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Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelTake a look at the Himalayan mountain range – from the jungle valleys at the bottom right up to the icy peaks at the very top. Find out about the climate, the vegetation and the wildlife and how people live their lives at each level. Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.Text type – An information book.The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.The glossary and index can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.Curriculum links: Geography

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.Learn all about rewilding and how nature fights back even when it appears to have been wiped out. Discover how farmland grows back into forest, deserted cities turn into wilderness, and life appears on volcanoes which erupt from the sea.Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.Text type: An information bookIdeas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activitiesBitten by a crocodile, charged by giant otters and chased up a tree by peccary wild boars in the Amazon, Simon Chapman is a self-confessed jungle addict. He has trekked through untouched rainforests around the world but also seen the damage that people have done to them. His inspiration for his book, Nature Fights Back, comes from seeing how wild nature hangs on and can go on to thrive even when seemingly devastated by fire, pollution or logging.

Specifically designed for the MCEM Part C, this book contains 100 questions to help candidates prepare for this OSCE examination. All questions and answers are mapped directly to the College of Emergency Medicine syllabus and contain detailed information that allows candidates to appreciate the format and requirements of each OSCE. Each question features instructions to candidate, actor, and examiner, so candidates can practise in groups and recreate OSCE stations. MCEM-style marking sheets ensure that candidates have a good understanding of the standard that is required by the College.Complete and up-to-date, this book will give trainees a realistic and comprehensive preparation for the MCEM Part C.

The work explores the field of public health advocacy from the twin perspectives of the sociology of news production and public health activism. The second section offers an A-Z of strategies for gaining media attention, with many entries illustrated by case histories. Covering theory and practice, the guide is intended for public health and community medicine workers, community health action groups, and students of mass communication, media studies or public health.

Simon is packed and heading off to a region of the Amazon Basin in northern Bolivia. Despite its size, it's a fragile biome, of mixed forest and river habitats. Simon plans to document his journey down the River Enatahua, but things go wrong right from the start: a rucksack is missing, along with his canoe ...Simon Chapman, winner of the Blue Peter Book Award, brings geography to life, and his Expedition Diaries are a great way to introduce the world's biomes and habitats to children, direct from someone who's actually been in them - sometimes up to his neck! These books are perfect for sparking interest in this key school topic.

Simon is heading to the Himalayan Mountains of western China, where he'll begin his journey along the Nujiang River and up through coniferous forests into the alpine region. He faces treacherous mountains in the last leg of his trek to find Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys.Simon Chapman, winner of the Blue Peter Book Award, brings geography to life, and his Expedition Diaries are a great way to introduce the world's biomes and habitats to children, direct from someone who's actually been in them - sometimes up to his neck! These books are perfect for sparking interest in this key school topic.

Simon is flying to the island of Borneo in the South China Sea. He plans to travel by boat and plane, and trek through one of the world's oldest rainforests to find orangutans in their natural equitorial habitat. He'll be sketching some of the island's thousands of species of tree, mammal and bird along the way.Simon Chapman, winner of the Blue Peter Book Award, brings geography to life, and his Expedition Diaries are a great way to introduce the world's biomes and habitats to children, direct from someone who's actually been in them - sometimes up to his neck! These books are perfect for sparking interest in this key school topic.

Simon has arrived in New Delhi, India,on the start of his journey to Corbett National Park and intowetlands, desert, and low-lying dry forest beyond. He's searching for the endangered Bengal tiger. But early on, the trip doesn't go according to plan, when Simon is involved in a car crash ...Simon Chapman, winner of the Blue Peter Book Award, brings geography to life, and his Expedition Diaries are a great way to introduce the world's biomes and habitats to children, direct from someone who's actually been in them - sometimes up to his neck! These books are perfect for sparking interest in this key school topic.

Chapman's book gives an insider's view of the struggle for gun control, highlighting the public discourse between shooters determined to preserve the right for civilians to bear military-style weapons, and activists dedicated to getting Australia 'off the American path' of gun violence.

From December 2012, Australia became the first nation in the world to require all tobacco products to be sold in standard ???plain??? packs under the leadership of the then Health Minister Nicola Roxo

Featuring a detailed examination of the scientific evidence, an investigation into nocebo effects, profiles of leading windfarm opponents, and an account of the strategies use by anti-windfarm interests, Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Communicated Disease is a critical account of the rise of the anti-windfarm movement.

Who keeps telling smokers they can’t quit without help?For decades there have been far more ex-smokers than smokers, and an estimated 75% of smokers quit without drugs or professional help.But smoking cessation is a global phenomenon serviced by multibillion-dollar industries, including the pharmaceutical and e-cigarette sectors and health professionals. These industries try to denigrate unassisted cessation and promote their products and services – “weapons of mass distraction” – as essential to successful quitting.This contributes to the medicalisation of a process that, before these products were available, had a natural history where drugs and expertise were absent, yet millions of people around the world still quit.Simon Chapman AO is one of Australia’s foremost experts on strategies to minimise harm from tobacco. In Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction, he reviews the early history of quitting smoking and the rise of assisted quitting, and gives insight into the forces that have tried to undermine smokers’ agency to stop. Chapman also provides actionable policy solutions to help people actually quit smoking."This is a splendid read for anyone interested in what really works to reduce smoking, and what helps to keep Big Tobacco in business." — Mike Daube AO, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, Curtin University"Chapman is indispensable reading for anyone wanting to help the billion-odd smokers end their addiction. A powerful and important book!" — Robert N. Proctor, Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University

