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From one of the world’s leading experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book yet to help us understand, identify, and overcome the reading problems that plag
Recapture the Enchantment of the Original Tarot Since its birth during the Renaissance, the tarot has become a popular tool for divination as well as a source of pleasure and mystery. In The Secret Ta
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Bill Nye the Science Guy meets The Magic School Bus! This is the second book in a new STEM-based picture book series from the Emmy Award-winning host of PBS’s Design Squad and Design Squad N
Nicholas Dodman is one of the world’s most noted and celebrated veterinary behaviorists. He founded the Animal Behavior Clinic—one of the first of its kind—at Tufts in 1986. A leader in his field, Dr.
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This is volume 20 in a series on academic feminism. It is built from the assumption that current trends in academic feminism represent an objective advance in knowledge. Contributors to this volume at
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Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is widely considered the greatest American science fiction writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and gradua
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Trust the bestselling science series of all time to get down to the facts on global warming, so kids can understand the crisis --and how they can help solve it.Like it or not, global warming is a hot
Iron Man and Hulk make a friendly wager on who can find a missing scientist first, while Yun Guang Han threatens to realease a bacterium that would bring humanity to its end, and Black Widow takes a m
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Welcome to the Kingfisher Encyclopedia of Life-a jaw-dropping look at 30,000 years of biological evolution organized through the lens of relative lifespan. Packed with the latest science, and created
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Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn, traversed the Northwest Passage and paddled across the Pacific Rim. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the re
