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Expedition to the Arctic
Professor Alex Woolf
Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub Learning library, Aug. 1, 2014)Provides a first person account of an expedition to the North Pole, including preparing for the trip, a description of the people and animals who live in the area, and survival tips.
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Meet the Vikings
Professor Alex Woolf
Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Publishing, Aug. 1, 2014)Get ready to step back in time and become a Viking in the year 1000! This imaginative text sets the readers as the main character in a story in which they question the people in a Viking community about their culture, including a baker, farmer, artisan, and slave. Viking jewelry, armor, food, and games are a part of the discussion, which is coupled with colorful photographs of characters in costume as well as scenery and artifacts that will truly transport readers back in time.
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Elizabethan England
Kathy Elgin, Professor Alex Woolf
eBook (Facts on File, July 1, 2005)An eight-volume set examining the development of costume and fashion and the social history that gave rise to it. It depicts the changing styles, processes, and trends - from the first people to wear clothes in the last Ice Age to the courtly fashion of medieval Europe to the globalization of Western style - that led us to the clothing of today.
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A Photographic View of World War One
Professor Alex Woolf
Paperback (Wayland (Publishers) Ltd, April 24, 2014)Photographs from The National Archives will show what life was like during World War One. What were conditions like in the trenches, what did they eat and what fighting strategies did they follow?
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A Photographic View of Schools
Professor Alex Woolf
Paperback (Wayland (Publishers) Ltd, April 24, 2014)We see what life was like for school children in the past. What lessons did they have, what did their classrooms look like and how did they dress? It raises questions about discipline and what was expected from children.
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An Asteroid Strike
Professor Alex Woolf
Paperback (Raintree, June 5, 2014)Can you imagine what our lives would be like after a devastating asteroid strike? What effect would the resulting tsunami, storms, and dust cloud have? This book traces the possible consequences of a global event on this scale, with ideas and evidence based on similar scenarios that are a part of fact and fiction.
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Trekking in the Congo Rainforest
Professor Alex Woolf
Paperback (Wayland (Publishers) Ltd, June 26, 2014)Follow a traveller's journey through the African rainforest and learn about the unusual animals and plants, peoples, landscape, climate and industry. Find out how to survive on your journey when you meet poisonous insects, venomous snakes and learn how to build a shelter and makeshift campfire!
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Expedition to the Arctic
Professor Alex Woolf
Paperback (Wayland (Publishers) Ltd, July 24, 2014)Follow a traveller's diary of an expedition to the frozen North Pole! Find out how to gear yourself up for the trip, about the animals and plants that thrive in extreme conditions, landscape features, ecology, climate, industry and people. Discover how animals such as whales and polar bears survive living on pack ice and ice floes, and what life is like for Arctic explorers who brave 24-hour darkness and treacherous conditions to learn more about this challenging climate.
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Meet the Tudors
Professor Alex Woolf
Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Publishing, Aug. 1, 2014)The year is 1585 in Tudor England and someone has stolen the duchess's necklace. It's up to the reader of this inventive book to find it and unmask the thief. Readers will play the role of detective while interrogating various people living and working in a nobleman's house. A kitchen maid, archer, musician, actor, and soldier all provide clues as well as absorbing information about what life was like back then. Illustrations and photographs also aid in a visual understanding of this time in history.
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Sailing the Great Barrier Reef
Professor Alex Woolf
Paperback (Wayland (Publishers) Ltd, July 24, 2014)Follow a traveller's diary of a diving trip on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia! Find out all about the unusual animal and plant life, landscape features, ecology, climate, industry and people. Discover how conservation projects are underway to protect the reef and its wildlife. Also learn how to survive the perils of the Great Barrier Reef including sharks, the blue-ringed octopus, jellyfish and cone shells!
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Terrorism
Professor Alex Woolf
Paperback (Wayland (Publishers) Ltd, May 15, 2014)Global Issues: Terrorism considers the definition of terrorism, its history from the French Revolution, its causes, and its human and economic impact. The various responses to terrorism, the new forms it may take in the future, for example relating to animal rights and environmental concerns, and the media's role in reporting on and even perpetuating terrorism, are also taken into account.
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Meteor
Professor Alex Woolf
Paperback (Raintree, July 2, 2015)What is it like to witness a meteor? This book looks at the Chelyabinsk Meteor and other asteroid strikes, using first-hand accounts to describe events and people's experiences, providing multiple perspectives from eyewitnesses, survivors, the emergency services, scientists and the media.
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