Author: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338756850
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! Hercule and Geronimo investigate a strange new case. There is a garbage thief in New Mouse City. They aren't stealing just any trash, it's all organic waste. They enlist the help of the head of the Recycling Center to help. In the end they find the thief is a colleague of Floras who has built a machine that turns organic waste into an energy source.
Garbage Dump Disaster (Geronimo Stilton #79)
Author: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338756850
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! Hercule and Geronimo investigate a strange new case. There is a garbage thief in New Mouse City. They aren't stealing just any trash, it's all organic waste. They enlist the help of the head of the Recycling Center to help. In the end they find the thief is a colleague of Floras who has built a machine that turns organic waste into an energy source.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338756850
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! Hercule and Geronimo investigate a strange new case. There is a garbage thief in New Mouse City. They aren't stealing just any trash, it's all organic waste. They enlist the help of the head of the Recycling Center to help. In the end they find the thief is a colleague of Floras who has built a machine that turns organic waste into an energy source.
Garbage World
The Chocolate Chase (Geronimo Stilton #67)
Author: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 133815916X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
It was spring in New Mouse City! I love to celebrate the season with my fellow mice by exchanging chocolate eggs and competing in a confectionary challenge. This year, there was also a special exhibition of priceless jeweled Mouseberge eggs in town. Then one of the Mouseberge eggs was stolen... and it was up to me to find it! Squeak! Could I chase it down?
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 133815916X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
It was spring in New Mouse City! I love to celebrate the season with my fellow mice by exchanging chocolate eggs and competing in a confectionary challenge. This year, there was also a special exhibition of priceless jeweled Mouseberge eggs in town. Then one of the Mouseberge eggs was stolen... and it was up to me to find it! Squeak! Could I chase it down?
Reclaiming the Discarded
Author: Kathleen M. Millar
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082237207X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadores show how this work is inseparable from conceptions of the good life and from human struggles to realize these visions within precarious conditions of urban poverty. By approaching the work of catadores as highly generative, Millar calls into question the category of informality, common conceptions of garbage, and the continued normativity of wage labor. In so doing, she illuminates how waste lies at the heart of relations of inequality and projects of social transformation.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082237207X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadores show how this work is inseparable from conceptions of the good life and from human struggles to realize these visions within precarious conditions of urban poverty. By approaching the work of catadores as highly generative, Millar calls into question the category of informality, common conceptions of garbage, and the continued normativity of wage labor. In so doing, she illuminates how waste lies at the heart of relations of inequality and projects of social transformation.
The Missing Movie (Geronimo Stilton #73)
Author: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 133854697X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! Mouse Island is having its first ever film festival! Everyone is waiting for Mousin Scorsese's new movie. But as soon as the lights go out, the movie goes missing! Can Geronimo catch the thief?
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 133854697X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! Mouse Island is having its first ever film festival! Everyone is waiting for Mousin Scorsese's new movie. But as soon as the lights go out, the movie goes missing! Can Geronimo catch the thief?
Recipe for Disaster
Author: Stacey Ballis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101612584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Stacey Ballis cooks up a delicious broth of a novel about a woman whose perfect life falls apart in spectacular fashion--leaving her with a house to restore, an antique cookbook (but no cooking talent), and one very unhappy schnauzer. For fans of Jen Lancaster, Jennifer Weiner, and Emily Giffin. To an outside observer, Anneke Stroudt is a mess—her shirts are stained, her fingernails stubby, her language colorful. But, despite her flaws, Anneke’s life is close to perfect. She has a beautiful historic house to restore and a loving fiancé who cooks like a dream. Until Anneke’s charmed existence falls apart when she loses both her job and her future husband in one terrible day. In need of a new start, she packs up her disgruntled schnauzer and moves into her half-finished home, where she throws her pent-up frustration—and what little savings she has—into finishing the renovation. But at the first step into the house’s overhaul, Anneke is sidetracked when she discovers a mysterious leather-bound book, long hidden away, filled with tempting recipes and steamy secrets from Gemma Ditmore-Smythe, the cook for the house’s original owners. Slowly, with the help of some delicious food and Emma’s life lessons, Anneke begins to realize that, just like a flawless recipe, she’s been waiting for the right ingredients to cook up a perfect life all along… “With the perfect blend of humor and heart, Ballis’s writing is powerfully honest and genuinely hilarious.”—Jen Lancaster INCLUDES RECIPES
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101612584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Stacey Ballis cooks up a delicious broth of a novel about a woman whose perfect life falls apart in spectacular fashion--leaving her with a house to restore, an antique cookbook (but no cooking talent), and one very unhappy schnauzer. For fans of Jen Lancaster, Jennifer Weiner, and Emily Giffin. To an outside observer, Anneke Stroudt is a mess—her shirts are stained, her fingernails stubby, her language colorful. But, despite her flaws, Anneke’s life is close to perfect. She has a beautiful historic house to restore and a loving fiancé who cooks like a dream. Until Anneke’s charmed existence falls apart when she loses both her job and her future husband in one terrible day. In need of a new start, she packs up her disgruntled schnauzer and moves into her half-finished home, where she throws her pent-up frustration—and what little savings she has—into finishing the renovation. But at the first step into the house’s overhaul, Anneke is sidetracked when she discovers a mysterious leather-bound book, long hidden away, filled with tempting recipes and steamy secrets from Gemma Ditmore-Smythe, the cook for the house’s original owners. Slowly, with the help of some delicious food and Emma’s life lessons, Anneke begins to realize that, just like a flawless recipe, she’s been waiting for the right ingredients to cook up a perfect life all along… “With the perfect blend of humor and heart, Ballis’s writing is powerfully honest and genuinely hilarious.”—Jen Lancaster INCLUDES RECIPES
Mysterious Eye of the Dragon (Geronimo Stilton #78)
Author: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338687212
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! My sister Thea and my cousin Trap were not getting along! When grandfather found them arguing over who would get to join me on a trip to Brazil, he forced us all to go together. My friend Isabela needed my help finding a mysterious emerald. Could Trap and Thea stop shouting their snouts off long enough to help find the stone?
