Briefly explores the history, rules, strategies, and equipment of the sport of baseball, and explores how science, technology, engineering, and math intersect in the sport. Includes a glossary.

"Though ours is an age of high technology, the essence of what engineering is and what engineers do is not common knowledge. Even the most elementary of principles upon which great bridges, jumbo jets, or super computers are built are alien concepts to many. This is so in part because engineering as a human endeavor is not yet integrated into our culture and intellectual tradition. And while educators are currently wrestling with the problem of

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"Who do you call when you need to land a car-sized rover on Mars or shrink a computer part to fit in the palm of your hand? An engineer! Engineers find creative solutions to problems using their math, science and technology skills. Learn the steps of the engineering design process, and then see it come to life in these nine stories of real-world engineering ingenuity. Follow along as these problem-solvers build a faster bicycle, fix a particularly...

Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.

For two years, we have followed the construction of the new California Department of Transportation headquarters in LA to learn the architectural, structural, and mechanical challenges of building mega-skyscrapers.

The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.

In 3D Engineering: Design and Build Your Own Prototypes, young readers tackle real-life engineering problems by figuring out real-life solutions. Kids apply science and math skills to create prototypes for bridges, instruments, alarms, and more. Prototypes are preliminary models used by engineers -- and kids--to evaluate ideas and to better understand how things work.

"Crammed with mega machines, breathtaking buildings, and all the technology in between, this book has the real insider view on engineering"--Provided by publisher.

Move over, James Bond and Jason Bourne-superhuman agent Hays Baker fights to save millions of lives in James Patterson's thrilling bestseller.
Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess superhuman strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do-they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. But their lives are about to change forever.
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Describes the different branches of engineering and what they do, and offers step-by-step instructions and color photographs for sample projects. Then details the eight steps of the engineering process and offers examples. Finally, gives a group of National Geographic explorers and engineers fourteen challenges to solve using engineering. Includes a section of engineering success and failures through history, a discussion on the future of engineering,...