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An exploration of the shipwrecks of the "Grafton" and "Invercauld" off opposite shores of the Auckland Islands, New Zealand, which describes how one crew--led by Captain Thomas Musgrave--worked together to build a shelter and eventually a ship, while another succumbed to chaos and cannabalism.
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English
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In American Mojo: Lost and Found, Peter D. Kiernan, award-winning author of New York Times bestseller Becoming China's Bitch, focuses on America's greatest challenge-and opportunity-restoring the middle class to its full promise and potential.
Our educated, skilled and motivated middle class was the cornerstone of America's postwar economic might, but the country's dynamic core has struggled and changed dramatically through the last three decades....
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Could dinosaurs still roam the earth? In the newest discovery in the 'Ology series, readers come face-to-face with living, breathing dinosaurs. Dinosaurology is filled with flaps and booklets offering dinosaur lore, along with such novelties as a sample of dinosaur skin, a pouch of ground stegosaurus horn, and more.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field--naming...
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Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 23
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English
Description
Traces the history of the Amber Room, once housed in a palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, and the many theories of its disappearance at the end of World War II, and recounts the authors' search and conclusion.
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the world. Delving into the museum's storied and colorful past, award-winning author Richard Conniff introduces a cast of bold explorers, roughneck bone hunters, and visionary scientists. Some became famous for wresting Brontosaurus, Triceratops, and other dinosaurs from the earth, others pioneered the introduction of science education in...
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to describe the reflection of the moon across the water? The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and relevant in our highly communicative, globalized modern world....
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
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Takes a look at the intersection of real science and science fiction as presented in the movies "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World," and discusses the likelihood that scientists will ever be able to re-create a living dinosaur from ancient DNA.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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In November 1942, a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S....
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