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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
You explore the intriguing capabilities of quantum computers, which don't yet exist but are theoretically possible. Using the laws of quantum mechanics, such devices could factor huge numbers, allowing them to easily decipher unbreakable conventional codes.
2) Sold on love
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Series
Language
English
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The townspeople of Maple Falls never dreamed the stylish real estate agent would have anything in common with everyone's favorite mechanic. But when these two get together, the spark plugs aren't the only thing creating a charge.
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Series
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English
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Savvy hadn't changed. She was smarter than you and didn't mind letting you know it. She'd whip you up and down trying to get her way. But, we weren't lovers any more-and she'd stopped being a Barnburner long ago. Still...
Conway Sax, the no-nonsense auto mechanic with a knack for solving difficult problems for the Barnburners, the renegade AA group who saved his life, is back in The Whole Lie. And, for once, he thinks normalcy is within reach....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn.
7) Velocity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Cassica and Shiara have grown up in Coppermouth, a dust choked town in the Outback, but now they hope to use their skills as race driver and mechanic to take on the Widowmaker, an off-road rally through some of the most dangerous places on Earth, to win fame and fortune--provided they survive the race.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The pendulum clock was the standard for precise timekeeping for centuries. Plan and build one using your newly acquired knowledge of gears. Start by exploring why a pendulum keeps accurate time. Then calculate an appropriate pendulum length for the clock. Design the escapement mechanism and gear train, then add a suitable power source to keep the pendulum swinging.
9) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Funded by a reclusive billionaire Camp Valor alum, Wyatt Brewer and new camper Jalen Rose--a gamer and accidental mass murderer--team up to bring justice to Wyatt's former mentor and to stop cyberterrorist Encyte.
12) Insignia
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Study the most celebrated challenge to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics: the paradox proposed by Albert Einstein and his collaborators Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen (and later updated by David Bohm). Is quantum mechanics an incomplete theory due to hidden variables that guide the outcome of quantum interactions? Examine this idea and the experiments designed to test it.
14) Shine!
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Piper's father is hired by Chumley Prep, a school where every student seems to be the best at everything, she gets the chance to compete for the prestigious Excelsior Award.
16) Hullmetal girls
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Aisha Un-Haad, seventeen, and Key Tanaka, eighteen, have risked everything for new lives as mechanically enhanced soldiers, and when an insurrection forces dark secrets to surface, the fate of humanity is in their hands.
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Series
Language
English
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Much like its older brother, Lego* Mindstorms, Lego WeDo kits offer young engineers the chance to design and program creations all by themselves. WeDo kits take the fun and technology of Mindstorms' kits and make it simpler for novice coders and builders. WeDo software is easy to learn and a blast to use. At the same time, using WeDo can easily be integrated into STEM instruction. Accessible text and vivid photographs help readers make sense of a...
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English
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"Bel would rather die than think about the future. College apps? You're funny. Extracurriculars? Not a chance. But when she accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she's basically forced into joining the robotics club. Even worse? All the boys ignore Bel--and Neelam, the only other girl on the team, doesn't seem to like her either. Enter Mateo Luna, captain of the club, who recognizes Bel as a potential asset--until they start butting...
20) Gearbreakers
Author
Series
Gearbreakers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an age of 100-foot-tall mechanical deities run by a tyrannical regime, two teenaged girls on opposite sides of a war discover they are figting for a common purpose--and falling for each other.
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