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English barometers, 1680-1860; a history of domestic barometers and their makers. by Goodison, Nicholas.(CARDINAL)129146;
Bibliography: pages 341-343.
Subjects: Barometers.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Barometer soup [sound recording] by Buffett, Jimmy(CARDINAL)346359;
Barometer soup (4:58) -- Barefoot children (4:54) -- Bank of bad habits (3:53) -- Remittance man (5:59) -- Diamond as big as the Ritz (5:20) -- Blue Heaven rendezvous (4:01) -- Jimmy dreams (3:39) -- Lage nom ai (3:42) -- Don't chu-know (3:48) -- Ballad of Skip Wiley (4:33) -- The night I painted the sky (5:30) -- Mexico (4:06).Produced by Russell Kunkel.Jimmy Buffett, guitar, vocals ; with vocal and instrumental accompaniment.Recorded at Shrimp Boat Sound, Key West, FL.
Subjects: Popular music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The history of the barometer. by Middleton, W. E. Knowles(William Edgar Knowles),1902-1998.(CARDINAL)130920;
Bibliographical footnotes.
Subjects: Barometers;
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Meteorologist's tools / by Hanson, Anders,1980-(CARDINAL)466840;
Learn about some of the tools that meteorologists use to predict the weather.Meet a meteorologist -- Meteorologist's tools -- Barometer -- Weather radar -- Thermometer -- Computer model -- Match game -- Tool quiz.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Meteorological instruments; Barometers; Thermometers; Meteorologists;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Amazing activities with weather and climate / by O'Daly, Anne,1966-author.(CARDINAL)390961;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.What are weather and climate? -- Think like a scientist! -- The weather cycle -- Make a hygrometer -- Making clouds -- Hailstones -- Make a flood -- Rainbows -- Weather vane -- Anemometer -- Build a barometer -- Make a thermometer -- Balloon blowup."Budding scientists and meteorologists have likely heard about how climate change is shaping their world, but they may have questions about the science behind it. This informative title has answers! First, explanatory text breaks down important concepts including solar radiation and air pressure. Then readers learn about the importance of experiments to the scientific method. Armed with this knowledge, students can then dive into 11 hands-on activities with compelling step-by-step directions, detailed illustrations, and STEM concept connections. These activities utilize everyday items such as plastic wrap and measuring cups, but allow students to simulate weather events including the creation of clouds and flooding. Complete with a glossary to boost reading comprehension and a section to find further information, this text is sure to inspire students to continue learning about the weather events that affect their everyday lives."--
Subjects: Science; Weather;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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W is for wind : a weather alphabet / by Michaels, Pat.(CARDINAL)465019; Rose, Melanie,illustrator.(CARDINAL)664033;
"An A-Z pictorial for children including weather terms such as barometer, cloud, tornado, and sunshine introduced with poems accompanied by expository text to provide detailed information"--Provided by publisher.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Alphabet books.; Alphabet; Alphabets; English language; Weather.; Weather;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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Sensors / by Deane-Pratt, Ade.(CARDINAL)503228;
Includes biblical references (page 32) and index.What are sensors? -- Light sensors -- Sensing invisible light -- Sensors in space -- Seeing with sound -- Vibrating solids -- Temperature sensors -- Pressure sensors -- Magnetic sensors -- Make an artificial ear -- Make a pinhole camera -- Make a barometer -- Make a thermometer.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Detectors; Transducers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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This book made me do it / by Woodward, John,1954-(CARDINAL)317268; Baines, Francesca.(CARDINAL)385931;
Amaze your friends -- Food, glorious food -- Get creative -- Explore the world -- Survive in the wild -- Be a sports hero --A collection of activities for budding artists, scientists, sports stars, and chefs provides step-by-step instructions for projects, from folding origami and making a barometer to panning for gold and doing the Moonwalk.
Subjects: Amusements; Handicraft; Recreation;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Heathen : religion and race in American history / by Gin Lum, Kathryn,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: Returning the gaze -- Introduction: A heathen inheritance -- Part I. Imagining the heathen world: Beginnings -- Origin stories -- Landscapes -- Bodies -- Part II. The body politic: Barometer -- Exclusion -- Inclusion -- Part III. Inheritances: Preservation and pushback -- Resonances -- Continuing counterscripts -- Epilogue: "The aforesaid heathen peoples" -- Postscript: The more things change..."American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious notion shaped American racial governance and undergirds American exceptionalism, even as purported heathens have drawn on their characterization as such to push back against this national myth"--
Subjects: Race; Race discrimination; Race discrimination; Protestants; Paganism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The scientific revolution / by Ryles, Briony.(CARDINAL)497579; Hall, Derek,1930-(CARDINAL)732478;
Telescopes -- The pendulum clock and Galileo -- The nature of light and Isaac Newton -- The barometer and vacuums -- Iron smelting -- Navigation at sea -- Benjamin Franklin -- Locks and keys -- Balloons -- Steam engine -- Textile machines -- Farm machinery -- Canal transportation -- The beginnings of railroads -- Evidence of fossils -- Electricity -- The revolver -- Charles Darwin -- Steamships -- Timelines.
Subjects: Technology; Technology; Technological innovations; Technological innovations; Science, Medieval.; Science, Renaissance.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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