It put into perspective not only demographics but also social justice issues and lets children understand exactly how much of the world has clean water access, food insecurity, etc. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

Smith, in an effort to make this number, and all the many confusing facts and figures about the world's population - where we come from, what languages we speak, how our resources are distributed - more comprehensible, imagines the world as a village of one hundred people in this fascinating picture-book. billion land animals are slaughtered for human desire and pleasure, 100 million animals are tortured to death in laboratory experiments, 1.And when dealing with simultaneous translation, make sure you divide the length of your phrases as well as the anticipated duration of your talk by two.

Archival photos and Arlene Alda’s photographs of the tenement museum’s recreated period rooms carry much of the weight of the book, but Granfield’s lively annotations and mini-essays are equally informative.

And the photographs further engage us: when we see photos of the tiny rooms, the beds doubling as sofas, the squalid toilets, the dark hallways – and most of all people’s faces – we can much more easily imagine what it was like to live there in that time. Provide a range of resources to use to represent the information: cubes, bean bags, post-it notes, images that can be cut out, paper and pens, small world models, dried pulses/pasta, beads . Parts of the book are a bit dark, but, that's how the world is and it doesn't make too much sense to hide the disparity in circumstances from children. Smith’s information book is premised on an intriguing question: If the world’s population were represented by only 100 people in a single village, who would these people be?