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English
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Trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world, young Hong Kong-based scientist Lily Barnes, as the human race dwindles due to a "depression plague," comes across something that could lead to happiness and journeys through time and space to find out.
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English
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"Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how... The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary is keen to make her name in this world of science alongside her geologist husband,...
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English
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Starting a new job at the Locard Institute, a state-of-the-art forensic research center, Dr. Ellie Carr is immediately drawn into a murder investigation with her supervisor, Dr. Rachael Davies, when a colleague is found dead and a young woman attending a professional training program disappears.
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Secret Explorers volume 14
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Sent to explore a network of caves in India, Leah the biology expert and Cheng the geology expert soon discover there’s more to this daring mission than meets the eye.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn't exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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In a 2030 America led by an isolationist authoritarian government, a star biotech scientist trying to discover the key to immortality becomes a whistleblower when she uncovers alarming activity in the wastelands of what was once Florida.
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Español
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El tercer tomo de Ser adolescente en el Perú se centra en los aspectos vinculados con la cultura escolar, el aprendizaje y las actividades que las y los adolescentes realizan, así como en la relación con sus docentes. Por ello, se analizan los elementos que configuran dicha cultura, además de la valoración y propósito de la escuela y otros aspectos de la vida escolar. Asimismo, acerca del aprendizaje, se exploran factores como la memoria, la...
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English
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The mind is a mysterious thing, even to someone trained in psychology. As forensic psychologist in the town of New Bern, North Carolina, Dr. Trattoria has seen hundreds of patients and interacted with thousands more.
Patients come to Dr. Trattoria for help, but there is no easy solution to a problem related to the human condition. This is especially true when he must formulate an answer to a problem that suits someone else.
This collection of...
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Deutsch
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Aus seinem reichen Erfahrungsschatz gewährt uns Stefan Fuchs, der von 1983 bis 2006 zuerst als Psychologe und später als Leiter im "Ziegelstadl" tätig war, Einblicke in das Leben hinter den dicken Mauern und Gittern. Sitzen dort auch Schwerverbrecherinnen und -verbrecher? Gab es schon viele Fluchtversuche? Und warum sucht man sich eigentlich einen Job im Gefängnis aus? Diese und viele weitere Fragen beantwortet er in seinem Buch. Mit stets positivem...
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Deutsch
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Der Aberglauben hat immer dann das Zusammenleben der Menschen bestimmt, als die meisten noch Analphabeten waren. Der Autor hat die wichtigsten Geschehnisse, die zum Aberglauben gehörten, zusammen gestellt und kurz beschrieben. Vieles davon besitzt für unsere Gegenwart noch Bedeutung und nicht zu ignorieren. Vielleicht kann der eine oder andere für sich nun verstehen, dass jeder zum Aberglauben tendiert, ohne es zu wollen.
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Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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Español
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"�Por qué las rosas tienen pinchitos? �Por qué en la nariz hay tantos pelitos? Ada Magnífica tiene la cabeza llena de preguntas. Como sus compañeros de clase Pedro y Rosa, Ada siempre ha sentido una curiosidad insaciable. Pero cuando lleva demasiado lejos sus exploraciones y sus complicados experimentos científicos, sus padres se cansan y la mandan al rincón de pensar. �Tanto pensar le hará cambiar de opinión?"--Page [4] of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.
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Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Nine scientists embark on a journey to Antarctica on a sailboat. This story is an intimately human account of what it means to live and work under relentless conditions.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Dr. Morley and her team arrive in the Arctic Circle, where they encounter such wonders as playful orcas, the glowing aurora borealis, and formidable ice shelves while searching for the giant Arctic jellyfish, a legendary creature no one has ever seen.
15) The deluge
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
880 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
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English
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In reading the book, parts of Howitt's character made my skin crawl, but the uncovering of his life was revelatory ... I believe the publication of Line of Blood will be at a very pertinent time. - Bruce Pascoe
Line of Blood tells the full story of Australia's so-called 'ablest anthropologist'; the botanist, geologist, senior public servant and explorer Alfred Howitt - and ancestor of the author, Craig Horne.
That Howitt was an extraordinary polymath...
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Picador
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxii, 762 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
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English
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Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps, professional failures and personal dramas? Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father's penury and...
18) Tributo a Freud
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Español
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Diez años después de su análisis con Sigmund Freud, la poeta Hilda Doolittle se sumergió en las notas que había tomado luego de cada sesión y escribió Tributo a Freud. Una joya literaria y psicoanalítica: se trata del primer testimonio publicado de un análisis, pero además narrado por una de las voces poéticas más importantes del siglo XX.
H. D. nos ofrece un retrato de época—el avance del nazismo, la amenaza de la guerra, los estragos...
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English
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Uses real-life episodes of psychosis and recovery to show how poetic paradigms for thinking about psychiatric symptoms can enlarge contemporary understandings of mental illness and improve long-term treatment outcome.
"Twenty-two years ago, I lost my mind." So begins Jeanne Ellen Petrolle's fascinating personal narrative about her mental illness and recovery. Drawing on literature, art, and philosophy, Petrolle explores a unique understanding of...
20) Men As Friends
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English
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Neither a cautionary tale nor a polemic, Men as Friends is about a variety of male friendships and a variety of men. A "coming-of-old-age story," it speaks to an audience of men who love or have loved other men but are too embarrassed to say so, opening the reader to the deep sadness of loss as well as the joy of its acknowledgment.
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