Older Than Dirt

Author : Don Brown,Mike Perfit
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781328468277

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Older Than Dirt by Don Brown,Mike Perfit Pdf

The award-winning cartoonist offers “a witty history of the planet” for young readers—covering everything from the Big Bang to climate change (Publishers Weekly). Almost 14.5 billion years ago, it all started with a Big Bang. What began as a cloud of gas, dust, and rock eventually took shape and bloomed into a molten sphere. Battered by asteroid collisions, ice ages, and shifting tectonic plates, our fledgling planet finally pushed forth continents. But if you think the earth has calmed down since then—think again! In this illustrated history of earth, the Sibert Honor medalist Don Brown teams up with geologist Michael Perfit to tell the strange-but-true saga of our planetary home. A knowlegeable groundhog and his earthworm sidekick take young readers through a wide range of topics—from solar energy and liquid magma to the ozone layer and the formation of mountains. Plus mini-biographies of scientists are included throughout. “A guaranteed hit with science lovers and a best bet for convincing skeptics that science is indeed a grand and exciting adventure.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Don Brown,Michael R. Perfit
Publisher : Clarion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544805038

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Older Than Dirt by Don Brown,Michael R. Perfit Pdf

Presented in graphic novel format, this book discusses historical geology, earth science, and the Earth's origins.

Author : Ben Goode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1885027117

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Some Things Are Worse Than Being Older Than Dirt by Ben Goode Pdf

Author : B. Brett Finlay,Marie-Claire Arrietta
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 999 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781771642552

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Let Them Eat Dirt by B. Brett Finlay,Marie-Claire Arrietta Pdf

Our over-sanitized world threatens children’s health, but parents can change their environment into one where they’ll thrive. Babies and young kids are being raised in surroundings that are increasingly cleaner, more hyper hygienic, and more disinfected than ever before. As a result, the beneficial bacteria in their bodies is being altered, promoting conditions and diseases such as obesity, diabetes, asthma, allergies, and autism. As Let Them Eat Dirt shows, there is much that parents can do about this, including breastfeeding if possible, getting a dog, and avoiding antibiotics unless necessary—and yes, it is OK to let kids get a bit dirty.

Author : Justine Larbalestier,Sarah Rees Brennan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062089663

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Team Human by Justine Larbalestier,Sarah Rees Brennan Pdf

Readers who love vampire romances will be thrilled to devour Team Human by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan. Team Human celebrates and parodies the Twilight books, as well as other classics in the paranormal romance genre. Mel is horrified when Francis Duvarney, arrogant, gorgeous, and undead, starts at her high school. Mel’s best friend, Cathy, immediately falls for the vampire. Cathy is determined to be with him forever, even if having him turn her could inadvertently make her a zombie. And Mel is equally determined to prove to her BFF that Francis is no good, braving the city’s vampire district and kissing a cute boy raised by vampires as she searches evidence in this touching and comic novel.

Author : Charlotte Gill
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781553657927

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Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill Pdf

Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.

Author : Stephen W. Sears
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547526638

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Landscape Turned Red by Stephen W. Sears Pdf

“The best account of the Battle of Antietam” from the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville (The New York Times Book Review). The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation’s history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Combining brilliant military analysis with narrative history of enormous power, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on this climactic and bitter struggle. “A modern classic.”—The Chicago Tribune “No other book so vividly depicts that battle, the campaign that preceded it, and the dramatic political events that followed.”—The Washington Post Book World “Authoritative and graceful . . . a first-rate work of history.”—Newsweek

Author : Denise Gosliner Orenstein
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545925877

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Dirt by Denise Gosliner Orenstein Pdf

A Horse in the House? Things are hard for eleven-year-old Yonder. Her mother died and her father has sunk into sadness. She doesn't have a friend to her name . . . except for Dirt, the Shetland pony next door.Dirt has problems of his own. He's overweight, he's always in trouble, and his owner is the mean Miss Enid, who doesn't have the patience for a pony's natural curiosity. His only friend is Yonder, the scrawny girl next door.So when Miss Enid decides to sell Dirt for horsemeat, Yonder knows she has to find a way to rescue him. Even if that means stealing Dirt away and sneaking him into her own house. What follows will make you worry, will make you cry, and will ultimately fill you with hope, love, and an unshakable belief in the power of friendship. Especially the four-legged kind.

