Amy Alznauer
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Pub. Date
2020.
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First edition.
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English
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In 1887 in India, a boy names Srinivasa Ramanujan was born, and he grew up with a natural passion for numbers. He wrote mathematics everywhere, with his finger in the sand, in pencil and ink across the pages of his notebooks, with chalk on the temple floor. Like an archaeologist, he dusted off the hidden bones of numbers as if he were searching for long-lost secrets. No teacher or classroom could satisfy his passion for numbers and his hunger to answer...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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A dual portrait of the Chinese artist siblings describes how they began creating art together against a backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution before they moved to America, where they were eventually commissioned by President Obama for a painting that was given to President Hu of China.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"When she was young, the writer Flannery O'Connor was captivated by the chickens in her yard. At age six, her life was forever changed when she and a chicken she had been training were featured in the Pathae News, and she realized that people want to seewhat is odd and strange in life. But while she loved birds of all varieties and kept several species around the house, it was the peacocks that came to dominate her life"--
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The creators of 1968 examine the important historical events and people of 1789 and their significance on modern perspectives about human equality, in a nonfiction anthology that includes coverage of the U.S. Bill of Rights, the French Revolution and thedigits of pi. Simultaneous eBook.
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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The acclaimed team that brought us 1968 turns to another year that shook the world with a collection of nonfiction writings by renowned young-adult authors.
"The Rights of Man." What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights—not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was
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