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Getting together with your girlfriends has never been more fun! Now you can create dozens of attractive crafts using simple, easy-to-find household materials. Filled to the brim with detailed instructions, Kathy Ross's latest craft book will have friends sharing ideas for new and exciting projects. Learn to add your own fashionable touches to clothing, such as the Trendy T-shirt and Fancy Flip Flops, or create new decor for your bedroom with the Room...
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"From the publisher that brought you the bestselling Baby University books comes a brand-new series of construction books for kids. Let's build a highway! How? We'll show you! Join the construction team in this board book as they go about the steps involved in building a highway, from surveying the roadway, to using a bulldozer to clear the path, and so much more. Toddlers will love the bright and bold art, and parents will love the gentle explanation...
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Every citizen of a city needs clean water to live, making a city's water system one of the most important parts of its infrastructure. Supplying Water for a City examines each step in this process, including ways in which new improvements will help keep water supplies safe and reliable.
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Sustainable cities make an effort to reduce their impact on the planet. They find environmentally friendly solutions for transportation, energy, and other parts of their infrastructure. Making a City Sustainable examines examples of how city planners have used sustainable technology to protect the environment in their communities.
13) Powering a city
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Generating electricity and distributing it to homes and businesses is a critical task for any modern city. Powering a City examines each step in this process, including ways in which cities are searching for cleaner sources of electricity. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to...
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Orca timeline volume 3
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"If you could design a city that would be both a great place to live and good for the planet, what would it look like? Today, more than half the world's population lives in cities and many of those cities face big challenges, including the climate crisis, food insecurity and rapid population growth, but they are also places where innovation can thrive. Peek into the past to see how cities have changed through time and explore what could make them...
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This book inspires readers to become change-makers for healthy living and eating by using design-thinking principles to tackle local and global issues. Beginning with a detailed look at the steps involved in design thinking, readers are guided through the process so they can design their own solutions to big issues from the need for healthy food options in schools to the lack of clean drinking water in impoverished communities.
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From neighborhoods and schools to the worldwide community, this book explains how design thinking principles can help create communities that give all its members a place and a voice by planning in an inclusive and collaborative way. Beginning with a detailed look at the steps involved in design thinking, readers are guided through the process so they can design their own solutions to the barriers that prevent participation in order to create a truly...
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To a child, a city is a chaotic, vibrant community whose workings can seem quite mysterious. How did people create subways? How does the water get to the very top of a skyscraper? Is there any organization to a bustling metropolis? Cities: Discover How They Work gives kids a view into the inner functioning of urban areas. They'll learn about all the parts that come together to make cities work and how they've grown and changed since the very first...
18) Sleepover party
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2016.
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First American edition.
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Full of slumber party ideas for girls, this book guides party hosts from planning to clean up.
19) Homes & cities
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1982
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Examines energy use in homes and cities and the effects of building design and city planning on energy conservation.
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