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240 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Explores color's countless manifestations, providing insight into such phenomena as the visible spectrum, light absorption and reflection, how humans see color, how vision evolved, the sky, rainbows, colored gems, animal pigmentation, how animals use color to find mates and to protect themselves, and the use of color in human religion, ritual, design, navigation, communication, and personal identity.
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220 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose philosophy enriched every corner of an incredibly productive and creative life--her many friendships,...
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244 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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English
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November 8, 2018. Paradise, California, a community of 27,000 souls, was destroyed in a fire that left 86 dead. Gee and Anguiano offer a dramatic narrative the disaster based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents and first responders. They also explore the science of wildfires in a time of dramatic climate change, the role of the power company PG&E in the blaze, and the efforts to raise Paradise from the ruins. -- adapted from jacket
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525 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Español
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"Con multitud de datos e ilustraciones impactantes, este excelente libro ofrece una alternativa fiable para toda la familia frente a las dudosas fuentes de información online. Esta enciclopedia completamente ilustrada es el antídoto frente a Internet. Es una gran obra de referencia escrita por expertos para un mundo sobrecargado con informaciones poco fiables. Desde física cuántica hasta el Teorema de Pitágoras, desde la Antigua Roma hasta las...
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