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The description for this book, Muscles, Reflexes, and Locomotion, will be forthcoming.
“An impressively original novel. . . . comic in its vision [yet] serious, constantly surprising in its twists of plot and its reflections upon life.” —Wall Street Journal Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855 with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees—undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly-minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war. “Humorous and generous yet sometimes disconcertingly fatalistic, McMahon's storytelling is based on an irresistible curiosity about how the world works..” —Alida Becker, New York Times Book Review “Truly a gem—an elegantly sim...
Considers the role of shape and size in natural selection, looks at growth, biological structure, and locomotion, and discusses the effect of scale on living organisms
McMahon mixes scientific miscellany, a sprinkling of famous people, and a cast of his own delightful characters to produce this thoroughly enchanting romantic novel reminiscent of Ragtime.
Nearly blind physics prodigy taps into phone lines to set up a communications network with other blind people nationwide - various adventures ensue.
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Provides information about the lives and works of twenty-two creative artists of interest to middle and high school students, including novelists, playwrights, poets, painters, performers, photographers, and musicians.
HE SOUGHT TO FLEE HIS TRAGIC PAST, but when Thomas Usher hears a clockwork voice on the phone, and sees ever-more disturbing visions in a derelict warehouse, Usher realises that he has to return home - for the sake of his own sanity. Meanwhile, a deadly figure from Usher's past threatens to undermine the very fabric of reality.
An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.