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The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers?...
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"In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus--a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature--and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect," about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death,...
4) Life
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Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
[1994-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
5) Masterminds
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Masterminds trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"--
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Explains how rising rates of obesity, heart disease, and other life-threatening conditions are reflecting how the human body is out of sync with the modern environment, and makes recommendations for changing causative lifestyle habits.
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest pets. In the past decade, we have learned more about how dogs think than in the last century. Breakthroughs in cognitive science, pioneered by Brian Hare have proven dogs have a kind of genius for getting along with people that is...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Look at all these stripes and spots! From cheetahs to zebras, honeybees to coral snakes, some animals have amazing markings in different colors, shapes, and sizes. Young readers will learn all about animals with stripes and spots and how these markings help them survive in this fun Pre-reader. Through text features such as the vocabulary tree and the wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to new words and concepts, helping them expand their understanding...
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2019.
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English
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"Best-selling author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In the tradition of Randall Munroe's What If?, Doughty's new book, Will My Cat...
11) Next
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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"We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars or test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes."
12) Evolution
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Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Discusses early theories of evolution, the work of Darwin, fossil and other evidence, and the effects of evolution on us and the future.
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National Geographic Television
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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When you've clawed your way to the top of the food chain, you have to fight to stay there. Experience this harsh reality through the eyes of the determined predators that rely on skill, instinct, and evolution to survive. But while they may be masters of their domains, that doesn't mean things always go their way, and with young mouths to feed, the pressure is on.
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In his three previous books-Feathers, The Triumph of Seeds, and Buzz-Thor Hanson has taken his readers on unforgettable journeys into nature, rendered with great storytelling, the soul of a poet, and the insight of a biologist. In this new book, he is doing it again, but exploring one of the most vital scientific and cultural issues of our time: climate change. As a young biologist, Hanson by his own admission watched with some detachment as our...
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HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Intelligent design-the idea that an intelligent cause, rather than an undirected process, best explains key features of life and the universe-continues to ignite controversy around the world. In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer shows that digital code embedded in DNA points to a designing intelligence and helps unravel a mystery that Charles Darwin did not address: how did life begin? Meyer tells the story of the successive attempts to explain...
18) The shallows
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Nancy is surfing on a secluded beach, and finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.
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Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Superheroes and villains do battle over the human heart in this delightful anthology featuring all-new stories from a wide range of contributors, all set in the Wild Cards universe, where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to others, created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones. An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die,...
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