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This extensive and long overdue work of reference covers all of the bird species, more than 400 of which have been recorded in the province of Ontario. Birds of Ontario contains an identification and description of all species, with 344 outstanding colour plates. Anyone with even a casual interest in birds will find the colour plates and informative text of considerable interest. This volume contains a list of all the birds identified in Ontario up...
5) Levers
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Do you know what a lever is? How can a lever help you? Through simple experiments and clear explanations, understand how this simple machine functions and how it can make the work that you do easier.
6) Pulleys
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How does a pulley work? What is it? Colorful diagrams and fun-to-do experiments help you explore the many ways this simple machine can help make work easier and faster.
7) Screws
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We've all seen screws, but how do they work? Why is it easier to screw something into something than to simply push it in? With basic hands-on experiments and clear descriptions, this simple machine is explained.
9) Work
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What is work? You may think work is doing chores or going to a job, but you do work every time you move something from one place to another. With experiments that demonstrate these fundamental concepts, discover how you work, and how simple machines make doing work easier.
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Gooney Bird volume 1
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A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
11) The Milky Way
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c2003
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Discusses the features of the many types of galaxies, including the Milky Way, covering its size as measured in light-years, the role of black holes and dark matter in its structure, and the ways that scientists can observe galaxies throughout the universe.
12) Electricity
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Presents a children's book for early readers that introduces vocabulary words about electricity, what it is, how it is used, the parts of an atom, and more.
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Gooney Bird volume 2
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Gooney Bird Greene, an entertaining second grader who introduces challenging vocabulary words and tells "absolutely true" stories, finds a surprise room mother to bring cupcakes for the Thanksgiving pageant.
14) Heat
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Why do some things heat up quickly while others don't? How can heat cause matter to change form-from solid to liquid to gas and back again? Heat cannot be seen, but it can easily be felt. Looking at different objects' molecular makeup, this book describes the fundamentals of heat and furthers understanding through a series of easy experiments.
15) Light
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Where does light come from? What do colors have to do with light? Light is a form of energy. Life on Earth is made possible because light from the sun carries heat to the earth. This book explores the essential concepts of light-photons, color, refraction, light rays and waves, etc.-through a series of easy-to-do experiments readers will enjoy doing.
16) Matter
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What is matter and where can it be found? Everything in the world is made of matter, whether it is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. Important ideas about matter such as volume, mass, and how matter changes state are conveyed through a series of easy-to-do experiments.
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"It is 1919 and Niska, an Oji-Cree medicine woman, has left her home in the bush of northern Ontario to receive Xavier Bird, her only relation who has returned from the trenches of Europe. Gravely wounded and addicted to morphine, Xavier recounts how he and his best friend, Elijah Whiskeyjack, prowled the battlefields as snipers of enormous skill and how the circumstances of their deadly craft led them to very different fates."--P. [4] of cover.
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Author of the best-selling Black Dagger Brotherhood novels, J. R. Ward enthralls fans with her erotic urban fantasies. The third book in the series tells the story of the vampire Zsadist, a former blood slave with a violent past. When he meets Bella, Zsadist thinks her human love could be his path to salvation. Then Bella is kidnapped, and Zsadist will stop at nothing to get her back.
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Gooney Bird volume 3
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Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
20) Volcanoes
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This book introduces young readers to volcanoes-what they are, how they form, and how they affect people.
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