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84) Me on the map
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Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A child describes how her room, her house, her town, her state, and her country become part of a map of her world.
86) Dinosaur atlas
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Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Travel back in time over 200 million years to lost prehistoric lands and the dinosaurs that roamed them with Lonely Planet Kids' Dinosaur Atlas . Kids can unfold maps and lift the flaps to reveal amazing facts and illustrations about how they lived and where they were discovered. They'll also learn about famous paleontologists and measure themselves against life-size bones, teeth and claws. From from giant sauropods and horned dinosaurs, to duckbills...
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English
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The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans...
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Explore Antarctica--the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth--in this adventure-filled title in the Who HQ series. Antarctica, the earth's southernmost continent, was virtually untouched by humans until the nineteenth century. Many famous explorers journeyed (and often died) there in the hope of discovering a land that always seemed out of reach. This book introduces readers to this desert--yes, desert!--continent that holds about 90...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This is a visual atlas that brings the world and its people to life with modern mapping, pictures, facts, and stories. Using modern mapping based on the latest seamless, cloud-free satellite image data, Children's Illustrated World Atlas takes kids on the ultimate round-the-world trip. Each detailed map is accompanied by pictures and stories that explore the society, culture, and history of each region.
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English
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On John Franklin's 1820 expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized two team members and was preparing a third when he was caught and killed. When Rene La Salle set off for the Mississippi Delta in 1684, he missed the target by five hundred miles, but on landing, immediately built a prison for those who fell asleep on watch. Consummate storyteller Fergus Fleming brings together these and forty-three other gripping stories...
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English
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Publisher Annotation: The vast boreal forest spans a dozen countries in the northern regions like "a scarf around the neck of the world," making it the planet's largest land biome. Besides providing homes for a diversity of species, this spectacular forest is also vitally important to the planet: its trees clean our air, its wetlands clean our water and its existence plays an important role in slowing global climate change. In this beautifully written...
99) Explorer
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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Highlights various explorers and their discoveries.
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