Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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[2016], Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: 616.9 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the 2014 Ebola outbreak in depth, and offers facts about the disease's history, symptoms, and spread. Also describes life for health care workers, volunteers, and scientists on the front lines of the disease; and prevention efforts around the world. Includes color photographs, question-and-answer sections, maps, a glossary, and further resources.
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2004, Preschool, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a train trip, an engineer teaches a boy the expressions used by railroad workers as he describes the different kinds of cars, freight, and people they see.
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2004., Preschool, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a train trip, an engineer teaches a boy the expressions used by railroad workers as he describes the different kinds of cars, freight, and people they see.
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[2014]., Lerner Publications Call No: 359.9 NEWMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Military special opsSummary Note: Describes how Navy SEALS are taught to think like scientists and perform like soldiers, with such skills as fast-roping from a hovering helicopter, demolishing enemy weaponry, tracking terrorists, hostage rescue, and more.
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2014., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: 363.738 NEWMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines what is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a stretch of the Pacific Ocean that has become home to plastic and garbage from all over the world as streams and currents take trash to its location. Explores what the trash is doing to the ocean ecosystem and how we might stop the Patch from growing.
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[2014]., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: HI-INT 363.73 NEW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A team of scientists explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where millions of pieces of plastic have gathered, having drifted there from rivers, beaches, and ocean traffic all over the world.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Millbrook Press Call No: HI-INT 599.769 NEW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Marine biologist Brent Hughes didn't think sea otters and sea grass had much in common, but his research revealed a new and surprising connection between the two.
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[2017]., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: 599.769 NEWMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines how marine scientist Brent Hughes, working in Elkhorn Slough on the California coast, learned that sea otters were helping seagrass remain healthy despite fertilizer runoff from nearby farms, thereby solving a modern science mystery and uncovering secrets of the ecosystem. Features dozens of color photographs and charts, sidebars, activities, and conservation tips.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Millbrook Press Call No: 599.769 5 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides insight into the delicate balance of ecosystems and how the seagrass of the California coast inlet called Elkhorn Slough was saved by the activities of sea otters.
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[2018], Primary, Millbrook Press Call No: ENF 333.95 New Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Zoos take care of animals and welcome visitors of all ages, but they do so much more! Discover how scientists at three US zoos are helping wild and captive orangutans, black-footed ferrets, and black rhinoceroses.
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[2018]., Primary, Millbrook Press Call No: 333.95 New Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Zoos take care of animals and welcome visitors of all ages, but they do so much more! Discover how scientists at three US zoos are helping wild and captive orangutans, black-footed ferrets, and black rhinoceroses.