An international best sellerThe book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world?" Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a...
Math and science
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Author:Parker, MattSummary: - Author:Schuetz, KristinSummary:
Humidity measures the water vapor level in the air. If levels are high, the air will feel damp. When levels are low, the air feels dry. Check your forecast for each day's humidity prediction! Read more and learn how to understand...
- Author:Hanson, ThorSummary:
In his three previous books-Feathers, The Triumph of Seeds, and Buzz-Thor Hanson has taken his readers on unforgettable journeys into nature, rendered with great storytelling, the soul of a poet, and the insight of a biologist. In this...
- Author:Manolis, KaySummary:
Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of hurricanes. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade.
- Author:O'Hara, Mo.Summary:
Bedtime goes out of this world with Hush, Little Rocket, a new picture book by New York Times -bestselling author Mo O'Hara! Hush, Little Rocket, don't make a bleep. We're heading home now, it's time to sleep. At the end of a very long...
- Author:Meltzer, BradSummary:
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, physicist and chemist Marie Curie is the 19th hero in the New York Times bestselling book biography series about heroes. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our...
- Author:Swingle, Mari K.Summary:
Engaging and scientifically rigorous, this fully updated edition of i-Minds explores screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering them as both godsend and plague, demonstrating how constant connectivity is changing...
- Author:Swingle, Mari K.Summary:
Many of us would no more go out without our cell phone than we would leave the house without clothes. We live our lives on social media, and PDAs, tablets, computers and other devices are completely integrated into our global culture....
- Author:Wendorff, AnneSummary:
Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of ice storms. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade.
- Author:Cayley, DavidSummary:
If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything was subject to science, but...
- Author:Tate, NikkiSummary:
Every day more of the world’s forests disappear. Trees are cleared for agriculture, lost in wildfires and harvested for the valuable products they supply. Called the lungs of the planet, forests play a critical role in climate...
- Author:Urbain, Jean-PierreSummary:
Un livre amusant pour s’informer, réfléchir et imaginer des formes de vie possibles sur les nouvelles exoplanètes.
- Author:Dettmer, PhilippSummary:
A deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt-In a Nutshell "Through wonderful analogies and a genius for clarifying...
- Author:Brennecka, GregSummary:
A Short History of Nearly Everything meets Astrophysics for People in a Hurry in this humorous, accessible exploration of how meteorites have helped not only build our planet but steered the evolution of life and human culture. The...
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In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of...
- Author:Oakes, Lauren E.Summary:
The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying...
- Author:Cherrix, Amy E.Summary:
The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War: Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket...
- Author:Schlossberg, TatianaSummary:
Cataloging the complexities and frustrations of our carbon-intensive society with a dry sense of humor, Schlossberg makes the climate crisis and its solutions interesting and relevant to everyone who cares, even a little, about the...
- Author:Doctorow, CorySummary:
Cory Doctorow takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. This is an essential read for anyone with a stake in the future of the arts.
- Author:Zaidan, GeorgeSummary:
Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. George Zaidan reveals what will kill you, what won't, and why - explained with high-octane hilarity, hysterical hijinks, and other things that don't begin with the letter H. INGREDIENTS...
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