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Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Carver had a truly prolific career dedicated to studying the ways in which people ought to interact with the natural world, yet much of his work has been largely forgotten. Hersey rectifies this by tracing the evolution of Carver's agricultural and environmental thought starting with his childhood in Missouri and Kansas and his education at the Iowa Agricultural College. Carver's environmental vision came into focus when he moved to the Tuskegee Institute...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Detective Mac Taylor, his team of forensic specialists, and police officer Flack. Their game is on when the clues in a woman's murder lead them to one of the web's most addictive virtual worlds. A plot to detonate a bomb involves two scuba instructors. A guidance counselor is killed at a dance. Murders in Times Square, Central Park, and even on the Statue of Liberty test the team. All while battling Mac's nemesis, the mysterious 333 Stalker.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
America's favorite serial killer has gone from freewheeling bachelor to responsible husband and doting dad. Maintaining an average-guy facade while satisfying his need to kill has never been easy. But now, with wife and kids in tow, Dexter's got more to lose than ever, as he gets drawn into a deadly game with a killer every bit as dangerous and conflicted as he is.
624) Visionary women: how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women showed what one person speaking truth to power can do. With a keen eye for historical detail, Andrea Barnet traces the arc of each woman's career and explores how their work collectively changed the course of history. Consummate outsiders, each prevailed against powerful and mostly male adversaries while also anticipating the disaffections...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world, young Hong Kong-based scientist Lily Barnes, as the human race dwindles due to a "depression plague," comes across something that could lead to happiness and journeys through time and space to find out
Author
Publisher
Moment of Lift Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI). But her career in science was improbable from the start. Moving from China's middle class to American poverty, her family navigated the hardships of immigrant life while struggling...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012], 2011
Language
English
Description
While she tackles some of her most gruesome homicide cases yet, Dr. Temperance Brennan also faces the delicate demands of motherhood and a deepening relationship with FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth. The thrills escalate this season when a pastor's wife goes missing and shipping clerks go postal, but the biggest shocker of all comes when clues left by a deranged cyber genius tag Brennan as a murder suspect.
631) SHOOTING FOR STARS
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Teenage science-minded Skyler teams up with film club member Cooper to defy her father and video an application to study in space.
632) Back to the future
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marty McFly test-drives his friend Doc's time machine and accidentally travels 30 years into the past, where he must locate a younger version of Doc and make sure that his parents fall in love.
Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Two children search for a unique endangered bird in this vibrant, hopeful story which joyfully celebrates difference. Unless Jo and Alex can find the last Rainbow Bird, its species will become extinct. Journeying by riverboat through a spectacular forest, the children find many extraordinary birds - elegant Underwater Birds, glowing Lamp Birds and excitable Big-to-Little Birds - but will they find the last Rainbow Bird? The singularly fabulous world...
638) Baby monster
Author
Publisher
Blue Manatee Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A baby monster that is loud, fussy, and picky about food can be hard to care for, wreaking havoc everywhere. But as two exhausted scientists find out, a baby monster can also be what makes them a family. This laugh-out-loud tale shows what every new parent knows: babies, even a baby monster, are messy, frustrating, lovable delights!
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