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Frank Einstein volume 2
Language
English
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"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
4) Energy
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Full of energy? Introduce early readers preK-2 to energy and how it plays a part in their everyday lives. Find out what energy is, where it comes from, and the forms it can take. Readers explore the basic concepts of energy through carefully leveled, engaging text and bold photographs reviewed by Smithsonian experts. Additional facts and graphic organizers such as charts and graphs provide more information about physics concepts"--
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Almost every year since records began, our species has had more energy at its disposal than it had the year before. For the last 50 years, the growth rate has averaged 2.4% per year, more than tripling in total over that time. For the century before that it was more like 1% per year, and as we go back through history, the growth rate looks lower still but nevertheless positive, give or take the odd blip. We have been getting continually more powerful,...
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Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
The Energy Reader takes an unflinching look at the environmental devastation created by our thirst for energy--including supposedly "(Bclean" renewable sources. From oil spills, nuclear accidents, and mountaintop-removal coal mining to oversized wind farms and desert-destroying solar power plants, virtually every region of the globe is now experiencing the consequences of out-of-control energy development. Essentially no place is sacred, no landscape...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This lively series is packed with activities and experiments to provide a practical, hands-on approach to science. In Energy and Power discover how to... build a steam turbine, trap the energy of the sun, watch the wind at work... and much more!"--Back cover.
10) Project Alpha
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Series
Voyagers (Random House) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis.
11) Game of flames
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dash, Carly, Gabriel, and Piper visit a planet made up of molten lava and run entirely by robots where they must find the second element of the Source that will save the Earth.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Energy is humanity's single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert Michael E. Webber argues in Power Trip, the story of how societies rise can be told largely as the story of how they manage energy sources through time. In 2019, as we face down growing demand for and accumulating environmental impacts from energy, we are at a crossroads and the stakes are high. But history shows us that energy's great value is that it allows societies...
14) Omega rising
Author
Series
Voyagers (Random House) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Voyagers land on a planet made entirely of water where they must find the third element of the Source that will save the Earth"--
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Language
English
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"Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then,...
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Series
Carbon ideologies volume 2
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important issues of our age, from poverty to violence to the dark soul of American imperialism as it has played out on the U.S./Mexico border. Now, Vollmann turns to a topic that will define the generations to come--the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger, the first volume of Carbon Ideologies,...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this haunting portrait of America's oil-fueled excesses, director Adolfo Doring explores the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy, and the multiplying threats that now confront the environmental health and stability of our planet. Taking as its starting point the inevitable energy depletion scenario known as "Peak Oil," the film surveys a fascinating range of the latest intellectual, political, and scientific...
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