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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet—from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu—on a five-star scale. John Green’s gift for storytelling shines throughout this...
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2022.
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English
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"The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know...
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An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 New York Times bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns. Soon to be a Hulu Original series. For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the pseudonym of bestselling author Cheryl Strayed—first through her online column at The Rumpus, later through her hit podcast, Dear Sugars,...
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Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Take a look inside the human body in this super fun and super gross fourth book in the nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read series about all the grossest things! How are scabs formed? Why do mites live on your eyelashes? How much urine can a human bladder hold? Learn the answers to these questions and even more super gross human body facts with Dr. Ick and Sam the Dog...if you dare!"--
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Topix Media Lab
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Jack Hanna offers 200 really delightful facts and anecdotes about wild animals. Illustrated with full color photos of amazing animals, these stories include animal friends, endangered animals, hilarious stories, surprising animal species, and crazy, unbelievable animal stories that will warm your heart, plus a wealth of animal facts, lists, and information. Jack makes learning about animals fun"--Amazon.com.
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Batsford
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Using a combination of paper, textiles, found objects, pencil, ink and paint, Shelley Rhodes shows how a sketchbook can act as an illustrated diary, a visual catalogue of a journey or experience or as a starting point for more developed work. Illustrated, it also includes examples from leading textile and mixed-media artists.
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"A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial. Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos is as close as the nearest toaster? In Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects...
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2019.
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The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer. For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything...
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DK Publishing
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2021.
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English
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Featuring doodle-style illustrations and stills from the movies and animated shows, this book invites readers to jump aboard with the Rebel Alliance and the Resistance, where they will find out what it takes to defeat the evil Empire.
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It can't be true volume 1
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"[This book] brings ... unbelievable facts ... to life with the help of 200 jaw-dropping visual comparisons across a wide range of subjects from outer space to the human body"--Front jacket flap.
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English
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Ruiz illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in our relationships. Using insightful stories to bring his message to life, he shows us how to heal our emotional wounds, recover the freedom and joy that are our birthright, and restore the spirit of playfulness that is vital to loving relationships.
15) The violinist's thumb: and other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code
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Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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"In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In the Violinist's Thumb, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life : DNA. There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK's bronze skin (it wasn't a tan) to Einstein's genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans...
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Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Led by Dr. Ick and her sidekick, Sam the dog, kids will learn many fascinating facts about ooey, gooey, disgusting slime--with some of the slimiest creatures, slimy things in the human body, and more! Did you know that the hagfish can produce a bucketful of slime in just minutes? And do you know what ear wax is actually made of? This book includes a fun, kid-friendly recipe for making their own slime!"--
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