Peter Willis
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Night: How Copernicus Made the Sun Stand Still and the Earth Move
$25.99 Add to cartPatterns in the Night Sky
On a March night in 1497, a young Nicholas Copernicus watched the moon glide across the sky and hide a distant star. When the star reappeared too soon, he knew something was w
- Series: Moments in Science #11
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1629443352
- Language: English
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Burn: Michael Faraday’s Candle
$11.99 Add to cartWHAT MAKES A CANDLE BURN?
Discover the secrets of fire and candles. Solid wax is somehow changed into light and heat. But how? Travel back in time to December 28, 1848 in London, England to one of the
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1629440450
- Language: English
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Erosion: How Hugh Bennett Saved America’s Soil and Ended the Dust Bowl
$25.99 Add to cartWhen the dust storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the soils in every state, creating maps showing soil co
- Series: Moments in Science #5
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 162944149X
- Language: English
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Erosion: How Hugh Bennett Saved America’s Soil and Ended the Dust Bowl
$11.99 Add to cartWhen the dust storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the soils in every state, creating maps showing soil co
- Series: Moments in Science #5
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1629441503
- Language: English
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Magnet: How William Gilbert Discovered That Earth Is a Great Magnet
$25.99 Add to cartThe compass needle always pointed north.
This simple observation sent William Gilbert deep into research about magnets. William’s insatiable curiosity led him to collect lodestones from all over the wo
- Series: Moments in Science #9
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1629442453
- Language: English
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Clang!: Ernst Chladni’s Sound Experiments
$25.99 Add to cartWhat if your science experiments were so interesting that even an Emperor wanted to know more?
In 1806, scientist Ernst Chladni (KLOD-nee) left Germany for a three-year road trip, entertaining European
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: March 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1629440930
- Language: English
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Clang!: Ernst Chladni’s Sound Experiments
$11.99 Add to cartWhat if your science experiments were so interesting that even an Emperor wanted to know more?
In 1806, scientist Ernst Chladni (KLOD-nee) left Germany for a three-year road trip, entertaining European
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: March 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1629440949
- Language: English
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Burn: Michael Faraday’s Candle
$25.99 Add to cartWHAT MAKES A CANDLE BURN?
Discover the secrets of fire and candles. Solid wax is somehow changed into light and heat. But how? Travel back in time to December 28, 1848 in London, England to one of the
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1629440442
- Language: English
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A.I.: How Patterns Helped Artificial Intelligence Defeat World Champion Lee Sedol
$25.99 Add to cartThe stage was set for a showdown: Man v. Machine.
On March 9, 2016, the AlphaGo artificial intelligence computer program played the board game, GO, against the world champion, Lee Sedol.
The Game: G
- Series: Moments in Science #6
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1629441813
- Language: English
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Fever: How Tu Youyou Adapted Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria
$25.99 Add to cartFor ages 7-12
People were dying! Malaria is a deadly mosquito-borne disease that causes fevers, chills and often death. In 1969, the People’s Republic of China created a task force to find a cure.
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- Series: Moments in Science #7
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1629441953
- Language: English
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Aquarium: How Jeannette Power Invented Aquariums to Observe Marine Life
$25.99 Add to cartIn 1818, Jeannette Power, a young French woman moved to Sicily and fell in love with the Mediterranean Sea and the Argonauta Argo octopus, the weirdest octopus on Earth.
Amazing weird fact: The Argon
- Series: Moments in Science #8
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1629442321
- Language: English
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Pollen: Darwin’s 130 Year Prediction
$11.99 Add to cartHow long does it take for science to find an answer to a problem?
On January 25, 1862, naturalist Charles Darwin received a box of orchids. One flower, the Madagascar star orchid, fascinated him. It ha
- Series: Moments in Science
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1629441201
- Language: English
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Eclipse: How the 1919 Solar Eclipse Proved Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
$11.99 Add to cartIn 1915, British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington was fascinated with Einstein’s new theory of general relativity. The theory talks about how forces push and pull objects in space. Einstein said th
- Series: Moments in Science #4
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: October 8, 2019
- ISBN10: 1629441260
- Language: English
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The Nantucket Sea Monster: A Fake News Story
$25.99 Add to cartA JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION
2018 National Council of Teacher’s of English (NCTE) Notable Children’s Book in Language Arts
Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper?
Early in August 1937, a
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1629440825
- Language: English
