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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
Author
Series
Out from Egypt volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
505 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a cruel mistress. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya flees with the Hebrews during the Great Exodus. Will she turn back, or surrender her future to Yahweh?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was ... nothing. But then ... BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. The author takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while illustrations capture the void before the Big...
10) The grand design
Author
Publisher
Bantam Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Bantam Books Trade Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation?
12) We go way back
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Inventive, entertaining, and wide-ranging, this picture book takes readers way back in time to tell the story of how life on Earth began.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Every fossil tells a story. Prothero recounts the adventures behind the discovery of twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils and explains their significance within the larger fossil record, creating a riveting history of life on our planet.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
x, 253 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are some of the questions considered in this book by Stephen Hawking, known to be one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First Scholastic Edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
108 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever wonder what happened before the Bone cousins got lost in the uncharted forest of the Valley? This is a hilarious companion to Jeff Smith's bestselling, award-winning BONE saga!
Long before the Bone cousins were ever lost in the uncharted forest of the Valley, Big Johnson Bone, the discoverer of the Rolling Bone River, founded Boneville. But little is known of the mighty explorer's adventures before he started his famous trading post. So when...
18) The beginning
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
143 p.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of life on Earth from the origins of the planet, through the development and extinction of a variety of life forms, to the end of the latest Ice Age and the appearance of modern humans.