Higgins, Nadia.
Summary: An imaginary journey to Jupiter provides facts about the planet's size, year, composition, atmosphere, and moons, and suggests some of the questions scientists would want to answer if it really were possible to travel there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7349 BOWWiggins, Chris
Summary: "From facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2004
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Summary: "Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?" The future status of African Americans was a pressing issue for both those in the North and in the South. Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2009
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Summary: Tells the story of the collective discovery of evolution, arguing that the idea emerged over many centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2003
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Contents: Introduction : the scientific method -- A word about calculators -- Apparatus needed for all experiments -- Experiment 1 : Identified flying objects -- Experiment 2 : Updated cannonballs -- ch. 1. How things move : position, velocity, and acceleration -- Experiment 3 : Weight 'til the sun shines, Nellie -- ch. 2. Why things move : forces and their effects -- Experiment 4 : Dropsy -- ch. 3....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2007
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Summary: A leading authority on cat communication provides a crash course in speaking cat, describing what feline vocalizations mean in different situations, and provides practical advice to help better understand pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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Summary: "Zoologist Bill Schutt delivers a look at hearts from across the animal kingdom, from insects to whales to humans. Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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Summary: "At a time when print media reigned supreme and newspapers were legion, Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, and Rayna Raphaelson Prohme impulsively left their homes to reinvent themselves as international journalists and adopt the power of thepress as their own. In Fighting Words, acclaimed historian Nancy Cott follows these four largely unknown young Americans to reveal how foreign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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Summary: "On a Saturday afternoon in New York in late 1912, around the plain wooden tables of Polly's Restaurant in Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world. It was the first meeting of "Heterodoxy," a secret supper club. The goals of the group were simple: They would meet to talk about their lives, their politics, and the still-not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2022
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Summary: Presents a cultural history of independent single women between the 1920s and the 1950s through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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Contents: Nonconformity -- Christlikeness -- Maturity -- Creation care -- Simplicity -- Balance -- Dependence -- Death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Compass 2004
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Summary: In Reluctant saint, Donald Spoto shows us a Saint Francis who transcends the image of Francis familiar to even the least religious among us. Spoto's unprecedented access to unexplored archives and the saint's own unpublished letters help reveal how Francis pioneered an entirely new historical movement, one that eventually slipped from his grasp. Spoto highlights Francis's position within the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Compass 2002
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Summary: It was the splendor--and the scandal--of the age, the defining event of the high Renaissance. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe--the millennium-old St. Peter's Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle's grave--to build a better basilica. Construction of the new St. Peter's spanned two centuries, embroiled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: Part love story, part mystery, "Vanished Smile" reopens the case of the most audacious and perplexing art theft ever committed--the theft of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" from the Paris Louvre on August 21, 1911.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Books 2009
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Summary: "When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a brilliant blue marble, with a razor thin atmosphere protecting billions of people, including everyone she loved. She realized that we are allbound together on this fragile planet. When she came back to earth, she knew she had to share this vision to help protect it. Stott knows the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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Summary: When the death of a Cambridge historian leaves her opus on Sir Isaac Newton unfinished, Lydia Brooke is called in to finish the book, only to find herself embroiled in a mystery in which the present becomes entangled with a past based on Newton's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2007