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338687212
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! My sister Thea and my cousin Trap were not getting along! When grandfather found them arguing over who would get to join me on a trip to Brazil, he forced us all to go together. My friend Isabela needed my help finding a mysterious emerald. Could Trap and Thea stop shouting their snouts off long enough to help find the stone?
Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering
Author: Michael Beer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783642353437
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 3953
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering is designed to be the authoritative and comprehensive reference covering all major aspects of the science of earthquake engineering, specifically focusing on the interaction between earthquakes and infrastructure. The encyclopedia comprises approximately 300 contributions. Since earthquake engineering deals with the interaction between earthquake disturbances and the built infrastructure, the emphasis is on basic design processes important to both non-specialists and engineers so that readers become suitably well informed without needing to deal with the details of specialist understanding. The encyclopedia’s content provides technically-inclined and informed readers about the ways in which earthquakes can affect our infrastructure and how engineers would go about designing against, mitigating and remediating these effects. The coverage ranges from buildings, foundations, underground construction, lifelines and bridges, roads, embankments and slopes. The encyclopedia also aims to provide cross-disciplinary and cross-domain information to domain-experts. This is the first single reference encyclopedia of this breadth and scope that brings together the science, engineering and technological aspects of earthquakes and structures.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783642353437
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 3953
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering is designed to be the authoritative and comprehensive reference covering all major aspects of the science of earthquake engineering, specifically focusing on the interaction between earthquakes and infrastructure. The encyclopedia comprises approximately 300 contributions. Since earthquake engineering deals with the interaction between earthquake disturbances and the built infrastructure, the emphasis is on basic design processes important to both non-specialists and engineers so that readers become suitably well informed without needing to deal with the details of specialist understanding. The encyclopedia’s content provides technically-inclined and informed readers about the ways in which earthquakes can affect our infrastructure and how engineers would go about designing against, mitigating and remediating these effects. The coverage ranges from buildings, foundations, underground construction, lifelines and bridges, roads, embankments and slopes. The encyclopedia also aims to provide cross-disciplinary and cross-domain information to domain-experts. This is the first single reference encyclopedia of this breadth and scope that brings together the science, engineering and technological aspects of earthquakes and structures.
The Last Resort Oasis (Geronimo Stilton #77)
Author: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338687190
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! THE LAST RESORT OASIS It was a cold winter in New Mouse City when my grandfather William Shortpaws decided to take the whole family on vacation! We all climbed aboard the cheese-colored camper and set off on a relaxing retreat. But we took a wrong turn and somehow I found myself trying to round up a caravan of spitting camels. Could I get them all back to The Last Resort Oasis?
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338687190
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! THE LAST RESORT OASIS It was a cold winter in New Mouse City when my grandfather William Shortpaws decided to take the whole family on vacation! We all climbed aboard the cheese-colored camper and set off on a relaxing retreat. But we took a wrong turn and somehow I found myself trying to round up a caravan of spitting camels. Could I get them all back to The Last Resort Oasis?
Garbology
Author: Edward Humes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1583335234
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of America’s biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash—what’s in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity. Along the way , he introduces a collection of garbage denizens unlike anyone you’ve ever met: the trash-tracking detectives of MIT, the bulldozer-driving sanitation workers building Los Angeles’ Garbage Mountain landfill, the artists residing in San Francisco’s dump, and the family whose annual trash output fills not a dumpster or a trash can, but a single mason jar. Garbology reveals not just what we throw away, but who we are and where our society is headed. Waste is the one environmental and economic harm that ordinary working Americans have the power to change—and prosper in the process. Garbology is raising awareness of trash consumption and is sparking community-wide action through One City One Book programs around the country. It is becoming an increasingly popular addition to high school and college syllabi and is being adopted by many colleges and universities for First Year Experience programs.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1583335234
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of America’s biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash—what’s in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity. Along the way , he introduces a collection of garbage denizens unlike anyone you’ve ever met: the trash-tracking detectives of MIT, the bulldozer-driving sanitation workers building Los Angeles’ Garbage Mountain landfill, the artists residing in San Francisco’s dump, and the family whose annual trash output fills not a dumpster or a trash can, but a single mason jar. Garbology reveals not just what we throw away, but who we are and where our society is headed. Waste is the one environmental and economic harm that ordinary working Americans have the power to change—and prosper in the process. Garbology is raising awareness of trash consumption and is sparking community-wide action through One City One Book programs around the country. It is becoming an increasingly popular addition to high school and college syllabi and is being adopted by many colleges and universities for First Year Experience programs.