics. It's going to be an exciting journey for young geographers! About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!

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