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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Eleanor Perry
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
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Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Yuval Zommer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500651191
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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After The Big Book of Bugs and The Big Book of Beasts, the hugely successful series Following the wild success of The Big Book of Bugs and The Big Book of Beasts, The Big Book of the Blue is the third installment in Yuval Zommer’s beloved series. Alongside everything the young oceanographer needs to know, Zommer’s charming illustrations bring to life some of the slipperiest, scaliest, strangest, and most monstrous underwater animals. The book opens by explaining how different types of animals are able to breathe and survive underwater, and the different families to which they belong. Subsequent pages are dedicated to specific creatures, including sea turtles, whales, sharks, stingrays, and seahorses, and show varied life in specific habitats, such as a coral reef or deep sea bed. The Big Book of the Blue also explores the underwater world thematically, looking at animals in danger, learning how to spot creatures at the beach, and discovering how to do our part to save sea life. Beautiful and filled with fascinating facts, young, curious readers won’t be able to tear their eyes away from the page.

Author: Maggie Nelson
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517646
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

Author: Angie Crouse
Publisher: Polipoint Press
ISBN: 9780981709147
Category : Business and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Fed up with pay to play politics? Ready to do something about it? By summarizing the political contributions, lobbying expenditures, and business practices of America's top corporations, The Blue Pages allows you to follow the money - and to support companies that share your political values." "Handy and portable, this bestselling directory organizes companies into 13 sectors, and a complete index helps you find a particular company or brand quickly." --Book Jacket.

Author: W. V. Graves
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ISBN: 9781873722657
Category : Pipe fitting
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Author: Isabelle Simler
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 1467464538
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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A lovely and tranquil celebration of nature The sun has set, the day has ended, but the night hasn't quite arrived yet. This magical twilight is known as the blue hour. Everything in nature—sky, water, flowers, birds, foxes—comes together in a symphony of blue to celebrate the merging of night and day. With its soothing text and radiant artwork, this elegant picture book displays the majesty of nature and reminds readers that beauty is fleeting but also worth savoring.

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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 810

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Author: Matthew Specktor
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1951142632
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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A Best Book of the Year at The Atlantic Los Angeles Times Bestseller "[An] absorbing and revealing book. . . . nestling in the fruitful terrain between memoir and criticism." —Geoff Dyer, author of Out of Sheer Rage Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment. In 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktor’s first literary idol, someone whose own passage through Hollywood had, allegedly, broken him. Freshly divorced, professionally flailing, and reeling from his mother’s cancer diagnosis, Specktor was feeling unmoored. But rather than giving in or “cracking up,” he embarked on an obsessive journey to make sense of the mythologies of “success” and “failure” that haunt the artist’s life and the American imagination. Part memoir, part cultural history, part portrait of place, Always Crashing in the Same Car explores Hollywood through a certain kind of collapse. It’s a vibrant and intimate inspection of failure told through the lives of iconic, if under-sung, artists—Carole Eastman, Eleanor Perry, Warren Zevon, Tuesday Weld, and Hal Ashby, among others—and the author’s own family history. Through this constellation of Hollywood figures, he unearths a fascinating alternate history of the city that raised him and explores the ways in which curtailed ambition, insufficiency, and loss shape all our lives. At once deeply personal and broadly erudite, it is a story of an art form (the movies), a city (Los Angeles), and one person’s attempt to create meaning out of both. Above all, Specktor creates a moving search for optimism alongside the inevitability of failure and reveals the still-resonant power of art to help us navigate the beautiful ruins that await us all.