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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
Publisher
Bantam Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Bantam Books Trade Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation?
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
x, 253 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are some of the questions considered in this book by Stephen Hawking, known to be one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists.
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
143 p.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of life on Earth from the origins of the planet, through the development and extinction of a variety of life forms, to the end of the latest Ice Age and the appearance of modern humans.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was ... nothing. But then ... BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. The author takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while illustrations capture the void before the Big...
7) 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.
8) 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
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hunt, gather, cook is an award-winning journalist and blogger's guide to foraging, fishing, hunting and making the most of the fruits of a day spent gathering food in the field. Shaw shares his experiences both in the field and the kitchen, as well as his extensive knowledge of North America's edible flora and fauna.
