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Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
This book is a resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Seasoned researchers and educators, the authors present an updated third edition of their classic handbook which explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to respond to them appropriately; and how to create introductions...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fourth-graders Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey combine their detective and scientific investigation skills to solve a variety of cases, involving a noisy garbage can, endangered frogs, a stuck truck, and a mysterious love letter. Includes a section of scientific experiments and activities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out in doctor's offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to find love and to kill time. But where did they come from, and why have they proliferated? In Questionnaire, Evan Kindley investigates the history of "the form as form," from the Victorian confession album...
Author
Publisher
Sage Publications
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Publisher's Description: The Third Edition of the bestselling text Research Design by John W. Creswell enables readers to compare three approaches to research-qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods-in a single research methods text. The book presents these three approaches side by side within the context of the process of research from the beginning steps of philosophical assumptions to the writing and presenting of research. Written in a user-friendly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Describes research and writing before the invention of computers, including doing research in a library and using a typewriter. Includes fun facts and a "Blast from the Past" section"--
Author
Series
Charlotte the scientist volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte, a serious scientist and a bunny, uses the scientific method to solve her problem: being squished by her many brothers and sisters"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they can't possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science is wrong, that the evidence is incomplete or inconclusive, and that unidentified hazards lurk everywhere to harm us.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in. The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term "complexity" can be misleading, however, because what makes West's discoveries...
11) Ella unleashed
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ella juggles her desire to become a dog show champion and her secret mission to find a girlfriend for her single father, only to learn neither dog nor dad readily bends to her will"--
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