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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines what is known about dinosaur bones, behavior, and other characteristics and how different the facts often are from what scientists, from ancient China to the recent past, believed to be true.
Author
Publisher
Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing upon material found in Newton's vast library, White [tells of a man who] lusted after self-promotion and power [and was] driven to investigate everything that puzzled him, expended a vast amount of time and effort studying the chronology of the Bible, examining prophecy, investigating natural magic--perhaps even the black arts--and attempting to unravel the hermetic secrets, the prisca sapientia."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Hungry Tomato
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Skilled assassins and saboteurs have undermined the most powerful armies with secret tactics and weapons. Slip in among them to see -- Aztec eagle scouts infiltrating the Spanish conquistadores -- ghostly Japanese ninja poised to attack samurai -- shadowy Mamluks closing in on a Mongolian encampment. Energetic, lifelike illustrations capture ten stealthy warriors from different times and places on their dangerous missions. See how they developed...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Discusses the significance of fabric throughout human history, from the Stone Age to the 21st century--integrating craft, art, science, history, and anthropology and drawing on examples from around the globe. Covers topics such as the universality of textiles in human language and experience; their social role in bonding families and communities, from sewing bees to guerrilla knitting; the importance of textiles in world trade; the many spiritual...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
National Book Award Finalist: A “brilliant” study of the science and mythology of the wolf by the New York Times–bestselling author of Arctic Dreams (The Washington Post). When John Fowles reviewed Of Wolves and Men, he called it “A remarkable book, both biologically absorbing and humanly rich, and one that should be read by every concerned American.” In this National Book Award–shortlisted work, literary master Barry Lopez guides us...
Author
Publisher
ECW
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
We live at the bottom of an ocean of air 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earths atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet, within this fragile margin lies a magnificent realm at once gorgeous, terrifying, capricious, and elusive. With his keen eye for identifying and uniting seemingly unrelated events, Chris Dewdney reveals to us the invisible...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Explains how the most important technological revolution of our time isn't what companies make, but how they make it.
''In this "handbook for disruptors" (Eric Schmidt), The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done. It will change the way you think about work, teams, projects, and culture, and give you the insight and tools you need to harness our human superpowers of learning and cooperation. What is “being geeky?” It’s being a perennially...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The course is organized around six main themes: inquiries into the history of the cosmos; investigations into the realm of living things; the largely successful attempt to break away from occult explanations of chemical phenomena; the contrasting persistence of such appeals in explaining natural phenomena; the proliferation of physical forces discovered and investigated; and the recurring theme of the relationship of God to nature.
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