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Product Description: Upon returning to his native Venice from a nearly 25-year journey through Asia, Marco Polo fueled the Western imagination with his tales about the splendors of the East. This lively biography follows Marcos intrepid family as they navigate the spice stalls, caravansaries, and dangers that once populated the Silk Road and enter Kublai Khans Mongol court in China, where they served as advisors...read more

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9781508171522 | Rosen Young Adult, August 15, 2016, cover price $37.10 | About this edition: Upon returning to his native Venice from a nearly 25-year journey through Asia, Marco Polo fueled the Western imagination with his tales about the splendors of the East.

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Product Description: The Islamic empire arose spectacularly in the 7th century and exercised influence over a large geographic area until its fall to Mongol invaders in the 13th century. The rulers, called caliphs, ushered in a new Islamic civilization with customs and practices both distinct from and partially influenced by those of the areas it conquered...read more

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9781499463385 | Reprint edition (Rosen Young Adult, August 15, 2016), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The Islamic empire arose spectacularly in the 7th century and exercised influence over a large geographic area until its fall to Mongol invaders in the 13th century.

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9781499463408 | Rosen Young Adult, August 15, 2016, cover price $34.45 | About this edition: The Islamic empire arose spectacularly in the 7th century and exercised influence over a large geographic area until its fall to Mongol invaders in the 13th century.

Product Description: People use the World Wide Web for everything from paying bills and buying products and services to turning in work or school assignments and helping people stay in touch. This is the story of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, from his birth in London, England, to his physics studies at Queens College, Oxford, and his work as a software engineer at CERN in Geneva...read more

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9781499462906 | Rosen Young Adult, January 15, 2016, cover price $35.60 | About this edition: People use the World Wide Web for everything from paying bills and buying products and services to turning in work or school assignments and helping people stay in touch.

Product Description: Short of intergalactic travel or aliens landing on Earth, it may seem there is no way for us to learn about extraterrestrial life. However, as this captivating volume details, we may know more than we think. Science and sci-fi enthusiasts will be fascinated to discover that the conditions of various extreme environments on Earththe Arctic, deep underground, and deep sea, to name a feware analogous to those of various regions of space...read more

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9781499462975 | Rosen Young Adult, January 15, 2016, cover price $35.60 | About this edition: Short of intergalactic travel or aliens landing on Earth, it may seem there is no way for us to learn about extraterrestrial life.

Product Description: With computers, tablets, and smartphones offering us access to online information just about anywhere we have Wi-Fi or cell service, the next step is to make those searches as efficient as possible. Readers will get a step-by-step overview of how to make the most of their search activities so they can get the information they want and need with just a few keystrokes, swipes, or clicks...read more

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9781499437898 | Reprint edition (Rosen Central, January 15, 2016), cover price $11.75 | About this edition: With computers, tablets, and smartphones offering us access to online information just about anywhere we have Wi-Fi or cell service, the next step is to make those searches as efficient as possible.

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9781499437911 | Rosen Central, January 15, 2016, cover price $30.25 | About this edition: With computers, tablets, and smartphones offering us access to online information just about anywhere we have Wi-Fi or cell service, the next step is to make those searches as efficient as possible.

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Product Description: In this lively, accessible, and highly informative survey, readers come to understand the workings of American representative democracy. They learn about the Constitution, checks and balances, and how the executive branch of government is organized...read more

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9780521067812, titled "Cambridge Movement: The Ecclesiologists and the Gothic Revival" | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $47.50 | also contains Cambridge Movement: The Ecclesiologists and the Gothic Revival | About this edition: For over a hundred years, Anglican church buildings in every part of the world were dominated by a single idea of what churches should look like and how they should be arranged inside.

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9781622759279 | Britannica Educational Pub, August 1, 2015, cover price $12.90 | About this edition: In this lively, accessible, and highly informative survey, readers come to understand the workings of American representative democracy.

