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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
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p.: col. ill.; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents recent archaeological findings about the first people to settle the Americas, how they got here, and from what continent they came.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Every fossil tells a story. Prothero recounts the adventures behind the discovery of twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils and explains their significance within the larger fossil record, creating a riveting history of life on our planet.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First Scholastic Edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
108 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever wonder what happened before the Bone cousins got lost in the uncharted forest of the Valley? This is a hilarious companion to Jeff Smith's bestselling, award-winning BONE saga!
Long before the Bone cousins were ever lost in the uncharted forest of the Valley, Big Johnson Bone, the discoverer of the Rolling Bone River, founded Boneville. But little is known of the mighty explorer's adventures before he started his famous trading post. So when...
10) Cold Hearted
Author
Series
Villains volume 8
Publisher
Disney Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Hardcover Edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
294 pages : 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's a familiar tale: A kind and beautiful young girl, reeling from loss. A doting father, frantic to bring a mother's love back into his daughter's life. And the selfish, cruel woman who insinuates herself into a family--a woman so unfeeling, so cold hearted, that when her new husband dies, she makes the girl a servant in her own home.
But who is that evil stepmother, that icy lady of the house? How did she become so closed off that, in the face...
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...
12) 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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
174 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the genesis of Darwin's theories, from his university studies and five-year voyage on the Beagle to his debates with contemporaries and his garden experiments, in a history that also illuminates controversies surrounding the work's publication.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S.ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 396 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
480 pages : 55 images ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation"--