Life in Boston is predictable and dull for 14 year old Max Murphy-go to school, play video games, complain about his inaccessible archeologist parents, complain about the strange food his 'nanny', Zia, cooks for him. When his parents suddenly cancel his much-anticipated summer vacation trip to Italy because of their need to visit an important dig in Central America, he feels furious and abandoned.
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Charles Darwin's name is synonymous with evolution and all the controversy and discussion it has aroused. In this informative and entertaining book, Deborah Heiligman presents the chronology of the events in Darwin's life and explores how the people he knew and the things he experienced help to shape the ideas he developed and which came to form the basis of his The Origin of the Species.
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