From a boring science lecture about life on other planets, fifteen-year-old Rex Jones and his friends, Dave and Carl, are transported by Rex's mysterious cell phone onto the only space ship that can s
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In 1979, a movie was released that was to capture the imagination of the world, and become a science fiction classic... Alien.This exciting book takes you right behind the scenes of Alien and talks to
The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice. Since his poems first began to appear in the pages of The New Yorker and Poetry, there has been
This survey of the field, written for researchers and policy makers, begins with an overview of invasive plants in India. The rest of the book is devoted to various invasive plants and their impact in
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