Life in Extreme Environments
- ISBN-10
- 0823976947
- ISBN-13
- 9780823976942
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-01-01
- Publisher
- Powerkids Press
- Authors
- Christy Marx, Sheldon Brooks, Katherine Lawrence
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- 2020-10-15
- 394 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
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- 2020-09-30
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