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"A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast." --
Have you ever stopped to consider why you don't see metal fire escapes on new buildings? Or pondered the story behind those dancing inflatable figures in car dealerships? Mars and Kohlstedt reveal the stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse....
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"From one of our most beloved authors, a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home--now richly illustrated with almost four hundred images. A national bestseller, At Home is Bill Bryson's epic chronicle of domestic history. In this lavish new edition, his riveting room-by-room journey of discovery around his house--a Victorian parsonage in southern England--is enhanced by some four hundred carefully selected full color and...
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St. Martin's Press
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A reference guide to a wide range of topics that provides information on various issues related to art, astronomy, business, sports, history, medicine, philosophy, photography, biology, film, economics, geography, the Internet, and more.
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An enhanced edition of the classic writing manual features humorous art by a popular children's book illustrator and New Yorker cover artist, in a volume that provides visual and whimsical embellishments to the original instructive text--Publisher.
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Oxford University Press
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[2009]
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Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher...
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Oxford University Press
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"From the familiar to the less well-known, from earliest times to the present day, and from around the world, this unique work explores the fascinating development of literature for children. It is an indispensable reference work not only for teachers librarians, and collectors, but for all parents and children." "The range of literature covered includes traditional narrative material such as legends and romances; fairy tales; chapbooks; genres such...
13) The Olympics
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David & Charles
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2012
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Who reprimanded Hitler during the 1936 Olympic Games?
When did the Olympic event "shin-kicking" get banned?
Which Shakespearean play refers to the Olympic Games?
Who was the first official cheat in 388 BC?
Find the answers to these questions and many other intriguing aspects of the Olympic Games in this absorbing collection of stories and trivia.
Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: The Olympics reveals the beguiling stories behind the well-known history...
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Adams Media
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2010
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"The last WoW module was clunky and a bit slow on my rig but it had a great toolset for building adventures for my avatar. Now I'm at sixtieth level! Awesome!" Whether it's about science fiction, Star Trek, sports, comics, or computers, geekspeak is full of mysterious words and phrases. But now there's an easy way to understand what it's all about. With this book you can dork out with the best of 'em. Here are more than 1,000 words and their definitions,...
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Oxford University Press
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[2005]
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"With all of the new developments in information storage and retrieval, researchers today need a clear and comprehensive overview of the full range of their options, both online and offline, for finding the best information quickly. In this third edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research, Thomas Mann maps out an array not just of important databases and print sources, but of several specific search techniques that can be applied profitably in...
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Lulu Publishing Services
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2014
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KEN RICE has been a counselor, and a hospital and fire department chaplain for several years, formerly in Colorado and now in Austin, Texas. He is also a Board Certified Professional Counselor by the American Psychotherapy Association, and certified as a Registered Psychotherapist by Colorado’s Department of Regulatory Agencies. He has been called to numerous death scenes to provide support for families that have lost a loved one in death. With...
18) Fantastic Finds
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Penguin Publishing Group
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2011
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Fantastic FindsFantastic Finds tells the tales that make us all yearn for the hunt. And the reward.
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In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head. While surveying the route for a canal near Bath, he noticed that the fossils found in one layer of the rocks he was excavating were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany: that by following these fossils one could trace layers of rocks as they dipped, rose...