Month: June 2022

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Britannica’s First Big Book of Why

Britannica’s First Big Book of Why
by Sally Symes (Author), Stephanie Warren Drimmer (Author), and Kate Slater (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

Booktalk: With over 100 questions (verified by Britannica experts) spanning a range of topics including animals, the body, machines, space, and more, this book provides clear and accessible explanations–and even explores some of the mysteries that experts are still trying to solve. Backseat reading for summer vacation!

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How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps

How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps
by Pamela S. Turner (Author) and John Gurche (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: The epic story of human evolution in seven big steps! Find out how, when, and why did we:

1. stand up,
2. smash rocks,
3. get swelled heads,
4. take a hike,
5. invent barbecue,
6. start talking (and never shut up), and
7. become storytellers?

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A NOTE ON RACE
The modern concept of race is relatively recent. It is tied to efforts by early European scientists and naturalists to arrange life on a religiously inspired ladder with a Christian God at the top, followed by angels, then white people, with other races just a step above monkeys and apes. These racial concepts were closely tied to a wave of European colonialism that began in the sixteenth century.

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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