Books from National Geographic Books
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Encyclopedia of Animals
By Karen McGheeHunting and competition from domestic cattle mean Hunter's hartebeest is critically endangered . No more than 400 still exist in the wild . Ex + 6 Cattle , goats , and sheep , along with buffalo , antelope , and gazelles , are bovids .
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Delaware, 1638-1776
By Karen Hossell聚凝聚关 THE MASON - DIXON LINE In 1763 , SURVEYORS CHARLES MASON AND JEREMIAH Dixon arrived in Philadelphia from England to settle the boundary dispute between the Penns and the Calverts . The MasonDixon Line was completed in the ...
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Try This Extreme: 50 Fun and Safe Experiments for the Mad Scientist in You
By Karen YoungThink about at you'll want to talk about and show people as you standinyour booth at the science fair. |HE LABLE Try to include gs-besides your poster or isplay board—that help a viewer see" your lab. Include your laboatory notebook and ...
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Meerkats
By Laura MarshSimon King/naturep.com:13, Martin Harvey/Getty Images; 4. Martin Harvey/KimballStock; 5. Susan McConnel/National Geographic Myshot:16, Timackson/Getty Images; 7, Mattias Klum/National Geographicstock; 18–19, ...
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London
By Louise NicholsonBedrooms offer bold 0 JOE ALLEN $$$ 13 EXETER ST . WC2 TEL 020-7836 0651 www.joeallen.co.uk Comfortingly American menu a Hotel Restaurant No. of bedrooms Tube Closed KEY HOTELS & RESTAURANTS KEY Hotel Restaurant No. of bedrooms given ...
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Veterans Voices: Remarkable Stories of Heroism, Sacrifice, and Honor
By Robert Miller, Andrew WakefordSON TODD R ACKSON LOUIS C. GROVE ClFF HMS AMES M LAROUCHE ROBERTE LOCHRIEC RE OHN E MANNING ROBERT J MARIZ ERR PosNER • STEVEN ow-RS will AM POWER IONY RIOS GEN A ROSS Vill/ANA R ROSS Jr. AR KENNETH A SP. KFR ROBERT L STALEY Jr. GE ...
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Great Migrations: Whales
By Laura F. Marsh... Igor Stevanovic/SS; 41(center), Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures/NGS:43, Flip Nicklim/MindenPictures/NGS:44, Randy Faris/Corbis; 44-45, Ralph Lee Hopkins/NGs, 46 (top right), Flip Nicklin/Mindem Pictures/NGs, 47 (right center), ...
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National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Birds of North America
By Laura Erickson, Jonathan K. AlderferI.I.I.I.I.I.I.III 154, RobertMcCaw.com, 155, Brian E. Small; 156, Marie Read; 157, Robert Royse, 158, Richard Cronberg/NG My Shot; 159, David Seibel, 160, Garth McElroy, 161, Alan Murphy, 164, Lloyd Spitalnik; 165, Bob Steele, 166, ...
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Galapagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin's Cradle of Evolution
By Carol Ann BassettWe've got the Robert Hunter, aka Steve Irwin, right now, and she's our flagship. She was called the Westra, a. former Scottish fishery protection vessel. Then we called her the Robert Hunter, after the late . . . founder of Greenpeace.
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National Geographic Traveler Rome
By Sari Gilbert, Michael BrouseThe 15th and 16th centuries saw a rash of construction on what was called the Mons Vatioans. The result, a labyrinthine complex of interconnected palaces, grew up around St Peter's in a largely disordered fashion. In the mid-1400s, ...
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The High-Impact Infidelity Diet
By Lou Harry, Eric PfeffingerTired of dealing with their obese husbands, exasperated wives Brin, Cheryl, and Dierdre offer their spouses an unusual incentive to lose weight--permission to sleep with a beautiful hooker--but when the men begin to lose weight at a ...
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Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery
By Rick AtkinsonMarking the burial ground's 150th anniversary, a guided tour of the final resting place of America's fallen heroes features 200 photographs accompanied by essays, a detailed map highlighting points of interest and the history of the ...
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Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery
By Rick Atkinson30 Unknowns Civil War Dead 45 Admiral William D. Leahy 9 28 John Foster Dulles 20 7A President Kennedy 42 Medgar Evers General Daniel James 30 7 General Omar Nelson Bradley 34 5 Admiral Hyman Rickover Chaplains 43 32 Monument General ...
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Sydney
By Peter Turner, Evan McHugh... Sydney/Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney;68, Daniel Hewlett/Alamy;71, iofoto/123RF: 85, Beth Morley/shutterstock, 100, Ron Ryan/coo-ee Picture Library, 126, Powerhouse Museum, 133, Rob Reichenfeld/Dorling Kindersley Collection/ ...
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Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
By Michael FarquharBut what Connors said really irked him was when Ashe “walked out on Centre Court wearing his Davis Cup jacket, with U.S.A. emblazoned across his chest.” The audacity. Then Ashe proceeded to beat Connors 6–1, 6-1, 5–7, 6–4, becoming the ...
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The War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. Navy
By David A. Taylor, Mark JenkinsA visual history of the War of 1812 includes hundreds of photos and illustrations, original and contemporary maps, historic documents, letters, ephemera and artifacts.
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Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home
By Maurice Isserman, IV, Walter CronkiteErnest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Leland Stowe, Desaree Boss, Gordon and Betty Gaskill, Collie and a few others were here. We had some eggnog and everyone but old hard-working Cronkite, who had a fistful of mediocre stories to do, ...
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Your Best Brain Ever: A Complete Guide and Workout
By Michael S. Sweeney, Cynthia R. GreenOne of the most amazing polyglots was German diplomat Emil Krebs. By the time he entered Berlin's Foreign Office school for interpreters, he already spoke a dozen languages. He insisted on learning the toughest ones, which led him to ...
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New Zealand
By Barbara JacksonBarbara Jackson. Countries of the World New Zealand Barbara Jackson Vaughan Wood and Simon Milne , Consultants NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WASHINGTON , D.C. This one CRJC - 48H - CY4A 18 21 23 24 25 27 28 33 34.
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The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot
By Jon GoodmanPresident Kennedy during a series of meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson . Page 4 : The Kennedys pause for a family photo at Hyannis Port , Massachusetts during the summer of 1963.