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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"What if tornadoes could be stopped or slowed down? In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's heartland."--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces. Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends, no matter the weather. Yet many of her fans know there's more to her story than blizzards that are brewing or National Pancake Day celebrations. In this honest yet optimistic book, Janice reveals obstacles she's faced that...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. --
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 130 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Aeronauts is the true story behind the forthcoming Major Motion Picture of the death-defying adventures of pioneering Victorian balloonist and scientist James Glaisher. In 1862, ambitious scientist James Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than ever before to establish his ground-breaking research. Glaisher's death-defying journey forms the story of the forthcoming Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts, starring Eddie...
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2010], 2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (1 hr., 23 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Snowflake Bentley: A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
That book woman: A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--A librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
The dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: The true story of Victorian...
11) Inspiring men
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2012], c2012
Physical Desc
1 video media player (1 hr., 4 min.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
The dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: There was a time when few knew what dinosaurs looked like. Then Waterhouse Hawkins stunned he world with his creations.
Snowflake Bentley: Willie Bentley was so fascinated by snow as a boy that he grew up to become the world's most famous authority on snowflakes.
The pot that Juan built: This is the story of one of Mexico's most famous potters, who used his talents to transform his impoverished village into a...
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