Books with title Wild Amazon

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, started the internet company out of his garage in 1994. The company began as an online bookstore selling around one million titles. Since then, Amazon has grown into one of the largest online retailers in the world! This title for young readers highlights the history and innovations of this popular brand. Company timelines give readers a comprehensive history. Grabbing introductions reel in readers immediately. Marketing slogans, often familiar, engage readers. Brand=specific info graphics provide quirky information about the companies. An example of this is showing unique McDonald's food options only available in certain countries. ""By the Numbers"" info graphics offer quantifiable information about the brand. Fun facts offer further information about the brands. Timelines, diagrams and other visual features offer clarity to the text. Well-organized chapters allow students to identify key details of a brand. Table of contents, glossary, index are also included.

Seventeen-year-old Regina Kanellis's life seemed like it was back on track after a devastating tragedy...until she was uprooted and relocated halfway around the world to Rhodes, Greece. When Regina and her cousin Kostas explore the temple ruins one day, they vanish. They find themselves in an unfamiliar place with people whose dress and speech are alien. Once the teens overcome the language barrier, they discover that they've stepped back in time. When Regina learns that she is destined to become the Amazon queen, she must come to terms with her past and find the inner strength to complete the trials that lead to coronation. Not everyone is happy about Regina's destiny, and that makes Regina wonder...what happened to the last Amazon queen?

Amazon examines the world's largest online retailer, detailing its founding by Jeff Bezos and its expansion into new areas such as hardware devices, cloud services, and drone deliveries. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Determined to experience the mighty Amazon for himself, Dennison Berwick travelled alone for more than year in a small canoe along major rivers and unnamed tributaries. At night he slung a hammock between trees in the forest, surrounded by all the noises of creatures active in the darkness. He walked for a week to reach the source of the Amazon in the snow-capped Andes in Peru; got lost in the forest; took hallucinogenic ayahuasca and ended his adventure by trying to convince an angry hunting party of Yanomami Indians that he was not a gold-miner attempting to rob them. Praise for "Amazon" "…not just another travel book. (The author has) a sharp eye, an inquisitive nose and boundless compassion for the river dwellers…" Environment Brazil "…as much a fascinating and timely record of the people of the rainforest as it is the story of a personal quest. The Traveller. "Berwick's vision…is acute." Country Life