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America votes : how our President is elected

Linda Granfield

"Once you turn eighteen, you'll be eligible to vote -- but don't wait until then to get caught up in the excitement of elections! From the first primaries, through the party conventions, to the final count at the polls, the race for the presidency is a whirlwind of passionate speeches, sensational campaigns, and new beginnings that every American can be a part of!" (from the Book jacket)

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Sneaky uses for everyday things

Cy Tymony

More than a do-it-yourself guide, this quirky collection of over 80 solutions and bonus applications is a valuable resource for transforming ordinary objects such as paper clips and tape into the extraordinary. This book can be a practical tool to build useful devices or a trivia guide to impress friends and family. Find out how to turn a penny into a radio, make a flood alarm with an aspirin, change milk into plastic, extract water and electricity from thin air, turn on a tv with your ring, and more!

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The anatomist : a true story of Gray's anatomy

by Bill Hayes

Hayes (author of Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir) explores the lives of the two men, author Henry Gray and illustrator Henry Carter, responsible for Gray's Anatomy, still the standard in medical textbooks at 150 years old. Little has been written about either man, but Hayes balances biographical chapters with his own experience in the anatomy classroom in this well written examination of life, death, and the body beneath.

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More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931 : 50 films

by Scott Simmon

More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931 celebrates the first four decades of American film with fifty films and six previews preserved by the nation's foremost silent film archives: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. See examples of feature-length narratives, serials, cartoons, newsreels, folk life footage, avant-garde works, actuality footage, industrial films, and more. Film scholar Tom Gunning has described early cinema exhibitions as being organized around a series of wonders and sensations, or, as he calls them, attractions. Before the dominance of the narrative feature film, audiences were thrilled by the technology itself, and its ability to reproduce images from life on the screen.

(Each DVD and the book can be checked out seperately.)