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In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today's much-touted "green" products--carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes--really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for "clean" ones. But can earth-friendly products really save the planet?

This far-reaching, riveting narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may be disastrously off the...

Faced with climate change, many counsel "going green," encouraging us to buy organic food or a "clean" car, for example. But can we rely on consumerism to provide a solution to the very problems it has helped cause? Heather Rogers travels from Paraguay to Indonesia, via the Hudson Valley, Detroit, and Germany's Black Forest, to investigate green capitalism, and argues for solutions that are not mere palliatives or distractions, but ways of engaging with how we live and the kind of world we want to live in.

A new afterword considers various ways in which national development might be freed...

A strange twist of fate alters Naomi's world after she is abandoned by her mother and adopted by a mining family in the South Wales valleys. Suspense, drama, clairvoyance and illicit affairs are ever present in the main character's life. It seems that a deliberate effort has been made to conceal her true identity but despite being led a merry dance she is determined to find out about the mystery that surrounds her birthmother's secret past.

It sure is complicated being a teen girl. There's the guy at school who makes your heart pound and the family issues that never seem to go away. Add to that mix the exhausting biology class and life is just plain tough. This is a book about the basics. Using real-life examples and applicable Scripture verses, author Heather Jamison talks to girls about the essentials--rules, rags, and relationships--and how wrong attitudes can be changed into valuable lessons.

This essential guide to studying geography has been updated to ensure it remains a valuable resource for all those on geography courses, as well as those considering studying the subject at university.

• Second edition of this popular and wide-ranging guide to studying geography.
  
• Includes contributions from many key geographers around the world.
  
• Provides answers to questions from before starting a degree course right through to further study and careers.
  
• Includes lots of practical tips for improving geographical study...

This essential guide to studying geography has been updated to ensure it remains a valuable resource for all those on geography courses, as well as those considering studying the subject at university.

• Second edition of this popular and wide-ranging guide to studying geography.
  
• Includes contributions from many key geographers around the world.
  
• Provides answers to questions from before starting a degree course right through to further study and careers.
  
• Includes lots of practical tips for improving geographical study...