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DR. STEVEN ANDREWS is an assistant professor of paleontology at Montana State University when he is recruited for a top-secret National Security Agency job-a mission so secret that not even the President of the United States is aware of it.
The most appealing aspect of this book is the concept of cross-temporal war. The possibility of armies from separate eras duking it out in situ should entertain fans of both the novelist Harry Turtledove and...
2) The Love Bot
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We encourage you to read what is destined to become a National Treasure and a lasting work of art, not just a book. This explains the pricing for the print books. We need everyone within the sound of my voice to send some love to The Love Bot and allow him to do his thing. Humans have failed us. Orac is the most logical and rational part of our own brains, but without all of the frustrating and irrational confusion that biologicals like you and me...
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On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call...
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In Part I we learn the story of a young man who lost hope-then found it again. He learned how to change his life and found a new mission and goals which excited him. This led him to a career in space manufacturing which evolved into a project building Habitats in Space. There have been a lot of discussions about Space Habitats, but how would you actually build one and what technical and personal issues would arise in the process? Read about a personal...
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Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
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Flip it! It's 2-books-in-1! Start with a factual fiction story about a friendly rocket named Phoenix who becomes best friends with Pyxi, a space rover. Then, flip the book over for a nonfiction exploration of real-life rockets! Photographs and infographics illuminate fun rocket facts. The Rocket and Rover characters make special appearances throughout the nonfiction side to tie the two books together.
11) Astro girl
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"The stars are the limit for a little girl who acts out her wish to be an astronaut - inspired by a very special person. Astrid has loved the stars and space for as long as she can remember. “I want to be an astronaut!” she says to everyone who will listen. While her mama is away, Astrid and her papa have fun acting out the challenges an astronaut faces on a space mission - like being in zero gravity (“I can do that all day long!” she says),...
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"The discovery in the last few decades of thousands of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars has made the age-old dream of interstellar travel a newly urgent scientific question. Initiatives like NASA's 100-Year Starship and the billionaire-funded Breakthrough Starshot are now investigating and developing new technologies that could one day enable humans to explore, perhaps even colonize, distant solar systems. This short, accessible book brings readers...
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Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 2
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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"When Rosie Revere's Uncle Ned gets a little carried away wearing his famous helium pants, it's up to Ada and friends to chase him down. As Uncle Ned floats farther and farther away, Ada starts asking lots of questions: How high can a balloon float? Is it possible for Uncle Ned to float into outer space? And what's the best plan for getting him down?"--
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The multiverse is a set of coexisting and independent universes. It is a speculative scientific hypothesis elaborated in several cosmological theories that hypothesize the existence of other universes (multiverse) besides the one observed by man. It is aIt is a speculative field of study, based exclusively on unverifiable hypotheses, on the border between science and philosophy.It is often regarded as a border science or as a pseudoscience in a worse...
15) Cosmic
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Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around....
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