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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy: Adventures in Human Anatomy
The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available--sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we're attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet?In Replaceable You, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body's failings. When and how does a person decide they'd be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Can a donated heart be made to beat forever? Can an intestine provide a workable substitute for a vagina?Roach dives in with her characteristic verve and infectious wit. Her travels take her to the OR at a legendary burn unit in Boston, a "superclean" xeno-pigsty in China, and a stem cell "hair nursery" in the San Diego tech hub. She talks with researchers and surgeons, amputees and ostomates, printers of kidneys and designers of wearable organs. She spends time in a working iron lung from the 1950s, stays up all night with recovery techs as they disassemble and reassemble a tissue donor, and travels across Mongolia with the cataract surgeons of Orbis International.Irrepressible and accessible, Replaceable You immerses readers in the wondrous, improbable, and surreal quest to build a new you.
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And Then There Were None
"If you're one of the few who haven't experienced the genius of Agatha Christie, this novel is a stellar starting point." -- DAVID BALDACCI, #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorAn exclusive authorized edition of the most famous and beloved stories from the Queen of Mystery.Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to an isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die...Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?"Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction both for readers and for writers. . . . Just one book is never enough." -- VAL MCDERMID, Internationally Bestselling Author
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Wonder
🌟 Wonder by R.J. Palacio – A Life-Changing Story About Kindness, Courage, and Acceptance Wonder by R.J. Palacio is a #1 bestselling and critically acclaimed children’s novel that has touched millions of readers worldwide. This heartfelt story follows August “Auggie” Pullman, a boy born with a facial difference, as he enters mainstream school for the first time. Praised for its powerful message of empathy and kindness, Wonder is more than just a book—it’s a movement. It encourages readers of all ages to choose kindness, celebrate differences, and embrace compassion in everyday life. 💡 Why Readers Love Wonder ✅ Inspirational Storytelling: A moving narrative about resilience, acceptance, and inner strength. ✅ Multiple Perspectives: Told from different characters’ viewpoints, offering deeper emotional insight. ✅ Perfect for Classrooms & Book Clubs: Frequently used in schools to foster discussions about bullying and empathy. ✅ Award-Winning Bestseller: A global sensation with millions of copies sold. ✅ Adapted into a Major Motion Picture: Bringing Auggie’s story to life on the big screen. 🧠 Educational Value Wonder is widely recommended by educators and parents for its ability to: Teach empathy and emotional intelligence Promote anti-bullying awareness Encourage inclusive thinking and kindness 📚 Product Features Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Language: English Pages: 320 Dimensions: Lightweight and portable for easy reading ISBN: 9780375869020 Author: R.J. Palacio Format: Hardcover Genre: Middle Grade Fiction / Realistic Fiction Recommended Age: 8–12 years 💬 Final Thoughts Whether you're buying for a young reader, building a classroom library, or simply looking for a meaningful story, Wonder is a must-have addition. Its unforgettable message—“Choose Kind”—will stay with readers long after the final page. 🛒 Order your copy today and discover why the world fell in love with Auggie Pullma
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El Bible Brain Builders, Volume 4
Increase your Scripture IQ with Bible Brain Builders. Word games, crossword puzzles, and mazes are an entertaining way to pass the time on trips and learn more about the stories, people, and places of the Bible. Turn off the television and turn yourself on to God's Word from Genesis to Revelation. Mazes illustrate symbols of Christian history. Collect all five books!Features include: Word games Crossword puzzles Mazes
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The Chaos Agent
Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real danger for the Gray Man in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston. Someone is killing the world's leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or is it something even more sinister? After all, artificial intelligence may be the deadliest battlefield gamechanger since the creation of gunpowder. The first nation to field weapons that can act at the speed of computer commands will rule the battlefield. It's an irresistible lure for most, but not for the Gray Man. His quest for a quiet life has led him to Central America where he and his lover, Zoya Zakharova, have assumed new identities. With a list of enemies that includes billionaires, terrorists, and governments, they need to keep a low profile, but the world's deadliest assassin can't expect to hide out forever. Eventually, they're tracked down and offered a job by an old acquaintance of Zoya's. He needs their help extracting a Russian scientist who is on the kill list. They reject the offer, but just being seen with him is enough to put assassins on their trail. Now, they're back on the run, but no matter which way they turn, it's clear that whoever's tracking them is always going to be one step ahead. Since flight's no longer possible, fight is the only option left, and no one fights dirtier than the Gray Man.
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The Deathbed Game
"I play this game with myself sometimes. When you are lying there contemplating your life, what are the things you will regret not having done?" Anna Wilson tries to live her life without regrets. But buying an apartment sight unseen in rural Italy might turn out to be the biggest regret of them all. The place reeks of sewage, and the previous tenants seem to have made off with the entire kitchen. Accompanied by her independent brother, Anna takes refuge at the Villa Urbino, where the food is almost as delicious as their handsome Italian host. Agostino welcomes them generously and even helps Anna deal with the disaster of her new home. But when she mentions the other reason for their trip-reconnecting with a long-lost uncle-a Pandora's box of animosities and secrets opens, threatening to ruin the life Anna's just begun to build. The story behind this feud will take them on a journey across the country in search of love and family-and the truth. Because no matter how hard the truth is to hear, when you're lying on your deathbed, you don't want to have any regrets.
