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Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, an energetic and wide-ranging book of discovery and discoverers, of exploitation and celebration, and of superstition and science, all in search of the ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language." --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
becker&mayer! books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Star Wars: Book of Lists compiles unique trivia, from both on-screen and off, spanning all nine movies. More than a simple accounting of fan-favorite characters or biggest opening weekends, this book is a compendium of compelling facts and humorous details summarized in 100 lists"--back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Portable Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This compendium of mind-blowing facts about the human body will help you achieve mastermind status in no time. Why are modern humans larger than people who lived 500 years ago? Can people spontaneously combust? How many organs could you live without? InWho Knew? Human Anatomy, you'll learn gobs of fascinating facts about the most sophisticated machine in the world--the human body. These pages are packed with information that you can use to dazzle...
Author
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mondimore provides information about the causes of bipolar disorder; tools of diagnosis, and advances in treatment. He surveys new medications, and explores the benefits and potential side effects of each. He also reviews claims for nutritional supplements, and tells you which may be useful... and which to leave on the shelf.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
'Yoga Therapy for Children with Autism and Special Needs' is a how-to manual that meets children where they are, providing a yoga therapy "lesson plan" that will engage them; promote play, social interaction, speech, language, and motor development; and enhance their self-esteem. It teaches an array of CreativeRelaxation techniques using posture, breathing, and mindfulness designed specifically for children with autism and special needs. Drawing on...
9) Sounds like teen spirit: stolen melodies, ripped-off riffs, and the secret history of rock and roll
Author
Publisher
[Timenglishbooks]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Anansi
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Over the span of ten years, seven high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave their reserve because there was no high school there for them to attend. Award-winning journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest, and struggle with, human rights violations past and present against aboriginal communities."--
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With over 650 colour images, basic and traditional upholstery techniques are presented in step-by-step detail. Traditional upholstery is a craft that has evolved over centuries for padding and covering chairs, seats, and sofas. Using a solid wood or webbed platform, it can involve the use of springs, lashings, stuffings of animal hair, grasses and coir, wools, hessians, and scrims, as well as bridle or stuffing ties, blind stitching, top stitching,...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Paine often declared himself a citizen of the world. This Norton Critical Edition presents Paine and his writing within the transatlantic and global context of the revolutionary ideas and actions of his time. Thomas Paine's loyalties were with universal and self-evident principles rather than with a particular group or nation, and it is this dimension that informed his most important works. This Norton Critical Edition shows how Paine's fury...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular--and biblically sanctioned--view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature--and how we know it--was at stake. Burnett...
Author
Publisher
Createspace
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Activities to Do with Your Parent Who Has Alzheimer's Dementia provides a selection of user-friendly activities that will help maintain your parent's self-care skills, mobility, and socialization. These tasks encourage success and feelings of self worth, and offer imaginative ways to interact with your parent. The Activity Assessment Form objectively allows you to look at each of these tasks. It can help to determine the setup and environment that...
Author
Publisher
Pennway Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of a dark night off the coast of Vietnam on June 3, 1969, the USS Frank E. Evans is rammed by a ship ten times her size, sending her forward half to the bottom of the South China Sea and into oblivion. Seventy-four Americans are killed in this mysterious collision. Three brothers from a small town in Nebraska are gone, as is the son of a chief who barely survived. Only one body is ever found. The truth is confined to a footnote of the...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Leading psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen confirms what most of us had suspected all along: that male and female brains are different. This groundbreaking and controversial book reveals the scientific evidence (present even in one-day-old babies) which proves that female-type brains are better at empathizing and communicating, while male brains are stronger at understanding and building systems - not just computers and machinery, but abstract systems...
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"In a provocative analysis of public culture and popular concerns, Jodi Dean examines how serious UFO-logists and their pop-culture counterparts tap into fears, phobias, and conspiracy theories with a deep past and a vivid present in American society. Aliens, the author shows, provide cultural icons through which to access the new conditions of democratic politics at the millennium. Because of the technological complexity of our age, political choices...
Author
Publisher
Van Nostrand Reinhold
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
"In this book, A Taliesin Legacy: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright's Apprentices, the foremost authority on the work of the Taliesin apprentices, Tobias Guggenheimer, eloquently unveils the spectacular accomplishments of the disciples of the greatest architect in American history."--BOOK JACKET. "With dramatic photographs and revealing interviews, this monumental book traces the careers of dozens of architects who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd...
