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"This is a beautiful book, replete with illustrations, photos, diagrams, and maps. The text balances technicality with storytelling, scholarly analysis with entertainment. It's a sweeping, fascinating look at barges, battleships, caravels, dhows, submarines, and more, placing them all in context wit... Read More about Fifty Ships That Changed the Course of History: A Nautical History of the World (Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History)

Discover the inner workings of eight of the most incredible flying machines of all time in this lift-the-flap book by the best-selling, award-winning illustrator Stephen Biesty. With amazingly detailed drawings and more than forty flaps, young readers can meet some of the early aviators and their pi... Read More about Flying Machines (Inside Vehicles)

This series takes readers (Ages 8-12) on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the... Read More about You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Plastic! (You Wouldn't Want to Live Without…) (You Wouldn't Want to Live Without...)

In 1962, 30 years after the discovery by du Vigneaud have pathologic consequences. One potentially sig of a new sulfur amino acid, homocysteine; Carson and nificant health outcome of such mild to moderate Neil reported two siblings with mental retardation in hyperhomocysteinemia is an increased risk... Read More about Homocysteine Metabolism: From Basic Science to Clinical Medicine (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine #196)

In this fascinating biography, the first ever published about Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya ruins. Maudslay, the grandson of a famous English inventor and engineer, spent his formative adult years... Read More about Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography