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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From Calvert Crary, author of Flower School and executive director of FlowerSchool NY and FlowerSchool LA, The Encyclopedia of Cut Flowers is a first-of-its-kind, beautiful yet practical guide to buying and caring for 146 different varieties of cut flowers, including information on how to get the most for your money by prolonging the life of your flowers--
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Language
English
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Teaching and learning STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is more accessible than ever before! Children will be inspired, delighted, and challenged as they use everyday materials and STEM concepts to design and build solutions to problems faced by characters in their favorite books--Page iv of cover.
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Experts are constantly telling us what we need to be doing to improve our businesses. There are hundreds of books in the market filled with advice from these experts, each of which insisting that its ideas are the best, and that we need to be implementing them now. But how can you filter out all of the bad advice, misinformation, and misuse of business tools that is out there? None of us needs another list of what we should be doing. This is a book...
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English
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Making good choices about technology in our families is more than just internet filters and determining screen-time limits for our children. It's about building character, wisdom, and courage rather than accepting technology's promise of ease and instant gratification. it's about developing our heart, mind, soul, and strength when we're tempted to settle for entertainment and consumer satisfaction. And it's definitely not just about the kids. Alongside...
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Series
Mysteries of Cove volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Trenton and Kallista travel to a steampunk version of Seattle hoping to find Kallista's missing father, but instead find themselves in the middle of a war between the Order of the Beast, who worships dragons, and the Whipjacks, who are building weapons to destroy the animals.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more. Unlike the hourly challenges of infant parenting, the big questions in this age come up less frequently. But we live with the consequences of our decisions for much longer. What's the...
51) Bleeding edge
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Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind,...
54) American panda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy.
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English
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This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist. Told by her son, it describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to launching America's first satellite and the author's labyrinthine journey to uncover his mother's lost legacy, one buried deep under a lifetime of secrets political, technological, and personal.
In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket...
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English
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From a Vice magazine columnist whose beat is 'the future,' here is entertaining speculation featuring both authoritative research and a bit of mischief: a look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as the day nuclear war occurs, the day the global internet goes down, the day we run out of effective antibiotics, and the day immortality is achieved.
If you live on planet Earth you're probably scared of the future. How could you not be?...
58) Retro
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
To save her struggling family, Luna enters a competition offering reward money to anyone who can successfully live without modern technology for a year, but when this social experiment turns sinister and her classmates start disappearing, her family's livelihood might not be the only thing she is in danger of losing.
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore how A.I. could affect our relationship with knowledge, impact our worldviews, and change society and politics as profoundly as the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Author
Series
Goldie Blox volume Book 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When Goldie Blox accidentally blows off the roof of her school, she and her friends Val, Ruby, and Li have to work together and use their creative know-how to rebuild the school"--
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