A look at one of the biggest challenges facing our world today - disease - and how we are tackling it
How can we build a better, fairer, more equal, cleaner world? This series seeks to answer this by exploring some of the greatest challenges facing our planet today - from disease to conflict, and from the energy crisis to the plight of refugees. It explains what is already being done to meet and tackle these challenges, and explores what more could and should be done, both individually and collectively, to ensure a better future for our planet, its people and its wildlife.
Taking a positive, but realistic perspective, this series aims to empower young readers by helping them understand these complex and troubling issues, calm their anxieties, and promote empathy and understanding for the many millions of people suffering from for example, poverty or inequality.
Perfect for readers aged 9 and up
Titles in the series: Climate Change Disease Inequality Migration Poverty & Food Insecurity War & Conflict
1: What is disease?
2: Non-communicable diseases
3: Cancer
4: Cardiovascular diseases
5: Chronic respiratory diseases
6: Diabetes
7: Communicable diseases
8: Viral diseases
9: Bacterial diseases
10: Parasitic diseases
11: Vaccination
12: Public health and sanitation
13: The future of disease
14: Glossary
15: Further reading
16: Index
Alex Woolf has written more than 150 books, both fiction and non-fiction, mostly for children. Many of these have sold around the world and his words have been translated into over a dozen different languages. He has written on a huge range of subjects including Romans, chocolate, asteroids, sharks, Tudors, flying reptiles, soap, bees and acne. In 2019, he won a Fiction Express award for his story, Mystery at Moon Base One. Alex lives in North London with his family and two cats, Juno and Minerva.
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