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16) Arizona
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This introduction to Arizona bursts with fascinating facts, up-to-date statistics, glorious full-color photographs, and unusual lists. It features charts, graphs, maps, timelines, traceable state symbols, a travel guide, a project room packed with ideas for classroom assignments, a biographical dictionary, weird laws, and content-area vocabulary words.
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Noah Webster, famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United States, was known in his day for his bold ideas and strong opinions about, well, everything. Spelling, politics, laws, you name it—he had something to say about it. He even commented on his own opinions! With a red pencil in hand, Noah often marked up work that he had already published. So who edited this book? It certainly looks like the ghost...
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"More then 5,000 terms defined and explained; covers stocks and bonds, banking, economics, real estate, corporate finance, tax law, mutual funds, and more; explains changes in financial regulations and investment strategies caused by the recent global financial crisis; instructive charts and diagrams"--Cover.
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking Break It Down