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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The second title in DK's new illustrated biography series, Scientists Who Changed History profiles trailblazing individuals from Greek mathematicians, such as Archimedes and Hipparchus, through physicists of the early 20th-century, such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, to modern greats such as Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee. Each featured individual has made a major contribution to one or more scientific fields, from astronomy, biology, and...
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve men and women who work in the field of science discuss and explain their occupations, including what they might do in a normal working day and the scariest thing that ever happened to them.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.
Author
Publisher
Otter-Barry Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
21 amazing women explorers and adventurers from all over the world From Aud the Deep-Minded, an early voyager to Iceland, and Sacagawea who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition across the USA, to Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space and Arunima Sinha, the first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest, this book shows the incredible courage, determination and power of women explorers over the last 1200 years. These women have led the way exploring...
50) Save the ocean
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From exciting and adventurous to educational and captivating, Bethany Stahl's immersive stories express heartfelt messages while engaging parents and children. With beautiful and charming illustrations, as well as a lovable sea turtle named Agwe, this is a book adults will love reading over and over again with their kids. Save the Ocean has a heartwarming lesson of recycling and conservation that will stay with the reader for a lifetime. There are...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"From historic world leaders to brilliant scientists, artists, and modern-day pioneers, What Would She Do? shares twenty-five incredible women's stories that educate and empower. Learn about the remarkable achievements and attitudes of feminist trailblazers such as Cleopatra, Amelia Earhart, Malala Yousafzai, Michelle Obama, and other brave women who overcame huge obstacles to accomplish great things." -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented adventure--from hacking Warren Buffett's shareholders meeting to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to celebrating in a nightclub with Lady Gaga--as...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This is Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis Leakey to observe chimps, to her worldwide crusade to save these primates who are now in danger of extinction, and their habitat. Young animal lovers and Winter's many fans will welcome this fascinating and moving portrait of...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Renowned authority on science and philosophy Dr. Ervin Laszlo explores the implications of the new quantum sciences to move beyond the of limits of reality as we know it-and find our way again in our "in-formed," purposively evolving universe. Reconnecting to the Source is a powerful new book on the science of spiritual experience by Dr. Ervin Laszlo. A well-known figure in the fields of new science, consciousness, and spirituality, Dr. Laszlo has...
Publisher
National Geographic/distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
America's Lost Mustangs - famed 'horse whisperer' Pat Parelli journeys to find the last descendants of America's first mustangs, isolated for centuries in the rural Southwest.Jane Goodall: My Life with Chimpanzees - provides an intimate yet sweeping portrait of the extraordinary woman who, in 1960, went alone into the heart of Africa at the age of 26.
58) Not on my watch: how a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon
Author
Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada." Here is her brilliant account of her thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon, inspiring in its own right but also a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed...
59) Easy
Publisher
Overeasy Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Jamie Harris is a 25-year-old, self-proclaimed 'jerk magnet' who sees herself as 'the easy chick'. Afraid that she will never have a decent relationship, she learns about both the pleasure and pain of being close to someone.