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The First Book Marketplace (fbmarketplace.org and fbmpcanada.org) is an award-winning nonprofit e-commerce site that provides First Book’s network of educators, librarians, providers, and others ...
Here's the story of how the first book ever produced using photographic work came to be only photos of algae. In 1843, Anna Atkins loved botany, especially scientific illustrations.
First Book (Washington, D.C.) is a nonprofit social enterprise that provides new books, learning materials and other essentials to children in need. Currently, more than half of U.S. public school ...
First Book staff members review about 10,000 titles each year, and its website features both classics and lists like “The Best New Books of 2024.” ...
First Book, the Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit that provides books and other resources to classrooms and programs serving children in need, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
Iconic Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar -- seen here with Tilda Swinton (l) and Julianne Moore in Venice this month, has finally released his first book. WireImage Over the course of his 50 ...
The current record for the highest-priced printed book is not a Gutenberg Bible or a First Folio of Shakespeare but a copy of John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” which sold for $11.5 ...