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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Starting with the big bang, plot the history of our universe, focusing on events in the tiniest fraction of the first second, when phenomena such as supersymmetry, superstrings, and quantum loops may have come into play. Consider the explanatory power of the theory of cosmic inflation.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn how your hypothalamus works to maintain a certain preset level of body fat and weight, commonly known as the set point, and how can you influence that set point. If you feel that you've plateaued, check back with these basics to help you accomplish your personal body-composition goals.
3) Timeline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this thriller from the author of Jurassic Park, Sphere, and Congo, a group of young scientists travel back in time to medieval France on a daring rescue mission that becomes a struggle to stay alive.
“Compulsive reading . . . brilliantly imagined.”—Los Angeles Times
In an Arizona desert,...
“Compulsive reading . . . brilliantly imagined.”—Los Angeles Times
In an Arizona desert,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Suspicious Minds, Rob Brotherton explores the history and consequences of conspiracism, and delves into the research that offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and unproveable conspiracy theories. They resonate with some of our brain's built-in quirks and foibles, and tap into some of our deepest desires, fears, and assumptions about the world,"--Amazon.com.
5) Sorting toys
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book guides young readers through the process of sorting"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cecchetti (1850-1928) performed and taught in Russia and with Diaghilev's troupe. Assisted by of one of Cecchetti's star pupils, Stanislas Idzikowski, Cyril Beaumont codified Cecchetti's program for this book, which includes a numbered series of instructions for each exercise in addition to numerous illustrations. 109 black-and-white illustrations.
8) Frendo lives
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A year after the Kettle Springs massacre, Quinn and her friends Rust and Cole become the focus of online conspiracy theories that recast them as villains rather than victims.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces the big bang theory, describing how the universe began and how elementary particles combined to form our solar system and eventually Earth's simplest organisms, which in turn evolved to becomes complex forms of life and human beings.
6 yrs+
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Provides a concise introduction to quantum physics, covering more than eighty concepts from the uncertainty principle to quantum tunneling, and profiles such physicists as Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, and Richard Feynman.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Test the popular theory that six steps, at most, connect you to any person on the planet. Social networks like Facebook provide a wealth of data for quantifying our relative connectedness. See how graph theory helps you to visualize any linked phenomena.
14) Making numbers count: the art and science of communicating numbers /|cChip Heath and Karla Starr
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
15) Prom theory
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Iris Oxtabee, who has Nonverbal Learning Disability, decides to prove love is simply chemistry by getting popular, newly-single Theo Grant to ask her to prom--complicating her friendship with Seth.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything and all voices demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hazel knows a lot about the world. That's because when she's not hanging with her best friend, taking care of her dog, or helping care for the goats on her family's farm, she loves reading through dusty encyclopedias. But even Hazel doesn't have answers for the questions awaiting her as she enters eighth grade. What if no one at her new school gets her, and she doesn't make any friends? What's going to happen to one of her moms, who's pregnant again...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the edge of time -- A world of time and space -- A world without a beginning? -- Glimpses of the big bang -- The universe and the accelerator -- The origins of everything -- Hearts of darkness -- A beacon in the dark? -- Radically rethinking dark matter -- A flash in time -- Endless worlds most beautiful -- Touching the edge of time.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with Sigmund Freud, modern child development theories have changed the way that parents raise their children and the way that teachers teach those children. This video is an entertaining and enlightening view of the major child development theories, how the theories differ and how more than one approach can be beneficial. Historical footage and photos are combined with candid documentary footage from day care centers.
20) Omega City
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gillian Seagret doesn't listen to people who say her father's a crackpot. His conspiracy theories about the lost technology of Cold War-era rocket scientist Dr. Aloysius Underberg may have cost him his job and forced them to move to the middle of nowhere, but Gillian knows he's right and plans to prove it.
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