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"For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift a society up, you need to stop keeping women down. In this moving and compelling book, Melinda shares lessons she's learned from the inspiring people she's met during her work and travels around the world. As she writes...
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"From the creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world"--
It's not always easy to determine what's "good" or "bad"-- especially in a world filled with complicated choices and bad advice. Schur starts off with easy ethical questions and works his way up to the most complex moral issues we all face--...
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"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here...
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Son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all the Tudors. Always close to the English throne, John of Gaunt left a complex legacy. Too rich, too powerful, too haughty - did he have his eye on his nephew's throne? Why was he such a focus of hate in the Peasants' Revolt? In examining the life of a pivotal medieval figure, Helen Carr paints a revealing portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English...
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This collection of essays by scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black history, racism, and the struggles of black Americans following emancipation. In his groundbreaking work, the author presciently writes that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,"...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over delivers a no-holds-barred, House of Cards-style expose of who really wields power in Washington. Mike Lofgren is back with a book perfectly pitched for the frenzied circus of the primaries. His argument this time is that for all of the backstabbing and money grubbing of the campaign season, the politicians we elect have as little ability to shift policy as Communist party apparatchiks. Welcome...
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For the first time in seven decades, there is no single power or alliance of powers ready to take on the challenges of global leadership. A generation ago, the United States, Europe, and Japan were the world's powerhouses, the free-market democracies that propelled the global economy forward. Today, they struggle just to find their footing. Acclaimed geopolitical analyst Ian Bremmer argues that the world is facing a leadership vacuum. The diverse...
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"David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's cultures lead to - or retard - economic and military success and material achievement." "Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early through the interplay of a vital, open society focused...
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Sloth and Sengi are friends. they have grown up together in the zoo, and know every bit of their enclosure. And, frankly, they are a little bored with it. So they begin to plan an escape, with the help of some simple machines ... This book introduces such simple machines as levers, gears, planes, and pulleys.
12) Machines
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Being an engineer -- Levers -- Catapults -- Linking levers -- Pulleys -- Running smoothly -- Belt drive -- Gears -- Gear drawing -- Cams -- Gravity screw -- Archimedes' screw -- Balance -- Pneumatics -- Rocket power -- Wind and water -- Rubber band power -- Moving through air -- Steam engines -- Marble clock -- All kinds of clocks -- Glossary -- Index.
Introduces basic facts about the construction and function of simple machines with instructions...
13) Be a scientist!
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Thinking like a scientist: the scientific method: Teach students to think like scientists with this colorful, kid-friendly introduction to the scientific method.
Science tools for lab and life! #1: Learn how the same lab tools students use in class are used in a variety of careers from construction to chef to doctor.
Properties of matter, part 1: Come join us in the "matter kitchen" as we learn that our entire world is made of matter, including...
14) Indian Babu
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Dil is being forced into an arranged marriage to a man from a powerful and dangerous family of India. While on vacation before the wedding, she falls for a singer. When she returns for the wedding, her lovestruck new boyfriend follows.
16) Machines: gears, levers, pulleys, engines : with 20 easy-to-do experiments and 300 exciting pictures
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18) Make pack
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"The goal of the Engineering & Design Module is to teach kids to recognize challenges, turn them into opportunities, and identify scalable solutions to solve them. Topics in this module include puzzles, invention, construction, machines, architecture, curiosity. STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to things kids...
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Terrific Scientific simple machines: Terrific Scientific is a series of short programs specifically targeted to teach grade school children about the basics of science. This segment covers what's known as The Six Simple Machines and how they work - The Lever; Wedge; Screw; Pulley; Wheel & Axel; Inclinded Plane.
The magic of magnetism: Students discover what a magnet is, the properties of magnets, magnetic fields, and the types of objects that are...
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Thinking like a scientist: the scientific method: Teach students to think like scientists with this colorful, kid-friendly introduction to the scientific method.
Science tools for lab and life! #1: Learn how the same lab tools students use in class are used in a variety of careers from construction to chef to doctor.
Simple machines: Students learn to identify real-world examples of simple machines including the lever, pulley, wedge, wheel and axle,...
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