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The Hubble Space Telescope is now at the apex of its imaging capabilities yet until the publication of Hubble's Universe, no other popular book had presented the latest pictures taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3. For his most recent book, Terence Dickinson selected a breathtaking portfolio of Hubble pictures from a library of more than 700,000 images. Thanks to Dickinson's familiarity with Hubble's history and discoveries and his access to top...
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"Hundreds of deep space missions since the 1960s have captured stunning photographs of the cosmos. Many of these scientific images can also be classified as art. This book highlights more than 100 examples, revealing the splendor of our universe. This book is a gallery of human accomplishment that celebrates the scientists and engineers who push civilization-including the ways that we produce and experience art-beyond the physical limits of our planet....
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Professor Astro Cat volume 5
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2018
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English
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"Get ready for liftoff! Join Professor Astro Cat and friends for a high-flying, rocket-fuelled adventure into space exploration!" -- Back cover.
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This classic biography should be mandatory reading for all academicians. Winsor, a historian, poet, literary critic, and fiction writer, retraces every important aspect of Columbus' fascinating life, from his family origins to his beliefs and convictions. Columbus emerges as a living, breathing human being with passions and ideas: a man possessing intellect and imagination enough to believe that the earth was round, not flat. Winsor's opus represents...
9) Space
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[2019]
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Introduces the basics of outer space, from the sun and planets of the solar system to shapes and patterns found in space.
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Octonauts volume 2
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 820L
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When the shadows in the ocean go missing, the Octonauts, a team of eight animal underwater explorers, must travel to the Sea of Shade to find them.
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2008.
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As the living memories of the survivors of the tragic Titanic shipwreck fade away, what only remains is the wreck itself. Dr. Robert Ballard, who discovered the location of the wreck in 1958, give the world the first images. Now, nearly twenty years later, he has returned to the wreck and taken even more vivid photos. These photos illuminate the majesty and grandeur of the world's most storied maritime disaster. -- Book jacket.
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"From Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins comes an in-depth look at the world's natural disasters, broken down into four distinct categories: earth, weather, life, and space. From timelines of causes and outcomes of each disaster, graphs highlighting humans' effect on the earth, and a text teeming with fresh, unexpected, and accurate information ready for readers to easily devour, Disasters by the Numbers is unmatched and sure...
14) The lost photographs of Captain Scott: unseen photographs from the legendary Antarctic expedition
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2011.
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Sets 109 photographs taken by R.F. Scott Sept.-Dec. 1911,lost for years, against descriptions of his journey to the South Pole.
15) Big Pacific
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2017.
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"The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of Earth's surface--more than all of the planet's landmasses combined. It contains half of the world's water, hides its deepest places, and is home to some of the most dazzling creatures known to science. The companion book to the spectacular five-part series on PBS produced by Natural History New Zealand, Big Pacific breaks the boundaries between land and sea to present the Pacific Ocean and its inhabitants as...
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This is the definitive book on the Hubble Space Telescope, written by noted astronomer Jim Bell. Looking deep into space, by definition, means looking back in time--and the Hubble Space Telescope can look very far back, including at stars, nebulae, and galaxies that are millions, even billions, of years old. If there is a single legacy of Hubble as it turns 30 years old and nears the end of its useful life, it is this: It has done more to chronicle...
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"From the creators of the Academy Award-nominated documentary My Octopus Teacher, an immersive journey into the underwater world that inspired it-and holds transformative lessons for us all"--
"From the creators of the hit documentary My Octopus Teacher, an immersive journey into the underwater world that inspired it--and holds transformative lessons for us all. Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck regularly dive together in the awe-inspiring kelp forests...
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Professor Astro Cat volume 1
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"What is it like to live in space? Is there life on other planets? What exactly is a black hole? Join Professor Astro Cat and the gang as they travel across space to find out everything there is to know about our galaxy, the solar system and the Universe. From asteroids to alien life and rockets to rovers, there's so much to discover in the Frontiers of Space."--
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