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| Author | : Jim Rogers |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2015-08-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 146687936X |
A former power company executive “makes his provocative case for powering up the Third World” (Discover). Without electricity, everything is harder. Imagine no cell phones, refrigerators, kitchen lights, or radios. Imagine having to finish all the day’s tasks—cooking, working, cleaning—before the sun goes down. Your children couldn’t do homework; you couldn’t read. It seems unthinkable today, yet this is how a staggering number of people on Earth still live. But Jim Rogers believes that can soon change—transforming not only people’s daily lives, but also their hopes for the future. In Lighting the World, Rogers describes how an international coalition can come together to secure financing, spearhead the newest and cleanest technologies, and work with the governments, entrepreneurs, and NGOs already on the ground to ensure that everyone has access to a steady and reliable supply of power. In today’s competitive world, Rogers believes, that shouldn’t be an accidental privilege, but a fundamental human right. Praise for Lighting the World “A passionate, but not ideological, argument that offers a practical approach to solving real problems.” —Kirkus Reviews “An enthusiastic account and a great starting point for readers curious about sustainable, worldwide electricity.” —Library Journal “In Lighting the World, Jim Rogers treats us to two books in one: a gripping journey around the dramatic world of energy for the poor combined with a fascinating account of what it takes to run and innovate a major U.S. utility.” —Dan Kammen, Professor of Energy, Energy and Resources Group & Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California
| Author | : Gabriel Alborozo |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2015-06-02 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1627796665 |
Nina is afraid of the dark. Luckily she has a nightlight, but one night the power goes out. So Nina traps a firefly to keep her company. She has a jolly time with her new friend, until she soon realizes that the firefly doesn't feel the same way, and she must let it go. This irresistible bedtime story has stunning black-and-white illustrations accented with glowing spots of color-as magical as fireflies themselves!
| Author | : Halldor Laxness |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 626 |
| Release | : 2007-12-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307430316 |
A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet’s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness. As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this extraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf’s ambition drives him onward—and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women—World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.
| Author | : Catherine Rondina |
| Publisher | : Kids Can Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2012-09 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1554535948 |
Illustrated introduction to world festivities that are celebrated with candles, bonfires, lanterns, fireworks and other traditional lights
| Author | : London Shah |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2019-10-04 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1368044530 |
From debut author London Shah, comes a thrilling futuristic Sci-Fi mystery perfect for fans of Illuminae and These Broken Stars.In the last days of the twenty-first century, sea creatures swim through the ruins of London. Trapped in the abyss, humankind wavers between hope and fear of what lurks in the depths around them, and hope that they might one day find a way back to the surface. When sixteen-year-old submersible racer Leyla McQueen is chosen to participate in the city's prestigious annual marathon, she sees an opportunity to save her father, who has been arrested on false charges. The Prime Minister promises the champion whatever their heart desires. But the race takes an unexpected turn, forcing Leyla to make an impossible choice. Now she must brave unfathomable waters and defy a corrupt government determined to keep its secrets, all the while dealing with a guarded, hotheaded companion she never asked for in the first place. If Leyla fails to discover the truths at the heart of her world, or falls prey to her own fears, she risks capture-or worse. And her father will be lost to her forever.
| Author | : Rino Alaimo |
| Publisher | : Familius |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2021-08-03 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781641704748 |
This beautiful adaptation of the beloved The Boy and The Moon--winner of multiple international independent film awards--tells the story of a boy who swims the deepest seas and slays the mightiest dragons to win the Moon's love.
| Author | : Rafe Esquith |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2010-06-29 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0143117661 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire shares his proven methods for creating compassionate children During twenty-five years of teaching at Hobart Elementary School in inner city Los Angeles, Rafe Esquith has helped thousands of children maximize their potential—and became the only teacher in history to receive the president's National Medal of Arts. In Lighting Their Fires, Esquith translates the inspiring methods from Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire for parents. Using lessons framed by a class trip to a Dodgers game, he moves inning by inning through concepts that explain how to teach children to be thoughtful and honorable people—as well as successful students—and to have fun in the process.
| Author | : Sue Fliess |
| Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
| Total Pages | : 35 |
| Release | : 2020-03-03 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1541595513 |
The soft glow of a candle, the blink of a firefly, a burst of fireworks—light is everywhere in our world! Rhyming text and luminous illustrations follow four children as they experience many different forms of light. "[M]ultiple STEAM applications, from poetry and creative writing to introductions to energy and light to how the sun affects human life, and doubles as a great read-aloud or a starry bedtime story."—starred, Booklist
| Author | : Wade Davis |
| Publisher | : D & M Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2009-12-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1926706897 |
For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo, the mountains of Tibet, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti. In Light at the Edge of the World, Davis explores the idea that these distinct cultures represent unique visions of life itself and have much to teach the rest of the world about different ways of living and thinking. As he investigates the dark undercurrents tearing people from their past and propelling them into an uncertain future, Davis reiterates that the threats faced by indigenous cultures endanger and diminish all cultures.
| Author | : Rachel Kleinfeld |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2011-12 |
| Genre | : Distributed generation of electric power |
| ISBN | : 9780692015636 |
Providing electricity to the unlit and unstable parts of the globe is crucial to jump-starting development, improving the environment, and stabilizing fragile states that ferment many of today's security threats. Let There Be Light shows the failures of centralized electricity to meet these challenges - and describes how distributed, renewable energy such as solar and wind power can work. But, Kleinfeld and Sloan argue, it is not enough to harness the power of the elements. To scale, distributed energy must harness the power of the market. Taking on the major challenges that have impeded distributed energy's success, this book describes the roles development donors, social entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, the military, and the business world can play to make lighting the developing world a reality.
