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AstroNuts Mission Three: The Perfect Planet by Jon Scieszka, Steven Weinberg
Category: Junior Fiction
This series is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets The Bad Guys in a funny, visually daring adventure series for reluctant readers, teachers, and librarians alike. This hilarious, visually groundbreaking read is the conclusion to a major series by children's literature legend Jon Scieszka. ...Show more
AstroNuts Mission Two - The\Water Planet by Jon Scieszka; Steven Weinberg (Illustrator)
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Astronuts Ser.
AstroNuts Mission Two: The Water Planet is the second book in the laugh-out-loud series by children's literature legend Jon Scieszka. The book follows a new mission, where AstroWolf, LaserShark, SmartHawk, and StinkBug must find a planet fit for human life after we've finally made Earth unlivable. ...Show more
Dishwasher's Big Job by Steven Weinberg
Category: Board Books | Series: The\Big Jobs Bks.
Filled with fun facts, giggles galore, and googly eyes, the Big Jobs board books are the perfect introduction for babies and toddlers to the big world around them, starting at home With vibrant artwork and clever humor, this original board book series is a celebration of childhood curiosity and the most ...Show more
Dreams of a Final Theory : The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature by Steven Weinberg
Category: Science
The author's first book The First Three Minutes was about the earliest moments of the universe, this book looks at the smallest and most elusive things making up that universe. Until we have found them, we cannot understand the world at its deepest and most fundamental level - the level at which differe ...Show more
FIRST THREE MINUTES by Steven Weinberg
Category: Science
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic.Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from the elements that forged stars, planets, and lifeforms, to the fu ...Show more
Fridge and Oven's Big Job by Steven Weinberg
Category: Board Books | Series: The\Big Jobs Bks.
Filled with fun facts, giggles galore, and googly eyes, the Big Jobs board books are the perfect introduction for babies and toddlers to the big world around them, starting at home With vibrant artwork and clever humor, this original board book series is a celebration of childhood curiosity and the most ...Show more
The Astro-Nuts by Jon Scieszka; Steven Weinberg (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Graphic Novels
It's happening - the end of the world is upon us. It's time to look elsewhere to find a new home. Enter the AstroNuts! Narrated by Planet Earth, this book is about four hybrid animals - LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug - created by NNASA (Not-NASA) to explore other planets. The criteria: 1 ...Show more
The Middle Kid by Steven Weinberg (Illustrator)
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A story about the wonderfully challenging realities of being a family's middle kid. Readers experience a day in the life of a middle kid, and all the highs and lows of a life in-between. When you're the middle kid, you're never the first nor the last to do anything. You're not the tallest or the smalles ...Show more
Third Thoughts by Steven Weinberg
Category: Science
A wise, personal, and wide-ranging meditation on science and society by the Nobel Prize-winning author of To Explain the World. For more than four decades, one of the most captivating and celebrated science communicators of our time has challenged the public to think carefully about the foundations of ...Show more
Third Thoughts - The Universe We Still Don't Know by Steven Weinberg
Category: Science
"The phrase 'public intellectual' is much bandied about. Just a few real heavyweights in the world merit the title, and Steven Weinberg is preeminent among them." --Richard Dawkins "Weinberg has a knack for capturing a complex concept in a succinct, unforgettable image... One of the smartest and most di ...Show more
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
Category: Science
In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, he show ...Show more