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Description not available.Explains why tsunamis occur, the damge they inflict, some famous tsunamis, and how people can protect themselves against these giant waves.
CATEGORY: Science & Nature 
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 | What's Happening? by Francis H. Schwartz, Patricia Relf
Description not available.Provides step-by-step descriptions and color illustrations to describe how everyday objects work, including cars, televisions, and planes. AUTHOR: Francis H. Schwartz, Patricia Relf
PUBLISHER: Mondo Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | A Brief History of Science by Thomas Crump
Fascinating and enlightening, this encyclopedic volume by mathematician and anthropologist Thomas Crump explores the wedding of scientific technology to the advancement of civilization as he examines the design and production of the instruments that have continually redefined the horizons of the world we observe and perceive. He thus shows that the driving desire of diverse peoples and cultures throughout the course of history to further their understanding of the universe has resulted in an unending development of increasingly more sophisticated instruments to measure our material realitys components and extend its frontiers. While human genius had devised numerous tools to record and measure the expanses of time and space well before the seventeenth centuryfrom astronomical charts and calendars to Arabic numerals and algebraic notation, all of which Crumps comprehensive history includesnot until the 1600s would an essentially modern technology be born. With Galileos telescopic exploration of the skies at the beginning of the seventeenth century and Newtons experiments with the prism and light at its end, the optical instruments fundamental to all scientific research had been invented, as Crump amply illustrates before proceeding to electromagnets, cathode tubes, thermometers, vacuum pumps, X rays, accelerators, semiconductors, microprocessors, and instruments currently being designed to operate in subzero temperatures. Here, then, in one dramatically detailed and succinctly narrated volume, is the enduring human quest for knowledge through technology. Here, too, is the proof that what is knowable is, and has always been, far more compelling than what is known. AUTHOR: Thomas Crump
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Wildflowers of Ohio by Robert L. Henn
White trout-lily and yellow lady`s-slipper. Pineapple weed and wild columbine. Blazing-star and jack-in-the-pulpit. Whether showy or modest, celebrated or little known, widespread or confined to a particular county, almost every wildflower found in the Buckeye State has its place in Wildflowers of Ohio, a user-friendly guide to the identification and characteristics of 281 of Ohio`s common wildflowers. Flowers are arranged according to their color: white, yellow and orange, pink and red, blue and purple, and green and brown. Each flower is presented in a full-color photograph showing it in its natural habitat. The photos are accompanied by a concise but detailed text about the plant`s life and its relationship to the environment, There are brief descriptions of the field characteristics, comments about the plant`s biology and its uses by humans, the range of distribution in Ohio, habitat, and blooming period. Anyone interested in the out-of-doors and its natural wonders who lives in Ohio or neighboring states will benefit from this lovely regional field guide. AUTHOR: Robert L. Henn
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Animal Sounds for Baby by Cheryl W. Hudson, George Ford
A young boy visits a petting zoo, where he learns the different sounds such animals as cows, ducks, and lambs make. Color illustrations accompany the rhyming text. AUTHOR: Cheryl W. Hudson, George Ford
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Building by Andrew Haslam, David Glover, Jon Barnes
Description not available.Hands-on experiments introduce such structures as skyscrapers, dams, keystone bridges, igloos, and lock gates and show the materials used, the method of construction, and the source of strength. AUTHOR: Andrew Haslam, David Glover, Jon Barnes
PUBLISHER: Creative Publishing International, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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