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Discusses the life, innovations, and accomplishments of the famous scientist

Paperback:

9780440404040 | Reprint edition (Young Yearling, April 1, 1993), cover price $3.25 | About this edition: A biography of the Afro-American whose scientific research revolutionized the economy of the South.

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Describes the activities at several farms where unusual plants or animals are raised

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9780374387051 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1991, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Describes the activities at several farms where unusual plants or animals are raised

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Recounts how squirrels, robins, grasshoppers, and other creatures in an urban environment find their food and avoid being eaten themselves.

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9780027335019 | Atheneum, September 1, 1989, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Recounts how squirrels, robins, grasshoppers, and other creatures in an urban environment find their food and avoid being eaten themselves.

A photo essay presenting a beagle at work at Kennedy Airport sniffing out contraband fruits and meats that many travelers bring into the country

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9780027335101 | Atheneum, March 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A photo essay presenting a beagle at work at Kennedy Airport sniffing out contraband fruits and meats that many travelers bring into the country

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Describes the techniques and obstacles involved in digging and building tunnels, from early quanaats to the thirty-mile Seikan Tunnel in Japan.

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9780316245739 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes the digging and building of the world's most famous tunnels, the tools and techniques employed, and the obstacles--financial, physical, and psychological--that often have to be overcome

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Describes the ways in which seagulls, crabs, snails, jellyfish, corals, and other seashore creatures find their food.

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9780027335002 | Atheneum, September 1, 1985, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Describes the ways in which seagulls, crabs, snails, jellyfish, corals, and other seashore creatures find their food.

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Presents an overview of Mexican history and analyzes the country's pressing social and economic problems, which include unequal distribution of wealth and rapid population growth.

Library:

9780531045305 | Revised edition (Franklin Watts, February 1, 1983), cover price $10.40 | About this edition: A profile of Mexico examines its Aztec history, agriculture, industry, government, and modern culture

An introduction to Washington, D.C., its history, day-to-day life, and points of interest.

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9780531042533 | Revised edition (Franklin Watts, April 1, 1981), cover price $9.40 | About this edition: A guide to the nation's capital covers the White House, the Capitol, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institute, and the four presidential memorials

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An account of Margaret Mead's career focuses on her experiences in Samoa in the mid-1920s

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9780698307155 | Putnam Pub Group, February 1, 1980, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A brief biography of the well-known anthropologist concentrating on her first important studies in Samoa in the mid-1920's.

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An account of Dr. William Beaumont's research into the nature of digestion, in the early-nineteenth-century Michigan wilderness, with the aid of a man whose gunshot-wounded stomach failed to heal

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9780698306806 | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1977, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: A biography of a curious physician and the unusual patient who enabled him to carry out experiments concerning digestion.

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Describes the celebration of several Japanese festivals including Hi Matsuri, Girls' Day, The One Thousand Person Procession, the Okunchi Festival, and the Peace Festival.

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9780811649544 | Granite Impex Ltd, October 1, 1974, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: Describes the celebration of several Japanese festivals including Hi Matsuri, Girls' Day, The One Thousand Person Procession, the Okunchi Festival, and the Peace Festival.

The life of the British chemist who invented the electric generator and whose experiments in electricity opened a new scientific field.

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9780811645119 | Arcade Bks, June 1, 1971, cover price $3.94 | About this edition: The life of the British chemist who invented the electric generator and whose experiments in electricity opened a new scientific field.

Deserts everywhere have only one thing in common--little water. An introduction to the world's deserts and how they differ

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9780394902210 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1964, cover price $5.39 | About this edition: Deserts everywhere have only one thing in common--little water.

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