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Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Learn about the detective work that historians use to better understand our past, including the mysteries of the Stone Age, Herculaneum and Pompeii, Noah's Ark, the Great Wall of China, the legend of King Arthur, and more.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Biomedical science--the research that underlies our treatments and cures--is in deep crisis. Every year, American taxpayers spend more than $30 billion funding it. About half of that work, by some estimates, is wrong. As award-winning science journalist Richard Harris reveals in Rigor Mortis, this is not simply the result of trial and error, which is an essential part of the scientific process. The economic imperative for researchers to get and keep...
Publisher
Project Management Institute, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The Project Management Institute and Agile Alliance® chartered this practice guide to create a greater understanding of agile approaches in their communities. The vision for this practice guide is to equip project teams with tools, situational guidelines, and an understanding of the available agile techniques and approaches to enable better results. Project teams are using agile approaches in a variety of industries beyond software development. Both...
Author
Series
Acadia files volume 1
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Acadia Greene, who always has questions ready for anything, uses the scientific method to find out where sand comes from, why the sun rises early in the summer, and who keeps stealing her blueberries.
Author
Series
Acadia files volume 4
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Acadia Greene, who always has questions ready for anything, uses the scientific method to investigate meteors, identify signs of the changing seasons, and examine mass extinctions.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021, 2020
Description
"Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That's a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn't be suspicious of statistics-we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often "the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us." If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach...
13) Exploratopia
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Learn about science experiments and how and why they are done.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Description
In this illuminating book, renowned physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics-the search for the laws of nature-is losing its way. Ambitious ideas about extra dimensions, exotic particles, multiple universes, and strings have captured the public's imagination-and the imagination of experts. But these ideas have not been tested experimentally, and some, like string theory, seem to offer no possibility of being tested. Even still, these...
Author
Series
Olga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discovering a smelly creature in her garbage can that she names after herself, Olga befriends and studies the eccentric Olgamus using the scientific method, the practices of Jane Goodall, and other scientific concepts.
17) Secret spy gear
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Spies have to be innovative to not get caught during missions. Readers will learn about wartime spies and the disguises and gadgets they used to gain intel"--
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