Most Popular Books by Paul Mason

Offers tips and ideas on how to manage your money and make the most out of your savings and disposable cash.

Money hasn't always existed. In fact, for tens of thousands of years humans managed very well without it! Nowadays, we need money for almost everything we do, but have you ever stopped to think about what it actually is? Travel back in time and encounter some pretty strange money, from corn and shells, to 'flying money' and stone money big enough for an elephant to hide behind. Discover where money came from, how it really works, and find out whether you are a big spender or a super saver! The Inside Story of Money is part of the Reading Planet range of books for Stars (Lime) to Supernova (Red+) band. Children aged 7-11 will be inspired to love reading through the gripping stories and fascinating information books created by top authors. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 8-10 years

Germany is often considered the birthplace of the automobile, so it makes sense that some of the greatest supercars are produced there. This high-interest volume introduces readers to these cars and presents them with fun facts and stats regarding each vehicle. This information is presented in a visually appealing way that allows readers to compare and contrast each featured car. Colorful photographs are paired with helpful captions and labels that provide deeper insight. Various graphic elements appeal to visual learners, while exciting text and subject matter engages all readers.

What would it be like to join the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece?

Get up to speed with the fastest cars around!

Two award-winning producers describes the highs and lows of their careers and give a crash course on the independent production scene, revealing secrets about the business, its key players, and the role producers play in bringing a film or television pilot to the screen. Covers finding scripts, raising money, phases of production, working with writers, directors, and actors, marketing, and filming outside the US. Appendices offer sample documents, forms, and lists of film festivals and foreign distributors. Mason is senior vice president of production at VIACOM Productions. Gold is production manager for the television series Diagnosis Murder. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Yoga Meditation & Dharma details teachings of three highly renowned spiritual teachers, and serves as a practical handbook on yoga meditation. A profusely illustrated book with dozens of b/w & colour photographs.

Many policy and practice initiatives that aim to prevent social exclusion focus on children and young people. This book seeks to consider new approaches to understanding the complexities of prevention, and how these new understandings can inform policy and practice. The authors use evidence from the National Evaluation of the Children's Fund to illustrate and explore the experiences of children and families who are most marginalised. They consider the historical context of approaches to child welfare, and present a new framework for understanding and developing preventative polices and practice within the context of social exclusion. Preventative initiatives such as the Children's Fund have supported large-scale complex evaluations that have generated rich and important data about strategies for addressing social exclusion and what they can achieve. The findings of this book have direct relevance for all those engaged in developing preventative policy and practice and will therefore be of interest to policy makers, practitioners and students of child welfare and social policy more broadly, in providing a timely discussion of key debates in designing, delivering and commissioning preventative services.

What sort of footprint are you leaving on the environment? Do you have a heavy footprint or a light footprint? Everything we do and everything we use has an impact on the environment. Heavy footprints harm the environment and use lots of natural resources. Light footprints harm the environment as little as possible and use fewer natural resources. Read the Environmental Footprints series to decide what type of footsteps you want to take in the future! In How Big Is Your Shopping Footprint? read about what makes up a Shopping footprint and the effect this has on the environment. Discover ways to reduce your Shopping footprint and live sustainably. Special Features Rethink! feature offer ways to lighten your footprints Case studies give real-life examples of heavy-footprint and light-footprint actions. Book jacket.

These biographies compare the world before and after the life of the scientist, giving the clearest possible impression of their impact and legacy. The text is supported by primary source material, including photographs, letters and journal extracts.

An entertaining collection of comic strip stories uncovering the stories around some incredible inventions. Discover how the Wright Brothers got into flying planes, the science behind the lightbulb, some incredible child inventors and more. This book is sure to entertain children, while giving them an insight into the many challenges and rivalries behind scientific achievements and how scientists learn from mistakes. It is produced by the same team as Comic Strip Science with hilarious comic strips illustrated by award-winning artist Jess Bradley and written by Paul Mason, who is well known for making science learning fun. Key science concepts are pulled out in more depth in feature spreads. The book has a specialist text consulant, science educator Peter Riley. Comic Strip Science Adventures is a series of comic books that are perfect for young scientists aged 7 plus. Each book has specialist subject consultants. Titles in the series: Digging for Dinosaurs, Exploring Space, Medical Marvels, Amazing Inventions.

The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals; child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in Americas Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I.It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us. Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book.

Books in the Questions You Never Thought You'd Ask series take a fun look at different subjects by asking and answering a series of quirky yet thought-provoking questions. Although primarily a recreational read, the books nevertheless contain both useful curriculum-based material as well as a wealth of other fascinating and bizarre facts about animals, the human body, history, science, and technology.