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Over on the Farm - A Barnyard Baby Animal Counting Book by Marianne Berkes
Category: Picture Books | Series: Our World, Our Home Ser.
Learning to count is fun while finding adorable baby animals on the farm! Discover how pigs roll, goats nibble, horses gallop, hens peck, and turkeys strut and begin to find a place in your heart for many of the other animals on the farm! Explore the world around you, and inspire a bond with nature thro ...Show more
Over on the Farm - A Barnyard Baby Animal Counting Book by Marianne Berkes
Category: Picture Books | Series: Our World, Our Home Ser.
Learning to count is fun while finding adorable baby animals on the farm! Discover how pigs roll, goats nibble, horses gallop, hens peck, and turkeys strut and begin to find a place in your heart for many of the other animals on the farm! Explore the world around you, and inspire a bond with nature thro ...Show more
Patricia's Vision - The Doctor Who Saved Sight by Michelle Lord; Alleanna Harris (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: People Who Shaped Our World Ser.
The inspiring story of Dr. Patricia Bath, a groundbreaking ophthalmologist who pioneered laser surgery--and gave her patients the gift of sight. Born in the 1940s, Patricia Bath dreamed of being an ophthalmologist at a time when becoming a doctor wasn't a career option for most women--especially Afric ...Show more
Poverty by Rachel Minay
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Our World in Crisis Ser.
What is poverty? is it do to with what we have compared to others around us, or is it to do with what we need to survive? This book looks at the causes and effects of extreme poverty - defined as having less than US1.90 a day to live on - and discusses how poverty is also a serious issue in the develope ...Show more
Quantum Theory by Niels Bohr; Max Planck
Category: Science | Series: Great Works That Shape Our World Ser.
Quantum Theory contains the seminal works of quantum theory from the early years of the 20th Century, representing breakthroughs in science that radically altered the landscape of modern knowledge: Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra by Niels Bohr and The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory by Max P ...Show more
Queen of Physics - How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom by Teresa Robeson
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: People Who Shaped Our World Ser.
Meet Wu Chien Shiung, famous physicist who overcame prejudice to prove that she could be anything she wanted."Wu Chien Shiung's story is remarkable--and so is the way this book does it justice." --Booklist (Starred review)When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, most girls did not attend sc ...Show more
Rain Shaker by Elizabeth Mary Cummings; Cheri Hughes (Illustrator)
Category: PICTURE BOOKS | Series: Our World Ser.
Rain Shaker transports the reader into a world where dreams come true and hope rides high on the rising tides of global warming. When Erin finds a snow shaker her imagination is ignited and she embarks on a magical journey of possibility of what if? In a world of droughts and floods where water won't be ...Show more
Space Technology - Landers, Space Tourism, and More by John Wood
Category: Education | Series: STEM in Our World Ser.
Can you imagine going on a trip into space? What about flying along at 300 miles an hour in a levitating train? Or clinging onto your seat at a 4D movie? Thanks to STEM, soon you can do all this and more! Science, technology, engineering and maths are bringing new toys, tolls and technological gadgets i ...Show more
Terrorism by Claudia Martin
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Our World in Crisis Ser.
What is terrorism? How do terrorists differ from other criminals? What makes some individuals and groups decide to use violence to create terror as a means of achieving their aims? This book looks at the history of terrorism and analyses the motivations for its use. It looks at what is being done to tac ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Great Works That Shape Our World Ser.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. The Art of War is the earliest-known and most famous treatise on military science. Written in Ancient China by military general Sun Tzu, it provides tactical advice on war strategy and how to adjust your appro ...Show more
The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box by WESSELS, MARCIE
Category: Biography | Series: People Who Shaped Our World Ser.
Crazy about Wii, Nintendo, X-Box, and PlayStation? Meet the inventor whose work made them all possible: Ralph Baer, creator of the first home video game system! Today, the video game industry keeps growing, with ever more platforms available to fans. But how did the very first system come about? This pi ...Show more
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Great Works That Shape Our World Ser.
The Interpretation of Dreams is a seminal work of psychological and cultural heritage and probably the most important of Freud's impressive output. Published in 1899 but revised by Freud himself many times, it outlines his theories on the unconscious and dream symbolism. Though largely discredited and s ...Show more