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Relive the most dramatic and iconic moments from the epic six-part saga, Star Wars, one spread at a time in DK's Star Wars in 100 Scenes. Presented in chronological movie order, every hand picked scen
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Playful, whimsical, and wry, Margaret Atwood’s story about two children who live up in a tree has attained classic status. When this charming book was first published in 1978, conventional wisdom stat
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old a
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A celebration of terrible table manners!"Hide spaghetti in your hair, Keep crisps in your underwear."This outrageous, tongue-in-cheek exploration of mealtime chaos will have children in stitches. Full
The past few decades have seen a virtual explosion of scientific research in the area of cognition, emotions, suffering, and mental states in animals. Studies in the field, laboratory, and clinical me
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In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal is a new history of voluntaryflagellation in Europe, from its invention in medieval religious devotion to its use in the modernpornographic imagina
In the spring of 1972, Joyce Maynard, a freshman at Yale, published a cover story in The New York Times Magazine about life in the sixties. Among the many letters of praise, offers for writing assig
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