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People reach for the sky as they swoop back and forth on swings. Friends spin each other dizzy on merry-go-rounds. From slides to monkey bars and seesaws, science explains how it all works. The Science of Playgrounds reveals the fascinating ways that science is at work in popular playground equipment. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics,...
1864) Entrelazamiento cuántico y sincronicidad. Campos de fuerza localidad, percepciones extrasensor
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Muchas veces nuestra vida cotidiana está acompañada de intuiciones y presentimientos. Hay episodios de telepatía u otras sensaciones del alma que acompañan la existencia de los hombres. Estos fenómenos no son raros y afectan a todos. Algunos académicos, con una mentalidad más abierta, querían abordar el tema científicamente. Se preguntaron si hay una manera de entender las experiencias extrasensoriales sin recurrir al ocultismo, la mitología...
1865) What Do Pliers Do?
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Young readers will learn how pliers grip and hold objects in their jaws. A back matter spread explains how pliers also work as levers.
1866) Michael Faraday : He Who Inspired Einstein Biography of a Scientist Grade 5 Children's Biographies
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Did you know that the great Albert Einstein was inspired by another scientist and inventor? Einstein's inspiration was Michael Faraday, and this book is dedicated entirely to the latter. Read about Faraday's life, including his education and upbringing. Walk with him as he works on experiments and becomes excited with his discoveries. Grab a copy today.
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A disc seems to float as it spins through the air. Trampolines let people leap to thrilling heights. From playing catch to playing with hula hoops, bubbles, and jump ropes, science explains how it all works. The Science of Backyard Fun reveals the fascinating ways that science is at work in popular yard games and toys. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents,...
1868) What Does a Saw Do?
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Learners will understand how saws have sharp teeth that cut through wood. A back matter spread explains how saws are a kind of simple machine: a wedge.
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The book talks about the design and construction of the building 774 at CERN. The building 774 is a unique building both for its architectural value and for its location. Located in front of the CCC (Control Center) at CERN is the main door of more than 100,000 tourists come visiting CERN each year.
1870) What Does a Wrench Do?
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Kids will find out how wrenches tighten bolts in many types of situations. A back matter spread explains how a wrench is another type of lever.
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An exciting book about the chain reaction world of Rube Goldberg for middle schoolers, including 25 engineering design projects that get middle schoolers applying the laws of physics to their own inventions as they learn the scientific principles behind the actions and reactions they create.
Why use a simple hand motion to wipe your mouth when you can build a machine to do it for you? Toppling dominoes, rolling marbles, racing balloon cars, springing...
1873) Light and Sound
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In Light and Sound, early fluent readers will learn how light and sound and the physics behind them, impact our universe every day. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers, as they, learn more about the laws, history, and applications of these foundational STEM concepts.
Infographics and sidebars present interesting, supplementary information, and an activity offers readers an opportunity to extend discovery....
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Atoms are unfathomably tiny. It takes fifteen million trillion of them to make up a single poppy seed-give or take a few billion. And there's hardly anything to them: atoms are more than 99.9999999999 percent empty space. Yet scientists have learned to count these slivers of near nothingness with precision and to peer into their internal states. In looking so closely, we have learned that atoms, because of their inimitable signatures and imperturbable...
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"Many architects today are looking to plants and animals to help solve their design challenges. Inspired by how nature already works, these architects are coming up with innovative ways to cool buildings, withstand earthquakes and save energy. In Wild Buildings and Bridges, bestselling author Etta Kaner explores these wild and wonderful feats of architecture. Kids will discover buildings and bridges inspired by cactuses, beetles, termite towers, trees,...
1877) Hannah's war: a novel
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312 pages ; 22 cm
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"Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah believes the weapon's creation will secure an end to future wars, but as a Jewish woman living under the harsh rule of the Third Reich, her research is belittled, overlooked, and eventually stolen by her German...
1878) 12 seconds of silence: how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
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xiv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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"The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."--
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In the 25th Century, the effects of overpopulation and global warming on Earth have led to the formation of human colonies on the Moon, Mars and elsewhere in the Solar System, yet the limited number of viable places forces humanity to look to the stars. A crash program has been developed to send Protos 1, a giant multigenerational star ship, to a newly discovered Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star. The plan is for awake crewmembers to run the...
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