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Author
Publisher
Lifelong Books/Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Over the last 25 years, our longing for thinness has morphed into a relentless cultural obsession with weight and body image. You can't be a woman or girl (or, increasingly, a man or boy) in America today and not grapple with the size and shape of your body, your daughter's body, other women's bodies. Even the most confident people have to find a way through a daily gauntlet of voices and images talking, admonishing, warning us about what size we...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys. In the tradition of E. O. Wilson, this engaging and fascinating work of popular science follows humanity's unending quest to discover every living thing in our natural world-from the unimaginably small in the most inhospitable of places on earth to the unimaginably far away in the unexplored canals on Mars.
5) Moon
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This special book written to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing combines the story of the preparation, journey, arrival, and landing of Apollo 11 with scientific information about the Moon and its influence on our culture through music, theater, literature, and more.
14) Mary Baker Eddy
Author
Series
Publisher
Perseus Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Explores the lifework of the radical Christian thinker and pioneer in the recognition of the mind/body connection who devoted herself to the promulgation of the Christian Science religion
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Combining science, history and culture, this guide to the human body explores every aspect of our anatomy from ancient body art to modern-day plastic surgery and discusses why some people are left-handed and why some cultures think the soul resides in the liver.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution--in other words, computer code"--
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Media commentator Haney, a founding member of Delta Force, along with other noted military analysts, examines how our military must evolve to face changing times, technology, and adversaries. From limited wars to possible large scale invasions of Syria or Iran--or a major military stand-down with North Korea--this book is a look at America's army of the future. Includes articles on the weapons of future wars; such legal issues as pre-emptive attacks...
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