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DK-Eye Wonder - Forest
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DK-Eye Wonder - ForestEye Wonder Forest goes deep into the woods to reveal the animal and plant life -- Did you know that Bristlecone Pines can live for more than 8,000 years? Find out facts like this and more in this fact-packed guide to forests.

 
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Tags: facts, years, factpacked, guide, WonderForest, Wonder, Forest, facts
From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work
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From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and WorkA social transformation of profound proportions has been unfolding over the second half of the twentieth century as women have turned from household work to wages as the key source of their livelihood. This timely study, a broad comparative analysis of African American women's and white women's changing relationships to home and work over the past forty years, at last provides a wide-ranging overview of how this shift is influencing the shape of families and the American economy.
 
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Supporting Transitions in the Early Years (Supporting Early Learning)
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Supporting Transitions in the Early Years (Supporting Early Learning)Supporting Transitions in the Early Years explores the whole range of early childhood transitions, rather than simply looking at starting school or pre-school. It helps parents, practitioners, policy-makers and Early Years students at every level, to understand and support the successive transitions made by young children from birth to five. Starting from a discussion of the rapid pace of change in current societies, and children's need to acquire flexibility and resilience in adapting to change, it offers examples of transitions such as...
 
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Light Years and Time Travel: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination With Light
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Light Years and Time Travel: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination With Light Here is the story of the greatest puzzle in our universe: what is light? Light Years explores our understanding of light from the spiritual interpretations of the Neolithic worshippers at Stonehenge, the Ancient Egyptians and the Mayans, through our first scientific attempts to understand light, and up to the present day. It looks over the shoulders of the great revolutionaries of light theory-Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, and Feynman-and traces the evolution of light driven-devices from the camera to the laser.
 
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Margaret and Charley
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Margaret and CharleyAlthough Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment. Not only did he make many other discoveries, he was also one half of an extraordinary couple who, during their almost sixty years together, were involved in many of the significant events of the twentieth century. Margaret & Charley is the story of these two people from their beginnings on the east coast at the turn of the century through the years that followed. Through diaries, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and other documentation, the details of their lives are shared with the reader.
 
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