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Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative reference content with headlines and videos, learners see how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity. Users can explore millions of full-text articles from national and global publications, 200+ experiments and projects, and top reference content.
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Given the opportunity to be educated at the ship’s university alongside the elite, the boy, raised as one of the Chained, forms a bond with “the professor,” and together they set off on a transformative journey to break free of the chains that fetter them both.
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"What better way to celebrate the holidays than by doing themed activities! From baking cornbread for New Year's to creating a ghostly illusion for Halloween, the experiments and projects in this book are a great way for students to take science concepts from the classroom into their everyday lives. Each of the [ten] projects includes a background section to explain the science topic at work, materials, clear step-by-step instructions, and an observations...
5) Robotics
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Contains activities that teach about robotics, discussing the history, mechanics, and future use of robots.
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"'Skulls and Skeletons!' encourages readers to learn as they compare and contrast their own bones with those of other vertebrates. They make working models, measure bone lengths and brain capacity, learn how to identify skulls and bones by shape, structure, and function, and much more!"--Back cover.
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Briefly investigates a selection of real, serious scientific study into topics readers might find to be silly--like whether or not you can run on pudding, how to replace plastic materials with potatoes, and how to make coffee out of coffee beans that have been eaten and pooped out by jungle animals, the idea being these animals would only select the best possible coffee beans to eat, and therefore coffee made from such beans will taste better. Includes...
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Provides a guide to global politics including political thought, ideologies, government systems, political change, and international relations, and features an overview of the main governments around the world. Includes color illustrations, infographics, maps, and sidebars.
12) Jumpnauts
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In a future where the world is roughly divided into two factions, the Pacific League of Nations and the Atlantic Division of Nations, tensions are high as each side waits for the other to make a move. But neither side is prepared for a powerful third party that has apparently been an influential presence on Earth for thousands of years, and just might be making a reappearance very soon. With the realization that a highly intelligent alien race has...
13) The last she
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The last woman on Earth after a mysterious plague wipes out the female population, Ara finds an ally in Kaden, a man willing to do anything to help her as she searches for the truth of her existence.
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"Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless, but she's trying to please him. She's trying hard. She's learning, too. Doug says he loves that Annie's AI makes her seem more like...
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When mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause-a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen-and it could spell doom for the entire world.
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"What if Gwen Stacy was bitten by the radioactive spider, not Peter Parker? Find out on Earth-65! There, Gwen is the spectacularly misunderstood Spider-Woman--and she's wanted for Peter's death! And that's bad news, especially since Gwen's dad is a cop! When a Lizard-like menace runs amok, it brings back painful memories for Gwen--but will Captain America's mighty shield inflict new ones? Web-slinging doesn't leave much time for Gwen to play drums...