Woolf, Alex

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You wouldn't want to live without books!

2015
Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe the history of books and how important they have been to civilization.

Let's think about the Internet and social media

2015
"This book helps children to develop critical thinking and debating skills. It examines the topic of the Internet and social media in a lively and accessible way. Information is presented to help readers deliberate, debate, and decide for themselves. This book looks at issues surrounding the use of the Internet and social media, such as reliability of information, cyber-safety, and whether it is healthy to spend lots of time online"--Provided by the publisher.

Nuclear disaster

2014
Explores what would happen if a there was a nuclear disaster, examining the effect on health, public order, and food supplies.

Focus on Israel

2007
Examines the history, geography, climate, economy, transportation, natural resources, industry, politics, religions, culture, and people of Israel, and looks at the future challenges facing the nation. Includes a time line and glossary.

Nazi Germany

2005
Examines the principal causes and events of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime in Germany between 1918 and 1945 and considers what the outcome might have been for the participants and subsequent history had different decisions been made at crucial times before and during this period.

Death and disease

2004
Examines issues of health and disease in the Middle Ages, discussing the medical knowledge inherited from the ancient world, medicine and treatments, famine and death, leprosy and plague, the Black Death, the development of medical schools and hospitals, and other topics.

Killer sharks

2011
Presents the characteristics and behaviors of different types of dangerous sharks.

Assassination in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914

2003
Discusses how the assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's throne, led to the beginning of World War I.

Buildings

2013
Presents information about the design, construction, use, maintenance, demolition, and disposal of buildings, offering an overview of what happens at each of these stages in a building's life cycle.

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