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379 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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A fascinating and important work of ornithology, which led E.O. Wilson to call it "one of the most interesting discoveries I've seen in animal sociobiology in years," Ravens In Winter is a scientist's impassioned study to understand the mysterious social habits of one of nature's most formidable birds, the raven. Why do ravens, generally understood to be solitary creatures, share food between each other during winter? This was the question Bernd Heinrich...
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viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsession that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine O'Brien tells the story of her own cravings. It's a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive...
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255 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
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English
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The bestselling classic has been revised and updated! A colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia, Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless is a reference book like no other. It now includes 18 all new graphs and 23 updated ones. It helps us make sense of our world by putting the data we are bombarded with every day -- health findings, technological advances, cultural touch points, war statistics -- into creative visual perspective. Like...
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viii, 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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"Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their 30 boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter. The so-called 'winter pasture' occurs in a remote region that stretches from the Ulungur River to the...
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1 Launchpad tablet : digital, sound, color ; 14 x 20 x 3 cm in a case 22 x 25 cm + 1 USB charging cable + 1 USB power adapter.
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English
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"Launchpad Pre-K Academy gives preschool-aged children 5 different paths to explore on their way to kindergarten. Using the Academy can help little learners develop the skills needed to enter their first year of school and inspire them to try new things with confidence. - Identify numbers & count 1-20 - Learn basic shapes & colors - Practice patterns, measuring & comparing - Observe nature & environment"
Meet Connie the Compost and her friends the...
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