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Which tunes could save a life, and which should come with a health warning? How do talking drums tell the history of Africa? What happens in your brain when you listen to music? Find the answers to these questions and more in 100 Things to Know ab...

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How could plastic-eating bacteria help reduce waste? Can a river be given human rights? Could we generate all the power we need from the sun and the wind? How do woolly sweaters help penguins in peril? Would building a giant sunshade in space stop...

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Do fish wear pajamas? What's the sound of an iceberg melting? How many sheep did it take to launch a Viking longship? Which is faster - a tsunami or a bullet train? Find the answers to these and many more questions in a book that explores the hist...

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What is dark matter? How fast could a T. rex run? How did Mary Queen of Scots keep her dying wishes secret from her enemies? Scientists and historians have discovered a lot about our past, our future and how the world works, but SO MUCH remains un...

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Do fish wear pyjamas? What's the sound of an iceberg melting? How many sheep did it take to launch a Viking longship? Which is faster - a tsunami or a bullet train? Find the answers to these and many more questions in a book that explores the...

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For early American households, the herb garden was an all-purpose medicine chest. Herbs were used to treat apoplexy (lily of the valley), asthma (burdock, horehound), boils (onion), tuberculosis (chickweed, coltsfoot), palpitations (saffron, valer...

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Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children lays out an evidence-based model for working with and assessing children with disorganized attachment and their adult carers: families whose extreme, erratic and disturbing behaviour can make...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

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This volume recounts Alice Cook's endeavours to benefit the lives of working people, especially working women, on four continents. Her pioneering work in union organizing, worker education and equal rights for working women travels across bounderi...

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The work of the indefatigable Alice Hanson Cook has benefitted the lives of working people -- and especially working women -- on four continents. Her pioneering work in union organising, worker education, and equal rights for working women took he...

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Manage your team successfully so you can all reap the rewards of remote workingThe rise of remote workingThe world of work is changing. Many employees no longer hold the traditional nine-to-five job. Instead, working time is increasingly flexible....

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Manage your team successfully so you can all reap the rewards of remote workingThe rise of remote workingThe world of work is changing. Many employees no longer hold the traditional nine-to-five job. Instead, working time is increasingly flexible....

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Wie klingt es, wenn ein Eisberg schmilzt? Was ist schneller, ein Tsunami oder ein Hochgeschwindigkeitszug? Und ist das rote Meer wirklich rot? Erfahre 100 wissenswerte, spannende und kuriose Fakten rund um unsere Weltmeere. Auf jeder Seite wird ei...

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Dieses Buch versammelt 100 faszinierende, spannende und kuriose Fakten rund um das Thema Musik - altersgerecht erklärt und anschaulich illustriert. Auf welchem Instrument spielten Menschen in der Steinzeit? Kann ein Schwarzes Loch singen? Und hilf...

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Scientists and historians have discovered a lot about our past, our future and how the world works, but SO MUCH remains unknown. What is dark matter? How fast could a T. rex run? How did Mary Queen of Scots keep her dying wishes secret from her en...

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