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This book explains the causes and effects of air pollution, as well as what individuals and groups can do to help reduce it. The book includes a table of contents, one infographic, informative sidebars, a "You Can Help!" special feature, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Pioneer level, aligned to reading levels of grades 1–2 and interest levels of grades 1–3.

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This engaging book introduces readers to ways they can help their communities, such as distributing food or cleaning up. Vibrant photos and simple text reflect diverse experiences to help all readers feel empowered.

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This engaging book introduces readers to ways they can help before and after meals, such as setting and clearing the table. Vibrant photos and simple text reflect diverse experiences to help all readers feel empowered.

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This engaging book introduces readers to ways they can show kindness to their family members, such as helping with a task or chore. Vibrant photos and simple text reflect diverse experiences to help all readers feel empowered.

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This engaging book introduces readers to ways they can show kindness to their friends, such as taking turns choosing games or activities. Vibrant photos and simple text reflect diverse experiences to help all readers feel empowered.

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This engaging book introduces readers to ways they can show kindness to their family members, such as helping with a task or chore. Vibrant photos and simple text reflect diverse experiences to help all readers feel empowered.

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This fun book provides a simple explanation of airplanes, helicopters, and other vehicles that fly. Labeled photos and a photo glossary help make the text engaging and easy to read.

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This title provides a basic overview of sun and how it shines. Easy-to-read text, labeled photos, and a photo glossary make this title perfect for beginning readers.

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This title provides a basic overview of rain and how it forms. Easy-to-read text, labeled photos, and a photo glossary make this title perfect for beginning readers.

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Introduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of more and less. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.

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Introduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of fast and slow. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.

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This urgent title examines the typical climate of the Northwest and Alaska, how climate change is affecting it, and ways the region can fight against and adapt to the climate emergency. The book also features informative sidebars, a "That's Amazing!" special feature, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers series is at the Navigator level, aligned to reading levels of grades 3-5 and interest levels of grades 4-7.

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This book celebrates people who work at hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities. It includes a table of contents, an On the Job special feature, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Pioneer level, aligned to reading levels of grades 1-2 and interest levels of grades 1-3.

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This book celebrates people who work at hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities. It includes a table of contents, an On the Job special feature, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Pioneer level, aligned to reading levels of grades 1-2 and interest levels of grades 1-3.

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This book celebrates workers who help grow, ship, and prepare food. It includes a table of contents, an On the Job special feature, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Pioneer level, aligned to reading levels of grades 1-2 and interest levels of grades 1-3.

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The Teton Range in Wyoming attracts mountaineers from all over the world with a superb variety of alpine climbing challenges. Best Climbs Grand Teton National Park showcases the best routes on these craggy mountains, from moderate ridge routes suitable for intermediate climbers to extreme north faces that will test the most seasoned alpinists. This updated guide provides accurate, to-the-point route descriptions complemented by color maps and detailed topos. Stunning action photography rounds out the package to make Best Climbs Grand Teton National Park an essential guide for local and visiting climbers alike.

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Bloom where you''re planted!Root for your loved one in this plant-astic picture book that celebrates how much you enjoy seeing her bloom! Heartfelt, encouraging rhymes, delightful hand lettering, and beautiful plant illustrations make this an unbe-leaf-ably charming way to remind someone of any age just how amazing they are. An inspiring gift for new beginnings and when a little extra encourage-mint would grow a long way!I''m rooting for you every day.I want you to suc-seed!Olive you always and always.You''re everything I need.Offers an evergreen message of love and inspires girls to believe in themselvesColorful illustrations and heartfelt messages are perfect for kids and adultsWonderful gift for girls, friends, or moms on Earth Day, Mother''s Day, Valentine''s Day, Graduation Day, and all year!

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Pinball games combine excitement, challenge, technology, and fantastic artwork. They are sought after collector items, snapped up by enthusiasts who keep them running and "alive" both mechanically and cosmetically. Silverball lovers of all ages and tastes will be enthralled by the fifty pinball games -- both vintage and contemporary -- showcased in this book. Each has its own chapter outlining the game's special features, historical background, game rules, graphic images, collectibility and current value. Over 400 extraordinary full color photographs give a complete visual survey of each game. Enjoy whole machine shots, close-ups of backglasses and playfields, and ball's-eye-view images that reveal wonderful details of the playfield action. Along with its companion volume, Pinball Snapshots, this outstanding book will be thoroughly enjoyed by pinball collectors, historians, and graphic artists, as well as devotees of coin-operated amusement games.

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Worlds kept them apart. Destiny brought them together. Outside the dome of Reverie, Aria and Perry are struggling to keep their people from tearing each other apart. Their situation is desperate, and with the Aether storms worsening time is running out for them to rescue Cinder from Hess and Sable. Cinder is both the key to unlock the Still Blue and their only hope for survival, so Aria and Perry assemble an unlikely team to attempt a daring rescue mission. They know that in a dying world, the bond of friendship is what matters most.

