Obesity is an unintended but unavoidable consequence of economic progress. Obesity is not a disease but a signal. It should alert us to bigger structural problems in society. Our bodies can no longer cope with the excess of over-consumption, & the planet is labouring under the effect of industrialisation & greenhouse gas emissions. ...

Intends to bring the drama of the ocean to shore & calls for protected marine reserves. This book

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Some planets seem to have no life forms. But that doesn't mean they have no danger. This work provides guided reading notes & activities & features templates & artwork for writing a new graphic novel together with short one-off writing activities. ...

A planet with horses... & clover? Human beings have been here before. But are they still around? & are they friend or foe? This work features guided reading notes & activities & provides templates & artwork for writing a new graphic novel together with short one-off writing activities. ...

With a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, this book explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, & of state violence on huge populations. It also shows how poverty grew massively in the 1990s. ...

A group of astronauts, led by George Taylor (Charlton Heston), crash land on a strange planet where mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. Taylor is hunted down & captured by horse-riding gorillas, & then taken for experimentation by sympathetic chimpanzee Dr Zira (Kim Hunter). When Zira discovers Taylor's intelligence, she & her fiancé Cornelius (Roddy Mc Dowall) appeal to the governing council on his behalf, but the appeal fails, leaving the astronaut no choice but to go on the run. Fleeing for his freedom, Taylor soon makes a shocking discovery about the provenance of this strange planet. ...

A group of astronauts, led by George Taylor (Charlton Heston), crash land on a strange planet where mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. Taylor is hunted down & captured by horse-riding gorillas, & then taken for experimentation by sympathetic chimpanzee Dr Zira (Kim Hunter). When Zira discovers Taylor's intelligence, she & her fiancé Cornelius (Roddy Mc Dowall) appeal to the governing council on his behalf, but the appeal fails, leaving the astronaut no choice but to go on the run. Fleeing for his freedom, Taylor soon makes a shocking discovery about the provenance of this strange planet. ...

Tim Burton's 're-imagining' of the 1968 sci-fi classic. The year is 2029, & Capt. Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) is aboard a spaceship trying to teach apes how to become space pilots. During a routine reconnaissance mission outside the mothership, Leo is sucked into a space-time hole & minutes later makes a crash landing on a strange planet where humans are subjugated by talking apes. Just as a quick death at the hands of the violent ape leader General Thade (Tim Roth) seems inevitable, Leo is rescued by the ape scientist Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter). Ari suspects mankind has more skills than the sacred documents of the apes describe & soon the race is on to outwit Thade & discover the true history of the planet & its original population. ...