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Originally published in 1864, this classic remains popular today for readers of all ages!
Jules Verne's classic science fiction novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth, takes readers deep below the world's surface and inside the author's inventive, visionary mind.
The story revolves around Professor Otto Lidenbrock, an eccentric German scientist who decodes the cryptic notes of a famous medieval scholar, discovering a map which describes a method...
2) On Earth
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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We are all passengers of the Earth as it spins, tilts and circles the sun. Learn about Earth's cycles of rotation and revolution, plus how they affect our lives through the days and seasons.
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306 pages ; 24 cm
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In this radical new approach to Earth's biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere--of rocks and living matter--has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
7) Earth
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Describes the surface features, interior, atmosphere, magnetic field, and single satellite of the earth.
9) Planet earth
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123 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
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Provides detailed descriptions of a wide variety of topics from sedimentary rock to the stratosphere, in a lavishly illustrated introduction to the planet and its role in the solar system that pairs example photographs with accessible captions.
10) Planet earth
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Introduces the planet Earth, including its orbit, geology, oceans, atmosphere, weather, and inhabitants.
11) The EARTH book
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36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Simple text and illustrations show how children can help protect the Earth.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Discover what Earth looks like from space, how the Earth moves through the solar system, what the conditions are for life on Earth, what you would find if you dug a really deep hole, what it is like on the Moon, and what space missions have taught us about Earth.
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"Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the Milky Way. In a sense, it...
16) Earth
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528 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
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This stunning reference includes detailed, illustrated information about everything that makes up our planet, from Mount Kilimanjaro to the Antarctic ice sheet, as well as descriptions of more than four hundred of the Earth's most significant, unusual, greatest, and most dangerous features.Specially commissioned new 3-D digital artwork provides a striking, informative guide to the features of our planet, explains the scientific processes that govern...
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We say that the sun "rises" in the morning and "sets" at night, but is it really moving? Learn about the long, sometimes dangerous struggle to discover whether the sun revolves around Earth, or Earth around the sun, and find out what scientists now know about our planet's place in the universe. -- From cover.
19) Earth
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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"Suit up! Earth is a planet like no other, and it's time to explore it through a colorful design that features vibrant photography, engaging infographics, and carefully leveled text"--
20) Earth and Mars
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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"An introduction to the planets Earth and Mars, including their size, features, and orbits, and explorations of Mars"--Provided by publisher.
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