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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Science journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure...
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Language
English
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A book about science
NYT - Audio Nonfiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction
NYT - Audio Nonfiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction
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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...
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Series
Publisher
Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abodo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Your body is amazing! But sometimes it gets sick or hurt. Head lice can live on people's scalps and cause itchiness. Find out about lice, why they make your head itch, and how to get rid of them."--Publisher description.
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Language
English
Description
"American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation--the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth--and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It's endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol. Advances in technology including...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Brains. 78% water, 100% delicious. A zombie chef who has sworn off eating brains salivates over this super powerful organ in this . . . picture book. From learning about how the brain processes messages from our five senses, to learning why wrinkly human brains are so much more powerful than smooth mouse brains, this is an introduction to the organ that does it all"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
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"A memoir about the suicide of the author's closest friend and the ensuing grief process"--
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. How do we live without the ones we love? "Grief Is for People" is a deeply moving and suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss that is profuse with life. Sloane Crosley is one of our most renowned observers of...
8) Being frog
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
An up-close look at the behavior and habits of frogs.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90°F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dive thirteen thousand feet below the ocean's surface, where no ray of sunlight can penetrate. Resources are scarce, and fellow inhabitants scarcer. This is life in the midnight zone--life for the anglerfish, known as the Seadevil of the Deep. Still largely a mystery to scientists, the deep-sea anglerfish is a true source of fascination and awe. To some, the fish resembles a prehistoric creature forgotten by time; to others, she is the embodiment...
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Publisher
Happy Yak, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 7 o'clock in the morning in Mexico, and Javier is eating his breakfast. He's having corn tortillas with beans and a glass of orange juice. And at exactly the same time... ...it's 8 o'clock in the morning in New York City. Kayla is getting her schoolbag ready. A yellow school bus will take her to the school gates. One Moment in Time is a lyrical celebration of diversity with a heartfelt message of unity. Featuring eleven different children, this...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fake news is a . . . problem that affects everyone. It can undermine democracies, negatively impact public health, and destroy reputations. How fake news spreads, the problems fake news causes, how to recognize and keep from spreading it are discussed"--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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"This illustrated narrative explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space"--
No one can make the mysteries of the universe more comprehensible and fun than Neil deGrasse Tyson. Drawing on mythology, history, and literature--alongside his trademark wit and charm--Tyson and StarTalk senior producer Lindsey Nyx Walker bring planetary science down to Earth and principles of astrophysics within reach. In this entertaining...
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A reference guide includes over five hundred facts on a variety of topics.
Unwrap 500 fascinating knowledge nuggets about all kinds of topics to boost your brainpower in this yummy little fact book. Let's start with a million. A million days ago, the first Olympics took place in ancient Greece. If you live a million hours, you'll be 114 years old. And how many ants equal the weight of one average human? That's right, a million. Open the candy cover...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific exploration of owls, the most elusive group of birds, and an investigation into why these remarkable and yet mysterious animals exert such a hold on human imagination. For centuries, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented over 30,000 years ago, in the Chauvet cave paintings in...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who first broke the news In 2016, the fate of Paramount--the entertainment conglomerate that includes Viacom, CBS, and Simon & Schuster--hung precariously in the...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A psychologist confronts our pervasive misunderstanding of anxiety and presents a new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion as the advantage it evolved to be"--
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
li, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone--Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London--reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He...
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Language
English
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"Nature is full of browns and grays. But some animals feature pinks, blues, and greens. Brilliant photos accompany lyrical nonfiction text to explore animals' hidden colors."--
"Why should the bright and flashy animals get all of the attention? If you look closely at some seemingly ordinary animals, you may find a colorful surprise. A lizard is brown. A hippo is gray. But wait! The lizard has a blue tongue to scare predators, and the hippo has pink...
20) Ocean
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
American edition ; New edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discover the wonders of the world's oceans. Meet strange-looking fish, explore shipwrecks and see how an octopus moves.
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