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The Polar Express: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids
It has been forty years since The Polar Express made its first trip to the North Pole. Now readers can experience the classic holiday story with gorgeous new reproductions of Chris Van Allsburg's award-winning artwork.The enduring Christmas classic as it was always meant to be seen.For millions of readers around the world, the story of a boy's mysterious journey to the North Pole has become an enduring part of their Christmas traditions. This fortieth anniversary edition of The Polar Express reproduces the book's artwork more faithfully than ever before--a must-have for lifelong fans and the newest generation experiencing the story for the first time!
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Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the European Union and the European Economic Area 1993-1997
Cancer is the second-most common cause of death (after cardiovascular diseases) in the majority of European countries and cancer control is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. It is an international issue and, thankfully, cancer epidemiology is one of the most fruitful areas of international cooperation in cancer research. The development of several new areas of cancer control, and in particular in cancer epidemiology and prevention, in Europe during the last few decades is closely related to co-operation among institutions and scientists from many countries.This atlas is the result of the collaboration of a Scientific Committee and the National Vital Statistics Offices in each of the 28 countries covered. The five years covered by the atlas (1993-1997) provide mortality rates based on 5.5 million cancer deaths, representing the cancer experience in a population with 2.2 billion person-years of risk. The aim of this publication is not only to present cancer patterns in Europe but also to stimulate further studies on cancer epidemiology and generate hypotheses for analytical epidemiological studies.
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The World: A Family History of Humanity: A Family History of Humanity
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families - From the author of The Romanovs A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Smithsonian"Succession meets Game of Thrones." --The Spectator - "The author brings his cast of dynastic titans, rogues and psychopaths to life...An epic that both entertains and informs." --The Economist, Best Books of the Year Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, these poignant, familiar fossils serve as an inspiration for a new kind of world history, one that is genuinely global, spans all eras and all continents, and focuses on the family ties that connect every one of us. In this epic, ever-surprising book, Montefiore chronicles the world's great dynasties across human history through palace intrigues, love affairs, and family lives, linking grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion, and technology to the people at the heart of the human drama. It features a cast of extraordinary diversity: in addition to rulers and conquerors, there are priests, charlatans, artists, scientists, tycoons, gangsters, lovers, husbands, wives, and children. There is Hongwu, the beggar who founded the Ming dynasty; Ewuare, the Leopard-King of Benin; Henry Christophe, King of Haiti; Kamehameha, the conqueror of Hawaii; Zenobia, the Arab empress who defied Rome; Lady Murasaki, the first female novelist; Sayyida al-Hurra, the Moroccan pirate-queen. Here too are moderns such as Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Here are the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads. These powerful families represent the breadth of human endeavor, with bloody succession battles, treacherous conspiracies, and shocking megalomania alongside flourishing culture, moving romances, and enlightened benevolence. A dazzling achievement as spellbinding as fiction, The World captures the whole human story in a single, masterful narrative.
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The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids
Pierre Tallet's discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls--the world's oldest surviving written documents--in 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, and combined with Mark Lehner's research, changed what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.Here, for the first time, the world-renowned Egyptologists Tallet and Lehner give us the definitive account of this astounding discovery. The story begins with Tallet's hunt for hieroglyphic rock inscriptions in the Sinai Peninsula and leads up to the discovery of the papyri, the diary of Inspector Merer, who oversaw workers in the reign of Pharaoh Khufu in Wadi el-Jarf, the site of an ancient harbor on the Red Sea. The translation of the papyri reveals how the stones of the Great Pyramid ended up in Giza. Combined with Lehner's excavations of the harbor at the pyramid construction site the Red Sea Papyri have greatly advanced our understanding of how the ancient Egyptians were able to build monuments that survive to this day.Tallet and Lehner narrate this thrilling discovery and explore how the building of the pyramids helped create a unified state, propelling Egyptian civilization forward. This lavishly illustrated book captures the excitement and significance of these seminal findings, conveying above all how astonishing it is to discover a contemporary eyewitness testimony to the creation of the only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World.
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Letters From The Mediterranean V2: Containing A Civil And Political Account Of Sicily, Tripoly, Tunis, And Malta (1813): Containing A Civil And Political Account Of Sicily, Tripoly, Tunis, And Malta (1813)
""Letters From The Mediterranean V2"" is a historical book written by Edward Blaquiere and first published in 1813. The book is a collection of letters written by Blaquiere during his travels through Sicily, Tripoly, Tunis, and Malta. It provides a detailed account of the civil and political situation in these regions during the early 19th century. Blaquiere's letters are written in a vivid and engaging style, providing the reader with a unique insight into the culture, customs, and politics of the Mediterranean world. The book is a valuable resource for historians, students, and anyone interested in the history of the Mediterranean region. It offers a fascinating glimpse into a world that has long since disappeared, and provides a valuable perspective on the challenges and opportunities faced by these societies during a time of great change and upheaval.""In Two Volumes.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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De Mundo Dialogi Tres (1642)
De Mundo Dialogi Tres est liber auctore Thoma White, qui anno 1642 editus est. In hac opera, White tres dialogos scripsit, quibus mundi natura et proprietates describuntur. Primo dialogo, personae disputant de mundi formatione et causis motus. Secundo dialogo, de stellis et planetis agitur. Tertio dialogo, de elementis, terra, aqua, igne et aere, disseritur. White in hac opera multa de astronomia, physica et philosophia tradit, et multas quaestiones de natura mundi explicat. Libellus De Mundo Dialogi Tres est una ex operibus scientiae naturalis notabilibus.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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