Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

In this eye-opening exposé, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributor Maryn McKenna documents how antibiotics transformed chicken from local delicacy to industrial commodity--and human health threat--uncovering the ways we can make America's favorite meat safer again.

What you eat matters--for your health, for the environment, and for future generations. In this riveting investigative narrative, McKenna dives deep into the world of modern agriculture by way of chicken: from the farm where it's raised directly to your dinner table. Consumed more than any other meat in the United States, chicken is emblematic of today's mass food-processing practices and their profound influence on our lives and health. Tracing its meteoric rise from scarce treat to ubiquitous global commodity, McKenna reveals the astounding role of antibiotics in industrial farming, documenting how and why "wonder drugs" revolutionized the way the world eats--and not necessarily for the better. Rich with scientific, historical, and cultural insights, this spellbinding cautionary tale shines a light on one of America's favorite foods--and shows us the way to safer, healthier eating for ourselves and our children. 

In August 2019 this book will be published in paperback with the title Plucked: Chicken, Antibiotics, and How Big Business Changed the Way the World Eats.

Big Chicken

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#hardcover #science #homeschool #elementary

Michigan

365 Science projects and activities

New York

How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters Asia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas--and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows how dreams and fears of water shaped visions of political independence and economic development, provoked efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and unleashed powerful tensions within and between nations. Today, Asian nations are racing to construct hundreds of dams in the Himalayas, with dire environmental impacts; hundreds of millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and storm surges. In an age of climate change, Unruly Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Asia's past and its future.

Unruly Waters

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Mexico

Inventor of Wireless Technology

- One of the few biography series with a full-color interior at this page length (100+ pages). - The book fulfills the page-length requirement (100 pages) for students assigned to do book reports at this grade level.

Guglielmo Marconi

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#hardcover #nonfiction #sociology #science #marketing

Tennessee

How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture

A journey along the unexplored frontier of the churning and rambunctious viral culture. Covering this world - watching new bands promote themselves, reporting on a website contest while secretly entering it and creating a site that aggregates all blog smears against the presidential candidates - Bill Wasik ends up conducting six experiments. He doesn't always get the results he expected, but along the way he meets a cast of characters who are capable of getting their information into people's brains - and they're not who readers might think.

And Then There's This

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#hardcover #childrens #science #solarsystem 

Delaware



Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books!

Every young child loves to look up at the moon in the night sky. Here's aHello, World!boardbook that can teach toddlers all about the sun, moon, stars, and planets-with colors, shapes, sizes, and super-simple facts.

Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers.Told in clear and easy terms and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. And each sturdy page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child. ("Can you point to the red planet? That's Mars!")It's a perfect way to bring science and nature into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops.

Look for all the books in theHello, World!series-
.Solar System
.Weather
.Backyard Bugs
.Birds
.Dinosaurs
.My Body
.How Do Apples Grow?
.Ocean Life
.Moon Landing
.Pets
.Arctic Animals
.Construction Site
.Rainforest Animals
.Planet Earth
.Reptiles
.Cars and Trucks
.Music
.Baby Animals
.On the Farm

Hello, World! Solar System

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Fareed Zakaria

Was supposed to read this for a class but never did. In perfect condition!

Iowa

COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come?

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

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#hardcover #childrens #science #nationalgeographic 

Oklahoma

It's Changing Your World

Discusses scientific breakthroughs and future projections in industry, transportation, medicine, space, and other areas.

Science

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How to Find an Arch Nemesis and Other Evil Advice

This hardcover book in the best-selling Guide to Life format features 144 pages of black-and-white images and evil entries filled with -inators, Doofs backstories, and much, much more Plus there are two eight-page, full-color comic inserts.

Phineas and Ferb the Book of Doof

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Dust cover is a little smudged up but overall good. Has rough cut edges on pages. #genetics #science 

Illinois

Discoverer of the Genetic Code

Francis Crick, who died at the age of eighty-eight in 2004, will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the great scientists of all time. Between 1953 and 1966 he made and led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life: the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things -- the genetic code. His own discoveries -- though he always worked with one other partner and did much of his thinking in conversation -- include not only the double helix but the whole mechanism of protein synthesis, the three-letter nature of the code, and much of the code itself.

Matt Ridley's biography traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity in the English Midlands, through a lackluster education and six years designing magnetic mines for the Royal Navy, to his leap into biology at the age of thirty-one. While at Cambridge, he suddenly began to display the unique visual imagination and intense tenacity of thought that would allow him to see the solutions to several great scientific conundrums -- and to see them long before most biologists had even conceived of the problems. Having set out to determine what makes living creatures alive and having succeeded, he immigrated at age sixty to California and turned his attention to the second question that had fascinated him since his youth: What makes conscious creatures conscious? Time ran out before he could find the answer.

Francis Crick

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Our Amazing Ocean 

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Ken Midkiff

Wendell Berry

Maryland

How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply

Sierra Club Director Ken Midkiff delves into the murky world of American meatproduction.

The Meat You Eat

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New Jersey

What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture

How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries--and why that might be a good thing

The digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries--music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed has unleashed a wave of piracy with disastrous effects on revenue. Cheap, easy self-publishing is eroding the position of these gatekeepers and guardians of culture. Does this revolution herald the collapse of culture, as some commentators claim? Far from it. In Digital Renaissance, Joel Waldfogel argues that digital technology is enabling a new golden age of popular culture, a veritable digital renaissance.

By reducing the costs of production, distribution, and promotion, digital technology is democratizing access to the cultural marketplace. More books, songs, television shows, and movies are being produced than ever before. Nor does this mean a tidal wave of derivative, poorly produced kitsch; analyzing decades of production and sales data, as well as bestseller and best-of lists, Waldfogel finds that the new digital model is just as successful at producing high-quality, successful work as the old industry model, and in many cases more so. The vaunted gatekeeper role of the creative industries proves to have been largely mythical. The high costs of production have stifled creativity in industries that require ever-bigger blockbusters to cover the losses on ever-more-expensive failures.

