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Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of Earth's first life forms--what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our...

Make your very own erupting volcano, build a suspension bridge, use a lemon to produce electricity, and construct a clock! Great STEM Projects is packed with more than 50 exciting STEM activities to inspire every science enthusiast.

Covers all major areas of science, engineering, technology, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.

This handbook presents concepts that will help provide confidence in working with data. It includes explanation of data formats, and how to use a single-word command to sort files of any size by any criteria, identify duplicates, and perform numerous other common library tasks.

Written in rhyme with young girls in mind, A Steminist Force is a rallying cry of rhythmic prose that celebrates female contributions in STEM fields across the world and throughout history. From mathematicians to meteorologists, from architects to astronauts, this book celebrates pioneering women's contributions to STEM fields across the world. With backmatter detailing each woman's individual contributions to her field, this colorful picture book...

Stripped of armor, might, and memory, the legendary Forerunner warrior known as the Didact was torn from the physical world following his destructive confrontation with the Master Chief and sent reeling into the mysterious depths of a seemingly endless desert wasteland. This once powerful and terrifying figure is now a shadow of his former self-gaunt, broken, desiccated, and alone. But this wasteland is not as barren as it seems. A blue light glints...

The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a bold retelling of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. This speculative update pushes the narrative into a future hundreds of years after the polar ice caps have melted and submerged our planet into a new era of technology and culture. In this futuristic reinterpretation, author Ayize Jama-Everett and illustrator Tristan Roach revisit the original inspiration of The Count of...

The Data Research Foundation's plan to transform humanity and the earth itself accelerates as the DRF locates another executor of the Apocalypse, General Narein. Toa Heavy Industry agents Zoichi Kanoe and Nishu Mizunoe haven't given up yet, and Zoichi continues his journey to maximum security containment facility 3 in search of Eon Green. To stop them, the DRF is bringing out its heaviest hitters. The battle lines are drawn, and Armageddon never looked...

When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.

The fourth in a six-volume series, Volume 4: Last Exit to Babylon, contains Zelazny's short works from the late 1970s and early 1980s when Zelazny's popularity opened new markets. He continued to produce highly-crafted stories, such as the popular "The Last Defender of Camelot," the Hugo-winning "Unicorn Variation," and the Hugo and Nebula-winning "Home is the Hangman." The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and

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