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The big bang theory volume 7
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Socially challenged they remain, but the scientific geniuses of show always deliver hilarious results. Leonard returns from his North Sea expedition to find that his relationship with Penny involves more beta-testing than he's ever done in a lab. Howard's attachment issues with women in his life in particular and Raj's social breakthrough with women in general provide more laughs. Bernadette and Amy stand staunchly by the men in their life, even when...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Season six kicks off in space, where Howard is caught in an argument between Bernadette and his mom. Back on Earth, Sheldon decides to hire, Alex, a young female assistant which makes Amy feel threatened. Meanwhile, Leonard and Penny make strides to define their relationship and Raj attempts to find love. Find out what surprises are in store for everyone, once Howard returns home in these twenty four must watch episodes.
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"For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother in a race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe"--
104) Albert Einstein
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Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Traces the life and work of the famous physicist, from his childhood in Germany and education in Switzerland through the development of his theories of relativity to his campaign for peace after World War II.
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"At the core of Einstein's general theory of relativity are a set of equations that explain the relationship among gravity, space, and time--possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement of modern physics. For over a century, physicists have been exploring, debating, and at times neglecting Einstein's theory in their quest to uncover the history of the universe, the origin of time, and the evolution of solar systems, stars, and galaxies. In this...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In Marie Curie, learn how the Polish chemist and physicist chose to pursue a career in science and discovered radium, earning the Nobel Prize twice. Features include a timeline, a glossary, essential facts, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.--
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Despite their on-again, off-again relationship in the past, Leonard and Penny have finally gotten married. Even Sheldon has found a female companion, entering into a 'relationship agreement' with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler, and he recently took their relationship to the next level by marrying her after a long courtship. Will their equation for marital bliss alter the chemistry between these two beautiful minds? Quantum comedy converges in the...
108) The dark frontier
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Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"England, 1935. Physicist Henry Barstow is on holiday when he meets the mysterious Simon Groom, a representative for an armaments manufacturer. Groom invites the professor to Ixania, a small nation-state in Eastern Europe whose growing weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Only after suffering a blow to the head--which muddles his brain into believing he is Conway Carruthers, international spy--does the mild-mannered physicist agree...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Sophie Jones is a physics prodigy on track to unlock the secrets of the universe. But when she meets Jake Kristopher during their first week at Yale they instantly feel a deep connection, as if they've known each other before. They quickly become a couple, and as college goes on, Sophie distances herself from academia as Jake intensely pursues a finance career. But when a shocking change forces Sophie into a new reality, she returns to physics and...
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He's baaack! Sheldon is retrieved from his soul-searching cross-country train trip (older but no wiser) and that means the gang's all here to spread another year's cheer as TV's most attended laugh seminar. Enroll in this comic curriculum to explore Leonard's minor surgery becoming a major catastrophe from his roommate, Howard's obsession over his mom's relationship with retailer-turned-caretaker Stuart, and the peculiar results of Penny's technique...
111) Isaac Newton
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Discusses the life story of Isaac Newton, his study of light and gravity, and his development of the three laws of motion.
112) Anders Celsius
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Scientists can change the world! Anders Celsius helped us understand temperature. This title introduces budding scientists and engineers to Anders Celsius whose discoveries changed the course of science.
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Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
Leo Szilard, known in scientific circles as the "father of the atom bomb," has been overshadowed by such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller. Yet it was Szilard who first developed the idea of obtaining energy from nuclear chain reactions, and who first, with Einstein, pressed the U.S. government to begin atomic research and co-designed (with Fermi) the first nuclear reactor. A shy, witty eccentric...
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Pub. Date
c1993
Description
These thirteen essays and one extended interview broadcast in 1992, range from the autobiographical to the purely scientific. Building on his earlier work, Hawking discusses imaginary time, how black holes can give birth to baby universes, and scientists' efforts to find a complete unified theory that would predict everything in the universe.
116) Einstein
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Presents the story of Albert Einstein and his fifteen-year battle to prove his Theory of General Relativity amid the violence of war and his tumultuous personal life.
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From a hidden enclave in the maze of Tehran, an Iranian scientist who calls himself "Dr. Ali" sends an encrypted message to the CIA. It falls to Harry Pappas to decide if it's authentic. Dr. Ali sends more secrets of the Iranian bomb program to the agency, then panics. He's being followed, but he doesn't know who's onto him, and neither does Pappas. The White House is no help at all. To get his agent out, Pappas turns to a secret British spy team...
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Pub. Date
1985.
Description
Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets; accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums; painting a naked female toreador--and much else of an eyebrow-raising nature. In short,...
119) Albert Einstein
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Profiles the life and work of a scientist-celebrity and world-respected genius who overturned Newtonian physics and won a Nobel Prize.
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