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382) El odio que das
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"Starr es una chica de dieciséis años que vive entre dos mundos: el barrio pobre de gente negra donde nació, y su escuela situada en un elegante barrio residencial blanco. El difícil equilibrio entre ambos se hace añicos cuando ella es testigo de la muerte a tiros de su mejor amigo, Khalil, a manos de un policía. A partir de ese momento, todo lo que Starr diga acerca de la aterradora noche que cambió su vida podrá ser usado de excusa por unos...
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Black Lives Matter was born in July 2013 after a jury exonerated the killer of an unarmed black youth named Trayvon Martin. Since that time it has become known as a formidable, often controversial, civil rights movement that seeks equality and fair treatment of black citizens by law enforcement and by society as a whole.
This book explores the Black Lives Matter movement that was launched in 2013 to address civil rights issues against African American...
390) Properties of matter
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An introduction to the properties of matter that provides information on the physical and chemical properties of matter, elements, compounds, solutions, mixtures, key scientific discoveries related to matter, and other related topics.
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"This physical science volume addresses mixtures and solutions and the technology involved with creating and studying them. Readers will learn about the methods that chemistry pioneers used to arrive at an understanding of the nature of mixtures. Readers will also learn how to distinguish mixtures from solutions. Historical examples and contemporary examples from the fields of pharmacology and microelectronics will promote interest and understanding....
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"Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement--through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities--using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines...
398) Cooling
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Presents simple experiments that demonstrate states of matter and what happens to various materials when they are cooled.
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"El físico Fred Alan Wolf revela lo que él denomina la "nueva alquimia", una simbiosis de las ideas de los antiguos alqiumistas y de los nuevos científicos, con el fin de llegar a una mejor comprensión de la mente y la materia"--Container.
Physicist Fred Alan Wolf reveals what he calls the new alchemy--a melding of the ideas of the old alchemists and the new scientists to reach a fuller understanding of mind and matter.
400) Heavy or light
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Introduces the physical properties of weight, presents everyday examples, and includes information on telling the difference between heavy and light objects.