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The Ultimate Human Body Encyclopedia: The Complete Visual Guide to How Your B…
This visual encyclopedia takes young readers on a voyage around every aspect of the human body, explaining every aspect of how the body works. The human body as you've never seen it before! This brand-new visual encyclopedia takes young readers on a fantastic voyage around every aspect of the human body. Featuring amazing CG illustrations, stunning photography and cutting-edge information, it e…
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- 9781804535035
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- 160 pgs.; illus. 28.8 cm
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- 612 RIC t
A World of Discovery: An essential compendium of world-changing discoveries a…
In this stylish miscellany, celebrated author Richard Platt and printmaker James Brown travel through the past and present, showcasing the amazing breakthroughs in science and technology that have changed our lives forever. Discover fascinating facts and figures about space travel, the human body, time, the computer, and much more. Each bold, bright, and beautiful contemporary illustration is p…
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- 9780536219548
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- 63 pgs.; illus. 37 cm
- Series Title
- A World of Knowledge
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- 609 BRO a
A World of Information: From cloud classification to Morse code, an essential…
How much do clouds weigh? Who invented the pencil? How many ways can you tie a knot? Discover the answers to these and many other questions in this elegant and absorbing miscellany of general knowledge. From music notation to Roman numerals and from the skeleton to the solar system, essential facts are brought to life by stylish infographics and fascinating commentary. Perfect for all ages, thi…
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- 3-Book Collection
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- 9781536219555
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- 63 pgs.; illus. 37 cm
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- A World of Knowledge
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- 032 BRO a
Around the World in Eighty Days
One evening, while relaxing after dinner at his gentlemen's club, Phileas Fogg Rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the cool-headed Englishman and his bot-blooded French manservant Passepartout immediately set off for Dover. Whether travelling by train, st…
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- 9780241553114
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- 294 pgs.; 20 cm
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- 843 VER a
Biographic: Dickens
Most people know that Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era, whose works include David Copperfield and Great Expectations. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he invented more than 200 original words and phrases; that he always slept facing north, in an effort to battle insomnia; that he sent more than 14,000 letters in his lifetime; and that he k…
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- 9781781453643
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- 95 pgs.; illus. 22 cm
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- Biographic Great Lives in Graphic Form
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- 920 ROB d
A Song of Gladness: A Story of Hope for Us and Our Planet
Travel the globe in this inspiring journey through the animal kingdom. A Song of Gladness is a timely reminder of the beauty and importance of the natural world. From a blackbird in a Devon garden to leopards in the African savanna, hibernating bears and chimpanzees high in the forest canopy, A Song of Gladness reminds us all of our connection with nature, and with each other, and the urgent ne…
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- 9781529063318
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- illus. 31 cm
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- 813 MOR a
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