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What Can We Do?: Disease
Series: What Can We Do?
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A look at one of the biggest challenges facing our world today - disease - and how we are tackling itHow 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...
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A look at one of the biggest challenges facing our world today - disease - and how we are tackling itHow 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
Series: What Can We Do?
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What Can We Do?: Disease
A look at one of the biggest challenges facing our world today - disease - and how we are tackling itHow 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...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
What Can We Do?: War
A look at some of the biggest challenges facing our world today - war and conflict - and how we are tackling themHow 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...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
What Can We Do?: Inequality
A look at one of the biggest challenges facing our world today - inequality - and how we are tackling itHow 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...PaperbackSold Out
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781445188096
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 August 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Franklin Watts Ltd
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 206.0mm
Height: 260.0mm
Weight: 146g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Alex Woolf has written more than 150 books, both fiction and non-fiction, mostly for children. Many of these have sold around the world and his words have been translated into over a dozen different languages. He has written on a huge range of subjects including Romans, chocolate, asteroids, sharks, Tudors, flying reptiles, soap, bees and acne. In 2019, he won a Fiction Express award for his story, Mystery at Moon Base One. Alex lives in North London with his family and two cats, Juno and Minerva.
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