Woelfle, Gretchen.
Summary: "Explaining how the wind works, what windmills have contributed to the past, and why they offer environmental promise today as a source of clean, renewable energy, this revised and updated edition offers a glimpse into all the current and historical usesfor wind power. Featuring new information on wind energy technology and wind farms, new photographs, and 24 wind-related activities--from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 621.453 WOECrawford, Alisa
Summary: America’s only authentic operational Dutch windmill, De Zwaan serves as Holland, Michigan’s iconic connection to the community’s roots. Believed to have been built in 1761, then moved to the village of Vinkel in North Brabant, The Netherlands, where it produced flour for eighty years, the windmill was dismantled, shipped to the United States, and reassembled in 1964. For more than a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: In-Depth Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.41 CRAKamkwamba, William
Summary: An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KAMWoelfle, Gretchen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOEKamkwamba, William
Summary: "When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KAMKamkwamba, William.
Summary: A true story of tenacity and imagination describes how an African teenager built a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his home and his village, improving life for himself and his neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 621.453 KAMWoelfle, Gretchen
Summary: An introduction to windmills and their advantages as renewable energy providers, with activities for understanding some of the principles of wind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 621.4 WOEContents: Fly from heaven -- Woodburning -- Something's always wrong -- Stupid -- Crowning -- Listen -- Windmills -- Nanci -- Fall down -- Inside -- Begin -- Reincarnation song.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A thriller set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system. A hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain come together for what starts as the case of a missing young woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: disc 1. Rainy night in Tallinn -- Windmills -- Meeting Neil -- Priya -- Betrayal -- Freeport -- 747 -- From Mumbai to Amalfi -- Foils -- Sator --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TENDorling Kindersley, Inc. (COR)
Summary: Provides step-by-step, illustrated instructions for a wide range of craft projects, including animal masks, friendship bracelets, origami windmills, painted stones, and pom-poms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Pub 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 MOMSummary: Learn the basics of electronics and modern alternative energy. Explore clean energy concepts, such as electric cars, windmills, and hand-generated power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elenco 2020
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 274Dobson, Clive
Summary: Surveys the history of wind power and windmills, outlines the science that makes them work, and provides instructions for increasingly difficult projects that demonstrate each principle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books (U.S.) 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 621.45 DOBBrad Goode Quintet
Contents: Decathexis -- Pain -- The windmills of your mind -- Pentacles -- Covid nightmare -- Joia -- Khufu's horizon -- The unknown -- At seventeen -- Shiprock
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GOOStrout, Elizabeth
Summary: "Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Strout 2017Estes, Fred
Summary: "Teen Innovators celebrates the determination and ingenuity of ten young people who created their own original inventions. From water testing to windmills, these youth use unique methods to overcome real world problems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 ESTStilton, Thea.
Summary: Attending an art class in the Netherlands, Violet journeys through the flower gardens, windmills and canals of Holland to investigate the untimely disappearance of her friend's father, a renowned botanist whose absence is linked to a rare black tulip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014