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It reflects market feedback by retaining the strengths of the previous marketleading edition, such as learn these terms and people in history, while increasing exam focus. People in history countess markievicz people in history. Children enjoyed watching martin sketching, and helped draw some. The books are written by terry deary, peter hepplewhite, and neil tonge, and illustrated by martin brown, mike phillips, phillip reeve, and kate sheppard. Oxford a major new work of reference, this book charts the course of human progress around the globe, from prehistory to the present, in hundreds of fullcolor maps.
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