New Releases by Jeffrey Bennett

The long-awaited prequel to the books in the Science Adventures with Max the Dog series, this installment follows Max on his trip to the International Space Station where he shares in the adventures of astronaut life and helps save everyone from a potential disaster along the way. The book teaches children to see themselves and the planet in a new light and encourages readers to discover how they can help make the world a better place. Accompanying the story of how Max saves the day are numerous "Big Kid Box" sidebars that offer science facts and other pieces of fascinating information. Grown-ups and kids learn about science together with this fun and educational picture book. La tan esperada historia previa a las de los libros en la colección Science Adventures with Max the Dog, esta entrega sigue a Max en su viaje a la estación espacial internacional donde participa en las aventuras de la vida astronáutica y rescata sobre la marcha a toda la gente de un desastre potencial. El libro les enseña a los niños a verse a sí mismos y a ver el planeta desde una nueva perspectiva y anima a los lectores a descubrir cómo pueden ayudar a hacer del mundo un lugar mejor. Numerosas notas de recuadro que ofrecen hechos científicos y otra información fascinante acompañan la historia de cómo Max salva la situación. Adultos y niños aprenden juntos sobre la ciencia con este libro ilustrado divertido y educativo.

How can we solve the national debt crisis? Should you or your child take on a student loan? Is it safe to talk on a cell phone while driving? Are there viable energy alternatives to fossil fuels? What could you do with a billion dollars? Could simple policy changes reduce political polarization? These questions may all seem very different, but they share two things in common. First, they are all questions with important implications for either personal success or our success as a nation. Second, they all concern topics that we can fully understand only with the aid of clear quantitative or mathematical thinking. In other words, they are topics for which we need math for life--a kind of math that looks quite different from most of the math that we learn in school, but that is just as (and often more) important. In Math for Life, award-winning author Jeffrey Bennett simply and clearly explains the key ideas of quantitative reasoning and applies them to all the above questions and many more. He also uses these questions to analyze our current education system, identifying both shortfalls in the teaching of mathematics and solutions for our educational future. No matter what your own level of mathematical ability, and no matter whether you approach the book as an educator, student, or interested adult, you are sure to find something new and thought-provoking in Math for Life.

This Physical Resources Foundation Report is designed to support development of the Foundation Document for WHSA and to be used as a reference for the General Management Plan, as needed. The primary objectives of this report are to: 1. Build upon the monument''s purpose and significance statements and identify the fundamental physical resources critical to achieving WHSA''s purpose and maintaining its significance. 2. Provide background information for WHSA''s fundamental physical resources (current condition, related trends, and issues/threats). 3. Define the relevant laws and policies that support management decisions for the priority physical resources and identify stakeholder interest.

Blarney, Common and Quiggin (1995) (BCQ) suggest that responses to contingent valuation (CV) questionnaires may be framed either according to the extent of individual benefits received, or according to wider views about ethical frameworks, impacts on other people, or desired societal levels. They characterise the individual benefit approach as a consumer model, and responses indicating wider concerns as citizen preferences. Citizen value responses are held to invalidate the economic assumptions underlying the use of CV. Hence, they hypothesize that the incorporation of CV results into benefit-cost analysis is problematic. In this comment we suggest that there are several flaws with the citizen value hypothesis. These can be grouped into arguments about the existence of citizen values based on ethical or altruistic grounds, and arguments about the identification of citizen values.

Diego daydreams of being a wizard with magical powers that can make the world a better place, and in particular to fight global warming. When he snaps out of his daydream and remembers that he can''t really do magic, he wonders whether there is anything he can do in real life to help save the world.

"¿Has pensado lo que tú puedes hacer para ayudar a salvar al mundo? Únete a Diego mientras sueña que es un mago y luego descubre las muchas maneras en las que, cuando sea grande, podrá causar un cambio verdadero."--Publisher''s description.

The quest for extraterrestrial life doesn''t happen only in science fiction. This book describes the startling discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology, an intriguing new field that blends astronomy, biology, and geology to explore the possibility of life on other planets. Jeffrey Bennett takes readers beyond UFOs to discuss some of the tantalizing questions astrobiologists grapple with every day: What is life and how does it begin? What makes a planet or moon habitable? Is there life on Mars or elsewhere in the solar system? How can life be recognized on distant worlds? Is it likely to be microbial, more biologically complex--or even intelligent? What would such a discovery mean for life here on Earth? Come along on this scientific adventure and learn the astonishing implications of discoveries made in this field for the future of the human race. Bennett, who believes that "science is a way of helping people come to agreement," explains how the search for extraterrestrial life can help bridge the divide that sometimes exists between science and religion, defuse public rancor over the teaching of evolution, and quiet the debate over global warming. He likens humanity today to a troubled adolescent teetering on the edge between self-destruction and a future of virtually limitless possibilities. Beyond UFOs shows why the very quest to find alien life can help us to grow up as a species and chart a course for the stars. In a new afterword, Bennett shares the most recent developments in extrasolar research, and discusses how they might further our quest to find alien life.

Dieses einzigartige Buch - herausgegeben von Professor Harald Lesch - behandelt die komplette klassische und moderne Astronomie - von Beobachtungsmethoden bis zur Kosmologie - in einem einzigen Band. Seine lebendige und bilderreiche Darstellung (über 1000 farbige Abbildungen) der Thematik weckt im Leser die Faszination für die Astronomie und die Freude am Lernen naturwissenschaftlicher Zusammenhänge. Dieses Buch wird in der Lehre an Schulen und Universitäten auf der ganzen Welt seit Jahren erfolgreich eingesetzt. Seine anschauliche und verständliche Darstellung auch komplexer Inhalte macht es.

The story of how Max the dog and his friend Tori time traveled to the Ice Age and learned important lessons for our own time.

Max the dog and his friend Tori take the first trip to the Moon since the Apollo missions, inspiring the nations of the world to build a Moon colony. Scientific principles that support the story are clearly explained in "Big Kid Boxes" appearing on each page.

Add some fresh arrangements to your upcoming services with this wonderfully compiled collection of solid sacred hymns. Featuring these harder-to-find, challenging-to-play favorites, you''ll find selections suitable for special occasions, concerts and general worship hours. Medium to Difficult.