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Genius by Stephen Hawking volume 0
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Professor Stephen Hawking reveals our true potential in a radical new science show which challenges a selection of volunteers and the viewer to think like the greatest geniuses of the past and answer some of humanity's toughest and most enduring questions.
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Blast Off Boy and Blorp volume 3
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Blast Off Boy wins the prize for best science experiment on Meep, and Blorp, going to school on Earth, receives an honorary prize for his effort and enthusiasm.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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My name's Rey. A generation ago, the Empire fought the New Republic in the Battle of Jakku. All that remains is an inhospitable desert with a graveyard of ships - and bones - where most of the spacecraft came down. I make a living by scavening parts and equipment form the wrecks. I don't know how I got here or why... but this is my survival guide to life on this hostile planet.
9) Anathem
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English
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Having lived in a monastery since childhood, away from the violent upheavals of the outside world, Raz becomes one of a group of formerly cloistered scholars who are appointed by a fear-driven higher power to avert an impending catastrophe.
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Zones of thought volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them--and among the humans--who...
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My teacher is an alien volume 4
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Peter, a typical seventh-grader, finds himself touring the planet with his friends Susan and Duncan, and with three aliens in disguise. Their mission is to file a report that will report the Earth's future in the universe.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone. For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life? As founding director of Cornell...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"In New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb claimed, had been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star. This provocative and persuasive argument opened thousands of minds to the vast possibilities of our universe and the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth. But a crucial question remained:...
14) Baloney, Henry P
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Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again.
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Expanse volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the...
18) New Earth
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 20
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Ben Bova brings us New Earth, his latest tale of science fiction. The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth.All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on...
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Jedi Academy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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It's hard to believe this is Roan's last year at Jedi Academy. He's been busier than ever learning to fly (and wash) starships, swimming in the Lake Country on Naboo, studying for the Jedi obstacle course exam, and tracking down dozens of vorpak clones--don't ask. But now, someone is setting him up to get in trouble with everyone at school, including Yoda. If he doesn't find out who it is, and fast, he may get kicked out of school! Why can't middle...
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