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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, the long-awaited follow-up to Mom's Cancer, is a unique graphic novel that tells the story of a young boy and his relationship with his father.
Spanning the period from the 1939 New York World's Fair to the last Apollo space mission in 1975, it is told through the eyes of a boy as he grows up in an era that was optimistic and ambitious, fueled by industry, engines, electricity, rockets, and the atom bomb....
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother Michael are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the IRA. During the week that follows, the lives of these three brothers collide spectacularly with big-band jazz musicians, a talented but fragile heiress, a Jewish street photographer facing a return to Nazi-occupied Prague, a vengeful mob boss, and the ghosts...
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If you want to develop a fresh and deeper vision for your life, Wm. LaRue Dillard can help. This book of the Apocalypses of Cataclysm and the World of Tomorrow! The futuristic happening on earth for all humanity is pointed out simplistically.
It gives chronological steps as listed in the book of Revelation starting with the message from Christ Jesus. The book points to the church age from the church's birth date in the spring of AD 30 in Jerusalem,...
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Series
Manhattan volume 5
Language
English
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Frank tries to navigate his new place on The Hill.
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Series
Arthur volume 5
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English
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Since Binky's repeating third grade, he's totally dreading Mr. Ratburn's annual class sleepover at the Science Museum. After all, he remembers how boring it was last year wouldn't the second time around be twice as dull? But an enticing new exhibit - on visions of the future! - shows Binky that science knowledge can really come in handy. Arthur and D.W. face the ultimate challenge when Mom gets a bad cold and then (gulp!) gives it to Dad! What if...
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English
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In this short story set with the world of sci-fi novel Tomorrow is Another year, Michael awakes to find future London beset in the fever of a vast festival. Little does he know that the reasons behind the festival, and the mysterious 'Pause' which is due to follow thereafter, are less than joyful...
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Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses-New York's "Master Builder"-brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65 World' s Fair was a Sixties flashpoint in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime.
In an epic narrative, the New York Times bestseller...
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English
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Embark on an enlightening journey into the boundless realm of tomorrow with "Unchaining Tomorrow: Navigating the World of Blockchain." In this comprehensive exploration, we invite you to traverse the intricate landscape of blockchain technology, a transformative force reshaping the very foundations of our digital future.Dive deep into the heart of decentralization, a core tenet of blockchain's philosophy. Gain a nuanced understanding of the technology's...
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Cybernetics. Neuroscience. Nanotechnology. Genetic engineering. Hacktivism. Transhumanism. The world of tomorrow is already here, and the technological changes we all face have inspired a new wave of stories to address our fears, hopes, dreams, and desires as Homo sapiens evolve-or not-into their next incarnation. Cyber World presents diverse tales of humanity's tomorrow, as told by some of today's most gripping science fiction visionaries.
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English
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"Featuring interviews with innovators, real talk on revolutionary technology, and a clear picture of a cleaner planet in the future, Our Livable World proves that our ability to fight climate change is limited only by the scope of our imagination and the power of our will."-- Page 4 of cover.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Circa 1939 ace city reporter Polly Perkins has noted the sudden disappearances of many of the world's most famous scientists. After the city falls under attack of giant flying robots, she decides to team up with her ex-boyfriend, aviation officer Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan and flys around the world in search of the evil mastermind, Dr. Totenkopf, whose plan it is to create a new world by destroying the one of today.
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English
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A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.
For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world's armed superpower - and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation...
16) The wizard and the prophet: two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions of tomorrow's world
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Two influential scientists, William Vogt (1902-1968), and Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), and their approaches to environmental problems.
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English
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The computing technology on which we are now so dependent has risen to its position of ascendency so rapidly that few of us have had the opportunity to take a step back and wonder where we are headed. This book urges us to do so.
Taking a big-picture perspective on digital technology, Living with Computers leads the reader on a whistle-stop tour of the history of information and information technology. This journey culminates in a deep exploration...
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English
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We are on the cusp of a sweeping revolution-one that will change every facet of our lives. The changes ahead will challenge and alter fundamental concepts such as national identity, human rights, money, and markets. In this pivotal, complicated moment, what are the great questions we need to ask to navigate our way forward?
David Rothkopf believes in the power of questions. When sweeping changes have occurred in history-the religious awakenings of...
19) Customers the Day After Tomorrow: How to Attract Customers in a World of AIs, Bots, and Automotion
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English
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• Based on research in more than 300 innovative companies, the visionary insights of bestselling author Steven Van Belleghem provide an answer on how to be customer-oriented in a world of automatization and digitalization
• With a chapter by expert Peter Hinssen
Phase 3 of digitalization has started. A phase of artificial intelligence has revolutionized the buying behavior of customers: collecting information, the buying process and customer...
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English
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How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us for a more democratic internet
In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results, the convenience of buying from Amazon,...