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I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai • nationalgeographic.com • wto.org The girl who stood up for education • urbangeographyjournal.org • economist.com and was shot by the Taliban. Nobel • discoveringantarctica.org.uk • gapminder.org Peace Prize winner Malala’s true story • worldbank.org • un.com takes you from the Swat Valley in • unhabitat.org • gatesnotes.com Pakistan, to Birmingham via the UN.
954 Podcasts Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
Fisheries scientist Dr Alfred Jones is tasked The BBC has numerous podcasts. Within each programme GEOGRAPHY with trying to change nature by bringing there are podcasts relevant to the components on this course. salmon fishing to the Highlands of the • SUBJECT RESOURCES FOR R6 STUDENTS Yemen. Hypocrisy, bureaucracy, faith, love, The World of Business. All available from the and humour feature in this easy to read • BBC Business Daily. novel. • From our own correspondent. LEARNING RESOURCE CENTRE • The Inquiry. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn • Business Matters.
• Inside Science. The uplifting true story of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the windswept South West coastline. Ultimately a portrayal of home, how The school subscribes to JSTOR, a digital it can be lost, rebuilt and rediscovered. library of academic journals, e-books and primary sources. The End of the Ocean by Maja Lunde
A captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a Inspiration daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future. “Young people should be at the forefront of global change and The Tortilla Curtain by T C Boyle innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for develop- Published in 1996, this gripping story still ment and peace.” resonates today in Trump’s America. Californian privilege and Mexican poverty Kofi Annan collide as two couples, both resident in Topanga Canyon strive for their version of the American Dream. Learning Resource Centre 2021/22 Learning Resource Centre 2021/22 Non -Fiction School Information
Books you may find useful to broaden your On Brick Lane by Rachel Lichtenstein Exam Board: AQA Brick Lane’s many communities, past Geography knowledge will be found in libraries and present, are brought to life from Subject Leader: Miss A Curtis-Slater under the following Dewey Decimal numbers: personal testimony, photographs and maps in this fascinating insight into a street that is constantly re-inventing Minimum grade required: GCSE 6 in Geography. Social behaviour/migration: 304 Hydrology: 551 itself.. 942
Environment: 333 Agriculture: 630 Spitalfieldsby Dan Cruickshank Civil conflict, waves of immigration, the Earth Science: 550 Geography: 910 rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty - the handful of Magazines & Periodicals streets that constitute modern Spitalfields have witnessed all this and much more. You may wish to consider subscribing to : Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That 942 Tell You All You Need to Know about
Global Politics by Tim Marshall How bad are bananas?: the carbon The Economist
footprint of everything by Mike To understand world events you need to Berners-Lee Insight and opinion on international understand people, ideas and movement
and this is all constrained by physical news, business, and finance. geography. 320 An entertaining look at the facts and figures to help us all reduce our carbon footprint. 363 Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Curbing Catastrophe: natural hazards National Geographic Lloyd Parry and risk reduction in the modern
world by Timothy H Dixon The official magazine of the National A heart-breaking and intimate account of the 2011 earthquake which caused a 120- Geographical Society containing foot-high tsunami to crash into the coast The science, politics and economics articles on science, geography, history of north-east Japan. 909 behind a variety of disasters and and world culture. environmental issues. 363 Geography Review Factfulness: ten reasons we’re wrong about the world and why things are Coastlines: the story of our shore by Patrick Barkham Topical articles by experts in the field better than you think by Runnlund, Roslin & Roslin Told through a series of walks beside specifically aimed at A level students. Award winning book with Bill Gates the sea, the author reflects on the and Barack Obama on the fan list. 303 quest to protect our shoreline from tidal erosion and human damage.551