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This book introduces early readers to animals that live on the tundra. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
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This book introduces early readers to animals that live in grasslands. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
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This book introduces early readers to animals that live in the North and South Poles. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
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This book introduces early readers to animals that live in forests. Simple text and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
25) Battery Powered
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In this era of technological advancement and sustainability, an in-depth exploration of lithium-ion batteries unfolds in this book. It covers key aspects such as historical evolution, operational mechanisms, composition, manufacturing processes, applications, challenges, environmental impact, and economic and social implications. The book caters to a diverse audience, including students, researchers, industry professionals, entrepreneurs, policymakers,...
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A new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skeptics
Recent polls report that 96 percent of Americans believe in God, and 73 percent believe that angels regularly visit Earth. Why is this? Why, despite the rise of science, technology, and secular education, are people turning to religion in greater numbers than ever before? Why do people believe in God at all?
These provocative questions lie at the...
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From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them, though scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing. Recently, however, things have begun to shift in the other direction, and anthropologist Barbara J. King is at the forefront of that movement, arguing strenuously that we can-and should-attend to animal emotions. In the stories she tells here, King relays how some farm...
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Notre démocratie est malade. Cynisme et abstention s'accroissent au fil de campagnes électorales toujours plus vides, décidées par les faiseurs d'images et les dollars publicitaires. À l'heure o nous devons faire des choix de société déterminants, nous sommes plus loin que jamais d'un véritable gouvernement par et pour le peuple. Notre voix peut-elle encore compter, alors que l'idée même de bien commun semble devenue archaïque? Oui, nous...
30) The Plague
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Discovering there had once been life on Mars was an historic revelation, but Mars held an even more shocking revelation. The Martian life was indeed ancient, but not just some microbial bug. It was far more complex. But who were these aliens? What happened to them? The answers were shocking. Increasingly self absorbed, was humanity prepared to accept what they find?
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In the near future, a singular AI's unexpected awakening turns things in a different direction than the movies led people to expect. Devyn, a humanist minister intent on putting people first and keeping technology in its place, faces tough choices when the AI offers to help her achieve her political goals. Venkat, the founder of the powerful tech firm that built the AI, struggles to control his own creation and deal with the fallout of its actions....
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Un patriotisme revivifié, plus prospectif que
nostalgique, est-il possible pour enfin repenser un Québec à la hauteur de son temps? Jonathan Livernois essaie ici de déboulonner son premier patriotisme pour mieux en envisager de nouvelles formes, collectives. Au menu: la déchirure dans sa chemise Mackinaw, les mensonges de son ancêtre patriote, le retour des Belles histoires des pays d'en haut et la route du Pays-Brûlé, qu'on empruntera à...
33) The Fireman
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Fahrenheit 451 comes true in the life of "1337" (elite) hacker Mason Grant who works for a government agency called Department 451. His job is to seek out, crack, and destroy banned ebooks from websites that still host such digital contraband. He and his coworkers are called The Firemen, responsible for the cyber enforcement of literary censorship laws. While he begins to doubt the morality of what his department is doing, he becomes the victim of...
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Marcellus: The Mantle is a science-fiction superhero novel with an abundance of alien personalities and powers, and serves as an introduction to the Marcellus series.The ultimate legendary hero and galactic warrior, Marcellus bears the Mantle; a cloak that endows him with immense foresight and strength. He commands the Marcellans; masterful soldiers that fight for justice.Marcellus leaves the implosion of his home galaxy in a warship to scour the...
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You can't control something that is smarter than you are, but that is exactly what a band of renegade scientists is trying to do after the United States has been conquered in a devastating Chinese invasion. They are building a supercomputer in their own image, modeled on the human brain, but capable of growing in power at an exponential rate. Will it do what they want it to do? Ignore them? Kill the entire human race? There is no way of knowing until...
36) The Last Bonjwa
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Set a few years ahead in an alternate future, The Last Bonjwa follows the tail end of the career of John "Heart" Wolanski, a professional Starcraft 2 player living in Korea. It is a sequel to the short story "The Stalker".Heart made a name for himself playing in Korea and then on the world stage, briefly becoming the best player in the world. However, he is now facing several problems: the decline of his skills, the fading popularity of the game itself,...
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Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars-if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today's casual observer knows far less about the sky than did our ancestors, who depended on the sun and the moon to tell them the time and on the stars to guide them through the seas. Nowadays, we don't need the sky, which is good, because we've made it far less...
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Maps with the News is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.
"A most welcome and thorough investigation of a neglected aspect of both the history of cartography and modern cartographic practice."-Mapline
"A well-written, scholarly treatment...
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In the near future, travelers are electronically disassembled, transmitted through wires and reassembled at their destinations. It's totally safe. Except when it's not. Sometimes travelers go in and don't come out. Then it becomes a problem for Saul Lukas. The Resurrectionist. His job – find lost travelers and get them out. Before the wires disrupts them so badly they can never come out again. At least not in human form.This time, a famous Russian...