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1) Quantum
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English
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"On the eve of a top secret space mission, Captain Calli Chase detects a tripped alarm in the tunnels deep below a NASA research center. A NASA pilot, quantum physicist, and cybercrime investigator, Calli knows that a looming blizzard and government shutdown could provide the perfect cover for sabotage, with deadly consequences. As it turns out, the danger is worse than she thought. A spatter of dried blood, a missing security badge, a suspicious...
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Publisher
Harper
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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185 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Citizen science is the public involvement in the discovery of new scientific knowledge. A citizen science project can involve one person or millions of people collaborating towards a common goal. It is an excellent option for anyone looking for ways to get involved and make a difference. The Field Guide to Citizen Science, from the expert team at SciStarter, provides everything you need to get started. You'll learn what citizen science is, how to...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Physical Desc
xix, 1153 p. : illustations ; 24 cm
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English
Description
When a disease wipes out most of humankind, the survivors gather to create a new society and to battle a force of pure evil in human form unleashed upon the world.
8) Lab girl
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A memoir by an award-winning paleobiologist traces her childhood in her father's laboratory, her longtime relationship with a brilliant but wounded colleague and the remarkable discoveries they have made both in the lab and during extensive field research assignments.
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Alex Carter volume 2
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William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
[2021].
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First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages : black and white illustrations , black and white maps ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
Wildlife biologist Alex Carter is back, fighting for endangered species in the Canadian Arctic and battling for her life in this [...] follow-up to A Solitude of Wolverines. Fresh off her wolverine study in Montana, wildlife biologist Alex Carter lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. Embedded with a small team of Arctic researchers, she tracks the majestic bears by air, following them over vast, snowy...
10) Random acts of medicine: the hidden forces that sway doctors, impact patients, and shape our health
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
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First edition.
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307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
Description
"Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to contract COVID-19? As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor...
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English
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Temple Grandin discusses the research that is transforming our understanding of the autistic brain. Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, she introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scans from numerous studies.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
16) A forest in the clouds: my year among the mountain gorillas in the remote enclave of Dian Fossey
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 391 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A zoologist's portrait of Dr. Dian Fossey's remarkable mountain gorilla camp documents the story of the controversial unraveling of the Rwandan facility after Fossey's murder and the author's contributions to tracking mountain gorillas through hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The discovery of cells--and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem--announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer's, dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID--all could be viewed as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies. In...
19) Undetected
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English
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"Researcher Gina Gray is on the verge of a breakthrough in sonar technology, and what she's told Navy Commander Mark Bishop is only the beginning.."--
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English
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