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3061) Beyond the mapped stars
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mormon girl Elizabeth is torn between becoming an astronomer, and familial duties and faith, when she navigates a whole new world of possibility in this sweeping adventure set in Colorado in the late nineteenth century.
3069) Wormwood
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In 1756, as a deadly comet hurtles toward London, Dr. Sabian Blake and his fourteen-year-old housemaid, Agetta, struggle against dark forces that seek an ancient, powerful book in Blake's possession that would enable them to carry out an evil plan in which Agetta unknowingly plays a pivotal role.
3071) Comet collision!
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"In July 2005, NASA's Deep Impact probe collided with comet Tempel 1, providing the first-ever glimpse of the interior of one of these "dirty snowballs" and valuable insight into the formation of our solar system. NASA's brilliant, but risky, plan to send a tiny, copper-plated probe hurtling directly towards the city-sized comet at a speed of 23,000 mph was a smashing success. The resulting explosion of particles provided experts with new data about...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence, the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. Who or what are we? Are we alone? How did life begin? What happened before? The series brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science to reveal the extraordinary truth of our universe.
3075) Cool science experiments
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Book of experiments that has sections for astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology/geography, physics, and weather.
3076) The night rainbow
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems based on ancient legends about the northern lights from people who associated the fiery illuminations with animals, ghosts, dancers, and raging battles.
3077) A portable cosmos: revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought"--
"From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Doomsday 2012: the End of Days: Doomsday is foretold in the Mayan calendar, the Chinese oracle of the I Ching and an Internet-based prophetic softward program. December 21, 20012 will be the End of Days. Mayan doomsday prophecy: The Maya were legendary astronomers and timekeepers. Their calendar is more accurate than our own. They tracked stars and planets and assigned great meaning to astronomical phenomena and made the 2012 doomsday prophecy...
3079) Coherence
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
3080) Ice quake
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a massive crack in the earth's crust brought on by a horrible earthquake causes deadly gas to erupt from deep within the earth's core, it is up to a geologist and his family to save the world by stopping the crack from spreading and the gas from getting into a nearby cave system that would destroy the planet.
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