Are we drowning in a tide of cultural silt, or living in a golden age for culture? The answers in Digital Renaissance may surprise you.

Digital Renaissance

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A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power. “Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times “Revealing, with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller.” —O: The Oprah Magazine Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water—and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, What the Eyes Don’t See reveals how misguided austerity policies, broken democracy, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk. And at the center of the story is Dr. Mona herself—an immigrant, doctor, scientist, and mother whose family’s activist roots inspired her pursuit of justice. What the Eyes Don’t See is a riveting account of a shameful disaster that became a tale of hope, the story of a city on the ropes that came together to fight for justice, self-determination, and the right to build a better world for their—and all of our—children. Praise for What the Eyes Don’t See “It is one thing to point out a problem. It is another thing altogether to step up and work to fix it. Mona Hanna-Attisha is a true American hero.”—Erin Brockovich “A clarion call to live a life of purpose.”—The Washington Post “Gripping . . . entertaining . . . Her book has power precisely because she takes the events she recounts so personally. . . . Moral outrage present on every page.”—The New York Times Book Review “Personal and emotional. . . She vividly describes the effects of lead poisoning on her young patients. . . . She is at her best when recounting the detective work she undertook after a tip-off about lead levels from a friend. . . . ‛Flint will not be defined by this crisis,’ vows Ms. Hanna-Attisha.”—The Economist “Flint is a public health disaster. But it was Dr. Mona, this caring, tough pediatrican turned detective, who cracked the case.”—Rachel Maddow

What the Eyes Don't See

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#hardcover #childrens #science #puzzle #games 

Crafts, activities, games, puzzles, and recipes to suit many occasions, to be done alone or with others.

A World of Things to Do

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Gary Taubes

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup. He explains what research has shown about our addiction to sweets. He clarifies the arguments against sugar, corrects misconceptions about the relationship between sugar and weight loss; and provides the perspective necessary to make informed decisions about sugar as individuals and as a society.

The Case Against Sugar

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It's Friday the 13th again, and for sixth grade genius Nate Bannister, that means doing three more not-so-smart things to keep life interesting. But he has bigger problems than his own experiments. His nemesis, the Red Death Tea Society, is threatening to unleash a swarm of angry bees on the city of Polt if Nate doesn't join their ranks. But then a new group of people with murky intentions shows up -- the League of Ostracized Fellows -- and they want Nate as their own, too. To top it off, he's convinced there's a spy in his very own school.

Nate must once again team up with his new, resourceful, friend Delphine to save the day. They'll need the help of Nate's crazy gadgets, such as his talking car Betsy and super-powered pets Bosper the Scottish terrier and Sir William the gull, if they hope to see another Friday the 13th. Because they might be battling more than just sting-happy bees and villains with a penchant for tea this time around.

Awards for Bandette
Winner, Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic
Winter, IndieFab Award - Bronze, Graphic Novels & Comics

How to Outsmart a Billion Robot Bees

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#hardcover #nature #science #1974 #timelife

Connecticut

Nature/Science Annual 1974 Edition

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Nature/Science Annual 1977 Edition

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Nature/Science Annual 1978 Edition

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Nature/Science Annual 1976 Edition

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Nature/Science Annual 1975 Edition

#hardcover #mayimbialik #nonfiction #girls #science

South Carolina

How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular

As girls become young women, there are many changes that our bodies, brains and emotions go through, and expectations that need to be met. Using scientific facts, personal anecdotes and wisdom gained from the world around us, Bialik tells you how you grow from a girl to a woman biologically, psychologically and sociologically

Girling Up

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Hayley Birch

Mun Keat Looi

Colin Stuart

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Hampshire

The Quest to Solve the Great Unknowns

Explore the most intriguing, far-reaching, and pressing concerns in popular science today From What is consciousness? to Can we beat bacteria?, "The Big Questions in Science" translates complicated concepts into understandable language. Anyone who has every wondered who we are, why we are here, and what here actually is, can gain insight into issues such as what makes us human, whether there are other universes, what's at the bottom of a black hole, and how we can get more energy from the sun. All the questions urgently require practical answers and speak to our sense of wonder and desire to know more.
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Maryn McKenna

Big Chicken

Phyllis Perry and Peter Rillero, PhD

365 Science projects and activities

Sunil Amrith

Unruly Waters

Liz Sonneborn

Guglielmo Marconi

Bill Wasik

And Then There's This

Jill McDonald

Hello, World! Solar System

Fareed Zakaria

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Paul D. Martin

Science

Scott Peterson; Disney Storybook Art Team (Illustrator)

Phineas and Ferb the Book of Doof

Matt Ridley

Francis Crick

David Adler

Our Amazing Ocean

Ken Midkiff; Wendell Berry

The Meat You Eat

Joel Waldfogel

Digital Renaissance

Mona Hanna-Attisha

What the Eyes Don't See

Margaret McKelway

A World of Things to Do

Gary Taubes

The Case Against Sugar

Paul Tobin; Katie Abey (Illustrator); Thierry Lafontaine (Illustrator)

How to Outsmart a Billion Robot Bees

Time Life Books

Nature/Science Annual 1974 Edition

Time Life Books

Nature/Science Annual 1977 Edition

Time Life Books

Nature/Science Annual 1978 Edition

Time Life Books

Nature/Science Annual 1976 Edition

Time Life Books

Nature/Science Annual 1975 Edition

Mayim Bialik

Girling Up

Hayley Birch; Mun Keat Looi; Colin Stuart

The Big Questions in Science