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Tedium and terror

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Earthy delights

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Magnetic attraction

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Man of stone

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Cassell's Atlas of Evolution: The Earth, its landscape, and life forms by Richard Moody, Dougal Dixon, Ian Jenkins and Audrey Zhuravlev

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Everything new or curious

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Science: The calm that comes before the quake

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