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1) Time travel
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"A nineteenth-century ship captain facing certain death at sea glimpses a ghostly figure guiding his ship to safety. Was it a pirate ghost, as the captain later claimed, or a hallucination brought on by extreme stress and dehydration? Eyewitness accounts of paranormal encounters like this one will entice all enthrall young readers. Short sidebars help develop critical thinking skills by prompting readers to consider alternative explanations, credibility...
2) Time travel
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Examines facts surrounding time travel from fictional time traveling characters to the science and ethics surrounding the possibility of actual time traveling. Includes a timeline, a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
4) Time travel
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Rhyming text presents an overview of time, including how it is measured, how timelines work, the concept of elapsed time, and how to find start and end times. Includes practice problems, a glossary, and a list of additional resources.
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Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.
“A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review
For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the...
“A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review
For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the...
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Twelve-year-olds Ambrose, Tom, and Frankie are transported to the boys' hometown of Freedom Falls, Ohio, in 1852 when Frankie blows her Romani family's magical trombone, and to return home they will have to use both Morse code and the ancient form of divination known as the I-Ching.
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Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological--the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the...
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In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world's first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project--and future of time travel--in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team--erasing her contributions from history. Fifty years later, time travel is a big business. Twenty-something Ruby Rebello knows her beloved grandmother,...
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Time travel has been the subject of many great science fiction novels and movies, but this video segment considers whether or not it is a real possibility. The segment takes a look at what the experts, like Craig Savage from the Department of Physics at the ANU and Stephen Hawkins, have said on the issue. Do the laws of physics actually permit time travel? And more fundamentally, what is time?
19) Time Travel Inn
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"No one seems very worried that your Grandmother Dolores has vanished from her job as innkeeper in the middle of the Wisconsin woods. That is until your parents suddenly and mysteriously insist on moving the family to take over the inn while she's 'away.' Kids in the neighborhood are eager to tell you wild tales about your new home, the Time Travel Inn"--Provided by publisher.