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This fun book provides a simple explanation of military vehicles found in the air, on the water, and on land. Labeled photos and a photo glossary help make the text engaging and easy to read.

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This fun book provides a simple explanation of buses, trucks, and other machines found in a city. Labeled photos and a photo glossary help make the text engaging and easy to read.

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Pinball games have long been regarded as the twentieth century's ultimate coin operated amusement, touching the lives of generations of players in numerous cultures. This visual chronicle, with examples from the game's beginnings to the present day, focuses in particular on the years from 1958 to 1998. It showcases fifty fascinating pinball games, each with its own chapter outlining the special features. Covered in detail are cultural influences, design and artistic trends, historical connections, collectibility, values, and unique game rules. Over 800 full color photographs display whole machine shots, close-ups of backglasses and playfields, and ball's-eye-view images. They put the pinball enthusiast right into the action! This beautiful book is an essential reference for the libraries of pinball collectors and aficionados everywhere.

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The new Sunday Times best-selling food bible for busy families! Juggling daily life and eating well can feel impossible, especially after a busy day – finding time to think about mealtimes can feel like just another chore. But this book will do the hard work for you – and restore peaceful dinner times amid the chaos of family life! With 100 recipes and ten weekly meal plans plus shopping lists for absolutely everything you need, this book will take the pain out of planning and be your solution to those daily dinner dilemmas. So, dig in for delicious dishes such as Halloumi Bean Bake, BLT Pasta, Peanut Pork Noodles, Tortilla Pizzas, Chorizo Risotto, Crispy Pesto Cod, Steak Fajitas, Lentil Linguine, Tikka Naan Burgers, plus weekend breakfasts and sweet treats – all ready in 30 minutes or less! This is real food, to make and share, big on taste, even when you’re low on time.

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This fun book provides a simple explanation of cranes, construction trucks, and other machines that build. Labeled photos and a photo glossary help make the text engaging and easy to read.

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This fun book provides a simple explanation of fire trucks and ambulances. Labeled photos and a photo glossary help make the text engaging and easy to read.

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Introduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of high and low. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.

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Liburnians and Illyrian Lembs: Iron Age Ships of the Eastern Adriatic explores the origins of two types of ancient ship which appear in the written sources connected with the protohistoric eastern Adriatic area: the ‘Liburnian’ (liburna or liburnica) and the southern Adriatic (Illyrian) ‘lemb’. The relative abundance of written sources suggests that both ships played significant roles in ancient times, especially the Liburnian, which became the main type of light warship in early Roman imperial fleets and ultimately evolved into a generic name for warships in the Roman Imperial period and Late Antiquity. The book provides an extensive overview of written, iconographic and archaeological evidence on eastern Adriatic shipbuilding traditions before the Roman conquest in the late first century BC / early first century AD, questioning the existing scholarly assumption that the liburna and lemb were closely related, or even that they represent two sub-types of the same ship. The analysis shows that identification of the Liburnian liburna and Illyrian lemb as more or less the same ship originates from the stereotypical and essentially wrong assumption in older scholarship that the prehistoric indigenous population of the eastern Adriatic shared the same culture and, roughly, the same identities. The main point made in the book is that two different terms, liburna and lemb, were used in the sources depicting these as two different kinds of ship, rather than being interchangeable terms depicting the same ship type.

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A fun and imaginative guide to futurist STEAM careers that will inspire middle-grade readers to dream big and envision a better world.From chemistry and climatology to robotics and the arts, Jobs of the Future imagines professions that may one day be essential to preserving and improving life on Earth. Become a “plastics fisherman” and save the oceans from pollution! Or be a “cloud hunter” and help to slow global warming! Whatever their passion, children will discover a world of possibility in this colorful and inspiring guide to a wide range of futuristic careers.

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This lively volume explores the theme of friendship in the lives and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Written from diverse perspectives, the essays offer close readings of selected texts and draw on letters and journals to offer a comprehensive view of how Emerson's and Thoreau's friendships took root and bolstered their individual political, social, and ethical projects. This collection explores how Emerson and Thoreau, in their own ways, conceived of friendship as the creation of shared meaning in light of personal differences, tragedy and loss, and changing life circumstances. Emerson and Thoreau presents important reflections on the role of friendship in the lives of individuals and in global culture.

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Historians not only have knowledge of history, but by writing about it and engaging with other historians from the past and present, they make history themselves. This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of historical research; how do you get a good historical question? How do you engage with the literature? How do you work with sources from the past, from archives to imagery and objects, art, or landscapes? What is the influence of digitalisation of the historical craft? Broad in scope, Writing History! also addresses historians’ traditional support of policy makers and their activity in fields of public history, such as museums, the media, and the leisure sector, and offers support for developing the necessary skills for this wide range of professions.

