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Books with title You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Plastic!

  • You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Dentists!

    Fiona Macdonald, David Antram

    Paperback (Franklin Watts, Feb. 1, 2015)
    Let's face it: no one really looks forward to going to see the dentist. But have you considered the alternative?This series takes readers (Ages 8-12) on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers.In past centuries, the only cure for a decayed tooth was to pull it out-without anesthetic, and with only the beating of a drum to distract you and drown out your screams.
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  • You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Antibiotics!

    Anne Rooney, David Antram

    eBook (The Salariya Book Company, Aug. 19, 2020)
    Many dangerous diseases are carried by bacteria – tiny organisms that can get into the body and multiply inside it. Antibiotics are medicines that kill bacteria. They can be used to cure many diseases that were deadly in the past. This book tells the story of how antibiotics were discovered, and how they have transformed the treatment of disease. You Wouldn’t Want to Live Without Antibiotics! is part of a brand-new science and technology strand within the internationally acclaimed You Wouldn’t Want to Be series. The clear, engaging text and humorous illustrations bring the subject to life and stimulate young readers' curiosity about the world around them.Specially commissioned cartoon-style illustrations in full colour make these books attractive and accessible even to reluctant readers. Information is conveyed through captions, labels and humorous speech bubbles in addition to the main text. Illustrated sidebars headed ‘How It Works’, ‘Top Tip’ or ‘You Can Do It’ supply more facts, describe simple, safe experiments, or steps that readers can take to help make the world a better place. Each volume includes a timeline and a list of ‘Did You Know?’ facts.
  • You Wouldn't Want To Live Without Math!

    Anne Rooney

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Sept. 1, 2016)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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  • You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Plastic

    Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Ian Graham

    Paperback (Book House, Aug. 13, 2015)
    The invention of plastics was one of the most important discoveries of the past century, revolutionising the way things are made, stored, and packaged. This book tells the story of plastics, from the science behind their creation, to their use across all aspects of society. You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Plastic! is part of the new science and technology strand within the internationally acclaimed You Wouldn't Want to Be series, created and designed by David Salariya.
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  • You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Electricity!

    Ian Graham, Rory Walker

    eBook (The Salariya Book Company, Aug. 18, 2020)
    We depend on electricity in almost everything that we do. It gives us heat, light, transportation and entertainment. Electricity has always existed, but it is only in the last 200 years or so that we have learned how to make use of it. Find out what electricity does for us – and how we managed without it in the past.You Wouldn’t Want to Live Without Electricity! is part of a brand-new science and technology strand within the internationally acclaimed You Wouldn’t Want to Be series. The clear, engaging text and humorous illustrations bring the subject to life and stimulate young readers' curiosity about the world around them.Specially commissioned cartoon-style illustrations in full colour make these books attractive and accessible even to reluctant readers. Information is conveyed through captions, labels and humorous speech bubbles in addition to the main text. Illustrated sidebars headed ‘How It Works’, ‘Top Tip’ or ‘You Can Do It’ supply more facts, describe simple, safe experiments, or steps that readers can take to help make the world a better place. Each volume includes a timeline and a list of ‘Did You Know?’ facts.
  • You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Toilets!

    Fiona MacDonald, David Antram

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Sept. 1, 2014)
    Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe what it would be like to live without the toilet and describes how people managed to dispose of their waste in the past.
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  • You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Extreme Weather!

    Roger Canavan, Mark Bergin

    Library Binding (Turtleback, Feb. 1, 2015)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Each title in this new series takes readers on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers.
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  • You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Pain!

    Fiona Macdonald, David Antram

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Jan. 15, 2016)
    Imagine living in a world without pain.This series takes readers (Ages 8-12) on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers.You wouldn't get headaches or stomach aches, and it wouldn't hurt when you cut yourself or touched something hot. A pain-free world may sound wonderful, but if pain did not exist, our lives would be very dangerous. We probably wouldn't survive for long. We would certainly be less healthy. And, just perhaps, we'd feel less good about ourselves. Learn about the science behind how our bodies are able to experience pain, the ways pain helps us to stay safe, and the ghastly reality of life before modern painkillers.
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  • You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Dentists!

    Fiona MacDonald, David Antram

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Feb. 1, 2015)
    What if you never had to visit the dentist?Let's face it: no one really looks forward to going to see the dentist. But have you considered the alternative? In past centuries, the only cure for a decayed tooth was to pull it out-without anesthetic, and with only the beating of a drum to distract you and drown out your screams. This book in the new You Wouldn't Want to Live Without series describes, in entertaining words and pictures, what teeth consist of, how to take care of them, what may happen if you don't-and why you should never be afraid of going to the dentist.
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  • You Wouldn't Want To Live Without Clean Water!

    Roger Canavan, David Antram

    Library Binding (Turtleback, Sept. 1, 2014)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. What would life be like if you had to do without modern inventions? How would you cope without a toilet or live without electricity? Starting from these thought-provoking questions, each title takes us on a historical journey to see how people coped in the past, and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and more pleasant.
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  • You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Libraries!

    Fiona Macdonald, Mark Bergin

    Paperback (Franklin Watts, Sept. 1, 2018)
    Libraries are the keepers of the world's memory.This series takes readers (Ages 8-12) on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers.For 5,000 years and more, libraries have been gathering and preserving writings of all kinds. They're storehouses of knowledge, and imagination, and fun. Learn about how these places and their collections of written words allow us to check our facts, find important information, share stories, beliefs and ideas, build communities, make things, and learn valuable life skills.
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  • You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Trees!

    Jim Pipe, Mark Bergin

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Sept. 1, 2016)
    A world without trees would be a barren, dry and polluted wasteland.This series takes readers (Ages 8-12) on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers.Trees are among nature's most remarkable achievements, growing from a seed you can hold in your hand into a green giant several stories high. They are rugged survivors. They can live in baking hot deserts or icy arctic regions, competing with other plants for water and nutrients, while fending off cold, heat, drought, flood, poisons, parasites and predators. Trees can live for hundreds and even thousands of years, and teem with hundreds of different species of animal. At the same time, they provide us with fuel, food and shelter -?and even the oxygen that we breathe.
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