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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear.
When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the subterfuge.
From Tokyo to Los Angeles, from Antarctica to the Solomon Islands, Michael Crichton mixes cutting edge science and action-packed adventure,...
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis. Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or externalizing memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your...
Author
Publisher
DK Publ
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Uses computer-generated images to explain how many devices and processes of modern technology work, covering such inventions as HDTV, game consoles, robot cars, helicopters, space probes, oil rigs, mass dampers, biometric id's, and tsunami alert syst
Author
Series
Mysteries of Cove volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even though technology and inventions have been outlawed in the mountain city of Cove, in order to save the city Trenton and Kallista must follow a set of mysterious blueprints to build a creature to protect them from the dragons outside their door.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes -- from the French publisher who invented the phonograph before Edison but forgot to...
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Series
Frank Einstein volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
14) Cell
Author
Language
English
Description
Entering a profession on the brink of radical transformation by a new smartphone technology capable of diagnosing and treating patients, radiology resident George Wilson is horrified when his fiancee and several patients die after beta testing the technology.
"The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. George Wilson, M.D.,...
Series
Publisher
World Book Inc
Pub. Date
2020-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
""Describes the development and potential impacts of virtual reality, virtual assistants, personal transport, health trackers, smart kitchens, tech toys, holograms, and 3D projections."--Provided by publisher"--
Series
Publisher
World Book Inc
Pub. Date
2020-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
""Describes the development and potential impacts of robot soldiers, laser weapons, mechanical exoskeletons, stealth technology, missile defense, and space warfare."--Provided by publisher"--
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