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"Stunning pictures and engaging words. . . . An accomplished entrée to early science topics." — Booklist (starred review) Dive into the warm ocean and swim around amid the coral and waving...

At least three of director Jacques Tourneur's films-Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man-are recognized as horror classics. Yet his contributions to these films are often minimized...

The common cuckoo is a peculiar bird- one that has lent its name to the otherworldly 'Cloud Cuckoo Land' in Aristophanes' play The Birds, and its two-note song to the classic cuckoo clock. While the...

The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of...

The cool temperate waters around Britain and Ireland are at a crossroads between warmer waters to the south and Arctic ones to the north. Consequently they contain a huge variety of marine animals...

A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats.Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the...

Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest...

Making a Match examines the various options posed at every stage of English wooing, together with the presentation of these protocols in the plays of Shakespeare. Across the canon, wooing may command...

A comprehensive, up-to-date field guide to the world’s rocks and mineralsThis detailed and easy-to-use guide contains striking photography of rocks and minerals from around the globe, and is designed...

Winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel from the Crime Writers’ Association (UK)Winner for Best International Crime Fiction from Australian Crime Writers AssociationAn Instant New York Times...

Approaching depression as a complex disorder with many different facets rather than all-or-nothing.Depression confuses the mind, strips away hope, and causes people to blame themselves for an illness...

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "one of the most revelatory novels in recent memory . . . Cleverly conceived and executed brilliantly," The Children's Hospital is the story of a hospital...

The cool temperate waters around Britain and Ireland contain a huge variety of marine life and the sea anemones and corals, the Anthozoa, are some of the brightest and most attractive of all the...

Cleopatra, the ultimate influencer, tells her version of events as the ruler of the last ancient Egyptian dynasty. What would happen if the famous people of ancient Egypt were given the opportunity...

How were the ancient wonders of the world built? How many people did it take to build the Great Wall of China or the Sphinx at Giza? The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World answers these and many...

Literacy - the ability to produce and interpret written text - has long been viewed as the basis of all school achievement; a measure of success that defines both an 'educated' person, and an...

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