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A dethroned king, a flamboyant queen, the storming of a fortress prison, and an infamous bloodbath known as the Reign of Terror. The story of the French Revolution is an epic tale of political rebellion and economic upheaval. Delves into the dark undercurrent of instability ushered in by the revolution and some of its most influential figures, including Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat, Georges Danton, and Charlotte...
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Myths are often the first stories we learn as children, iconic tales where good and evil clash and humanity and fantasy collide. Thousands of years ago, myths were created to help frame the world of the ancients and dictate the guidelines of their societies. But could these mythological warriors, and the tales they inspired, have been real? The legend of Beowulf, the Viking world s most famous warrior, is the ultimate tale of courage.
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Long before the Romans built their first mud huts, ancient Egypt's mighty pharaohs began commissioning and building monumental masterpieces whose scale, beauty, and sophistication still boggle the mind. Through cutting-edge digital graphics and interviews with noted Egyptologists, Egypt explores the civilization's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments, chronicling the pharaohs and feats that helped build the world's first superpower.
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From wildcatters to visionaries, geopoliticians to geologists and capitalists to union organizers, few real-life dramas feature such colorful characters, fluctuating fortunes, and worldwide high stakes as the story of oil. Petroleum was used by the ancients to waterproof Noah's Ark and fuel the lamps of the Temple of Jupiter. But it was in Pennsylvania in 1853 that the first oil well was dug, and an industry born. With the mass production of the car...
10) Bike mechanic
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Learn about the various parts that make a bicycle, how to change them, and how to fix them.
12) Skateboarding
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"Explains the basics of skateboarding, including the various styles of skateboarding, the different tricks that can be performed, and the equipment needed. Also includes biographies of famous skateboarders"--Provided by publisher.
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Could the strange actually be true? Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown takes readers on a tour of the eerie and unexplained - from the search for vanished civilizations to the science of real-life zombies, from famous UFO sightings to encounters with ghosts and otherworldly creatures, and much more. This rich full-colour guide offers scores of photographs and documents that shed new light on the world's most puzzling supernatural events and paranormal...
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"Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering. Market manipulation. Governments overthrown. These might sound like plot lines of a conspiracy thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies. Originally conceived by computer hackers and cryptographers, these digital currencies, represent a completely new sort of financial transaction - one that doesn't need banks. Yet it's the technology that underpins...
20) How evolution explains everything about life: from Darwin's brilliant idea to today's epic theory
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"How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants. We now know that it has taken 3.8 billions of years of work by the forces of evolution to turn what was once a lump of barren rock into the rich diversity of into plants, animals and microbes...
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