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9781622759224 | Britannica Educational Pub, August 1, 2015, cover price $23.45 | About this edition: In this lively, accessible, and highly informative survey, readers come to understand the workings of American representative democracy.

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Product Description: As teens contend with a host of emotional and physical changes, taking control of their own health becomes especially important. However, they are often unsure about their legal rights and how to address their medical concerns, especially in regards to the sensitive subjects of mental and sexual health...read more

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9780521239257, titled "Physiological Ecology of Lichens" | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1985, cover price $80.00 | also contains Physiological Ecology of Lichens | About this edition: This book was originally published in 1985.

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9781477786147 | Rosen Young Adult, August 1, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: As teens contend with a host of emotional and physical changes, taking control of their own health becomes especially important.

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9781477780527 | Rosen Young Adult, August 1, 2015, cover price $33.25 | About this edition: As teens contend with a host of emotional and physical changes, taking control of their own health becomes especially important.

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Product Description: Tattoo artists spend years learning their trade before taking on their first customer. They not only study art and techniques, but they also learn about disease prevention and maintaining sanitary and hygienic conditions. It is only after they pass certification tests and receive a state license that they can begin work...read more

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9781499461220 | Rosen Young Adult, August 1, 2015, cover price $34.25 | About this edition: Tattoo artists spend years learning their trade before taking on their first customer.

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Product Description: Since its release for Apple's iPhone in 2009, Angry Birds has been one of the most successful video games in history. Although Angry Birds seemed to be an overnight success, the game was actually the result of years of struggle by Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish company that created it...read more

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9781477779194 | Rosen Young Adult, January 1, 2015, cover price $35.60 | About this edition: Since its release for Apple's iPhone in 2009, Angry Birds has been one of the most successful video games in history.

Product Description: Cyberspace is not an imaginary world in which one's online actions occur in a vacuum, without "real world" consequences. When one is online, one is putting oneself out there. These six titles all reflect the thrilling possibilities--and occasional perils--of the real life impacts that online activity can create...read more

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9781477776636 | Rosen Young Adult, August 1, 2014, cover price $181.50 | About this edition: Cyberspace is not an imaginary world in which one's online actions occur in a vacuum, without "real world" consequences.

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Product Description: Millions of files containing songs, videos, software, documents, and other materials are exchanged online every day through file sharing. While some file sharing is legal, in other cases people copy and trade copyrighted products such as music and movies without paying for them...read more

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9781477776414 | Rosen Young Adult, August 1, 2014, cover price $11.75 | About this edition: Millions of files containing songs, videos, software, documents, and other materials are exchanged online every day through file sharing.

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9781477776391 | Rosen Young Adult, August 1, 2014, cover price $30.25 | About this edition: Millions of files containing songs, videos, software, documents, and other materials are exchanged online every day through file sharing.

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Product Description: Having disassociated themselves from an oppressive government with a strong central religion, the Founding Fathers of the United States acknowledged the freedom to practice one's religion when writing the nation's constitution. Subsequent constitutional amendments further drew a line between the eccumenical and the secular...read more

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9781477775080 | Rosen Young Adult, August 1, 2014, cover price $35.60 | About this edition: Having disassociated themselves from an oppressive government with a strong central religion, the Founding Fathers of the United States acknowledged the freedom to practice one's religion when writing the nation's constitution.

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Product Description: Work as an undercover gang investigator is not for everyone. This career guide is for those young people who feel they have the physical and mental toughness and resourcefulness to work in this most difficult of fields. In addition to explaining exactly what personality type is needed and what sorts of physical, emotional, and psychological skills are required, this guide also discusses the most effective pathways to a career in undercover law enforcement, the necessary coursework, two- and four-year degree programs, training, police work, and the networking necessary to break into the undercover ranks at the local, state, or federal level...read more

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9781477717127 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2014, cover price $35.60 | About this edition: Work as an undercover gang investigator is not for everyone.

