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Spanning disciplines from biology to cosmology, chemistry to psychology to physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement of scientific discovery.Science’s best-kept secret is this: even today, thereare experimental results that the most brilliant scientists cannot explain. In the past, similar “anomalies” have revolutionized our world. If history is any precedent, we should look to today’s inexplicable results...
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Science educator, TV host, and New York Times–bestselling author Bill Nye is on a mission to help kids understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Featuring a range of subjects—physics, chemistry, geology, biology, astronomy, global warming, and more—this profusely illustrated book covers the basic principles of each science, key discoveries, recent revolutionary advances, and the problems that science...
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Ripley Publishing, a Jim Pattison Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Filled with all-true facts comparing events, inventions and people that you would never believe existed at the same time in history, this brand new Ripley's Believe It or Not! series will warp your mind! We're comparing the world's most bizarre parallel events! Did you know that the Eiffel Tower was presented at the 1889 World's Fair--the same year that Nintendo was founded? Or that the last beheading by guillotine in France...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Are you curious about numbers, size, and how something small stacks up to something big, like the number of grains of sand that fill a bucket? Using life-size photographs, engaging gatefolds, and witty asides, Jorge Doneiger beautifully demonstrates relative size, along with quantitative information that answers questions about all kinds of creatures and objects. If you unraveled all the thread from a T-shirt, how many times...
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English
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Sure a lot of kids want to grow up to be astronauts, but according to scientist Glenn Murphy, even MORE kids want to know what happens to astronaut farts. (Short answer: Not good things!) And they want to know: Why don't all fish die from lightening storms? Why haven't we all been sucked into a black hole? Do animals talk? Told in a back-and-forth conversational style, "Why is Snot Green?" presents science just the way kids want to learn it--with...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A bold and playful approach to science that makes the subject relevant to kids and encourages them to discover it in the real world with more than 40 fun questions, science games, and real-life scenarios. Why does mold grow? Why is the sea salty? What makes day and night? Kids can have all these questions-and more-answered in How to be a Scientist , as they learn how to think like a scientist and look at the world to figure out how science works....
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Publisher
Pavilion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Aimed at older children and curious adults, this book covers everything you need to know about some of the most complex scientific ideas the world has ever seen, made accessible and fun-Newton's Theory of Relativity, quantum physics, nuclear fission and fusion, quarks, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and that old favorite E=mc2 are all explained here, clearly and entertainingly. There are also 10 practical experiments to give you even more insight...
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English
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Hannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty world. Some see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a dazzling and mysterious force; Dust, we discover, built the planet we walk upon. And it tinkers with the weather and spices the air we breathe. Billions of tons of it rise annually into the air, the dust of deserts and forgotten kings mixing with volcanic ash, sea salt, leaf fragments, scales...
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Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Of all the questions astronauts are asked by kids, the most frequent one is ?How do you go to the toilet in space? This book not only answers that question, but many others about the effect of zero gravity on the human body: How do you brush your hair in space? What happens when you sweat? What does food taste like? The best thing is that the answers are provided by Dr. Dave Williams, a NASA astronaut who speaks from first-hand experience. Written...
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