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Girls and Sports
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Subject(s): Sports for women -- Juvenile literature | Women athletes | Sports for women Summary: Examines both sides of issues pertaining to girl athletes, from how gender influences participation to how participation affects girls' health, and from school support for girls'sports programs to cultural implications. Contents:How does

Chernobyl
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Subject(s): Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- History | Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Ukraine Chornobylʹ Contents:Historical background on the Chernobyl disaster. The Chernobyl disaster / David R. Marples ; The development of the Soviet nuclear industry / David F. Duke ; Soviet secrecy in the face of calamit

The Spanish Conquistadors
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Subject(s): Explorers -- Biography Juvenile literature -- America | Explorers -- Biography Juvenile literature -- Spain | Indians -- Juvenile literature -- First contact with Europeans | Spaniards -- Juvenile literature -- History -- America | America -- Juvenile literature -- Discovery and exploration Spanish Contents:Introduction. An epi

Black Nationalism
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Subject(s): Black nationalism -- Juvenile literature -- History -- 19th century -- United States | Black nationalism -- Juvenile literature -- History -- 20th century -- United States | Black nationalism -- Juvenile literature -- United States | African Americans -- Juvenile literature -- Politics and government -- 19th century | African Americans

Auschwitz
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Subject(s): Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literature | Birkenau (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literature | Jews -- Juvenile literature -- Persecutions -- Europe | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile literature Contents:Important dates at the time of Auschwitz -- Introduction: "Reckoning" -- Ashes to ashes : th

The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Subject(s): Slave trade -- Juvenile literature -- Africa Contents:Centuries of human trade -- A new kind of slavery -- The infamous triangular trade -- Surviving the middle passage -- Because of the slave trade -- "Am I not a man and a brother?" -- After the abolition of the slave trade -- Transformed by the slave trade. Holdin

Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century : Image, Sound, Touch
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Contents:Introduction : the nineteenth-century invention of media / Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley -- Image. The Wordsworths' Daffodils : on the page, upon the inward eye, in their media ecology / Richard Menke -- "So that the sense of touch may supply the want of sight" : blind reading and nineteenth-century British pri

Organic Chemistry
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Subject(s): Chemistry, Organic Contents:Structure and bonding -- Polar bonds and their consequences -- Organic compounds: alkanes and cycloalkanes -- Stereochemistry of alkanes and cycloalkanes -- An overview of organic reactions -- Alkenes: structure and reactivity -- Alkenes: reactions and synthesis -- Alkynes: an introduction to organic

New Media in the Muslim World : the Emerging Public Sphere
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Contents:Redefining Muslim publics / Dale F. Eickelman and Jon E. Anderson -- The new media, civic pluralism, and the struggle for political reform / Augustus Richard Norton -- Communication and control in the Middle East : publication and its discontents / Dale F. Eickelman -- The internet and Islam's new interpreters / Jon W. Anders

Cracking the Genome : Inside the Race to Unlock Human Dna
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Subject(s): Human genome -- Popular works Contents:Knights of the double helix : the quest for biology's holy grail -- Reading the book of life : a quick voyage around the human genome -- Eye of the TIGR : J. Craig Venter, maverick sequencer -- Loading the bases : Francis Collins and the DNA detectives -- Circle of life : decoding the

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