Claybourne, Anna.
Summary: Everyday things like toasters, chocolate bars, and cars are only here because someone bothered to invent them. Learn about these, and other brilliant ideas, from ancient inventions like the wheel, to the high-tech gadgets of the modern world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [EDC Publishing] 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 609 CLAKiyosaki, Robert T.
Summary: Taking to heart the message that the poor and middle class work for money, but the rich have money work for them, the author lays out a financial philosophy based on the principle that income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plata Publishing 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 KIYKane, Barry.
Summary: Encourages everyone to use their imagination and explore nature to create, invent, learn, and build fairy houses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Light-Beams Pub. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fai KaneScieszka, Jon.
Summary: In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Scieszka 2014Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCILevine, James A.
Summary: "That the average adult spends 50 to 70 percent of their day sitting is no surprise to anyone who works in an office environment. But few realize the health consequences they are suffering as a result of modernity's increasingly sedentary lifestyle, or the effects it has had on society at large. In Get Up! , health expert James A. Levine's original scientific research shows that today's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 LEVTurner, Toni.
Contents: Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- And away we go! -- Unlocking your investment potential -- The market in motion : how the stock market travels through time -- Reading the market's mood -- Your investing edge : the art of the chart -- Analyzing company performance : fundamental research for investors -- Mind your own business : what you need to succeed -- Exploring the world of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 332.67 TURMarçal, Katrine
Summary: The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021