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2023.
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English
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"A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world. Some of humanity’s mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale―and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the magnet, the lens, the string,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences....
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English
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"In today's contentious political climate, understanding religion's role in American government is more important than ever. Christian nationalists assert that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and advocate an agenda based on this popular historical claim. But is this belief true? The Founding Myth answers the question once and for all. Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional attorney at the Freedom from Religion Foundation, builds...
5) Invention
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Photographs and text explore such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.
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Questioneers volume 2
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
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National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Examines part, but not all, of the evidence surrounding some of history's unsolved mysteries, from why the pyramids were built to whether or not there was a conspiracy to kill President John F. Kennedy.
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Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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No other form of communication reaches people in as many parts of the world as television. Broadcasts are received by audiences in every country, in nearly every language. This fascinating history follows the evolution of television from early technology to its development as the world's most popular global medium. The book also takes a close up look at the contributions of different inventors, the growth of broadcasting, and the cultural implications...
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting wheel. Bulliet's most interesting finding is that a simple...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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A history of the key technologies that made each stage of human civilization possible details the science, engineering, mathematics, art, music, philosophy, facts and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization.
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McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Praise for One Simple Idea:My friend, Mr. Key's brilliance, wisdom, and insight will make you rich. Buy this book! Mark Victor Hansen, bestselling author and co-creator of Chicken Soup For The Soul b>"Stephen has an uncanny and successful knack for simplifying the licensing mystique. One Simple Idea provides a road map and confidence to those who follow his proven approach. Warren Tuttle, product scout, Lifetime BrandsSince the successful...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.
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University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Between Pizzagate, QAnon, and the now ubiquitous cries of “fake news,” its tempting to think that were living in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicionand the delusional psychologies that fuel themhave been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as theres been an America. In this sweeping book, Thomas Konda traces the countrys obsession with conspiratorial...
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Series
Data Set volume 4
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Mrs. Bell challenges her science students to invent their own robots but when they start malfunctioning it becomes up to the DATA Set to deprogram the machines before an army of robots take over the school.
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