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Building Juvenile literature Curiosities and wonders Curiosities and wonders Juvenile literature Electricity Experiments Framing (Building) Historic buildings Juvenile literature Minerals Renewable energy sources Structural engineering Juvenile literature Wooden-frame buildings Design and constructionSandler, Michael
Summary: Describes some of the most unusual buildings in the world, including a hotel built of salt and an office building that looks like a basket, and compares their various features to similar characteristics of other things.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 720 SANSummary: A road trip though the creative spirit of the American South, a world of churches, prisons, coal mines, and mountains, with alternative country musician and songwriter Jim White acting as tour guide. Presents a collage of stories and testimonies while a strange Southern Jesus looms in the background.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: Explore natural and man-made wonders from ancient cities to modern volcanoes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics. For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world, the most interesting, fun, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "A perfect STEM resource: This illustrated tour of our "leftover" body parts (like the appendix, or even goosebumps) introduces readers age 7-11 to the bizarre and fascinating science of evolution. Welcome to the weirdest museum you'll ever explore--the one inside your body. Did you know your amazing, incredible body is a walking, talking museum of evolution? In The Museum of Odd Body...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J612 POLHowell, Izzi
Summary: You can probably recognize some of the world's most famous landmarks. But have you ever wondered how they were built? Go behind the scenes to investigate how and why these famous landmarks were built. Explore the design, construction, and engineering processes that went into creating these marvelous structures. Extraordinary Landmarks will leave you with a better understanding and a greater...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 624.1 HOWThallon, Rob.
Summary: "Here for the first time is a complete visual handbook designed for architects, builders, students, and anyone else interested in wood-frame construction. Inside you'll find hundreds of meticulous drawings illustrating every detail you might ever want to know about when building wood, whether you're building basement walls or framing a chimney opening. This wealth of visual information is mined...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dare to search for the Golden City! Assemble your expedition and lead it through the jungles of South America in this deck-building board game. You need to have a good plan, expert explorers, and the right equipment. Will you choose the Scout, the Photographer, or the Prop Plane? It is up to you and your team to find the best route through the wilderness and to win the race to El Dorado! Every...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Ravensburger North America Inc. 2023
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME QUEGreive, Bradley Trevor.
Summary: The deceptively simple, imaginative story line reflects a child's sensibility about the symptoms, causes, and cures for those times when children feel tired, grumpy, left out, or think that nothing ever goes as they planned. Even on days when Brussels sprouts are served at dinner ... a cherished toy must be shared ... a homework avalanche looms ... or a silly mistake is made in front of friends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 152.4 GREMills, Andrea
Summary: "Every country profile is packed with photos, and each nation has a full-color map detailing its main cities, landscape features, and borders, and exactly where in the world it is. At-a-glance panels provide a quick reference to all the stats, and the easy-to-read text is full of fascinating, fun facts."--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Summary: "Athena Perrakis is one of the world's leading experts on crystal wisdom and the founder of America's largest retailer of gemstones, Sage Goddess. In Crystalpedia, she collects the wisdom, history, and ancient powers of 182 of Earth's most sacred stones. She also shares how being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at thirty-eight set her on a path of self-healing, combining conventional medicine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The object of this game of strategy and skulduggery is to be the pirate with the most stolen treasure when the deck is depleted. and one player is out of cards.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Gamewright 2019
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME LOOPohlen, Jerome.
Summary: This zany travel guide presents a more peculiar state than the Iowa Tourism Office might like out-of-towners to imagine. Leaving out the traditional scenic trips to the Mississippi River bluffs and the Amana Colonies, this guide will take the adventurous traveler to the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk, the home of the "Lonely Goat Herder" marionettes from The Sound of Music, and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.7 IOWA POHSummary: "The curious gnomes of Stottingham Shire have discovered the enchanting game of mini-golf. And now it's your turn to putt. Form sets, seek bonuses, and avoid hazards to achieve the lowest score. It's a tee-rific game you'll never fore-get!​ This is a completely redone version of Grandpa Beck's Golf, including new mechanics, brand new art, and more!"--Publisher website.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Grandpa Beck's Games 2019
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Summary: Timber Framing for the Rest of Us describes the timber framing methods used by most contractors, farmers and owner-builders—methods that use modern metal fasteners, special screws and common sense building principles to accomplish the same goal in much less time. And while there are many good books on traditional timber framing, this is the first to describe in depth these more common fastening...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 662 ROYSummary: It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself. What will the children do once they come? Will they like the school? Will they be nice to him? The school has a rough start, but as the day goes on, he soon recovers when he sees that he's not the only one going through first-day jitters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCHRajan, Rekha S.
Summary: "This accessible nonfiction compendium explores the creation of 10 global landmarks, from the first spark of an idea to the final layer of paint. Acclaimed educator Rekha S. Rajan encourages readers to see themselves as the engineers, builders, architects, and more through interactive stories and a unique structure"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: "Packed with comics, diagrams, and "secret diaries," this book is a wondrous, encyclopedic glance at a dizzying host of different things--from hearts to farts to coconuts--and makes a hilarious and informative guide for curious young readers. Join the hilarious exploration of "a day in the life" of nearly 100 things on Earth. Find out what exactly your tongue does all day long, how a Japanese...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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Summary: "Want to build responsibility and help preserve the environment? This friendly, step-by-step guide introduces you to every facet of green building and remodeling, from sizing up construction sites and selecting materials to working with green professionals, reducing energy and water use, and weighting the pros and cons of popular green building methods"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home Build FreedSummary: Travel game in which players attempt to be the first person to chart their 10 day trip around Asia by choosing game tiles the connect countries by car, airplane, and foot.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Out of the Box 2007
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME TENBurgan, Michael
Summary: "Impress your friends and family with all these weird but true facts about everything rock and mineral"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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Summary: Presents a collection of twenty-five step-by-step projects that introduce bionics, providing illustrations on how life forms can be enhanced with mechanical and electrical components, and including an electric fish, a bat ear, a lie detector, an electronic nerve stimulator, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 507 BRASummary: Learn the basics of electronics and modern alternative energy. Explore clean energy concepts, such as electric cars, windmills, and hand-generated power.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Elenco 2020