Mullins, Matt.
Summary: An introduction to the periodic table, covering its organization, the information it contains, how it is used, and how elements combine to form other elements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546.8 MULRobinson, Ken
Summary: With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the element--the point at which natural talent meets personal passion--and then outlines an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.9 ROBMatthews, John
Contents: Introduction -- High king -- Merlin and the prophecies of the land -- Round table -- Goddesses and guides -- Lancelot and Tristan -- Grail quest -- Avalon and the faery realms -- Unending song.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Element 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 MATDingle, Adrian
Summary: The elements in the periodic table are the ingredients that make up our world. Explore elements such as carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, and learn why they are essential to our survival. See how precious gold protects astronauts in space, and why the metal mercury can be both a solid and a liquid. Find out about man-made elements, which the smartest chemists are busy figuring out how to use. Learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546 DINO'Connor, M. R.
Summary: "At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision--especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Summary: The authors of the best-selling "The 100-Year Life" share practical advice based on three fundamental principles for helping governments, corporations and educational institutions flourish in a world transformed by longevity and technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 SCOPruitt, Deborah.
Contents: Introduction -- Element one: Inspiration -- Element two: Agreements -- Element three: Accountability -- Element four: Acknowledgment -- Element five: Renewal -- Element six: Mastery -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Assessment questions -- Appendix B: Domains for mastery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Group Alchemy Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 PRUNorville, Deborah.
Summary: Shares research on the importance of respect as a key to success, covering such issues as a healthy self-image and creating personal boundaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.9 NORMeyer, Cassie
Summary: "Experience chemistry like never before! The characters in this series will whisk you away on a colorful journey in science. Do you get a bad reaction to chemistry? Never fear! Accelerate your learning with the...Building Blocks of Chemistry."--Cover back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546 MEYKean, Sam.
Summary: The periodic table of the elements is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, obsession, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold, and all the elements in the table as they play out their parts in human history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 546 KEACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science KeanSummary: "This unrivaled illustrated guide to human evolution brings you face-to-face with your ancient ancestors. Traveling back in time almost eight million years, the book charts the development of our species, Homo sapiens, from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans. Evolution investigates each of our ancestors in detail and in context, from the anatomy of their bones to the environment they lived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 599.938 ROBWilson, Edward O.
Summary: In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species and posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 WILPontzer, Herman
Summary: "One of the foremost researchers in human metabolism reveals surprising new science behind food and exercise. We burn 2,000 calories a day. And if we exercise and cut carbs, we'll lose more weight. Right? Wrong. In this paradigm-shifting book, Herman Pontzer reveals for the first time how human metabolism really works so that we can finally manage our weight and improve our health. Pontzer's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.3 PONKeys, Barbara J.
Summary: The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its tumultuous aftermath. Instead of looking inward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.0973 KEYSummary: Text and "exploded view" photographs reveal the human body and how it works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1991
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Summary: Readers will get an in-depth look at the important systems that make up the human body. Alongside engaging and informative photos, readers will learn about the circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, and skeletal systems and how each are critical to a healthy, functioning body. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612 CEROrenstein, Peggy
Summary: Presents an analysis of the new sexual landscape faced by girls in today's high schools and colleges, revealing hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities in girls' modern-world sex lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: Explores the diverse systems of the human body and their functions, the major organs, and how the different parts of the body work together. Reveal the inner workings of the human body with this illustrated atlas. An exciting visual guide that maps the entire human body-- inside and out. Find out what happens to food after you swallow it, how each beat of your heart pumps blood around your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Summary: Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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Summary: From "lamebrain" to "feet of clay," a heaping handful of English idioms, similes, metaphors, and other colorful turns of phrase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 428.1 STRGee, Henry
Contents: Preface : no more missing links -- An unexpected party -- All about evolution -- Losing it -- The Beowulf effect -- Shadows of the past -- The human error -- The way we walk -- The dog and the atlatl -- A cleverness of crows -- The things we say -- The way we think -- Afterword : the tangled bank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 GEESummary: Each of the three programs that make up "The mysterious human heart" focuses on a different aspect of what we thought we knew, what we know now, and what we're on the verge of learning about the heart. This material is presented through the real-life dramas of people who suddenly learn that a normal, functioning heart is not something that can be taken for granted. In episode 1 we examine the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Ambrose Video 2007
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYSKaufmann, Eric
Summary: When we see leaders from the outside, we are often focused on their power, authority, and status. But from the inside, true leaders succeed through cultivating the same essential qualities found in the classic heros journey. With The Four Virtues of a Leader, top executive coach Eric Kaufmann presents a must-read guide to help you awaken and amplify the fundamental competencies that every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 KAUFigorito, Christine
Summary: If it were possible to shrink down and take a tour of a human body, would you want to go? Readers will get that chance when they explore the body of a guy named Marty, who will let them check out the body systems that keep his heart beating and his body moving every day. With the help of a tiny ship that goes through his ears and all the way through his digestive system, readers will learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2015