A jungle river bend in the Amazon. There are rapids upstream and forest-covered hills, unexplored! Anything could be ahead - flesh-eating fish, dangerous insects, even grumpy monkeys. So watch out!WOW! Facts is a progressively levelled series of non-fiction books that support reading fluency and comprehension for struggling and reluctant readers. It is available in banded levels from Turquoise to Grey, with reading ages ranging from 6 to 9. The titles in Turquoise Level have a reading age of 6 years and an interest age from 9 up to 14 years. These fun, fact-filled books have wide appeal and cover a huge array of subjects. They use bite-sized chunks of text and generous letter and paragraph spacing to aid readability for dyslexic students. Full-colour photographic illustrations support comprehension and bring the wonderful world of information to life.

From source to sea, go on a breath-taking adventure along a river and explore some of the greatest waterways of the world, with fold-out pages.Rivers flow across every continent on our planet, shaping the land and bringing life. Towns, cities and entire civilisations have grown up on their banks, from the Ancient Mesopotamians 5,000 years ago. Turn the pages to follow the incredible journey of a river from its source in high up in the mountains, along its gorges, through its valleys, down its waterfalls and into the sea. Explore the river's geography, discover the unique wildlife it supports, see how the waterways have shaped our world - and how we have shaped them.Featuring fold-out pages of six great rivers from around the world: Amazon (South America), Nile (Africa), Mississippi (North America), Rhine (Europe), Ganges (Asia) and Murray (Australia).Written by self-confessed explorer and children's author Simon Chapman, expertly checked by river ecologist François Edwards and beautifully illustrated by Qu Lan.

Dive deep into the abyss and explore the shadowy depths of the most unknown part of our world. Discover the strange and elusive creatures that dwell in the darkness, the history of deep sea exploration and why this ecosystem, even though it is the largest and least understood on our planet, is also one of the most threatened.WOW! Facts is a progressively levelled series of non-fiction books that support reading fluency and comprehension for struggling and reluctant readers. It is available in banded levels from Turquoise to Grey, with reading ages ranging from 6 to 9. The titles in Grey Level have a reading age between 8 and 9 years and an interest age from 9 up to 14 years. These fun, fact-filled books have wide appeal and cover a huge array of subjects. They use bite-sized chunks of text and generous letter and paragraph spacing to aid readability for dyslexic students. Full-colour photographic illustrations support comprehension and bring the wonderful world of information to life.

How to Trek the Himalayas by Simon Chapman, translated by Yana Surkova. A steep climb in the mountains. There are ice valleys and snow-covered hills. Anything could be up there - snowstorms, landslides, even a Yeti...Part of our range of dual-language English-Ukrainian books, suitable for children in KS2 and KS3 (ages 8–14), an ideal learning resources to support children in building fluency in reading in English. The text on the left-hand page is in English with the right-hand page in Ukrainian along with a helpful dual-language vocabulary list at the front. Comprehension is supported by appealing illustrations and simple, controlled language that has been carefully levelled.

Big ideas for curious minds are simply explained in this fascinating first introduction to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.Is there anything faster than the speed of light? What colour are the stars? Is time travel possible? And just what exactly is 'relativity'?Prepare to have your mind blown as you explore the different ideas about light, gravity and space that make up the theory of relativity, from the mind of one of the most famous scientists in the world: Albert Einstein. Through real life examples of physics in action and imaginary 'thought experiments', learn how time can stretch, what it would look like if we travelled at light speed, how black holes work and more! Fun, conversational text breaks down complex ideas so they are accessible to young readers.Created in consultation with Dr N. Baker-Campbell and Dr Matthew Bothwell of the University of Cambridge. Colourful and dynamic illustrations bring abstract concepts to life.For more big ideas, don't miss other titles in the series: Think Big: Secrets of Bees

Big ideas for curious minds are simply explained in this fascinating first introduction to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.Is there anything faster than the speed of light? What colour are the stars? Is time travel possible? And just what exactly is 'relativity'?Prepare to have your mind blown as you explore the different ideas that make up the theory of relativity, from the mind of one of the most famous scientists in the world: Albert Einstein. Through real life examples of physics in action and imaginary 'thought experiments', learn how time can stretch, what it would look like if we travelled at light speed, how black holes work and more! Fun, conversational text breaks down complex ideas so they are accessible to young readers.Created in consultation with Dr Nicola Humphry-Baker of the University of Cambridge. Colourful and dynamic illustrations bring abstract concepts to life.For more big ideas, don't miss other titles in the series: Think Big: Secrets of Bees

Details of over 5,900 key personnel in each of the major institutions, including: European Commission, European Parliament, Economic and Social Committee, Council of the European Union, Court of Justice, European Investment Bank, Court of Auditors, Committee of Regions and EU Agencies.

Smoke Signals gathers 71 of Professor Simon Chapman’s authoritative, acerbic and often heretical essays on public health written across his 40-year career.