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The Disappeared

by Kim Echlin

Published: 2009-03

Hardcover: 224 pages

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The Disappearing Spoon

by Sam Kean

Published: 2011-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? The periodic table is one of our crowning scientific...

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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

by Sam Kean

Published: 2011-06-06

Paperback: 416 pages

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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is galli...

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Discipline: A Novel

by Paco Ahlgren

Published: 2007-07-01

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

by Jonathan Franzen

Published: 2007-08-21

Paperback: 208 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year�The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's �tale of growing up, squirming in his own �ber-sensitive skin, from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person,? into an adult with strong inconvenient passions.�Whether he's writing about the explosive d...

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Discovering Hope

by Chautona Havig

Published: 2012-09-23

Paperback: 286 pages

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What do Brigadoon, saris, epic laser tag games, and Jesus have in common? Hope. Hope Senior?all-American girl and student at Rockland University. Her family came over on the Fortune, less than a year after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth. Jay Brown?a charming blend of Indian heritage and American...

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Discovering the Qur'an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text, 2nd ed.

by Neal Robinson

Published: 2004-02-12

Paperback: 360 pages

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The latest edition of Discovering the Qur'an includes a new preface by the author. Used by students around the world as a reliable guide to reading a translation of the Qur'an, it shows how the Qur'an is experienced by Muslims, describing the rhythmic and rhyme scheme structures, the context in which...

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A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy)

by Deborah Harkness

Published: 2011-02-08

Kindle Edition: 594 pages

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"A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight." -People In a sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches became the "it" book of early 2011, bringing Deborah Harkness into the spotlight and galvanizing fans around the world. In this tale of passion...

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A Discovery of Witches

by Deborah E. Harkness

Published: 2011-02

Paperback: 608 pages

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An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of h...

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Discovery of Witches: The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Counti

by Thomas Potts

Published: 2006-12-11

Paperback: 270 pages

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Were not every chapter of the history of the human mind too precious an inheritance to be willingly relinquished ¿for appalling as its contents may be the value of the materials it may furnish may be inestimable ¿we might otherwise be tempted to wish that the miserable record in which the excesses...