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Get Set! Swim!

Get Set! Swim!

Jeannine Atkins

A young Puerto Rican girl learns an important lesson about pride and victory from her mother.
Robin's Home

Robin's Home

Jeannine Atkins

Robin learns how to fly and build a nest. Includes information on the life cycle of robins.
A Name on the Quilt: A Story of Remembrance

A Name on the Quilt: A Story of Remembrance

Jeannine Atkins

A family reminisces while gathered together to make a panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt in memory of a beloved uncle.
Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon

Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon

Jeannine Atkins

An account of the finding of the first entire skeleton of an ichthyosaur, an extinct sea reptile, by a twelve-year-old English girl who went on to become a paleontologist.
Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

Jeannine Atkins

"A biographical novel in verse of three different girls in three different time periods who grew up to become groundbreaking scientists"--
Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis

Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis

Jeannine Atkins

Edmonia Lewis was just such a sculptor, but she never spoke or wrote much about her past, and the stories that have come down through time are often vague or contradictory.
Wings and Rockets: The Story of Women in Air and Space

Wings and Rockets: The Story of Women in Air and Space

Jeannine Atkins

Tells the stories of women who have dared to challenge prejudices and rules to take their place in the skies--from Katherine Wright and Bessie Coleman to Jackie Cochran, Shannon Lucid, and Eileen Collins.
Little Woman in Blue: A Novel of May Alcott

Little Woman in Blue: A Novel of May Alcott

Jeannine Atkins

Based May Alcott’s letters and diaries, as well as memoirs written by her neighbors, Little Woman in Blue puts May at the center of the story she might have told about sisterhood and rivalry in an extraordinary family.
How High Can We Climb?: The Story of Women Explorers

How High Can We Climb?: The Story of Women Explorers

Jeannine Atkins

Enhanced by thoughts and dialogue imagined by the author, the stories of 12 female explorers--sailors, mountain climbers, and deep-sea divers--are brought to life with clever pictures that celebrate these remarkably brave women.
Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. ...

Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. ...

Jeannine Atkins

Inspired by her mother, Irène too became a scientist and Nobel prize winner. Borrowed Names is the story of these extraordinary mothers and daughters. Borrowed Names is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Instructor's Solutions Manual to Accompany Atkins' Physical ...

Instructor's Solutions Manual to Accompany Atkins' Physical ...

Peter William Atkins

Provides solutions to the 'b' exercises, and the even-numbered discussion questions and problems that feature in the eighth edition of Atkins' Physical Chemistry.
Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution: Nature's Answer to Drugs

Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution: Nature's Answer to Drugs

Robert C. Atkins

In this comprehensive guide, Dr. Atkins shares vital information on more than 120 supplements, including: The specific restorative powers of each nutrient How to determine the optimal dosage schedule How to obtain supplements that are new ...
False Relationships

False Relationships

Darrin Atkins

Darrin Atkins. Books by Darrin Atkins 0-595-26517-0 Watch the man named Steem run away in terror. The Quitter The Crooked Mechanics Don't Leave Lily You're Too Late Tamma Hermits Rest Still in Hollywood As Good as Dead Cooked ...
Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro

Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro

André Soares

Strangely, Atkins was unaware of important people in Novarro's life, including Rex Ingram, Alice Terry, and Teresa Bracho. Reports about Novarro's October 1941 car accident do not name Atkins as his passenger. Atkins later said that he gave ...
Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' ...

Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' ...

Robert Hofler

10, 2007. 232 “Bavarian hangar”/crisp potato baskets: Jeannine Stein, “Where the Stars Come Out to Shine After Oscars Show,” Los Angeles Times, p. 2. 232 “ weighs a ton”/Julian Sands: Jeannine Stein, “Oscar: An Overnight Sensation,” Los ...
Student's Solutions Manual to Accompany Atkins' Physical ...

Student's Solutions Manual to Accompany Atkins' Physical ...

Peter William Atkins

This solutions manual provides the authors' detailed solutions to exercises and problems in the seventh edition of Physical Chemistry by Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula.
Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution

Robert D. C. Atkins

This is an updated version of the book I wrote ten years ago to help as many people as I could to lose weight.
Using Dictionaries: Studies of Dictionary Use by Language ...

Using Dictionaries: Studies of Dictionary Use by Language ...

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Studies of Dictionary Use by Language Learners and Translators B.T. Sue Atkins. Table of Contents B. T. Sue Atkins Introduction....~~~~ 1 Jan H. Hulstijn & B. T. Sue Atkins Empirical Research on Dictionary Use in Foreign-Language Learning : ...
Atkins' Molecules

Atkins' Molecules

Peter William Atkins

New edition of the book that was called 'the most beautiful chemistry book ever written'.
Management Bites

Management Bites

Angela Atkins

Angela Atkins is an experienced human resources and training professional who's worked with hundreds of managers. She's also managed people herself, and made many mistakes because she didn't have this book!
Dr. Atkins' Vita-nutrient Solution: Nature's Answers to Drugs

Dr. Atkins' Vita-nutrient Solution: Nature's Answers to Drugs

Robert C. Atkins

A guide to the medical benefits of vitamins and minerals includes a section on medical conditions that can be healed or improved through nutritional therapy
Reactions: The private life of atoms

Reactions: The private life of atoms

Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins captures the heart of chemistry in this book, through an innovative, closely integrated design of images and text, and his characteristically clear, precise, and economical exposition.
Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing

Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing

George Douglas Atkins

" When the essay combines good writing with the concerns of the personal, Atkins says, it becomes a form of criticism that is readable, vital, and potentially attractive to a large readership.
Atkins' Physical Chemistry

Atkins' Physical Chemistry

Peter Atkins

This volume features a greater emphasis on the molecular view of physical chemistry and a move away from classical thermodynamics.
Four Laws That Drive the Universe

Four Laws That Drive the Universe

Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins' powerful and compelling introduction explains what the laws are and how they work, using accessible language and virtually no mathematics.
Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance ...

Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance ...

Annette Atkins

Atkins eloquently portrays the extreme hardships of Minnesota farmers during the grasshopper plagues of the 1870s.
Employment Bites

Employment Bites

Angela Atkins

Angela Atkins is an experienced human resources and training manager who's worked in both large and small companies. She's learned some hard lessons, knows what makes great HR and has written this book so you won't make the same mistakes.
On Being: A scientist's exploration of the great questions ...

On Being: A scientist's exploration of the great questions ...

Peter Atkins

In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers.
We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in ...

We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in ...

Annette Atkins

Drawing on the insights of Alfred Adler and others, Atkins examines the varying dynamics of "warm" and "cool" families and shows how siblings tutored each other in friendship, authority, cooperation and competition, dependence and ...
The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction

The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction

Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins' powerful and compelling introduction explains what the laws are and how they work, using accessible language and virtually no mathematics.

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