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Author: S. E. M. Ishida
Publisher: Journeyforth
Published: 2016-07
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781628562354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Nick Newton finds metal parts in a box in the attic along with notes from his late grandfather that once assembled lead Nick's family on adventure until Nick solves a mystery"--
Author: S. E. M. Ishida
Publisher: Nick Newton
Published: 2018-06
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781628565119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nick Newton offers to help Solomon Volk repair his android, but when they start purchasing robot parts at auctions, they inadvertently interfere with an evil scientist's plan to start a robot war.
Author: Richard Due
Publisher:
Published: 2017-12-22
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780983886792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy is the first book in a new sci-fi polypunk series by Richard Due, author of the award-winning Moon Realm series. What¿s it about? Here¿s Willa (she's eleven):Ever wonder why some crazy scientist hasn¿t blown up the world? I used to wonder about it all the time. Actually, I was pretty sure my mom would be the one to do it.But now I know better. It turns out there¿s a force working hard to keep the world from going KABLOOEY.Who are these people? Wait for it:Idiots. Yep, you heard me right.How do I know? Well, apparently, I¿m an Idiot. At least, according to the Geniuses I am. Confused? I¿m not surprised. You¿re probably an Idiot too. It all began on a Thursday at precisely 8 a.m. I was standing in the family room of our lovely two-story house, directly across the street from Squirrel Brand Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The same family room that, in a few minutes, I would never ever, ever see again¿ever.
Author: Fredrik deBoer
Publisher: All Points Books
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1250200385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.
Author: Nick Lane
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781781250372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A game-changing book on the origins of life, called the most important scientific discovery 'since the Copernican revolution' in The Observer.
Author: Richard P. Feynman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0393355683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest). Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that “can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist” (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets—and much more of an eyebrow-raising nature. In his stories, Feynman’s life shines through in all its eccentric glory—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah. Included for this edition is a new introduction by Bill Gates.
Author: Nick Kollerstrom
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Published: 2019-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781526740540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Isaac Newton was accorded a semi-divine status in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereby his image linked together religion and science. The real human being behind the demi-god image has tended to be lost. He was a person who took credit from others, and crushed the reputations of those to whom he owed most. This most brilliant of mathematicians could alas be devious, deceptive and duplicitous. This work doesn't go looking at unpublished alchemical musings as is nowadays fashionable, rather it sticks to the historical record. At the time when the new science was born, we scrutinize the ways in which he failed to discover the law of gravity or invent calculus. What exactly did Leibniz mean by describing him as 'a mind neither fair nor honest'? Why did Robert Hooke describe him as 'the veriest knave in all the house' and why was the astronomer Flamsteed calling him SIN (Sir Isaac Newton)?We are here concerned to give him credit for what he did discover, which may not be quite what you had been told. This book redefines the genius of Isaac Newton, but without the heavily mythologised baggage of a bygone era. He believed in one God, one law and one bank.
Author: S. E. M. Ishida
Publisher: B&H Kids
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781087741567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A whimsical tale based on a Bible story, Birds of the Air reminds young readers that God chooses the least among us for His great purposes.
Author: Nick Bunker
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-08-20
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1101872802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius.
Author: Arthur I. Miller
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780618341511
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the idea of "black holes" explores the tumultuous debate over the existence of this now well-accepted phenomenon, focusing particular attention on Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
