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Who Killed Sir William?

A Community-University Research Alliance Seeks Justice for Injured Workers

By: Marion Endicott,Steve Mantis

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Who Killed Sir William?

A Community-University Research Alliance Seeks Justice for Injured Workers

By: Marion Endicott,Steve Mantis

In 1910, Sir William Meredith led a Royal Commission to investigate the injury, death, and permanent disability of workers. In response to his findings, Meredith helped introduce a new system of compensation for injured and disabled workers that emphasized their rights and well-being. But today, Sir William’s principles appear to be dead: injured and disabled workers often end up living in poverty and are viewed with stigma by those who should be providing them with service. What happened? How can we find out the experiences and needs of injured and disabled workers, and how can the necessary changes be put into action? To answer such questions, the Research Action Alliance on the Consequences of Work Injury (RAACWI), a community-based research initiative that brought advocates, injured workers, and academics together, was formed. Who Killed Sir William? provides an engaging look at RAACWI’s eight years of groundbreaking work and what a successful community-academia partnership looks like to inform and inspire fellow academics, advocates, and community. Its discussion includes (and goes beyond): - Developing a trusting, productive, community-advocate-academic relationship - Successes such as the production of over twenty research publications and a speakers school for injured workers - The use of diverse teaching methods, including skits and theatre pieces - Some of the challenges RAACWI faced (and how they overcame them) Who Killed Sir William? authors Marion Endicott and Steve Mantis not only offer insight on the systemic assailants, but also lay out a process of addressing them.

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FriesenPress

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103917440X

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9781039174405

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Appearance, posture and behaviour in the animal kingdom

By: Steve Parker

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Appearance, posture and behaviour in the animal kingdom

By: Steve Parker

Discover nature’s most colourful creatures in a major new book on colour in the animal kingdom. For many animals use of colour is essential to surviving in the wild. Both a built-in defence mechanism and a cunning tactic for attack, this biological advantage helps animals hide from dangerous predators and catch unsuspecting prey. It is used in many different ways, primarily to mask one’s identity, movement or location, and changes over time as animals evolve and adapt to live. This stunning photographic collection reveals 100 creatures from around the world paired with fascinating insights from leading UK zoology author Steve Parker. Each animal will have a profile of 300 words paired with striking photographic examples featuring a wealth of colour and ingenious uses of colour for display or disguise. Learn how: The octopus can change its opacity, colour and pattern in response to threats. The walking leaf insect has evolved a strikingly similar shape and colour to the leaves it eats. The arctic fox changes its fur colour to white in the winter, perfectly blending in with the snow – but climate change is disrupting this age-old adaptation. This study of some of the most innovative uses of colour by animals, packed with beautiful photography and fascinating insights, will delight all lovers of the natural world.

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Ivy Press

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0711278539

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9780711278530

Alien Worlds

How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future

By: Steve Nicholls

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Alien Worlds

How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future

By: Steve Nicholls

A beautifully illustrated journey into the hidden realm of insects Life on Earth depends on the busy activities of insects, but global populations of these teeming creatures are currently under threat, with grave consequences for us all. Alien Worlds presents insects and other arthropods as you have never seen them before, explaining how they conquered the planet and why there are so many of them, and shedding light on the evolutionary marvels that enabled them to thrive. Blending glorious imagery with entertaining and informative science writing, this book takes you inside the hidden realm of insects and reveals why their fate carries profound implications for our own. Spectacular photos provide a rare, up-close look at the alien worlds of insects Sheds light on the origins and wondrous diversity of insects Discusses how insects first took to the air and colonised the far corners of our planet Explores the extraordinary sensory world of insects Explains the remarkable success of social insects, from termites and ants to bees and wasps

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Princeton University Press

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0691253595

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9780691253596

Really!?

By: Steve Elliott

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Really!?