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Product Description: Young adults discover the differences between being stressed and anxious in this informative narrative. They learn about possible triggers of stress and depression--specifically for teens--and how to respond to them. Physical, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive responses to anxiety are outlined as well as the types of mental health problems that emerge during adolescence...read more

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9781477717516 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2014, cover price $30.25 | About this edition: Young adults discover the differences between being stressed and anxious in this informative narrative.

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Product Description: Explores the specialized careers in law enforcement, including working undercover investigating drugs and gangs, crisis management and hostage negotiation, and homicide.

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9781477717202 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2014, cover price $213.60 | About this edition: Explores the specialized careers in law enforcement, including working undercover investigating drugs and gangs, crisis management and hostage negotiation, and homicide.

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Product Description: Along with ice fishing, bowfishing is one of the most unique, unfamiliar, intriguing, and poorly understood forms of angling. Dispensing with rod, reel, and bait altogether, this sport connects its practitioners to the most ancient and primal roots of humanity, when food was earned through the skillful use of bow and arrow...read more

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9781448895007 | Rosen Pub Group, July 15, 2013, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Along with ice fishing, bowfishing is one of the most unique, unfamiliar, intriguing, and poorly understood forms of angling.

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9781448894895 | Rosen Pub Group, July 15, 2013, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Along with ice fishing, bowfishing is one of the most unique, unfamiliar, intriguing, and poorly understood forms of angling.

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Product Description: In 2003, Swedish businessman Niklas Zennstr m sent out an email message to his friends, asking them to take a look at a new Web site called Skype.com. With that message, he launched one of the most popular Internet services of the early twenty-first century...read more

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9781448895274 | Rosen Pub Group, July 15, 2013, cover price $35.60 | About this edition: In 2003, Swedish businessman Niklas Zennstr m sent out an email message to his friends, asking them to take a look at a new Web site called Skype.

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Product Description: When the economy slows, a vicious cycle begins. People cut back on spending, so companies sell less and see their profits shrink. Workers are laid off, leading to even less consumer spending. With lower incomes, people pay less in taxes, and the government can't fund its programs and services, reducing the quality of life for its citizens, who grow ever more fearful and less likely to spend money...read more

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9781448883455 | 1 edition (Rosen Pub Group, December 15, 2012), cover price $34.25 | About this edition: When the economy slows, a vicious cycle begins.

Product Description: Many people don't know how economic fundamentals such as inflation, interest rates, or budgeting work. Through solid text, readers not only get an explanation of how economics work on the individual level, but also on the governmental one...read more

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9781448883479 | Rosen Pub Group, December 15, 2012, cover price $205.50 | About this edition: Many people don't know how economic fundamentals such as inflation, interest rates, or budgeting work.

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Product Description: Digital communicationparticularly via social networking siteshas quickly become a dominant form of interaction in our society and worldwide. The instantaneous convenience of conversation and dialog with friends down the street or strangers halfway across the globe is a wondrous technological development and one with enormous potential for relationship-strengthening, idea-sharing, and community-building...read more

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9781448883707, titled "Freedom of Speech or Defamation?: Expressing Yourself on the Web" | Rosen Central, December 15, 2012, cover price $11.75 | About this edition: Digital communicationparticularly via social networking siteshas quickly become a dominant form of interaction in our society and worldwide.

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9781448883561, titled "Freedom of Speech or Defamation?: Expressing Yourself on the Web" | 1 edition (Rosen Central, December 15, 2012), cover price $30.25 | About this edition: Digital communicationparticularly via social networking siteshas quickly become a dominant form of interaction in our society and worldwide.

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Product Description: Social alienation is a form of indirect bullying. In this penetrating narrative, teens learn about the effects of bullying, not only to the victim but also to the bully. They will learn how a sense of loneliness and frustration leave a victim vulnerable...read more

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9781448868216 | Rosen Central, July 15, 2012, cover price $11.75 | About this edition: Social alienation is a form of indirect bullying.

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9781448868124 | Rosen Central, August 10, 2012, cover price $30.25 | About this edition: Social alienation is a form of indirect bullying.

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