Author : Paul Yeager
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0399534237

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Literally, the Best Language Book Ever by Paul Yeager Pdf

By turns gleefully precise and happily contrarian, this is a highly opinionated guide to better communication. In Literally, the Best Language Book Ever, author Paul Yeager attacks with a linguistic scalpel the illogical expressions and misappropriated meanings that are so commonplace and annoying. Identifying hundreds of common language miscues, Yeager provides an astute look at the world of words and how we abuse them every day. For the grammar snobs looking for any port in a storm of subpar syntax, or the self-confessed rubes seeking a helping hand, this witty guide can transform even the least literate into the epitome of eloquence.

Author : Thea Harrison
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698156647

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Midnight's Kiss by Thea Harrison Pdf

In the latest Novel of the Elder Races, two souls who have long buried their passions are about to be consumed… Ever since their scorching affair ended years ago, Julian, the Nightkind King, and Melisande, daughter of the Light Fae Queen, have tried to put the past behind them—and distance between them. But when a war breaks out between Julian and Justine, a powerful Vampyre of the Nightkind council, they find themselves thrown together under treacherous circumstances… Kidnapped as leverage against Julian, Melly is convinced that her former lover won’t be rushing to her rescue. But when Julian gives himself up to save her, they both end up Justine’s captives. Armed only with their wits and their anger, Melly and Julian must work together to escape. But will they be able to ignore their complicated history, or will the fiery passion that once burned them blaze again?

Author : William Bryant Logan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393351606

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Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan Pdf

"A gleeful, poetic book…Like the best natural histories, Dirt is a kind of prayer." —Los Angeles Times Book Review "You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about." So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and magic to "that stuff that won't come off your collar." John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Saint Phocas, Darwin, and Virgil parade through this thought-provoking work, taking their place next to the dung beetle, the compost heap, dowsing, historical farming, and the microscopic biota that till the soil. Whether William Bryant Logan is traversing the far reaches of the cosmos or plowing through our planet’s crust, his delightful, elegant, and surprisingly soulful meditations greatly enrich our concept of "dirt," that substance from which we all arise and to which we all must return.

Author : Andrea Bemis
Publisher : Harper Wave
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Cookbooks
ISBN : 0062970275

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Local Dirt by Andrea Bemis Pdf

"From Andrea Bemis, author of the farm-to-table cookbook Dishing Up the Dirt, comes a new collection of recipes using farm-fresh ingredients, inspired by Andrea's commitment to supporting the local food movement"--

Author : Bruce Lansky
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 1243 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780306922985

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100,000+ Baby Names by Bruce Lansky Pdf

The most helpful, complete, and yearly up-to-date name book What's new about names? The new edition of 100,000+ Baby Names by Bruce Lansky features the most up-to-date lists of names, trends, advice, and fascinating facts about names, including: Hundreds of newly popular names and variations The latest list of top 100 names for boys and girls The latest naming trends: what's hot and what's not The most rapidly rising and falling top 1,000 names Updated lists of names to consider, including names of newly famous people and fictional characters The most popular gender-neutral names and their rates of use (more for boys, more for girls, or 50/50) New (and classic) celebrity baby names And our list of names from around the world keeps growing! Here you'll find more than 100,000 names--complete with origins, meanings, variations, and famous namesakes. You'll find names from major linguistic and ethnic groups of origin, including English (19,000 names), Latin (11,000 names), Greek (11,000 names), American (11,000 names), Hebrew (9,000 names), Hispanic (9,000 names), French (8,000 names), Irish (7,000 names), and German (6,000 names)--plus thousands of Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Scandinavian, Polish, Native American, Hawaiian, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Australian/Aboriginal, African, and Hindi names. The list features unique spellings of popular names that are catching on, plus newly popular names and variations not listed in other books and websites.

Author : Bill Buford
Publisher : Appetite by Random House
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780147530714

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Dirt by Bill Buford Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A MACLEAN'S SUMMER READ The hugely anticipated follow up to Heat--Bill Buford's hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive adventures in the world of French haute cuisine. In Dirt, Bill Buford--author of the best-selling, now-classic, Heat--moves his attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. Baffled by the language, determined that he can master the art of French cooking--or at least get to the bottom of why it is so revered--Buford begins what will become a five-year odyssey by shadowing the revered French chef Michel Richard in Washington, D.C. He soon realizes, however, that a stage in France is necessary, and so he goes--this time with his wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow--to Lyon, the gastronomic capital of France. Studying at l'Institut Bocuse, cooking at the storied, Michelin-starred Mère Brazier, Buford becomes a man obsessed--to prove that French cooking actually derives from the Italian, to prove himself on the line, to prove that he is worthy of these gastronomic secrets. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to immerse himself in his surroundings, Bill Buford has written what is sure to be the food-lover's book of the year.

Author : Rick Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0522879829

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One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton Pdf