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How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
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| NZ$ 19.50 each |
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| Author: Joanna Yarrow |
| Published by: Watkins Publishing |
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"How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint" is the ultimate guide to helping individuals make real changes that can help to stem the advance of climate change. Packed full of realistic, achievable ideas for transforming our lives so that we can all contribute to halting global warming, it gives a wealth of information and practical advice on the major lifestyle issues of our time: what new forms of energy we should be considering, how we can take a responsible approach to travel, and above all what we can usefully do at home and at work to cut back pollution and waste. Everywhere you look, there's a way to save energy without affecting your quality of life. Whether it be a simple change of habit, or a forward-looking home improvement project, you'll find plenty of suggestions that relate to you, proving that sustainable living is good not only for the planet, and sometimes your bank balance, but also your health and your karma.
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Looks
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| NZ$ 42.50 each |
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| Author: Gordon L. Patzer |
| Published by: Amacom |
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We all know one hard and undeniable truth: Physical beauty comes with tremendous power, and tremendous benefits. Those who possess it are generally luckier in love, more likely to be popular, and more apt to get better grades in school. But very few of us realize just how much looks affect every aspect of our lives. Recent studies document that people blessed with good looks earn about 10 per cent more than their average-looking colleagues. They are also more likely to get hired and promoted at work.What exactly is this "physical attractiveness" phenomenon and how does it affect each and every one of us? Dr. Gordon L. Patzer has devoted the last 30 years to investigating this unsettling phenomenon for both women and men, and how it touches every part of our lives. In "Looks", he reveals not only its impact on romance, but also on family dynamics, performance in school, career, courtroom proceedings, politics and government. "Looks" is
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State of the Unions
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| NZ$ 52.00 each |
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| Author: Philip Dine |
| Published by: McGraw-Hill Contemporary |
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From steel workers, Teamsters, and coal miners to teachers, actors, and civil servants, union members once accounted for more than one third of the American workforce. At a mere 12 percent, union membership today is a shadow of what it once was. What happened to organized labor in America and what can be done to restore it to its role of the defender of middle-class values and economic well-being? Award-winning investigative reporter Philip M. Dine takes us on a riveting journey through America's cities and back roads, its factories and union halls, to answer those questions. From the health care crisis to massive job flight overseas, from rampant home foreclosures to illegal immigration, he clearly shows how virtually every major economic, political, and social trend impacting our way of life is tied to the state of America's unions.Combining a compelling narrative with expert analysis, Dine offers firsthand accounts of the union
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