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Lewis Carroll Epstein explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way. Thinking Physics is a perfect beginner's guide to an amazingly wide range of physics-related questions. The book targets topics that science teachers and students spend time wondering about, like wing lift. Epstein elucidates the familiar but misunderstood - such as how tides work - along with more obscure but fascinating phenomena like the "Bernoulli sub” and t...

Inspired by the true story of Margaret Ann Bulkley, a young woman born in nineteenth-century Ireland. Her heart broken by the constant threat of poverty but her spirit awakened by the challenge of two gentlemen. Margaret enrolls in medicine at Edinburgh University and, after years of dedicated study, becomes a surgeon. It is a story of struggle and triumph made all the more exceptional because Margaret Anne Bulkley does it disguised as a man.

When Willa's mother marries the Prime Minister of Canada, Willa suddenly acquires fame and five identical stepsisters. Thanks to Willa, things at the Prime Minister's house will never be the same again. Translated into Swedish as Den Sjatte Systern (Wahstroms Bokforlag, AB) Nominated for a Red Cedar Book Award 2000 CBC Books-For-Kids List

How can eighth-grader Sharon Frejer leave painful memories behind when panic confronts her every day? How will she adjust to a new school? All she wants is to disappear. But new friends have different plans for her. Now she's free to examine the "truth" behind the viscous names she's been called for as long as she can remember.

An examination of eucharistic spirituality. In the first part of the book, Fr. George first honestly portrays his life and vocation, his travels in India, the Philippines, and how he was moved to found the Cor Christi Institute. In the second half of the book he urges all those who are "spiritually poor" to give their lives as a victim priest to Jesus Christ. Helps readers understand the great gift of the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood. ...

No one wanted another war. Now that the fighting between the Star Kingdom and the Havenites had ended, the Andermani Emperor had his own plans for Silesia, and he was confident he and his people could achieve them without a war of their own. Unfortunately, what they wanted didn't matter. . .

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Hillsborough North Carolina is a small town with a huge footprint in American history! The picturesque town of Hillsborough, once a treasured secret, has recently been rediscovered for its beauty, locale, and historical ties. Various buildings that date back to the late 1700s are still located in Hillsborough's downtown area, which itself is a designated National Historic District. Having maintained the community's rich heritage, residents rea...

This biography reveals the secrets behind the loudest and most outrageous Spice Girl, whose dramatic exit from the group hit the headlines and caused scandal throughout the world. It covers Geri's life after the Spice Girls and her on/off relationship with Robbie Williams, among other topics.

From the author of Against All Hazards - Poems of the Peninsular War, here are twenty-three more modern epic poems of Nelson's Navy, written in a robust style with a rhythm and pace that captures the atmosphere of that dramatic century when Britannia truly ruled the waves.

Drawing upon the considerable existing body of technical material related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed and assessed the key technical issues that arose during the Senate debate over treaty ratification. In particular, these include: (1) the capacity of the United States to maintain confidence in the safety and reliability of its nuclear stockpile in the absence of nuclear testing, (2) the nucl...

Biographic Memoirs Volume 81 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.

Across the United States, the practices for collecting water use data vary significantly from state to state and vary also from one water use category to another, in response to the laws regulating water use and interest in water use data as an input for water management. However, many rich bodies of water use data exist at the state level, and an outstanding opportunity exists for assembling and statistically analyzing these data at the natio...

The National Research Council (NRC) has undertaken a three-phase project to explore the possibility of a program to attract science, mathematics and engineering PhDs to careers in K-12 education. The first phase of the project surveyed the interests of recent PhDs in science and mathematics in pursuing careers in secondary education. Analysis of the Phase I data suggests that a significant percentage of PhDs might be interested in pursuing car...

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. A thorough introduction to the many aspects of the complex and controversial phenomenon of globalisation, this straightforward little book shows how globalised culture, econom...

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