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71 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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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.
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321 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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English
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"One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them. For centuries, we have searched for these laws by studying the results of experiments. Since the 1970s, however, experiments at the world's most powerful atom-smashers have offered few new clues. So some of the...
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Doyle and Fossey science detectives volume 5
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92 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Fourth-graders Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey combine their detective and scientific investigation skills to solve cases involving a crooked carnival barker, a mysterious ghost, an alien plant species invading wildlife habitats, and a wobbly bridge.
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Doyle and Fossey science detectives volume 6
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92 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Fifth-grade sleuths and science experts Drake and Nell solve four challenging cases involving a werewolf at a campsite, a faked tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, a talking oven, and a polluted stream full of dead fish.
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534 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction.
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Olga volume 2
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186 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Olga decides she would like to figure out what planet Meh is from and begins to conduct some research on space travel.
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"A shadowy figure takes shape in a dark, old house. Was it just your imagination? Or was it a ghost? Ghost hunters investigate ghostly encounters with thermal cameras, EVP recorders, magnetic field detectors, and other advanced gear. Get an inside look at all the high-tech tools used to study hair-raising hauntings"--
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224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Science knows no borders! ¡La ciencia no conoce frontera! Become a science sleuth with the bilingual edition of our award-winning book, One Minute Mysteries: More Short Mysteries You Solve With Science! Each one-page mystery is featured in both English and Spanish. Mysteries in earth, space, life, physical, chemical and general science are included. Now you can solve science brainteasers in two languages! Conviértase en un genio de la ciencia con...
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xx, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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English
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"The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that...
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167 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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English
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Discovering a smelly creature in her garbage can that she names after herself, Olga befriends and studies the eccentric Olgamus using the scientific method, the practices of Jane Goodall, and other scientific concepts.
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235 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The oral history of our time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams,...
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479 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks ... Fascinated by issues of aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science, creating a new understanding of energy use and metabolism: West found that despite the riotous diversity in the...
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235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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A former co-host of "MythBusters" demonstrates how to use the scientific method--the logical process she employed while testing urban legends: question, hypothesize, experiment, analyze and conclude -- for solving everyday problems.
Have questions about your sexuality? Alcohol? Depression? Byron, a former co-host of "MythBusters," demonstrates how to use the scientific method for solving everyday problems. Question. Hypothesize. Experiment. Analyze....
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