By: Steve Elliott

Facts, facts, facts! We are surrounded by facts: some strange, some horrific, some unbelievable, and some funny. Those facts make us who we are. Humans are a curious species and we all want to know the truth. Astronomy, animals, plants, the human body, science, history, people, war, and the Earth are all interesting subjects about which most of us know very little. This book contains many known facts that you probably didn’t know before, but will make you say, “Really!?” Did you know that our galaxy, the Milky Way, and our nearest neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy, are on a collision course? But not to worry, the two galaxies won’t collide for about four billion years. Really!?

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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195226975X

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9781952269752

Fantastic Four Epic Collection

The Dream Is Dead

By: Steve Englehart

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Fantastic Four Epic Collection

The Dream Is Dead

By: Steve Englehart

Dreams and nightmares! The Thing's revamped Fantastic Four is already down one member - and now Sharon Ventura, the new Ms. Marvel, is taking out her anger on She-Hulk! When the Inferno sets New York ablaze, the FF must face Graviton and Kang - with Mantis' life on the line! Reed and Sue return to the team just as the Frightful Four strikes, but does the FF have any hope of victory when the last man standing is a powerless Ben Grimm? Then, Aron the Watcher casts the Fantastic Four into dreamland - but they soon discover that their greatest enemies…are themselves! Plus: Doctor Doom enters hell to free his mother from Mephisto - with Doctor Strange at his side! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #321-333 and ANNUAL #22, and MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL: DOCTOR STRANGE AND DOCTOR DOOM - TRIUMPH AND TORMENT.

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302523627

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9781302523626

Avengers Epic Collection

The Avengers/Defenders War

By: Steve Englehart,Roy Thomas,Jim Starlin,Gerry Conway

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Avengers Epic Collection

The Avengers/Defenders War

By: Steve Englehart,Roy Thomas,Jim Starlin,Gerry Conway

Collects Avengers (1963) #115-128, Giant-Size (1974) #1, Defenders (1972) #8-11, Captain Marvel (1968) #33, Fantastic Four (1961) #150. The Avengers battle the Defenders in comics first great crossover battle royale! Its hero against hero in the sensational summer hit of 1973: Cap vs. Namor! Thor vs. Hulk! Its the original, and theres never been another one like it. All this, plus the origin of Mantis; an all-hands-on-deck battle with the Zodiac; the Avengers vs. Thanos and the Cosmic Cube; a Giant-Size adventure alongside Golden Age heroes Miss America and the Whizzer; the wedding of Quicksilver and Crystal; the return of Ultron; and an increasingly tense love triangle between the Scarlet Witch, the Vision and Mantis! And as an added bonus feature, rare Avengers pinups, profiles and more from the pages of the 70s fanzine FOOM!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302503715

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9781302503710

Weird Animals

By: Steve Parker

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Weird Animals

By: Steve Parker

What could a male Jacksons chameleon need three horns for besides fighting? Actually, this odd-looking animal has horns to scare predators and attract females more than defense! Some animals bodies can lead readers to question the purpose of their weird features. This book has the answers theyre looking for! From how the echidna uses its spines to keep predators away to how the hornbill uses its large beak, the main content features some of natures most interesting bodies. Colorful, up-close photographs and concise fact boxes introduce readers to many kinds of animal habitats, behaviors, and life cycles.

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Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

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1482450003

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The Animal Book

A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest--and Most Surprising--animals on Earth

By: Steve Jenkins

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The Animal Book

A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest--and Most Surprising--animals on Earth

By: Steve Jenkins

Learn some amazing facts relating to over 300 animals.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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054755799X

