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Who is to say how things really were? In formulating a modern answer to the question 'What is History?' Professor Carr shows that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have selected
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North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle
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One Saturday morning, Luke and his family are surprised to find a moose in their backyard. While each family member has an idea to get rid of the moose, Luke's sister comes up with a surprising soluti
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The students of the first-grade class are horrified when Sam accidentally loses the class pet, a hermit crab, in a whimsical early reader story by the author of Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox. Original.
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Eddie and his friends plan to dress up as the slimy Mud Monsters--legendary spooks who supposedly live in Muddy Creek--but their plans change when they meet the real Mud Monsters
Having wished that the snow would pile up so high that he could easily reach the shoots of a tree, Rabbit happily gets his wish, but his long bushy tail becomes caught in the tree and is reduced to a
The two first-grade friends from Sparky and Eddie: The First Day of School return to learn a valuable lesson about winning and losing when they compete against each other in the school rodeo. Simultan
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This book is designed to give students the key to success in chemistrythe ability to perform calculations with ease. The hundreds of problems with fully explained solutions and the m
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