Numbers

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Numbers”:

Senior: Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics; Professor Povey’s Perplexiing Problems; College Mathematics Through Baseball; Statistics and Probability; Applying Geometry to Everyday Life; The History of Mathematics

Middle: The Scale of Things; The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl; Once; All Thirteen; The Maths Handbook; Deadly 7

Junior: Secret Coders; At the Bottom of the World; 50 Amazing Things Kids Need to Know About Maths; Think of a Number; Mathmagicians; If: A Mind-Bending Way of Looking at Big Ideas & Numbers

2022-11-25T13:20:20+00:00November 25th, 2022|

Around the World

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Around the World”:

Senior: The State of Africa; Down Under; The Penguin History of Modern Russia; A Concise History of Germany; The Spanish Civil War; A Concise History of Italy

Middle: Hola, Venezuela; Life and Culture in the United States and Canada; The Netherlands; Portugal; Denmark; Countries of the World

Junior: Allalam-o-Alaikum, Pakistan; Ola, Brazil; Konnichiwa, Japan; Kumusta, Philippines; Namaste, India; Hola, Mexico

2022-11-18T11:00:54+00:00November 18th, 2022|

War

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “War”:

Senior: Daily Life During the French Revolution; The Boer War 1899-1902; The Gulf War 1991; Cold War Capitalism; Russian Revolution of 1917; The Red Scarf Girl

Middle: The Red Baron: The graphic history of Richthofen’s Flying Circus and the air war in WWI; Woeful Second World War; The Vietnam War; The Split History of World War I; Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution; D-Day: From the invasion to the liberation of Paris

Junior: In the Mouth of the Wolf; Private Peaceful; The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips; Special Forces; The Eleventh Hour; Machines and Weaponry of World War I

2022-11-11T12:45:02+00:00November 11th, 2022|

Media

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Media”:

Senior: Media Bias; Memes to Movements: How the world’s most viral media is changing social protest and power; Mass Media; Politics and Journalism in a Post-truth World; How Things Were…and How They Were Reported; Irresistible: The rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked

Middle: Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the invention of modern photojournalism; Cyberbullying; The Information Revolution: Transforming the world through technology; The Dangers of Digital Addiction; How the Internet Changed the World; Posters and Propaganda in Wartime

Junior: Photos Framed: A fresh look at the world’s most memorable photographs; Eat This! How fast-food marketing gets you to buy junk (and how to fight back); Simon Cowell: Global music mogul; Cyberbullying; YouTube Channel; Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star

2022-11-03T10:00:31+00:00November 3rd, 2022|
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