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9780547557991

Vision & The Scarlet Witch

The Saga Of Wanda And Vision

By: Bill Mantlo,Steve Englehart

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Vision & The Scarlet Witch

The Saga Of Wanda And Vision

By: Bill Mantlo,Steve Englehart

Collects Giant-Size Avengers (1974) #4, Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1982) #1-4, Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1985) #1-12, West Coast Avengers (1985) #2. The unlikely romance between the Vision and the Scarlet Witch is one of the most famous Avengers storylines of all! Now, witness what happens when the two heroes finally get married and settle down in the suburbs! If you think they’re going to live the quiet life, think again! Wanda embraces her sorcerous heritage — but can a revelation about her family tree be believed? The Vision’s past threatens their future, as Ultron and the Grim Reaper strike! And things get even stranger when Wanda’s magic spells lead to the couple becoming…a family! That’s right, despite all odds the Scarlet Witch is pregnant — and now Wanda and Vision must prepare for the biggest responsibility of their lives!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302935364

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9781302935368

Avengers Masterworks Vol. 14

By: Steve Englehart

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Avengers Masterworks Vol. 14

By: Steve Englehart

Collects Avengers (1963) #129-135, Giant-Size Avengers #2-4 and material from FOOM #12. Prepare yourself for one of the greatest sagas in Avengers history: the Celestial Madonna! Throughout his AVENGERS run, writer Steve Englehart slowly built the mysterious Mantis into one of the '70s most intriguing characters. Here, her tale reaches its cosmic climax in a series of adventures spanning space and time! The action begins when Kang the Conqueror arrives on the scene - and before it's over Hawkeye will return; an Avenger will die; the Legion of the Unliving shall rise; and Kang, Rama-Tut and Immortus will have time-twisted you in two! And that's just for starters, as this volume presents the origin of the Vision and the android Avenger's wedding to the Scarlet Witch!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302499491

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9781302499495

Avengers

The Complete Celestial Madonna Saga

By: Steve Englehart,Roy Thomas,Jim Starlin

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Avengers

The Complete Celestial Madonna Saga

By: Steve Englehart,Roy Thomas,Jim Starlin

CollectsÿAvengers (1963) #124-125, #129-135; Captain Marvel (1968) #33; Giant-Size Avengers #2-4; Avengers: Celestial Quest #1-8. Follow the fateful saga of the Avenger named Mantis - a tale three decades in the telling! It all begins with the revelations of the Star-Stalker, and soon drags Earth's Mightiest Heroes into a cosmic clash between Captain Marvel and Thanos! But when Kang comes to the present day in search of the Celestial Madonna, Mantis' life is forever altered! In one of the greatest Avengers epics ever told, the besotted Swordsman will go to great lengths to save the woman he loves. Wedding bells will chime, and Mantis will embrace her destiny!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302497014

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9781302497019

Bugs

By: Steve Parker

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Bugs

By: Steve Parker

Introduces different species of insects, including bees, butterflies, ants, and beetles, and describes their physical attributes and behavior patterns.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1615332464

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9781615332465

Fierce Predators

By: Steve Parker

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Fierce Predators

By: Steve Parker

Seeing a wolf stalking its prey would be almost impossible to witness up close. It wouldnt be safe to be so near such a deadly predators jaws when its on the hunt! But in this book, readers can see wolves, owls, and many more terrifying predators do what they do bestcapture prey. Up-close, full-color photographs highlight the sharp teeth, long claws, and huge paws of some of the worlds deadliest animals. Fact boxes include fascinating information about animal bodies and behavior and statistics about each animals size, range, and lifespan.

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Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

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1482450097

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9781482450095

Doctor Who: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead

Time Lord Victorious

By: Steve Cole

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Doctor Who: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead

Time Lord Victorious

By: Steve Cole

We live forever, barring accidents. Just like everyone else in the universe. The Doctor travels back to the Ancient Days, an era where life flourishes and death is barely known... Then come the Kotturuh – creatures who spread through the cosmos dispensing mortality. They judge each and every species and decree its allotted time to live. For the first time, living things know the fear of ending. And they will go to any lengths to escape this grim new spectre, death. The Doctor is an old hand at cheating death. Now, at last, he can stop it at source. He is coming for the Kotturuh, ready to change everything so that Life wins from the start. Not just the last of the Time Lords. The Time Lord Victorious.

