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Human Anatomy

DK - DK
Format: Hardcover

For students of anatomy, biology, and the biomedical sciences; medical professionals; and curious families, DK's Human Anatomy will be a definitive resource. Written by acclaimed anatomist, Dr. Alice Roberts, Human Anatomy is an up-to-the-minute study of the body. Spectacular digital...
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Algebra I Workbook For Dummies

Mary Jane Sterling - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The grade-saving Algebra I companion, with hundreds of additional practice problems online Algebra I Workbook For Dummies is your solution to the Algebra brain-block. With hundreds of practice and example problems mapped to the typical high school Algebra class, you'll crack...
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On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US (Speaker's Corner)

James LaRue - Fulcrum Publishing
Format: Paperback

In America, censorship surges in periods of demographic and political change. Its primary purpose is to silence challenges to an established elite or norm. Today, censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities, the better...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Stephen Brusatte - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Sapiens, Your Inner Fish, The Sixth Extinction, and I Contain Multitudes, a sweeping narrative scientific history - the only one of its kind - that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy, from...
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Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America

David Giffels - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

An on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohio, in light of its national significance as the state that has aligned with presidential election winners more than any other -- from an award-winning author and essayist dubbed "the Bard of Akron" (New York Times) .The...
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Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

Philipp Dettmer - Random House
Format: Hardcover

You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you head...
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How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos

David Pogue - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, but we're already living through the beginnings...
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National Geographic Illustrated Guide to Wildlife: From Your Back Door to the Great Outdoors

National Geographic - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most trusted names in field guides comes a new and lavishly illustrated guide to identifying North America's most common birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, and amphibians, plus fish and other aquatic creatures. Broad in scope and clearly organized, National Geographic...
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All Fishermen Are Liars

John Gierach - Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Format: Book

"I have to go fishing; it's my job." John Gierach can say that and mean it. But fishing is only part of his job. The other part is writing about his fishing adventures. And that's the part we readers get to enjoy. In All Fishermen Are Liars, Gierach travels across North...
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Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers

Amir D. Aczel - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery....
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