Maggie McNair Has Spiders in Her Hair


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Maggie McNair doesn't like having her hair brushed, and eventually her mother gives up and decides to let Maggie learn a lesson the hard way. Maggie wakes up one day with an itchy head and realizes she has spiders in her hair.




Maggie McNair Has Sugar Bugs in There


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Maggie McNair learns the hard way how important it is to have good oral hygiene.




Maggie McNair Wears Stinky Underwear


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Maggie McNair doesn't like bathing, but changes her tune after the kids at school make fun of the way she smells.




Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science


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Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.




The Other Wars


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The first full-length study of the experience and memory of British and Dominion soldiers in the Middle East and Macedonia during WWI.




Freedom Dreams


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Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. From'the preeminent historian of black popular culture' (Cornel West), an inspiring work on the power of imagination to transform society.




Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket


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ABOUT THE SERIES Meet Junie B. Jones, the lovable, mischievous kindergartener and star of this hysterical series by Barbara Park. Follow Junie B. from her first day of kindergarten to her last as she gets into one scrape after another. Readers will laugh along with Junie B. and her friends in Room Nine, as she attempts to escape 'punishment' from her teacher, and drives her parents to distraction! ABOUT THE BOOK E-I-E-I-O! It's almost the end of the year, and Room Nine is taking a field trip to a farm! The whole class is very excited... except Junie B. Jones. 'Cause farms have scary ponies, that's why. And scary roosters, too. Will Junie B. find anything good at this place? Or will this turn out to be the 'worstest' field trip ever?




Women in Space - Following Valentina


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* This is the only book that provides the full story of the role of women in space exploration. * Previously unpublished photographs of various aspects of training and participation in spaceflights are included. * Personal interviews with female cosmonauts and astronauts. * Traces the history of female aviation milestones from the early part of the 20th Century to the current space programme.




Britain


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British culture is strewn with names that strike a chord the world over such as Shakespeare, Churchill, Dickens, Pinter, Lennon and McCartney. This book examines the people, history and movements that have shaped Britain as it now is, providing key information in easily digested chunks.