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Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World's Plants

Barbara M. Thiers - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

For nearly six centuries, scientists have been documenting the plants and fungi of the world through herbaria. The wealth of specimens available today, carefully preserved through the centuries, is a unique source of data that not only helps scientists understand how the world's vegetation...
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Jennifer A Doudna - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use....
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Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

Grady Hillhouse - No Starch Press
Format: Hardcover

Engineering in Plain Sight is a beautifully illustrated field guide with accessible explanations to nearly every part of the constructed world around us. Author Grady Hillhouse is the creator behind the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering (2.6 million subscribers!) and this...
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More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing

Diane Ravitch - Haymarket Books
Format: Book

For too long so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nations youth and educators. Now, across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting...
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Mighty Mila: An Inclusive Children's Book about an Unstoppable Deaf Girl

Katie Petruzziello - ?Mighty Books, LLC
Format: Paperback

Celebrate the power of believing in yourself with this heartwarming and hilarious tale of a spunky deaf girl who's determined to prove she can be a big kid! Mila may be a kid, but she can act pretty grown up ... at least that's what she thinks. The trouble is, Mila's parents...
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ASVAB Prep Plus 2022"2023: 6 Practice Tests Proven Strategies Online Video

Kaplan Test Prep - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback

Kaplan is so certain that ASVAB Prep Plus offers all the knowledge you need to excel at the ASVAB that we guarantee it: After studying with the online resources and book,Essential PracticeMore than 1,000 realistic practice questions with explanationsSix full-length ASVAB practice tests...
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Beekeeping For Dummies

Howland Blackiston - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Beekeeping For Dummies, 5th Edition, is one of the most popular titles in the For Dummies series available today. Including the latest information regarding every aspect of backyard beekeeping and honey production, this book describes how to get started, how to care for and safely handle...
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Fix It with Food: More Than 125 Recipes to Address Autoimmune Issues and Inflammation

Michael Symon - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

The first-ever health-focused cookbook from everyone's favorite celebrity chef, Michael Symon. Fix It with Food shares how Symon learned which foods caused his inflammation and pain (he calls these his food triggers) and helps readers discover their own food triggers. By beginning...
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Every landlord's legal guide

Marcia Stewart; Ralph E Warner; Janet Portman - Nolo
Format:  Print book : English : Thirteenth editionView all editions and formats

Every Landlord's Legal Guide gives landlords the legal and practical solutions they need to rent residential property right. From move-in to move-out, this book covers a wide range of issues, including fair housing, repairs, sublets, screening for good tenants, and environmental hazards...
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Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press

Richard Kluger - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

The untold story of the battle to legalize free expression in America by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ashes to Ashes.The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation's beginning -- the government of the United...
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