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Random House

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1473532450

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9781473532458

Predators

By: Steve Backshall

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Predators

By: Steve Backshall

Join DEADLY presenter Steve Backshall as he comes face to face with the world's deadliest animals, in a book packed with fascinating facts, killer statistics and stunning photographs. Combined with his own incredible experiences with creatures, large and small, Steve reveals tricks of camouflage, feats of strength, endurance, teamwork and speed, as well as giving us a glimpse into the lives of extremeophiles and looking at some of our planet's endangered species.

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Orion Children's Books

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1444005820

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9781444005820

Undisputed Street Fighter: The Art And Innovation Behind The Game-Changing Series

By: Steve Henderstot,Tim Lapetino

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Undisputed Street Fighter: The Art And Innovation Behind The Game-Changing Series

By: Steve Henderstot,Tim Lapetino

Since its inception 30 years ago, the Street Fighter™ video game series from Capcom has thrived based on a lethal combination of innovation, style and technique. From first-of-their-kind advances such as selectable characters and secret combo moves, to imagination-capturing characters such as Ryu, Chun-Li, and Akuma, Street Fighter has stayed a step ahead of the competition en route to becoming one of the most enduring and influential franchises in video game history. Undisputed Street Fighter™ features in-depth interviews and exclusive, behind-the-scenes looks into the making of the Street Fighter games, and the iconic art, design, and imagery from across the Street Fighter universe.

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Dynamite Entertainment

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1524104698

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9781524104696

Clever Creatures

How Animals and Plants Use Science to Survive

By: Steve Mould

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Clever Creatures

How Animals and Plants Use Science to Survive

By: Steve Mould

A look at animals and plants from the point of view of their amazing scientific adaptations. Join bestselling author Steve Mould to uncover nature's greatest scientists, engineers, and mathematicians from plants that can count to architect insects. If you thought all scientists wear white coats and work in labs, think again! Meet amazing engineers, such as the spiders who build immense webs from different kinds of silk; funky physicists, like the bats that can see with sound; and surprising chemists, such as the corpse flower that smells like smelly socks to attract insects to pollinate it! The science behind each genius adaptation is explained clearly in Steve Mould's trademark humorous style and you'll be amazed by nature's solutions to some of the world's trickiest problems. Clever Creatures is a brilliant introduction to some of nature's cleverest animals and plants. You'll never look at nature the same way again!

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0744035805

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Avengers Vs. Thanos

By: Jim Starlin,Mike Friedrich,Steve Englehart,Steve Gerber

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Avengers Vs. Thanos

By: Jim Starlin,Mike Friedrich,Steve Englehart,Steve Gerber

Collects Iron Man (1968) #55; Captain Marvel (1968) #25-30; Marvel Feature (1971) #12; Daredevil (1964) #105-107; Captain Marvel (1968) #31-33;Avengers (1963) #125; Warlock (1972) #9-11, 15; Avengers Annual (1967) #7; Marvel Two -In-One Annual #2; material from Logan's Run #6. See Thanos's bid to become a god and lay siege to Earth, with only the Avengers able to stop him.

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302367978

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9781302367978

Wild Scientists

How animals and plants use science to survive

By: Steve Mould

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Wild Scientists

How animals and plants use science to survive

By: Steve Mould

A look at animals and plants from the point of view of their amazing scientific adaptations. Join bestselling author Steve Mould to uncover nature's greatest scientists, engineers, and mathematicians from plants that can count to architect insects. If you thought all scientists wear white coats and work in labs, think again! Meet amazing engineers, such as the spiders who build immense webs from different kinds of silk; funky physicists, like the bats that can see with sound; and surprising chemists, such as the corpse flower that smells like smelly socks to attract insects to pollinate it! The science behind each genius adaptation is explained clearly in Steve Mould's trademark humorous style and you'll be amazed by nature's solutions to some of the world's trickiest problems. Wild Scientists is a brilliant introduction to some of nature's cleverest animals and plants. You'll never look at nature the same way again!

