50 Facts That Should Change the World
50 Facts That Should Change the World

Author: Jessica Williams

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

Published: 2007-08-02

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1848312652

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In this new edition of her bestseller, Jessica Williams tests the temperature of our world and diagnoses a malaise with some shocking symptoms. Get the facts but also the human side of the story on the world?s hunger, poverty, material and emotional deprivation; its human rights abuses and unimaginable wealth; the unstoppable rise of consumerism, mental illness, the drugs trade, corruption, gun culture, the abuse of our environment and more. The prognosis might look bleak, yet there is hope, Williams argues, and it's down to us to act now to change things.

50 Facts That Should Change The USA
50 Facts That Should Change The USA

Author: Stephen Fender

Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1934708224

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Are Americans being told the full story about what’s going on in the United States today? In this book, you’ll learn hard facts that will open your eyes and minds to a very different reality than the official versions. Following the popular 50 Facts That Should Change The World, this new book puts our nation under the microscope, telling us that: The United States of America is a country with fifty capital cities, few of which anyone can name/ a nation with 65 million gun owners and 35,000 gun deaths each year/ a place where there’s one car for every adult/ and where twice as many people claim to go to church as actually do.One town in Kentucky elected a black Labrador as its mayor.The United States produces a quarter of global CO2 emissions, and has a population rising twice as fast as that of the European Union.German could have been the national language.Republican states are the most generous givers to charity.The United States boasts the largest welfare state in the world—our military. Stephen Fender presents a vibrant, proud, and yet critical portrait of the world’s most powerful but least understood nation.

Fabulous Facts about the Fifty States
Fabulous Facts about the Fifty States

Author: Wilma S. Ross

Publisher: Scholastic

Published: 1989-09

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780590434461

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Presents facts and figures on all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Includes maps, state birds, trees, and flowers.