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Lorenzo Rossi, former head of the Vatican police, is enjoying the Tuscan sunshine until his ex-fiancée, CIA agent Cathy Doherty, shows up worried about his safety. Rossi is sceptical until he learns that a Russian agent with links to the CIA, crashed her car near his family's olive farm in Siena. With the help of the Russian’s associates, Rossi and Cathy unravel a conspiracy that could lead to nuclear war. With danger mounting and bodies piling up, they realise they’re pawns in a deadly game…

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Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents. While Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities, institutional violence continues to spill over into community settings. Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to this violence across all spaces of care.

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Jean Potocki a du ecrire quelques milliers de lettres; seules, cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ont ete retrouvees, ici reunies. C'est dire le manque, c'est dire aussi l'attente, d'autant plus forte qu'il a toujours apporte grand soin a sa correspondance, redigee de sa propre main. Elle se repartit assez exactement entre le domaine public (lettres a Stanislas Auguste, a Alexandre Ier, a Andrei Budberg) et le domaine prive (lettres a son frere, a sa niece, a son beau-pere). Les limites de la lettre sont moins nettes: on la retrouve dans les voyages, en Turquie, en Hollande, sur le chemin de la Chine, ainsi que dans les ecrits historiques ou politique, sous la forme de memoires adresses aux autorites - sans oublier celles du "Manuscrit trouve a Saragosse". Toutefois, ou qu'elle figure, quel que soit son destinataire, la lettre reste muette sur celui qui l'ecrit: Potocki ne livre rien de lui-meme; son regard reste tourne vers l'exterieur.Nous avons donne, a la suite de la correspondance, des "varia" qui n'entraient pas dans les volumes precedents, comme cette etrange relation d'un episode guerrier entre Polonais et Turcs, traduit de l'espagnol, ou ces lettres fictives qui ebauchaient peut-etre un nouveau roman. Le lecteur trouvera enfin une chronologie de l'auteur, une liste de ses oeuvres et les index generaux de l'edition.

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Apres les voyages a l'Ouest (Turquie, Egypte, Hollande, Maroc, Basse-Saxe: voir le volume I de notre edition), Jean Potocki tourne ses regards vers l'Orient: en 1797, il parcourt le Caucase; en 1805, il prend la route de la Chine et vers 1811, il s'enthousiasme pour la crimee. Ces trois voyages donnerent lieu a relation. Le texte du "Voyage a Astrakan et sur la ligne du Caucase" suit ici pour la premiere fois le manuscrit original; il est augmente du journal adresse a Stanislas Auguste, roi de Pologne, exile a Saint-Petersbourg. Le "Memoire sur l'ambassade en Chine" est suivi du "Rapport" sur les activites des savants places sous la direction de Potocki pendant l'ambassade. Enfin le petit texte sur le projet immobilier de Sophio-polis n'avait plus ete publie depuis sa parution confidentielle au debut du XIXe siecle.Rompant avec les precedentes relations, le "Voyage dans quelques parties de la Basse-Saxe" obeissait principalement a une exigence scientifique: il ne s'agissait plus au gre d'un itineraire vagabond de collecter des etonnements, des surprises. A partir de 1794, Potocki cherche a construire un discours, organiser une representation sur l'histoire des Slaves, les populations caucasiennes ou la diplomatie russe en Extreme-Orient. Le voyage est devenu pre-texte, matiere premiere d'une elaboration intellectuelle; en ce sens, il offre une synthese de l'oeuvre de Potocki, reunissant aussi bien les travaux historiques que les choix politiques ou l'experimentation narrative.Ce deuxieme volume des Oeuvres de Jean Potocki a ete prepare par Dominique Triaire, professeur a l'universite Paul-Valery Montpellier III.

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Your little leprechaun will be over the rainbow for this magically pun-tastic St. Patrick's Day board book!Show your little one that they're worth more than any pot of gold! This delightful book for babies and toddlers features heartfelt rhyming puns and adorable springtime illustrations including shamrocks, flowers, fairies, gnomes, ladybugs, and more that families will love to read together. Start a new holiday tradition and share the perfect St. Patrick's Day gift with your lucky little clover or anyone you love!For fans of I Love You Like No Otter, this encouragement story is the best book for kids ages 0-3-made just for their little hands-and is a wonderful gift for baby showers, birthdays, and bedtime read alouds.More charming stories from Punderland, the perfect gift for any occasionI Love You Like No OtterAll I Want for Christmas Is EweSomebunny Loves YouI Love You Slow MuchHappy Meow-loween, Little Pumpkinand more!You're the cutest clover in the patch,with your sparkly smiling eyes.Even with shenanigans,Each with you, a prize.

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