Radical Rocks

Radical Rocks
Title Radical Rocks PDF eBook
Author Rena Korb
Publisher ABDO
Pages 34
Release 2007-09-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1602704058

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Learn about rocks in these easy-to-read books. Minerals, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rocks are explained with simple text and matching illustrations. A science activity, fun facts section, glossary, and index aid students in learning about the rocks around them. Special thanks to content consultant Daniel V. Sola professional geologist.

This Chair Rocks

This Chair Rocks
Title This Chair Rocks PDF eBook
Author Ashton Applewhite
Publisher Celadon Books
Pages 302
Release 2019-03-05
Genre Self-Help
ISBN 1250297249

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Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author

Investigating Rocks

Investigating Rocks
Title Investigating Rocks PDF eBook
Author Will Hurd
Publisher Heinemann-Raintree Library
Pages 54
Release 2009-01-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781432923082

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Introduces rocks, discussing the different types of rocks, where they are found, the changes they undergo, and how weathering and erosion occur.

The United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia

The United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia
Title The United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 764
Release 1909
Genre
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Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology

Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology
Title Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology PDF eBook
Author Noah Heringman
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 340
Release 2004
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780801441271

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This book reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of geology, rocks, and landforms.

U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin

U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Title U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 454
Release 1985
Genre Geology
ISBN

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Nature Guide: Rocks and Minerals

Nature Guide: Rocks and Minerals
Title Nature Guide: Rocks and Minerals PDF eBook
Author DK
Publisher Penguin
Pages 354
Release 2012-06-18
Genre Nature
ISBN 1465403523

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Did you know culinary salt is the mineral halite? Or that the pigment vermillion is powdered cinnabar, a mineral whose name comes from the Persian for "dragon's blood"? Discover the extraordinary mineral treasures that form our planet and that today we use in everything, from makeup and cookery to agriculture and high-tech. Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals is your essential collector's companion, with illustrated entries on hundreds of minerals, gems, and rocks from actinium to zirconium. Its breathtaking array includes organic minerals, such as pearls and corals, as well as silicates and "native elements" like gold. Browse to find wonderful gems, including opals, or pyropes - a deep-red garnet the size of a hen's egg. Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals reveals each mineral's defining characteristics and explains how and where they were formed, how they were first identified, their uses, and their chemical composition. Whether you are a geology student or starting your own collection, this fact-packed book is both a fascinating read and an essential identification guide.