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What's so important about water? Water is necessary for life; humans and animals require water to survive, and agriculture depends on it. Despite its importance, it's also a scarce resource. This book introduces readers to the water cycle, ways we use water each day, and how water scarcity is a worsening problem. Readers will also learn what they can do about this problem in their daily lives, by turning off water when brushing their teeth or replacing...
22) Incontenible
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¿Sentiste alguna vez el impulso incontenible de dar un salto al vacío? Sin saber qué vendrá luego, este paso puede llevarte a la salvación o a la más oscura de las caídas.
Un salto al vacío
Úrsula, una joven artista con un futuro prometedor, lleva años estudiando las investigaciones de Leonardo da Vinci sobre las mediciones del Hombre de Vitruvio y el número áureo. En el momento en que pretende volcar todo su conocimiento en una serie...
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The fourth book in the Gizmo Girl series encourages creative thinking while tackling the ideas of diversity and inclusivity. Everyone's favorite second grader is back with an all-new invention sure to wow her classmates! Geraldine's latest mission is to unite her class in celebration of their unique differences. When she sees the kids at recess giving the new kid from Pakistan a hard time for being different, she decides it is time for a new invention...
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Zeus has fallen, but the wise know the troubles of the gods are far from over.
Astra, newly enthroned god-queen, must seek her proper place in this world so unprepared for all that is coming. With allies by her side, including Ares the war god, she will face the greatest darkness and the deepest waters, and truths that may shatter even her.
She is Astra, First of the New Gods, and the enemies awaiting her are old and mighty, waiting to bend and...
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Developed from Adam Sol's popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging intelligence for which he is known in the classroom. With a breezy style, Sol delivers essays that are perfect for a quick read or to be grouped together as a curriculum. Though How a Poem Moves is not a textbook,...
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Book 1 of the The Accounts series. Humanity has finally managed to launch its first archaeological expedition to the planet Mars. Following decades of unmanned missions, and their confirmation of artificial structures there, a team has been sent to the red planet to excavate the ruins. They already knew about the Pyramids. They already knew about the Face. But what they discover about the people who built them and other structures like them is beyond...
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You are not your limitations or anxieties about the future and the past. Your story can be re-written and there are tools and ways in which you can take conscious action towards creating a different life and manifesting all your wishes and desires. With unprecedented moments happening for humanity, there is a collective calling to become aware-of health, of our bodies, of cultural diversity, of mental health, of focusing. And mainly and mostly, of...
28) The Resort
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Cliffhaven--Magnificent new resort near Big Sur. Surrounded by redwoods. Guarded by oceanside cliffs. Protected from prying eyes. By reservation only. Cliffhaven--Founded by a man with very special interests, catering to a very special clientele. Margaret and Henry Brown, vacationing New Yorkers innocently driving down the sea-washed coast of California, are just the right sort of people. Cliffhaven--It has a spectacular entrance, a three-star restaurant,...
29) Living Room
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Originally published in 1974, this landmark novel is available in ebook format for the first time. Shirley Hartman, at twenty-eight, was the star of Madison Avenue, a woman who'd made it to the top in the male-dominated advertising game. Beauty, brains, fame, love…yet there she was, standing on a lonely rooftop, contemplating suicide. Had Shirley pushed too hard and reached too far-or can this extraordinary woman break out to some living room beyond...
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Soweto during the 1970s was riven with violence and brutality, the brunt of which was borne by the young people of that period, who took the lead in the struggle against apartheid oppression. Himself a product of the era, Sol Rachilo turned both to science and to art as he strove to depict the atmosphere and the emotions of the people of those tumultuous times. Not relying solely on his own deeply engraved memories, he spent 18 months researching...
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Geraldine is an energetic, spirited second-grader with a passion for inventing. When she observes a decline in the bee population, Geraldine decides to find a way to help. A field trip to the space museum and a challenging homework assignment prompt her to sort through her parents' old gadgets and gizmos to create an invention that may one day save the bees. Can she produce something truly remarkable; something that might help the environment and...
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The basis for the cult-classic film The Warriors chronicles one New York City gang's nocturnal journey through the seedy, dangerous subways and city streets of the 1960s. Every gang in the city meets on a sweltering July 4 night in a Bronx park for a peace rally. The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed and chaos prevails over the attempt at order. The Warriors follows the Dominators making their way back to their...
33) Crowd of Sounds
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Once in a long while a lyric poet comes along whose technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance and take poetry to a new level. Witness Adam Sol.
Sol's work is exhilarating in its range. Here he is gentle and mournful, attuned to his surroundings, and suddenly over here he mounts a sneak attack and hits us with erotic joy, erotic threat, history, elegy, comic absurdity, and acts of disturbing ventriloquism somehow stitching...
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Faltando diez minutos relata historias cargadas de aventura, amor, fútbol, solidaridad y humor. Luifa, Cele y Brisa, un trío disparatado de niños cordobeses, nos cuentan cómo sus búsquedas no admiten barreras frente a un mundo que se empeña en demostrar que las cosas de chicos no tienen valor. Sin advertir que sus propias historias formarán parte de una historia mayor-la de un misterioso hombre y una escritora-terminarán por ayudarlos a reencontrar...
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This book defines the Universe's powerful information system with the force particle that is the basis of all living entities. This new insight defines life using modern medicine and physics. Readers will learn the life mechanisms with words and brilliant pictures as the stranger-than-fiction events unfold. The definition of life produces for both medical and legal professions superior outcomes, e.g., beginning of life, women's rights, end of life,...
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Driving down the Long Island Expressway in November of 1992, Sol Wachtler was New York's chief judge and heir apparent to the New York governorship. Suddenly, three van loads of FBI agents swerved in front of him-bringing his car and his legal career to a halt. Wachtler's subsequent arrest, conviction, and incarceration for harassing his longtime lover precipitated a media feeding frenzy, revealing to the world his struggles with romantic attachment,...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an international campaign to achieve recognition by the United Nations for an independent Palestinian state. Abbas and his international supporters claim that only Israel (with the United States) stands in the way of this act of historical justice, which would finally bring about peace in the Middle East. In this eye-opening Broadside, Sol Stern debunks the Palestinians' claim and shows that Abbas has...
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The events of this novella occur after Book 2 of the Beloved series, namely, Twice Loved by the War God.This is the story of Ares' journey - and the beginning of his penance.Book 1 - The Beloved of the God of WarBook 2 - Twice Loved by the War GodBook 2.5 - The Beloved of the Brightest Star
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Book 2 of The Accounts series. The story in this book is one that many will find familiar. For it concerns tales which have to do with our origin, our destiny and our purpose in life. Its precursor, The Martian Accounts, set the scene by offering a possible interpretation of the first chapters of Genesis, as well as the archaeological mysteries of our world. Its narrator was an imaginary figure from the future, whose discoveries on Mars revealed shocking...