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Who am I? What makes me unique in this big world? What is my superpower?Research has found that a positive sense of identity can serve as a protective factor in the face of challenges children will experience in life. Teach children their God-given identity and creative superpower.Who Are You? You Are Creative offers parents and teachers a fun way to instill a strong Biblical identity, sending home the amazing truth that you are a brilliant creator made in the Image of God. "The Creator crafted beautiful things, but alas, He wasn't through. For His best idea came to life when God created you!"Encourage innovation and playfulness. This bouncy, lyrical story with stunning illustrations explores all the wonderful things kids can create-from stinky diapers to rocket ships!"You can make a boat shaped like a shoe, or a car that runs on bubbles, or a rocket ship to fly to space and escape from all your troubles!"Show the creative effects that WORDS have on others. With vibrant illustrated examples, they'll see the creative effects that both good and bad words have on the hearts and minds of others.Inspire confidence and potential.Parents, teachers, and children of all ages read this book for a renewed respect for their own creative powers, seeing themselves full of potential to make this world a better place. "Go on, creator, change the world, and speak life with what you say. You're the only you who can create what you'll create today!"-------- Start building up your child's confidence and identity. Order today!

In Beautiful Lies Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future.The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold damage to our river system for the sake of white immigration. The lie that rushing to preserve wilderness will save endangered species. Tim Flannery is also skeptical about the myths of multiculturalism, and he argues that we cannot sustain a larger population given our resources. In his conclusion, he asks how we can discharge our responsibility to the refugees who are the victims of American policies we collude with.'This essay is written as a thundering no to the characteristic Australian assumption that 'She'll be right' . . . This is a Quarterly Essay written in the passionate belief that we need a coherent policy on population . . . If we do not have one, we will never be in a position to do justice to . . . the dispossessed people of the earth; indeed our children's children will . . . think we have dishonoured their birthright.' -Peter Craven, Introduction'The refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol will almost certainly, in time, be remembered as the greatest failure of the Howard government - Tampa, detention camps and Iraq notwithstanding.' -Tim Flannery, Beautiful Lies

Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge?This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twenty-first century, and the impact it might have on the environ- mental threats that confront us today. Flannery discusses in detail three potential solutions to the most pressing of the sustainability challenges: climate change. He argues that Australia has a special responsibility when it comes to climate change, and that our prime minister could be a critical player on the global stage in Copenhagen in December 2009 - but only if we take swift and effective action and make sharp cuts in emissions. Brilliant and terrifying, Now or Never is a call to arms by Australia's leading thinker and writer on the natural world."Throughout the latter part of 2007 and into 2008, I found it increasingly hard to read the scientific findings on climate change without despairing ... I think that there is now a better than even chance that, despite our best efforts, in the coming two or three decades Earth's climate system will pass the point of no return." Tim Flannery, Now or Never