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Major Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Move more and find a happier, healthier, more productive you. After a long day of sitting at work, your body aches, you have no energy, you' re drained of creativity and your mood has hit rock bottom. But that' s just part of your job, right? Wrong! It doesn' t have to be that way. The Active Workday Advantage will educate and inspire you to incorporate micro moves – small and powerful moments of movement – into your daily routine....
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Language
English
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Explore the unbelievable true story of America's glowing girls and their fight for justice in the young readers edition of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Radium Girls. This enthralling new edition includes all-new material, including a glossary, timeline, and dozens of bonus photos. Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of young women spend their days hard at work painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
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"The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowingdust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the...
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