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2024.
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Key Selling Points An in-depth look at walls around the world throughout human history, up to the present day and into the future. From the US-Mexico border wall to the Israeli West Bank barrier and the Hungarian border wall, controversial and divisive walls are being built around the world today. This book will challenge young readers to think critically about why humans have built walls throughout history, who is affected, and the positive and negative...
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[2023]
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"Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves....
4) Gilded youth: a history of growing up in the royal family: from the Plantagenets to the Cambridges
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2023.
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English
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This look at growing up in the British royal family over the centuries looks beyond their often carefully depicted lives to show the more complex truth behind their eccentric upbringings.
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[2023]
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Así como el arcoíris, nuestra piel es de distintos colores, eso no nos hace mejores ni peores, solo diferentes. Nuestra piel arcoíris es un libro escrito por la psicóloga colombiana Manuela Molina (@Mindheart.kids) para hablar de la riqueza de las diferencias, de la apreciación de lo que nos hace distintos, pero también de lo que nos une como humanos. Es una herramienta esencial para abordar la conversación sobre racismo desde la primera...
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[2024]
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English
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"This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's fathers did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms-and that this intentional distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy. Hundreds of lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers-it is also the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces that an armed society has created under the tortured rubric...
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2023.
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Español
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In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Mat ̌eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really "normal" when it comes to health?
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2023.
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AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more. Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from which there is no return? A threat to all our jobs, as we keep hearing on the news? Bestselling children's author Andy Stanton has made a career out of writing differently - from the unconventional `hero' of his bestselling Mr Gum series to his penchant for absurdist plots,...
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2024.
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"The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local...
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[2023]
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English
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"Impossible beings cross paths in Outlands, the hub of the Outer Planes. Meet the denizens of Sigil and the wild realms beyond in this collection of creatures from across the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Morte, famad planar explorer and exaggeration-prone floating skull, shares this collection of multiversal monsters to add to your Planescape adventures. Morte's planar parade is intended for Dungeon Masters. It contains more than fifty creatures--...
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[2023]
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"From the collaborators behind the modern business classic All the Devils are Here comes a damning indictment of American capitalism-and the leaders that left us brutally unprepared for a global pandemic In 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that the U.S. could not adequately protect its citizens. Millions of Americans suffered-and over a million died-in less than two years, while government officials blundered; prize-winning...
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[2024]
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English
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"Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind. There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machines impact our lives in countless other ways--improving the precision...
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2024.
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"From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost,...
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[2024]
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"An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon--the rising number of unclaimed dead in America today--and what it says about the state of our society. For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters' fields--a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to avoid. Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies. Up...
18) How to find a four-leaf clover: what Autism can teach us about difference, connection, and belonging
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2024.
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English
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A special-education teacher with thirty years of experience working with autistic people gives readers a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the neurodiverse community and looks at ways we can develop more meaningful connections with others.
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2024.
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English
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"The Washington Book is the perfect guide to the state of our politics, and then men and women who dominate the terrain. It explores the construction of personal identity, the delusions of leadership, and that mix of subservience and ambition that can define a life in politics. The more we read the stories of Washington, Lozada contends, the clearer our understanding of the competing visions of our country"--
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