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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A whip-smart and illuminating exploration of the worlds fascination with witches from podcast host and practicing witch Pam Grossman (The Witch Wave), who delves deeply into why witches have intrigued us for centuries and why theyre more relevant now than ever. When you think of a witch, what do you picture? Pointy black hat, maybe a broomstick. But witches in various guises have been with us for millennia. In Waking the Witch, Pam Grossman explores...
63) Food fight! with: a mouthwatering history of who ate what and why through the ages with 30 recipes
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National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"History of food, fun facts about food, plus recipes, for children"--
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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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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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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The creator of the popular webcomic "xkcd" uses line drawings and common words to provide simple explanations for how things work, including microwaves, bridges, tectonic plates, the solar system, the periodic table, helicopters, and other essential concepts.
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English
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"Learn the latest details and most recent groundbreaking discoveries that reveal, for the first time, the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on Earth―proof that our consciousness survives―in Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, PhD. Using a special hypnosis technique to reach the hidden memories of subjects, Dr. Newton discovered some amazing insights into what happens to us between lives. Journey of Soulsis the record of 29 people...
68) Amazing places
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Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Shares fact-filled trivia about the world's most extreme locations, from the driest desert to the deepest ocean trench.
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Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"EL LIBRO PERFECTO PARA LOS AMANTES DEL F{acute}UTBOL DE TODAS LAS EDADES. ¿Sabías que la historia del fútbol se remonta a hace más de 2.000 años? ¿Que el récord de goles en un solo partido es de 149 y que todos fueron en propia puerta? ¿O que la peor selección del mundo es San Marino, con 104 derrotas de 109 partidos oficiales disputados? ¿E incluso que uno de los futbolistas más famosos de los años sesenta no tenía, en realidad, ni...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
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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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Edwin Battistella collects over five hundred insults aimed at American presidents. Covering the broad sweep of American history, he puts insults in their place-the political and cultural context of their times. Along the way, Battistella illustrates the recurring themes of political insults: too little intellect or too much, inconsistency or obstinacy, worthlessness, weakness, dishonesty, sexual impropriety, appearance, and more. The kinds of insults...
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Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Pleiadians, a collective of multidimensional beings from the Pleiades star system, have been speaking through Barbara Marciniak since 1988. Sharing new inspirations from over eight years of previously unpublished Pleiadian wisdom, Marciniak offers creative solutions for changing beliefs, reclaiming one's power, and creating a world of unlimited possibilities. She also presents critical new material on how to deal with the world's increasing chaos...
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A social history of cheating and how American history -- through real estate, sports, finance, academics, and of course politics -- has had its unfair share of rigged results and widened the margins on its gray areas. Drawing from the intriguing (and sometimes unbelievable) true stories of the lives of everyday Americans, historian Julie M. Fenster traces the history of the weakening of our national ethics through the practice of cheating. From marital...
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Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling authors of The Southerner's Handbook, Good Dog, and The Southerner's Cookbook comes a lively compendium of Southern tradition and contemporary culture. The American South is a multifaceted region with its own vocabulary, peculiarities, and cultural touchstones. Even for those born in the South, the unspoken rules--layered in local nuances and complexities--can sometimes be confounding. Tennessee whiskey may technically be bourbon,...
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