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Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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0241466067

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9780241466063

Avengers West Coast Epic Collection

Vision Quest

By: Steve Englehart

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Avengers West Coast Epic Collection

Vision Quest

By: Steve Englehart

Collects West Coast Avengers (1985) #38-46, Avengers West Coast (1989) #47-52, West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) #3, Avengers West Coast Annual (1989) #4, material from Avengers Spotlight (1989) #23. John Byrne transforms the West Coast Avengers! The team must survive showdowns with the Defiler and the Night Shift — and Mockingbird is haunted by the terrible specter of the Phantom Rider! Then John Byrne takes charge — and the legendary writer/artist immediately leaves his mark on the Whackos with a startling transformation for the Vision! As the team grapples with what’s happened to their old friend, Vision’s wife, the Scarlet Witch, descends into darkness — and learns shocking revelations about her children! Amid the chaos, the U.S.Agent muscles his way onto the roster, the Great Lakes Avengers assemble and a Golden Age legend blazes his way back from the grave!

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302935143

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9781302935146

A Season for That

Lost and Found in the Other Southern France

By: Steve Hoffman

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A Season for That

Lost and Found in the Other Southern France

By: Steve Hoffman

In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong. Steve Hoffman is a perfectly comfortable middle-aged Minnesotan man who has always been desperately, pretentiously in love with France, more specifically with the idea of France. To follow that love, he and his family move, nearly at random, to the small, rural, scratchy-hot village of Autignac in the south of the country, and he immediately thinks he’s made a terrible mistake. Life here is not holding your cigarette chest-high while walking to the café and pulling off the trick of pretending to be Parisian, it’s getting into fights with your wife because you won’t break character and introduce your very American family to the locals, who can smell you and your perfect city-French from a mile away. But through cooking what the local grocer tells him to cook, he feels more of this place. A neighbor leads him into the world of winemaking, where he learns not as a pedantic oenophile, but bodily, as a grape picker and winemaker’s apprentice. Along the way, he lets go of the abstract ideas he’d held about France, discovering instead the beauty of a culture that is one with its landscape, and of becoming one with that culture.

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Crown

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0593240286

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9780593240281

Diving & Snorkeling Puerto Rico

By: Steve Simonsen

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Diving & Snorkeling Puerto Rico

By: Steve Simonsen

This guide provides general information on topics such as the geography, history and wildlife of the area, and detailed information specific to the diving conditions of the area; this includes information on the currents, depths and marine life.

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0864427832

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Camouflage

100 Masters of Disguise from the Animal Kingdom

By: Steve Parker

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Camouflage

100 Masters of Disguise from the Animal Kingdom

By: Steve Parker

Uncover nature’s best-hidden creatures in a major new book on animal camouflage. Camouflage is essential to surviving in the wild. Both a built-in defence mechanism and a cunning tactic for attack, this biological advantage helps animals hide from dangerous predators and catch unsuspecting prey. It is used in many different ways, primarily to mask one’s identity, movement or location, and changes over time as animals evolve and adapt to live. This stunning photographic collection reveals 100 camouflaged creatures from around the world paired with fascinating insights from leading UK zoology author Steve Parker. Each elusive animal will have a profile of 300 words paired with striking photographic examples featuring a wealth of colour and ingenious camouflages. Examples include: THE GIRAFFE is the world’s tallest mammal yet it remains tricky to detect among trees thanks to its spots. The spots also help to regulate their temperature. THE OCTOPUS can change its opacity, colour and pattern in response to threats. THE WALKING LEAF INSECT has evolved a strikingly similar shape and colour to the leaves it eats. THE ARCTIC FOX changes its fur colour to white in the winter, perfectly blending in with the snow – but climate change is disrupting this age-old adaptation. THE TURTLE uses colour and pattern to camouflage on sand, rocks and the ocean floor to escape its predators.

