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Author
Series
The Peterson field guide volume 19
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1970
Physical Desc
xi, 404 p. illus. (part col.) 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Factor fearlessly, conquer the quadratic formula, and solve linear equations
There's no doubt that algebra can be easy to some while extremely challenging to others. If you're vexed by variables, Algebra I For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides the plain-English, easy-to-follow guidance you need to get the right solution every time!
Now with 25% new and revised content, this easy-to-understand reference not only explains
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation
Pub. Date
1988, c1962
Physical Desc
ix, 370 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Intimate biography of the wife of the 29th President of the United States with a picture of life and events in the White House during the 1920's.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
414 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after more than a decade to give us an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants.
Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble—foundations shift, marble ornaments fall—even as efforts to preserve them are...
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses both hypothetical and historical voyages of discovery to America by the Phoenicians, Saint Brendan of Ireland, the Vikings, and such later European navigators as Columbus, Cabot, and Magellan.
Author
Series
His The Army of the Potomac volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1951
Physical Desc
vi, 372 p. maps. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text, photographs, and explanatory maps and illustrations document archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson's study of Stonehenge and the surrounding area, describing what he found and what the artifacts reveal about the site and its history.
18) Thomas Jefferson
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, p. : port. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
19) The Iliad
Author
Language
English
Description
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other...
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