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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • "Dr. Langdon is once again wrapped up in a global-scale event that could have massive ramifications on the world’s religions. As he does in all his novels, Brown[‘s] extensive research on art, architecture, and history informs every page." —Entertainment Weekly
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to...
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
vii, 217 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the contrasts and similarities between Earth and its planetary neighbors, tracing the history of the solar system and the natural forces and processes that have shaped nearby planets and moons.
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents various theories about the moon's origin, information about gravity, tides, and the astronauts' exploration of the Moon between 1969 and 1972, and includes Moon facts and a glossary.
Author
Language
English
Description
Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlan, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water,...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks at the evidence of dinosaurs with skeletal structures and feathers so similar to birds and why that is convincing many scientists that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
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Language
English
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Description
"In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in...
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English
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Description
For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime - a perfectly fossilized early primate, older than the previously most
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Publisher
Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 218 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An expert in the study of Islam answers thirty common questions about Muhammad, offering a clear and concise guide to his life and religious significance"--
11) Protein foods
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Series
Language
English
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"This photo-illustrated book for beginning readers introduces protein foods and discusses their place in a balanced diet. Includes picture glossary and index."--
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how. Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity may not survive this time"--Page [4] of cover.
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Language
English
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Description
In this updated edition of the 2001 classic, Robbins details how much has changed over the past decade, with more of us turning toward plant-based diets. But abuses and hazards remain, and he issues a new call to arms, urging us toward a more sustainable, compassionate world.
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Over 3.5 billion years ago, a complex chemical appeared in the warm oceans of a young Earth. The chemical had a startling quality: it could reproduce itself. Over vast periods of time this ancient chemical gave rise to more than five million widely varied forms of life. This book tells the story of how life arose and evolved. It describes the discoveries of scientists who have tried to understand the very origins of life and crack the code that governs...
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Series
Out from Egypt volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all. To save her older brother and escape the bonds of slavery, Kiya flees with the Hebrews during the Great Exodus. She finds herself utterly dependent on a fearsome God she's only just beginning to learn about, and in love...
19) Meat and fish
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Series
Edition
Print book : Juvenile audience : English : Library edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Did you know that meat and fish are rich in protein? Or that nearly half of the fish we eat come from farms?
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Series
Language
English
Description
In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. In his first assignment, he's got seven days to extract a vital piece of information from a Soviet agent, but there are enemies everywhere--and, as Cronley is about to find out, some of them even wear the same uniform he does.
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