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1) Don't know much about history: everything you need to know about American history, but never learned
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Series
Language
English
Description
"From Columbus through to the twenty-first century, Don't Know Much About History takes readers on a tour through more than 500 years of American life. Drawing on the latest scholarship and new archaeological discoveries, Davis presents a thorough overview of American history that is exciting, interesting and fun to learn." --
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"From Mike Pesca, host of the ... Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way ... What if the U.S. boycotted Hitler's Olympics? What if Bobby Riggs beat Billie Jean King? What if Bucky Dent popped out at the foot of the Green Monster? What if Drew Bledsoe never got hurt?"--
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Draws on herpetological research to answer the most frequently asked questions about snakes, telling how the limbless creatures breathe, hear, smell, eat, move, and reproduce, and dispelling popular myths and common fears about the reptiles.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
The periodic table of the elements is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, obsession, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold, and all the elements in the table as they play out their parts in human history. The usual suspects are here, like Marie Curie (and her radioactive journey to the discovery of polonium and radium) and William Shockley (who is credited, not exactly justly,...
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Language
English
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Description
One of the most widely consulted works in any reference collection, this volume is an authoritative and unique compilation of statistics and other data concerning the American presidency and those who have held the office, from George Washington to George Bush. Compiled for the general reader and the researcher alike, the book contains thousands of pieces of information about Presidents, their lives, their backgrounds, their families, their Vice Presidents,...
10) The horse behavior problem solver: your questions answered about how horses think, learn, and react
Author
Publisher
Storey Pub
Language
English
Description
Horses have a language and a logic all their own, but humans can learn to understand what they are saying.