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010810
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Ballantine Books, 1980.
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324pBlack Spine
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The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousness, of how science and civilization grew up together, and of the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science. Carl Sagan covers topics such as space exploration, the human brain, and ancient Greek scientists.
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9780345331359 Pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
011063 | 500/SAG | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
006037
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Oxford, Heinemann Library, 2001.
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48pPurple spine
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Great Inventions
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Explores the different inventions in the field of entertainment that have shaped the world, describing life before the inventions, inventors and how the inventions have a made a difference.
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Chess, c.600
Playing cards, c.969
Fireworks, c.1000
Piano, 1709
Comics, c.1850
Record player, 1877
Motion pictures, 1882
Hand-held camera, 1888
Jukebox, 1889
Tape recorder, 1898
Animation, 1900
Electric microphone, 1924
Television, 1925
Electric guitar, 1931
Transistor radio, 1953
Video recorder, 1956
Computer games, 1958
Compact disc, 1965
Digital camcorder, 1995
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043113233X Hb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
005994 | 609/DOW | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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005540
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Great Britain, Scholastic, 2001.
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192pBlack Spine
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Horrible Science
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Gives you the red hot details of dodgy experiments that have set the world of Science alight!
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Medical Experiments
Brain Experiments
Nature Experiments
Chemistry Experiments
Forces Experiments
Electricity Experiments
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0439999278 pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
006261 | 507.8/ARN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
005908
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Great Britain, Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2005.
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160pBlack Spine
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Biographies of men and women who have made outstanding contrbutions to their own fields of scientific endeavour and have contributed to the ever-expanding pool of human knowledge.
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Euclid
Archimedes
Hipparchus
Claudius Ptolemy
Medieval Arab Scientists
Leonardo da Vinci
Nicolas Copernicus
Andreas Vesalius
Galileo Galilei
Christiaan Huygens
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke
Sir Isaac Newton
Carolus Linnaeus
James Hutton
Antoine Lavoisier
John Dalton
Michael Faraday
Charles Babbage
Charles Darwin
Louis Pasteur
Gregor Mendel
Dmitri Mendeleyev
James Clerk Maxwell
Max Planck
Marie Curie
Ernst Rutherford
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegener
Niels Bohr
Edwin Hubble
Werner Heisenberg
Linus Pauling
The DNA team
Francis Crick
James Watson
Rosalind Franklin
Stephen Hawking
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0572031483 Pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
005984 | 920/FAR | Main | On Shelf | General | Reference |
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026272
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2022 (Reprint)
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New Delhi, Fingerprint Classics, 1916.
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163pBlack spine
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After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote Relativity. Intended for a popular audience, the book remains one of the most lucid explanations of the special and general theories ever written.
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9788175994652 Pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
I02575 | 530.11/EIN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
008127
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Oxford, Heinemann Library, 2001.
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48pPeach Spine
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Great inventions
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This title explores the key inventions that have shaped the modern world. The inventions are arranged chronologically to help build up a picture of how they develop and evolve. Each title describes life before the inventions, the inventors, and how the inventions have made a difference to the way we live.
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Porcelain, c AD 850
Gunpowder, c AD 900
Magnifying Lens, c AD 1200
Thermometer, 1592
Barometer, 1643
Air Pump, 1650
Steam Engine, 1712
Chronometer, 1759
Cotton Gin, 1793
Safely Matches, 1827
Electric Generator, 1831
Mechanical reaper, 1831
Electric Motor, 1834
Bunsen Burner, 1855
Cathode Ray Tube, 1879
Steam Turbine, 1884
Internal Combustion Engine, 1885
Bakelite, 1909
Nuclear power, 1945
Timeline
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0431132429 Hb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
005995 | 609/WIL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
010009
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Great Britain, Southwater, 2000.
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64pGrey Spine
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Explore History
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Traces the evolution of scientific thought and amazing breakthroughs, from the discoveries of the ancient Greeks to the microchip.
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Introduction
Inventing Mathematics
Star gazing
The first scientist
Roman engineers
Where and when
The great anatomists
The moving earth
Force and motion
Atoms and matter
Factory and furnace
The charged world
Steam powet
The story of lfe
On the road
Off the ground
Rays and radiation
Space and time
The big universe
Miracle cures
Nuclear power
Lifeplan
The power of the processor
Space age
Instant contact
Artificial materials
Life changing
Glossary
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9781844765591 Pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
010419 | 500/FAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
022262
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London, Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014.
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352pBlack spine
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Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Explores the history of science, how scientists have sought to explain our incredible universe and how amazing scientific discoveries have been made. This book helps you discover how Galileo worked out his scientific theories of motion and inertia, why Copernicus' ideas were contentious and what the discovery of DNA meant.
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97814093501556 Hb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
I02024 | 500/SCI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
008768
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Great Britain, Scholastic, 2007.
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80pBlack Spine
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Horrible Science
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A stunning collection of all things squidgy and yucky from Horrible Science.
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Introduction
Ugly bugs
Awful animals
Blood, bones and body bits
Deadly diseases and doctors
Killer chemicals
Fatal physics
Scary outer space
The ultimate squishy chapter
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9780439944144 Pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
009140 | 500/ARN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
015582
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Sydney, Weldon Owen, 2012.
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96pBlack Spine
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Provides highlights of 500 years of scientific discovery, that changed our understanding of how the world around us works.
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1. Earth Moves! (1540s - 1630s): Working out our place in space with: Nicolaus Copernicus, Joseph Kepler, Galileo Galilei
2. This Air (1630s - 1650s): Proving that nothing really does exist, and introducing: Evangelista Torricelli, Otto von Guericke, Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke
3. Tiny Things (1660s-1670s):
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9781742522807 Hb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
015313 | 509/CHA | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
006396
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USA, Scholastic, 2006.
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45pBlue Spine
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Ms. Frizzle takes the gang on a tour through the history of science so they can get ideas for their science expedition.
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0590108247 Hb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
006877 | FIC/COL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
010689
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Washington, D.C., National Geographic, 2006.
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407pBlack spine
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Presents a lively overview of humankinds's never-ending quest for knowledge and shows how science has evolved over the ages by combining our curiosity and instinctive speculation with theoretical rigour and meticulous experiment.
The authors are science journalists of great repute.
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0792239121 Hb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
011062 | 509/LAN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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