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Ivy Press

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0711260249

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9780711260245

Zoology

49 Science Fair Projects

By: H. Steve Dashefsky

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Zoology

49 Science Fair Projects

By: H. Steve Dashefsky

49 different experiments on topics like how spiders spin webs and what earthworms eat.

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McGraw-Hill Companies

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0070156832

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9780070156838

Almost Paradise

The Broadsword Chronicles: Book One

By: Steve Ruedlinger

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Almost Paradise

The Broadsword Chronicles: Book One

By: Steve Ruedlinger

Enthusiasm and nerves are running high on board the nuclear-powered Coast Guard cutter Broadsword as the crew prepares for their maiden voyage. Confident that they have prepared and trained for every possible contingency during their deployment, they are eager to get underway. But a new storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico is about to sweep these sailors into truly uncharted waters. As the winds settle, chaos reigns on the command deck. Instruments are malfunctioning, and the crew struggles to make sense of nonsensical readings. The only explanation seems impossible, but soon its one they have no choice but to accept as their new reality. They have been transported back to the Mid-Cretaceous, a voyage of nearly 92 million years into the planets past. Its a time of unrecognizable peril and challenge for the crew, where incredible beasts control land, sea, and air. A warm and humid Earth presents a changing landscape of geologic instability, super storms, and shifting continents. Lead by the enigmatic JD Stoner, the ragtag crew races to understand their new situation and find a way home. Survival is far from guaranteed in an environment rife with danger that none of them is equipped to handle. Can a group of twenty-first-century humans survive long enough to make it back to their own time?

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iUniverse

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149172417X

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9781491724170

Blasphemous Modernism

The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh

By: Steve Pinkerton

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Blasphemous Modernism

The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh

By: Steve Pinkerton

Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the related category of blasphemy--the rhetoric of religious offense--and to the specific ways this rhetoric operates in, and as, literary modernism. United by a shared commitment to "the word made flesh," writers such as James Joyce, Mina Loy, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Djuna Barnes made blasphemy a key component of their modernist practice, profaning the very scriptures and sacraments that fueled their art. In doing so they belied T. S. Eliot's verdict that the forces of secularization had rendered blasphemy obsolete in an increasingly godless century ("a world in which blasphemy is impossible"); their poems and fictions reveal how forcefully religion endured as a cultural force after the Death of God. More, their transgressions spotlight a politics of religion that has seldom engaged the attention of modernist studies. Blasphemy respects no division of church and state, and neither do the writers who wield it to profane all manner of coercive dogmas--including ecclesiastical as well as more worldly ideologies of race, class, nation, empire, gender, and sexuality. The late-century example of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses affords, finally, a demonstration of how modernism persists in postwar anglophone literature and of the critical role blasphemy plays in that persistence. Blasphemous Modernism thus resonates with the broader cultural and ideological concerns that in recent years have enriched the scope of modernist scholarship.

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Oxford University Press

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0190627573

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9780190627577

The Chinese Herbalist's Handbook

A Practitioner's Reference Guide to Traditional Chinese Herbs and Formulas

By: Dagmar Ehling,Steve Swart

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The Chinese Herbalist's Handbook

A Practitioner's Reference Guide to Traditional Chinese Herbs and Formulas

By: Dagmar Ehling,Steve Swart

The Chinese Herbalist's Handbook is a new tool for prescribing and modifying herbal formulas. This book makes the practice of herbs easily accessible to Chinese medical practitioners and students. For practitioners who rely upon patent hervbal formulas, but would like to custom-tailor formulas to each patient's unique needs, this book demystifies the process, with instructions and exhaustive cross-referencing and indexing.

