Australia is a land of extremes—from the bustling city of Sydney to the wild lands of the outback. Learning about this land allows readers to explore important topics in both social studies and math curricula. As they read, they use fun facts and stats to solve math problems, which can then be checked with a comprehensive answer key. Readers also explore colorful maps of the continent that are designed to enhance their geography skills. Colorful photographs of life in Australia are presented in an eye-catching way designed to hold the interest of readers.

Africa is a continent filled with many exciting places to visit, including the Serengeti Plain, the pyramids at Giza, and the Sahara Desert. Learning about these places and others around the continent of Africa allows readers to develop their geography skills. It also allows readers to practice important parts of math curricula using fun stats about the African continent. Readers are able to apply the information they read to real-world math problems. They can then check their answers with a helpful answer key. Colorful photographs, detailed maps, and eye-catching layouts combine social studies and math topics in a creative way.

If you travel through Europe, you can learn a lot about history and geography. You can also learn a lot about math. Readers journey through a different part of the European continent with each turn of the page. Along the way, informative text and detailed maps help enhance their geography skills. Accessible math problems allow readers to take what they’ve read and apply it to real-world math situations. They can then check their results with a comprehensive answer key. Vibrant photographs of European cities and landscapes are presented in an engaging way that is sure to excite readers.

Numbers can be found all over the Asian continent. The populations of countries, the heights of mountains, and the temperatures of deserts are just some of the numbers readers use to solve math problems about Asia. A helpful answer key is provided to allow readers to check their work. While they’re practicing skills meant to support common math curricula, they’re also learning social studies curriculum topics, such as geography. Engaging content and vibrant designs help readers see math and geography in a fun, fresh light. Colorful maps and bright photographs of locations throughout Asia keep readers entertained as they learn.

The Amazon River is about 4,000 miles long. Brazil takes up more than 48 percent of South America’s total area. These and other fun facts about South America are waiting for readers to discover as they explore the relationship between geography and math. Readers learn fascinating stats about South America, and they are able to use those stats to solve problems that support common math curriculum topics. A helpful answer key is included for them to check their results. South America’s colorful landscape is shown through vibrant photographs, and detailed maps guide readers on their journey through this continent.

Traveling is a fun way to use math skills in the real world. Readers discover this as they explore the cities and natural wonders of North America, using the fun facts they learn to solve math problems that support common curricula. Stats about famous places in the United States, Canada, and Mexico are included, along with detailed maps designed to help readers improve their geography skills. Vibrant photographs of North America are presented in an engaging way, allowing readers to feel as if they’re on a journey through the continent. As they work to solve each math problem, they can check their answers by using a helpful answer key.

Everyone has it within them to become a successful investor. Right here's where you start. Ignore the doom and gloom merchants - now is the time to start investing for the future. Bestselling authors Jim Mellon and Al Chalabi were seen as the party poopers just a few years ago when they predicted the financial crisis in Wake Up! Now they take the opposite view - the party is about to start. It won't last forever, but in a few years a lot of money can be made by the astute and well-informed. This is your step-by-step introduction to the world of investment - including all the BigIdeas seasoned investors are searching for. You'll pick up ingenious and lucrative investment ideas in: Real Estate Stocks and Mutual Funds Bonds and Cash The BRIC Economies Commodities and Collectibles Green Investments "The DIY manual for building lasting wealth." —Ross O'Brien, The Economist Group "Packed with wise, practical advice, this book puts into plain English what every investor needs to know." —The Financial Times "...the book's main benefit was to show me that the mysteries of investment... lie within my grasp." —Financial World "...a timely, practical reminder that it's never too late to start investing for tomorrow." —moneyextra.com "...the advice in this book will beat most professional fund managers by leaps and bounds." —Sven Lorenz, market commentator, author & investor, and columnist for Money Week Please note: this book is the paperback edition of Jim and Al's Top 10 Investments for the Next 10 Years.

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100 Things To See On Australia's Coral Coast expands the ever-popular range of 100 Things To See travel guides, dedicated to Australia's most incredible regions. From Lancelin in the south to Point Sampson, 1500km to the north, Western Australia’s Coral Coast and Pilbara regions are a cacophony of wild adventure. Here, the outback meets fringing coral reef where you literally step from desert to underwater oasis in a heartbeat. Along the way, explore the best things to see, from stunning wildflower meadows to walk-off-the-beach coral reefs. Swim with whale sharks and manta rays or find and eat local produce while getting insider knowledge into the best places to eat, sleep and shop along the way. Along the way, you’ll wander through ancient cultural sites older than the landscapes and landscapes older than the continent. You’ll swim with the world’s largest sharks and walk with some of Australia’s rarest species. You’ll camp on deserted beaches one day, then kick back in edgy micro-breweries the next. In this guide, you’ll find at least 100 of the best places and things to see and do along this incredible stretch of coast, and all of them carefully curated so you’re experiencing the most exceptional parts of Australia’s Coral Coast, Karijini National Park and the Pilbara. Adventure awaits. Chapters cover the Indian Ocean Drive, Wildflower Country, Geraldton and Surrounds, Kalbarri and Surrounds, Shark Bay, Carnarvon, Cape Range, The Pilbara and Karijini National Park.

This richly illustrated book is both a visitor’s guide to one of southwestern Ontario’s most striking landforms – the Elora Gorge on the Upper Grand River – and a thorough, accessible introduction to its natural and recent human history. The book introduces rivers that flow in bedrock, between rock walls and through precipitous gorges, unlike the subdued terrain that the last Ice Age bequeathed most of southwestern Ontario. It then leads the visitor to three viewpoints on and three excursions through the gorge, with a wealth of information about its rocks, fossils, caves, cliffs, rockslides, rockfalls, floods and erosional processes. It takes the reader through five “ages” of the gorge. In the First Age the gorge bedrock originated as reef limestone 430 million years ago in prehistoric tropical seas. The Second Age saw the gorge rocks make a great, 400-million-year journey from tropical seas to the heart of a continent via plate tectonics. In the Third Age, the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet created conditions 17,000 to 15,000 years ago in which ice lobes, glacial lakes and meltwater spillways interacted to incise the gorge in an ice-free area known as the Ontario Island. In the Fourth Age the gorge, nestled in an immense forest, developed at a slower pace moderated by dense woods, fallen branches and beaver dams. In the Fifth Age, the gorge entered the Anthropocene as European settlers came to disrupt and dominate its development and unlock its secrets. Full of original photographs, maps and diagrams, Rivers in Rock is an authoritative guide to the Elora Gorge that will fascinate visitors and researchers alike.