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7283) Baby Beethoven
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Children will be delighted with baby friendly images of toys, puppets, and art all set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Do you often hear someone say "hey, we all get distracted!" and get upset because it is not that easy as they think? ADHD is a real problem; but guess what? If there is a problem, there is also a solution. ADHD is a real problem; but guess what? If there is a problem, there is also a solution. ADHD is a real problem; but guess what? If there is a problem, there is also a solution. Whatever your position, whether you have had a professional diagnosis...
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"A late-in-life coming-of-age escapade told with humor and heart, Don't Think Twice is a moving and irreverent account of grief, growing up, and the healing power of adventure. Within six months, Barbara Schoichet lost everything: her job, her girlfriend of six years, and her mother to pancreatic cancer. Her life stripped bare, and armed with nothing but a death wish and a ton of attitude, Barbara pursues an unlikely method of coping. At the age of...
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"Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics. Bina48 is a nascent Mindclone of Martine's wife that can engage in conversation, answer questions, and even have spontaneous thoughts that are...
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When celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the "restraining and confining conditions" of the city compelled its inhabitants to "look closely upon others without sympathy," he was expressing what many in the United States had already been saying about the nascent urbanization that would continue to transform the nation's landscape: that the modern city dramatically changes the way individuals interact with and...
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"The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and "a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy" (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection--Hartman's first book, now revised...
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Wendy Batchelder invites readers on a wild, hold-your-breath search for belonging. Wendy, who is adopted, grew up in a loving home. Though curious about her birth parents, she has little desire to find them. Until her mother hands her an old yellowed envelope. That little package propels Wendy to look for her maternal biological grandmother, but the trek into her past reaches only dead ends and fizzles in the face of her current life-husband, children,...
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A powerful visual presentation of the extermination process at Auschwitz is viewed through candid photographs of its victims.
This album, an extraordinary find, was originally discovered during the tumult of the first days after the liberation. It reveals how two SS photographers documented the arrival of shipments of Jews to the platform in the Birkenau concentration camp, the selection process, and their path to the gas chambers and the crematoria....
7296) Prophet's daughter: my life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet inside the Church Universal and Triumphant
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7298) ¡Qué animales!
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"Tomás Trompa va a un nuevo colegio, pero sus compañeros le parecen demasiado extraños. Algunos tienen escamas, otros son peludos... ¡Incluso hay uno que es verde! Tomás solo quiere encontrar a un amigo que se parezca a él."--Back cover.
7299) Crimen y castigo
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Crimen y castigo (1866), considerada por la crítica como la primera obra maestra de Dostoievski, es un profundo análisis psicológico de su protagonista, el joven estudiante Raskolnikov, cuya firme creencia en que los fines humanitarios justifican la maldad le conduce al asesinato de un usurero petersburgués. Pero, desde que comete el crimen, la culpabilidad será una pesadilla constante con la que el estudiante será incapaz de convivir. -- Publisher's...
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The Athletic Crusade is the first book to systematically analyze the role of sports in the expansion of U.S. empire from the 1890s through World War II. Gerald R. Gems details how white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant males set the standard for inclusion within American society, transferred that standard to foreign territories, and subtly used American sports to instill allegedly desirable racial, moral, and commercial virtues in colonial subjects. In the...
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