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  Mother West Wind "How" Stories

  Thornton W. Burgess

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  Peter Rabbit has many questions. How did Howler the Wolf get his name? How did Lightfoot the Deer learn to jump? How did Drummer the Woodpecker come by his red cap? When Peter asks Grandfather Frog, Grandfather Frog tells him a story of long ago. This book is a collection of those stories told by Grandfather Frog and many others. - Summary by EstherbenSimonides

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  The Case for Mars - The Plan to...

  Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner

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  Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream—the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit. 
  Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. Leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin has crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct, presented here with engaging anecdotes. 
  The Case for Mars is not a vision for the far future or one that will cost us impossible billions. It explains step-by-step how we can use present-day technology to send humans to Mars within ten years; actually produce fuel and oxygen on the planet's surface with Martian natural resources; how we can build bases and settlements; and how we can one day "terraform" Mars—a process that can alter the atmosphere of planets and pave the way for sustainable life.

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  Raising Chickens - A...

  Jason Howard

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  Uncover the best homesteading methods to help you raise healthy chickens and enjoy fresh eggs with this practical guide to modern chicken-rearing methods 
  Do you want to get started in raising your chickens naturally and providing fresh, organic poultry products for yourself and your family, but don't know where to begin? If yes, then this guide might just be what you need. 
  Raising chickens can be difficult, especially if you've never had experience doing it before. In this guide, Jason Howard hands you the blueprint you will need to raise healthy chickens with tips ranging from coop-building and selecting the best chicken breed to making your own custom chicken feed. 
  Here's a preview of what you're going to learn in Raising Chickens:3 essential steps you must take before you begin raising chickens7 surefire tips to help you protect your chickens from predators6 important questions to ask yourself before choosing to buy a coop or build one yourself20 critical features your chicken coop must have if you want to raise healthy, robust chickensThe 5-step technique to help you choose the best chicken breed for your budget and needs9 easy and effective ways to check the health of the chicken before purchasing it15 necessary tools you need to help you take care of your chickensAll the tasks you need to carry out to keep your chicken healthy and in top shape including daily, weekly, monthly and semi-yearly tasks3 things you can add to a chicken's diet to help you get that bright orange yolk in your eggsHow to make your own chicken feed without breaking a sweat...and tons more! 
  Filled with deep insights into this wildly popular and commercially useful avian species, this guide will show you everything you need to know to raise healthy chickens from the comfort of your own backyard!

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  Diary of a Nursing Sister on the...

  Anonymous Anonymous

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  The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1915 after the second battle of Ypres when she went back to a Base Hospital and the diary ceases. Although written in diary form, it is clearly taken from letters home and gives a vivid if sometimes distressing picture of the state of the casualties suffered during that period. After a time at the General Hospital in Le Havre she became one of the three or four sisters working on the ambulance trains which fetched the wounded from the Clearing Hospitals close to the front line and took them back to the General Hospitals in Boulogne and Le Havre. Towards the end of the account she was posted to a Field Ambulance (station) close to Ypres. (Summary by Andy Minter)

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  The Modern Mind - An...

  Peter Watson

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  “Splendidly readable and hugely informative. . . . Episode after episode from the cultural life of the twentieth century springs to vivid life.” —Boston Globe 
   
  From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it. 
   
  “Watson’s rich narrative covers every corner of intellectual life in the twentieth century.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “Packed with a multitude of events, ideas, and influential people, Watson’s infectious writing carries the reader swiftly along. . . . This book will be read and consulted for many years.” —Library Journal 
   
   “Enthralling, illuminating, and intellectually titillating.” —Booklist

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  Dark Matter & Dark Energy - The...

  Brian Clegg

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  All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced. Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart, but something concealed holds them together. That 'something' is dark matter – invisible material in five times the quantity of the familiar stuff of stars and planets. By the 1990s we also knew that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. Something, named dark energy, is pushing it to expand faster and faster. Across the universe, this requires enough energy that the equivalent mass would be nearly fourteen times greater than all the visible material in existence. Brian Clegg explains this major conundrum in modern science and looks at how scientists are beginning to find solutions to it.“'Clear and compact ... It's hard to fault as a brief, easily digestible introduction to some of the biggest questions in the Universe” - GILES SPARROW

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