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The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia

Charles TAYLOR | BOOKS, Feb 01, 2012

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

Wade Clark Roof | BOOKS, Feb 01, 2012

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

Didier BOURSIN | FICTION, Dec 01, 2011

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...

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

Philip C. DIMARE | BOOKS, Oct 01, 2011

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...