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Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024
MARK LITTMANN · OXFORD UNIV Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Totality: The Great American Eclipses is a complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, total eclipses of the Sun. It focuses on the eclipses of August 21, 2017 and April 8, 2024 that pass across the United States. The U.S. mainland has not experienced a total solar eclipse... |
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Beyond Test Scores: A Better Way to Measure School Quality
Jack Schneider · Harvard University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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When it comes to sizing up America's public schools, test scores are the go-to metric of state policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the "best" schools. Yet ample research indicates that standardized tests are a poor way to measure a school's... |
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The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
Bernd Heinrich · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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"A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history." - Kirkus Reviews Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same... |
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A History of Life in 100 Fossils
Aaron O'Dea · Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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A History of Life in 100 Fossils showcases 100 key fossils that together illustrate the evolution of life on earth. Iconic specimens have been selected from the renowned collections of the two premier natural history museums in the world, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and the Natural... |
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Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
Greg Graffin · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today those first wars continue to be fought around and inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations--whether between different species or between rival groups... |
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Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel
Jill K Berry · Quarry Books
Format: Paperback
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Travel through the exciting world of cartography with Map Lab. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds.... |
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Help Your Kids with Math, Second Edition
Barry Lewis · DK; Rev Upd edition
Format: Book
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After its publication in 2010, Help Your Kids with Math quickly climbed to the top of DKs bestseller charts. Families were hungry for meaningful math help-not Internet searches and hours of family frustration. The simple, visual approach of Help Your Kids with Math was exactly what parents... |
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Private Doubt, Public Dilemma: Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin
Keith Stewart Thomson · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis - our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears,... |
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