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Speed, Strength, and Stealth
Gr 2–3—Visually compelling but cursory in content, these volumes cover the ever-popular topic of animal claws, teeth, armor, offensive capabilities, and defensive adaptations...
Steve Jobs
Gr 4–6—This worshipful entry in the series gives the late, great entrepreneur's career a once-over so shallow that it never even mentions his birth parents, his formative sojourn to India, or Apple's iCloud...
Steve Jobs
Gr 5–7—Drawing on the posthumous "authorized" biography of Jobs as well as an array of older print and online publications, Ziller presents a glowing portrait of the late great entrepreneur as a technological visionary who stood and directed traffic "at the intersection of science and art...
Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes
Gr 9 Up—Aimed more at collectors than general students, this companion to the authors' Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America (Firefly, 2007) fills in some historical background but is largely a set of dryly academic descriptions of characteristic materials, manufacturing methods, and decorative motifs associated with common types of Native North American artifacts...
The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
Gr 5–7—Aside from minor editorial tweaks and small quantities of new material—references to the end of the space shuttle program, for instance, and to Japan's 2011 earthquake and damaged Fukushima reactor-this update of the 2006 second edition remains largely unchanged...
Encyclopedia of Global Religion
Gr 9 Up—Claimed by its editors to offer a more global perspective than other available reference works in this subject area—the most recent competitor would be J...
Origami for Everyone
Gr 3 Up—Though most (possibly all) of the photographs and step diagrams for these 68 paper-folding projects are recycled from Boursin's earlier collections, he has both revised the instructions and commentary and grouped the models according to estimated difficulty...
The Watch That Ends the Night
Gr 7 Up—Returning to the free-verse narrative structure of New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery (Candlewick, 2007), Wolf gives another watershed historical event a fictional, strongly internalized, obsessively researched treatment...
Movies in American History
Gr 9 Up—Created for anthropology, sociology, and capital-"F" film students, this encyclopedia offers analyses of approximately 380 films and the people involved in them, plus about 70 essays on topics from "Animation" and "Feminist Film Criticism" to "Italian Neorealism" and "The Male Gaze...
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