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0910261261

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9780910261265

Australian Deserts

Ecology and Landscapes

By: Steve Morton

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Australian Deserts

Ecology and Landscapes

By: Steve Morton

Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent – the heart of Australia. Steve Morton brings his extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of arid Australia to this book, explaining how Australian deserts work ecologically. This book outlines why unpredictable rainfall and paucity of soil nutrients underpin the nature of desert ecosystems, while also describing how plants and animals came to be desert dwellers through evolutionary time. It shows how plants use uncertain rainfall to provide for persistence of their populations, alongside outlines of the dominant animals of the deserts and explanations of the features that help them succeed in the face of aridity and uncertainty. Richly illustrated with the photographs of Mike Gillam, this fascinating and accessible book will enhance your understanding of the nature of arid Australia.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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1486306012

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9781486306015

The Grape Escape

By: Steve Hovington

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The Grape Escape

By: Steve Hovington

Over the course of one year, aided by several musician mates, Steve undergoes a crash course in winemaking, tending his 250 vines in a desolate vineyard in the depths of winter to the blazing heat of summer. Then, after the harvest in September, he treads his grapes half-naked in a small vat, along with petrified insects. And so begins the emotional roller-coaster ride of the fermentation. Would the wine turn to vinegar or would Steve succeed in producing his very own masterpiece? Or at least something drinkable?The Grape Escape is not just a fascinating and entertaining guide to do it yourself winemaking in a rural French setting. It is also the bittersweet tale of one man's struggle to come to terms with life after living the rock and roll dream and finding salvation through wine.

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217

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848765975

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9781848765979

Trickiest!

19 Sneaky Animals

By: Steve Jenkins

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Trickiest!

19 Sneaky Animals

By: Steve Jenkins

From Caldecott Honoree Jenkins comes a new series that explores nature's truly superlative animals and their astounding abilities. Here he introduces some of the slyest animals on the planet. Full color.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544937163

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9780544937161

Diving Cozumel

By: Steve Rosenberg

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Diving Cozumel

By: Steve Rosenberg

This new edition covers the best dive sites as well as the top attractions on land.

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124

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Aqua Quest Publications, Inc.

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1881652319

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9781881652311

Don't Go Up a Windmill

Poems

By: Steve Rideout

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Don't Go Up a Windmill

Poems

By: Steve Rideout

This is a collection of humorous poems, including "Don't Go Up a Windmill," "Dinosaur," "Dreaming," "I'd Better Like Being a Kid," and many others.

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104

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0967015715

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9780967015712

Discover the Amazing World of Animals

By: Steve Parker

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Discover the Amazing World of Animals

By: Steve Parker

Questions and answers provide a wide range of basic information about animals, including such topics as classification, migration, hibernation, and habitats.

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1902272277

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Strange Bugs

By: Steve Parker

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Strange Bugs

By: Steve Parker

Bugs are some of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom! Some are brightly colored and quite beautiful. Many have wings, some just have legs, and still others have no limbs at all. Through full-color photographs and detailed fact boxes, readers are introduced to many members of the wonderful world of bugs. This up-close look reveals that spiders have fangs, leg and wing shape can tell a lot about a bugs behavior, and that people have a lot to learn about bugs!

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Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

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1482450046

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9781482450040

Museum Of Natural History

Insects Discover The World Of Insects In This Ultimate Museum Experience

By: Steve Parker

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Museum Of Natural History

Insects Discover The World Of Insects In This Ultimate Museum Experience

By: Steve Parker

For many inquisitive children, bugs are an endless source of fascination. With this innovative kit, kids ages 8 and up can learn how to collect common insects and observe them in greater depth while learning basic principles and procedures of entomology. The fully illustrated book provides an age-appropriate introduction to the insect kingdom, including characteristics, habits, and habitat. The hands-on kit lets children recreate the discovery experience of an insect exhibit in a natural history museum. The cover contains a plastic bug model. Also includes a pre-cut presentation box frame, insect identification chart and two sheets of stickers, life cycle wheel, insect maze tray, brush, and magnifying lens.

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076241068X

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