Follows Dr. Alex Fillippenko and his High-Z Supernova Search Team as they use the Keck telescope in Hawaii to look for supernovae, find black holes, and study the effects of dark energy.
Juvenile literature
- Auteur:Jackson, Ellen B.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Debnam, BettySommaire:
Appearing in more than 500 newspapers weekly, The Mini Page is loved by children, parents, teachers, and anyone who wants to learn a little more while having a lot of fun. The Mini Page Guide to the Constitution will teach readers...
- Auteur:Webster, ChristineSommaire:
Provides information on the Mi'kmaq Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Auteur:Howse, JenniferSommaire:
Provides information on the Métis with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Auteur:Banting, ErinnSommaire:
Provides information on the Ktunaxa Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Auteur:Peterson, CoyoteSommaire:
Coyote Peterson, YouTube star, animal enthusiast, and creator of the Brave Adventure series, has tracked down some of the world's most painfully stinging insects and chronicled getting stung by each of them on his YouTube channel....
- Auteur:Sadlier, RosemarySommaire:
Learn the important role Black Canadian's have played, and will continue to play, in the development of Canada.
- Auteur:Kipling, RudyardSommaire:
The adventures of Mowgli, man-child, reared by the jungle wolf packs and educated by wild animals. Includes other classic jungle stories by Kipling.
- Auteur:Banting, ErinnSommaire:
Provides information on the Inuit with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Auteur:Webster, ChristineSommaire:
Provides information on the Huron Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Auteur:JORDAN, SherrylSommaire:
In England in 1356, a peasant lad and a young Chinese woman travel to St. Alfric's Cove and the lair of the last fire-breathing dragon. An ancient herb woman has armed them with practical lore and a large supply of gunpowder to...
- Auteur:Bacon, RonSommaire:
The marae needed a house, so the oldest tohunga went out to the forest and the shore to find inspiration for the carvings. A description of Maori carvings for younger children.
- Auteur:Nault, JenniferSommaire:
Provides information on the Haida Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Auteur:VERCOE, ElizabethSommaire:
The authors provide practical ideas, tools and stories to help someone move through grief. It is specifically written for young people coping with numerous problems from dealing with separated or divorced parents to events that create...
- Auteur:Khanduri, KaminiSommaire:
There is a brain-teasing picture puzzle on every double-page of this book. Each beautifully illustrated scene shows a different period in history, crammed with all kinds of people, animals and objects to spot. A bustling Greek...
- Auteur:Stone, Tanya LeeSommaire:
Readers learn about Mattel Toys and the background behind Barbie's concept and development, how it was a solution for girls who wanted to imagine adult roles rather than just play mother, and details about inventor Ruth Handler.
- Auteur:Rudolph, JessicaSommaire:
Describes the 1918 influenza (sometimes called the Spanish influenza), explaining the causes of the disease, how it affects the body, and how it became a pandemic.
- Auteur:Hakim, JoySommaire:
Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.
- Auteur:Griffith, VictoriaSommaire:
Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
- Auteur:Renaud, AnneSommaire:
Anna Swan grew to an astonishing size -- nearly 2.5 metres (almost 8 feet) tall. She was billed as ?The Nova Scotia Giant Girl? at P.T. Barnum's American Museum in New York. But despite her unusual and challenging physical attributes,...