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1) Levers
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Learn about how a lever works! Beginner readers and budding young scientists will love learning about using simple machines in everyday situations. Along the way, readers will be supported by expertly leveled text, a strong text-photo match and appropriate text load. Readers will be excited to dig in and learn all about simple machines and basic physics concepts.
2) Levers
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"A teeter-totter is more than fun to play on, it's also a lever, one of the six simple machines. This accessible book introduces readers to the lever through real-world examples. They'll learn about simple and more complex inventions using the lever that have changed the world. Detailed pictures with thorough annotations explain important engineering concepts. Cool 'Technology in Action' spreads let readers get a close-up look at levers at work. This...
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Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A lever is one of six simple machines that are designed to make different kinds of work easier. Lifting, pulling, pushing--all these tasks are more efficient when you use a simple machine. In Levers Lessen the Load: Simple Machines for Kids, readers learn how levers and fulcrums can help us move far more weight than we can on our own. Need to lift a heavy rock? Use a lever! Need to push a log out of the way? Use a lever! Know where else you can find...
Author
Series
Publisher
Red Chair Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's a beautiful day in Deanville, and the gang is presented with a new challenge. How will the kids solve this difficult new task? And how does a Greek mathematician play an important role? Think like an engineer and read The Mighty Lever Endeavor to find out"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture...
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The goal of the Engineering & Design Module is to teach kids to recognize challenges, turn them into opportunities, and identify scalable solutions to solve them. Topics in this module include puzzles, invention, construction, machines, architecture, curiosity. STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to things kids...
Author
Series
Take them to the stars volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all cost. Take them to the stars. Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race....
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Discover practical, real-world strategies for business owners and managers to reduce procurement costs using the power of demand-side levers.
If you own or manage a business, there’s so much you have to keep in check. From balance sheets and overhead to product procurement, demand, and delivery, you’re responsible for ensuring growth and profitability while also finding ways to cut costs. But what’s the secret to effectively reducing your costs?...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to manage and reduce your procurement costs externally by using innovative supply-side levers.
How do you hit a seemingly impossible cost reduction target, especially when you’ve already exhausted all your internal opportunities to save? Your best bet is to start looking outward so you can cut costs from the other side. In this course, join instructor Martin John as he shows you how to reduce costs externally—and save even more using...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When the Invention Hunters, a group of globe-trotting invention collectors, visit a construction site in their flying museum, a boy helps them by explaining how simple machines like levers, pulleys, and cranks work"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the time women first used rotating bobbins to twist thread and men whirled slings around their heads to throw stones, people have found spin fascinating and baffling in equal measure. Now, in The Science of Spin, Roland Ennos shows how rotational motion dominates the workings of the world around us. It has shaped the solar system, galaxies, and black holes. It controls our climate and weather-from the pattern of trade winds through to the local...
13) Invention
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Explores such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.
Author
Publisher
Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wondered how seesaws go up and down or how screws stay secure in walls? In the How Do series, readers are welcome to guess along with the rest of us--and then explore the science behind the right answers. Beginning concepts of mechanical engineering including levers, wedges, inclined planes, and more are learned through diagrams, photos, and informative and engaging text"--Amazon.com.
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English
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"Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as infants. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While Mokoya received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What's more, they saw the sickness at the heart of their mother's Protectorate. A rebellion is growing. The Machinists discover new levers to...
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Language
English
Description
"Co-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columnist at the The New Yorker, this is a biography any would-be power broker must own: the story of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III, the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. In the latter half of the twentieth century, no Republican won the presidency without his help, and the men he counseled...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Get guidance on how to nurture relationships with your customers at each step of the customer journey.
Customer relationships are at the core of your business—so building these relationships is mission critical. In this course, marketing expert Erik Huberman shares practical guidance on how to nurture your customers along the customer journey. Erik defines key marketing terms such as customer lifetime value, consideration period, and purchase cycle....
Author
Language
English
Description
"A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the New York Times bestselling author of the "worthy and necessary" (The New York Times) Nobody, Marc Lamont Hill, and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster. With his signature "clear and courageous" (Cornel West) voice Marc Lamont Hill and New York Times bestselling author...
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