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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
After an alien race called the Shongari virtually conquers Earth, Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky and the rest of the humans must forge an alliance with Earth's vampires, who, once the enemies of the humans, now are willing to make amends--to defend the home planet they have in common.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"The average American spends ninety percent of their time indoors, and children are no exception. Today, kids can spend up to seven hours per day looking at screens. Not only does this phenomenon have consequences for our kids' physical and mental health, it calls into question their ability to understand and engage with anything beyond the built environment. We can talk about environmental stewardship, but until more people make meaningful contact...
Author
Language
English
Description
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
8) Human
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
512 p.
Language
English
Description
Robert Winston and Dr. Don E. Wilson, editorial consultants.
9) Prometheus
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A team of explorers aboard the spaceship Prometheus searches for an advanced civilization that may have been responsible for human life on Earth. Instead, they find a dark, twisted world that hides a terrifying threat of destroying them and all mankind.
11) The skull in the rock: how a scientist, a boy, and Google Earth opened a new window on human origins
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
12) Like
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Language
English
Description
In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Told through stories from an extraordinary career and fascinating research, this urgent book, written by the world's most famous living naturalist and an internationally best-selling author, explores one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature--hope.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As if Annie Dillard walked into THE WORLD WITHOUT US: a beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence. Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere...
16) Unreconciled
Author
Series
Donovan volume 4
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
488 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Where does one put a messianic cult of practicing cannibals? That becomes the question when Ashanti appears in Donovan's skies. She was designed for no more than four years in space. It's taken ten. The crew has sealed the transportees onto a single deck--and over the years, the few survivors down there have become monsters. Lead by the messiah, Batuhan, they call themselves the Unreconciled. Supervisor Kalico Aguila settles them at remote Tyson...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""--
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a year on Mars, a young boy and his family migrate to the planet Choom, but the inhabitants of Choom, the Zhuri, who look like giant mosquitoes, don't really like humans and it up to the boy and his family to change their minds if they hope to survive.
19) Under their skin
Author
Series
Under their skin volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Creative nonfiction picture book explains evolution and natural selection. A newly-emerged peppered moth blends in with other speckled-winged moths on lichen-covered branches, but over time the moths with black wings increase as trees are blackened by soot from man-made machines.