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Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With a visual approach to the STEM subjects, this book makes science easy to understand and shows kids how things work. From molecules and magnetism to rockets and radio waves, How to Be Good at Science, Technology, and Engineering makes complex scientific concepts simple to grasp. Dynamic, visual explanations break down even the trickiest of topics into small steps. Find out how a hot-air balloon rises, how erosion flattens mountains, how light waves...
Author
Publisher
Constructing Modern Knowledge Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Summary: The Invent To Learn Guide to Fun features an assortment of insanely clever classroom-tested "maker" projects for learners of all ages. Josh Burker kicks classroom learning-by-making up a notch with step-by-step instructions, full-color photos, open-ended challenges, and sample code. Learn to paint with light, make your own "Operation Game," sew interactive stuffed creatures, build "Rube Goldberg" machines, design artbots, produce mathematically...
Author
Publisher
Conari Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the world's leading authorities, a practical resource guide filled with the essential information you need to know about assisted reproduction Third-party reproduction is now easier, more accessible, and more successful than ever before, yet it is still a complex process. Before you start down this path to parenthood, there are important questions to consider such as, "How are sperm, eggs, and embryos screened?", "How do I find a donor?"...
50) Drop by drop
Author
Series
Step by step novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
From Morgan Llywelyn, the bestselling author of Lion of Ireland and the Irish Century series, comes Drop By Drop her first near-future science fiction thriller.Unbound WorldsThe Best Sci Fi and Fantasy Books of June 2018. In this first book in the Step By Step trilogy, global catastrophe occurs as all plastic mysteriously liquefies. All the small components making many technologies possiblenavigation systems, communications, medical equipmentfail....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the world's absolute dependence on sand as a resource material used in virtually every structure and consumer product, describing how the planet's dwindling sand levels and related human practices are incurring significant environmental consequences.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
An insightful exploration of what social media, AI, robot technology, and the digital world are doing to our relationships with each other and with ourselves. Theres no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate. Its also easier to shut someone out when we are confronted with online discourse. Why bother to understand strangersor even acquaintanceswhen you can troll them, block them, or just click “Unfriend” and never look back? However...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two bestselling authors overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work, revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity, in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world"--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Examining the medical technologies taking shape at the nexus of computing, microelectronics, engineering, nanotechnology, cellular and gene therapies and robotics, an in-depth look at how scientific breakthroughs and technology can help us overcome our failings, while still allowing us to hold onto our humanity.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A provocative look at the new, digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it. In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research in economics, psychology, philosophy, and education, The New Childhood shows how technology is guiding humanity toward a bright future in which our children will...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Google. Facebook. Twitter. Repeat. We live in a world unimaginable even a few decades ago, one like no other in human history. It's a parallel world where we can be on the move in the real world, yet always hooked into an alternative time and place. And although it's a two-dimensional world of sight and sound, it offers instant information, connected identities, and constant novelty. In this world, our screen technologies are increasingly where we...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology's liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free...
59) Final encounter
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
On a distant planet, two human colonies are locked in a brutal war. With only remnants of their immense technologies and their vast armies reduced to a few, a group of brave soldiers decides it's time to step up and end the fighting before both sides are pushed to extinction.
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