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An enhanced edition of the classic writing manual features humorous art by a popular children's book illustrator and New Yorker cover artist, in a volume that provides visual and whimsical embellishments to the original instructive text--Publisher.
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This Classic Edition commemorates the 100-year anniversary of William Strunk's grammar primer, The Elements of Style. Generations of writers have learned the basics of grammar from Strunk's little book. It was rated "one of the 100 most influential books written in English" by Time in 2011, and iconic author Stephen King recommended it as a grammar primer that all aspiring writers should read. Elements of Style: Classic Edition 2018 includes the full...
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2024
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English
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"The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many remarkable young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own. "Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name," writes Dava...
4. The elements
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DK/Penguin Random House
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English
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The elements in the periodic table are the ingredients that make up our world. Explore elements such as carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, and learn why they are essential to our survival. See how precious gold protects astronauts in space, and why the metal mercury can be both a solid and a liquid. Find out about man-made elements, which the smartest chemists are busy figuring out how to use. Learn about scores of other elements, including silver, the...
7. The elements
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Scholastic
Pub. Date:
[2012]
Lexile measure:
1040L
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English
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"In The Elements, acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne has created an epic saga that weaves together four interconnected narratives, each representing a different perspective on the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator, and the victim. The narrative follows a mother on the run from her past, a young soccer star facing a trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and a father on a transformative journey with his son. Each is somehow...
12. The Elements
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Children's Press
Pub. Date:
[2012]
Lexile measure:
820L
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English
13. The Elements
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Patsy Stanley
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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This book combines a philosophical, scientific, and metaphysical view on life and the Matter that exists in all of life. When developing a spiritual understanding of the five basic elemental energies, fire, air, earth, water, and ether, one comes to understand the feminine nature of life, its magnetism, organization, responsibilities, and how everything connects. This book is about understanding the larger, universal, spiritual nature of women. It...
14. The Elements
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Namarrkun
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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The Elements' is a fictional novel describing the environmental changes from the viewpoint of nature: the plants, the animals, the Elements. A young, sentient kapok tree discovers that the forest and indeed the world is a confusing place. His insatiable thirst for knowledge finds himself oscillating between confusion when talking to Pachamama, the Mother Earth, and then enlightenment, after listening to the songs from the curator of the world's ancient...
15. The Elements
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Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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In the year, 2025 peace fills the lands, and war is nothing, but a thing of the past. With no need to spend on military might, governments and nations have moved on, investing in the discovery of the body. Bryan Yang and his friends were just your average teenagers, until they came across one such scientific discovery. Now, imbued with powers that every teenager had dreamed of, they try to take on the similarly powered Frank Loch, a power-crazed villain...
18. The elements
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Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date:
[2006]
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English
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Discusses the history of the periodic table of the elements, includes biographies of major figures in the field of chemistry, and provides information on each element.