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9781502603708 | Cavendish Square, August 1, 2015, cover price $191.60
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9781502605504 | Cavendish Square, August 1, 2015, cover price $34.21 | About this edition: Explore the history and the theoretical properties of Higgs Bosons, the exciting subatomic particles that have eluded scientists for years.
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9781502605528 | Cavendish Square, August 1, 2015, cover price $34.21 | About this edition: Discover the engineering and science behind particle accelerators, the massive machines that smash the smallest atoms together to observe how they work.
Product Description: If learning about the origin of the universe wasn't enticing enough, this title guides readers through the trials of its discovery by Edwin Hubble, after whom the Hubble space telescope is named. Chronicling Hubbles early years at the University of Chicago, to his discovery of spiral nebulae, to his later research into the expanding universe, readers experience Hubbles successes and failures in the discovery of the Big Bang...read more
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9781477718032 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2014, cover price $34.25 | About this edition: If learning about the origin of the universe wasn't enticing enough, this title guides readers through the trials of its discovery by Edwin Hubble, after whom the Hubble space telescope is named.
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9781477718087 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2014, cover price $34.25
Product Description: Aligned to Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects, this volume helps students understand the central ideas of Mendeleyev's periodic law. Mendeleyev's major breakthrough was his arranging of the elements in sequence by atomic weight but recognizing that there were gaps where no elements had yet been discovered...read more
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9781477718070 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2014, cover price $34.25 | About this edition: Aligned to Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects, this volume helps students understand the central ideas of Mendeleyev's periodic law.
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9781477718025 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2014, cover price $34.25
Product Description: Johannes Kepler is a fascinating man who would revolutionize humanity's conception of the cosmos and its place within them. He would replace the Ptolemaic system with his three laws that described the orbital motion of the planets around the Sun...read more
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9781477718056 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2014, cover price $34.25 | About this edition: Johannes Kepler is a fascinating man who would revolutionize humanity's conception of the cosmos and its place within them.
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9781477718063 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2014, cover price $34.25
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9781477718018 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2014, cover price $34.25
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9780761386605 | Twenty First Century Books, March 1, 2012, cover price $31.99
Product Description: "In this book, we'll explore seven wonders of space technology. Scientists and engineers have built vehicles and equipment to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system. Orbiting satellites and telescopes have given us everything from more accurate weather reports to glimpses back to the beginning of the universe...read more
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9780761354536 | Twenty First Century Books, February 1, 2011, cover price $33.32 | About this edition: "In this book, we'll explore seven wonders of space technology.
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9780761359906 | Twenty First Century Books, July 1, 2010, cover price $33.26
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9780761342410 | Twenty First Century Books, January 1, 2010, cover price $33.32
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9780822585312 | Lerner Pub Group, September 1, 2007, cover price $8.95
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9780822567714 | Lerner Pub Group, October 1, 2007, cover price $27.93 | About this edition: Describes how findings in astronomy led to the field of astrobiology, discusses modern discoveries in the search for extraterrestrial life, and explains what conditions scientists believe life will favor on other planets.
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9780309095525 | Natl Academy Pr, March 15, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Details the life and major accomplishments of planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel, who studies both Jupiter and Neptune.
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9780531167755 | Franklin Watts, December 30, 2005, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: Details the life and major accomplishments of planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel, who studies both Jupiter and Neptune.
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9780823945283 | Rosen Pub Group, February 1, 2004, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Presents the story of the discovery of the first subatomic particle and how it revolutionized understanding of the atom in chemistry and led to the new field of electronics.
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9780823945290 | Rosen Pub Group, December 1, 2003, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Tells how the neutrino, an almost massless subatomic particle without a charge, was discovered and helped to explain the process of radioactive decay.
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9780823945337 | Rosen Pub Group, November 1, 2003, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Discusses quarks, fundamental particles that make up protons, neutrons, and other subatomic particles, and describes the process by which scientists came to 'detect' them.
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9780823945306 | Rosen Pub Group, November 1, 2003, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A look into the discovery of the neutron, which completed our picture of the structure of the atom and enabled us to explain the existence of isotopes and understand how nuclear fission occurs.
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9780823945313 | Rosen Pub Group, October 1, 2003, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Describes the photon, a particle of electromagnetic energy and the various people key to its discovery.
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9780823945320 | Rosen Pub Group, October 1, 2003, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A look into the discovery of the most fundamental subatomic particle in nature, the proton, which determines why elements have different physical and chemical properties.
A fascinating guide delves into the far reaches of space where comets and asteroids are on a collision course with Earth, provides a history of cosmic impacts, and discusses how we should prepare and protect ourselves from further cosmic impacts.
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9780761314035 | Millbrook Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: Describes evidence of past cosmic collisions with the Earth, provides a history of the solar system, and discusses steps which can be taken to prevent a catastrophic collision in the future.
An exciting glimpse into the world of materials science and engineering examines how natural resources are transformed into man-made materials by focusing on such materials as plastics, semi-conductors, metallic alloys, ceramics, super-adhesives, supermagnets, and more.
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9780761314691 | Twenty First Century Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: Examines how natural resources are transformed into man-made materials, focusing on plastics, semi-conductors, metallic alloys, ceramics, super-adhesives, and super-magnets.
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9780613715324 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $23.30 | About this edition: Explains how to measure and record various local weather conditions, including air pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and rainfall, and how to use these statistics to predict future weather conditions.
Explains how to measure and record various local weather conditions, including air pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and rainfall, and how to use these statistics to predict future weather conditions.
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9780071347990 | McGraw-Hill, March 1, 2000, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Explains how to measure and record various local weather conditions, including air pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and rainfall, and how to use these statistics to predict future weather conditions.
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