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This encyclopedia highlights more than 40 Olympic sports. Alongside both historic and recent photographs, readers will learn about the basics of each competition, its origin, how it has changed throughout the years, and the icons in each sport. In addition, this book provides information about the Paralympics. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Les défis posés par les maladies rares agitent de plus en plus les mondes politiques, médical et scientifique.
Ces 30 dernières années, il est de plus en plus question de maladies rares, souvent assimilées aux maladies dites « orphelines ». Outre que leur nombre a explosé, ces maladies se sont aussi imposées au point de devenir un véritable problème de santé publique.
Quelles sont donc les raisons de l'engouement presque planétaire...
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Abschied im Purple Rain
Am 21. April 2016 wurde Prince leblos in seinem Haus in Minnesota gefunden - er wurde 57 Jahre alt. Die Zahl der Nachrufe und trauernden Statusmeldungen in den sozialen Netzwerken zeigte: Prince Rogers Nelson hat mit seinen Songs, seiner Attitüde, seiner sexuell aufgeladenen Bühnenshow und seinem genialen Spiel mit den verschiedensten Musikrichtungen ein Gesamtwerk geschaffen, das für viele Musikfans zum Soundtrack ihres...
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Tobacco has been one of the most important gifts from the New World to the Old. In spite of the attempts of various authors to prove its Old World origin there can be no doubt that it was introduced into both Europe and Africa from America. Most species of Nicotiana are native to the New World, and there are only a few species which are undoubtedly extra-American. The custom of smoking is also characteristic of America. It was thoroughly established...
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Regresa en el tiempo hasta finales del siglo XIX mientras la poderosa United Fruit Company toma el protagonismo en la bulliciosa ciudad de Bocas del Toro. Sea testigo de su ascenso al dominio y del establecimiento de Punta Hospital, un centro médico vital que garantiza el bienestar de la mano de obra. Este cautivador relato se adentra en la historia entrelazada del comercio y la sanidad en una época pasada. Clyde S. Stephens, estadounidense de Florida,...
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Patients legally own their medical records that are stored either manually or on an assortment of computers, software, and operating systems in a variety of disorganized healthcare facilities, which are spiraling healthcare costs out of control. In 1910, the Flexner Report by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, established medical education standards and licensing of qualified physicians who took the moral and ethical Hippocratic Oath to Do...
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What do you collect?
What is hanging around the house with you like an old friend?
This is a book about all the things in our lives that we keep even though we know better. What are the things we should throw away, but we hold on to? Can we see the collection of playbills from local community theater productions art? If it isn't art, what is it?
In this book, there are chapters that look at coloring books, t-shirts, collectible Star Wars glasses,...
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Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the royal medical elite, who endorsed ludicrous medical theories based on speculative research while ignoring the life-saving properties of citrus fruit, cost tens of thousands of lives and altered the course...
89) Record breakers!
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DK Publishing
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2018.
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Record Breakers brings you the first, fastest, longest, largest, biggest, and best records in the world. Track the longest shark migration (20,000 km/12,400 miles); visit the coolest place on the planet (Vostok Station, Antarctica: a chilling -89.2°C/-128.6°F); see how plane pioneer Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier, and much more. The greatest human achievements are showcased, from pioneering inventors to modern feats of engineering, technology,...
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Alongside both historic and recent photographs, readers will learn about each NBA team's history, greatest seasons, greatest players, and team records. In addition, the book offers an in-depth introduction about the sport's history, a section on star players, and information on the statistical leaders in various categories. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....
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Alongside both historic and recent photographs, readers will learn about each NFL team's history, greatest seasons, greatest players, and team records. In addition, the book offers an in-depth introduction about the sport's history, a section on star players, and information on the statistical leaders in various categories. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....
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FilmRise
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[2015]
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Chronicles the rise and fall of Tower Records, from the opening of its flagship store in Sacramento, California in 1960, to its evolution into an international retail chain and bankruptsy in 2006. Owner Russ Solomon and various store employees discuss Tower's unique approach to selling recorded music.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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What makes a baseball player one of the greatest of all time? Some say a player should be a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Others think it has something to do with home runs or strikeouts. Nearly 20,000 people have played Major League Baseball since the first official game in 1871. In this fan-pleasing volume, readers discover amazing facts about great hitters like Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. Was old-timer Horus Wagner or recently retired Derek...
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Zara's rules volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Ten-year-old (nearly eleven) Zara's nickname is "Queen of the Neighborhood" because she organizes the other children (even the older ones), sets the rules, and generally makes sure everyone has fun; but now another ten-year-old, Naomi, has moved in across the street and she has her own ideas about fun games, and suddenly the other kids (even Zara's younger brother Zayd) are listening to Naomi--if she is going to retain her influence Zara needs to...
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After the start of the National Health Service, ambitious dental surgeons expanded their role from dental extractions, minor mouth surgery and the treatment of jaw fractures with wires and dental appliances to comprehensive surgery of the mouth, face and jaws often in the face of sustained opposition from the established surgical specialties.
The result was the specialty of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, which was recognised by the wider surgical...
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Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 2
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2013.
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Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.
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Concord Music Group
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c2007
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With rare performances, previously unreleased home movies and new recordings, filmmakers Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville present the first comprehensive look at Stax Records, the greatest soul label of all time. Provides first-hand accounts of what really happened on the streets and behind studio doors from celebrated musicians such as Isaac Hayes, Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper and Mavis Staples, as well as label president Al Bell, Rev. Jesse Jackson...
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Des chamanes aux médecins scientifiques de nos jours en passant par les prêtres-médecins, parcourez l'histoire surprenante des pratiques médicales!
Recours des malades victimes des maléfices de sorciers hostiles, le chamane des origines fit place au prêtre. Dans l'Ancien Empire égyptien, les sciences sont en la possession de Thot, le dieu à tête d'ibis, qui connaît tout et est chargé de diffuser la connaissance. Thot donne l'habileté...
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