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Your brain : a user's guide / by Kluger, Jeffrey.(CARDINAL)318697; Time, Inc.(CARDINAL)147095;
Introduction -- Five paths to the mind -- Consciousness -- Learning -- Postcards from the brain -- Disorders -- Maturing -- The faces of genius -- Memory -- Mortality -- The world within -- Addiction -- Healing -- Evolution.
Subjects: Neuropsychology; Neurosciences; Brain;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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100 new scientific discoveries : fascinating, unbelievable and mind-expanding stories / by Kluger, Jeffrey.(CARDINAL)318697; Time Inc. Home Entertainment.(CARDINAL)329520;
Introduction -- The cosmos -- The mind -- Technology -- Archaeology -- Genetics -- Physics -- Medicine -- The Earth -- Zoology -- Chemistry.A collection of stories about groundbreaking scientific discoveries covers such topics as animal behaviors, the characteristics of distant galaxies, and the incredible capacity of the human mind, in a volume that also provides a chronology of debunked scientific theories.
Subjects: Discoveries in science.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The sibling effect : brothers, sisters, and the bonds that define us / by Kluger, Jeffrey.(CARDINAL)318697;
Subjects: Interpersonal relations.; Parent and child.; Siblings.; Siblings.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Splendid solution : Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio / by Kluger, Jeffrey.(CARDINAL)318697;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-358) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Salk, Jonas, 1914-1995.; Virologists; Poliomyelitis; Poliomyelitis; Poliomyelitis vaccine;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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Splendid solution [sound recording] : Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio / by Kluger, Jeffrey.(CARDINAL)318697;
Read by Michael Prichard. Presents a comprehensive study of Jonas Salk and his years of research in the 1950s on finding a vaccine for Infantile Paralysis, and discusses the controversy that surrounded his work and experiments.
Subjects: Virologists -- United States -- Biography.; Poliomyelitis -- United States -- History.; Poliomyelitis -- Vaccination -- History.; Poliomyelitis vaccine -- History.; Salk, Jonas, 1914-1995.; Compact discs.; Audiobooks.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nacky Patcher and the curse of the dry-land boats / by Kluger, Jeffrey.;
When thief and swindler Nacky Patcher and orphaned eleven-year-old Teedie Flinn discover a huge wrecked boat in a small mountain lake near their town, they try to unite all the inhabitants to help rebuild the vessel--an endeavor that forever changes all of their lives.1170LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Shipbuilding; Cooperativeness; Orphans; People with disabilities; Fantasy; Fantasy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Simplexity : why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple) / by Kluger, Jeffrey.(CARDINAL)318697;
Why is the stock market so hard to predict? : confused by everyone else -- Why is it so hard to leave a burning building or an endangered city? : confused by instincts -- How does a single bullet start a world war? : confused by social structure -- Why do the jobs that require the greatest skills often pay the least? Why do companies with the least to sell often earn the most? : confused by payoffs -- Why do people, mice, and worlds die when they do? : confused by scale -- Why do bad teams win so many games and good teams lose so many? : confused by objective -- Why do we always worry about the wrong things? : confused by fear -- Why is a baby the best linguist in any room? : confused by silence -- Why are your cell phone and camera so absurdly complicated? : confused by flexibility -- Why are only 10 percent of the world's medical resources used to treat 90 percent of its ills? : confused by false targets -- Why does complexity science fall flat in the arts? : confused by loveliness.Draws on cutting-edge theories to describe the basic workings of everyday objects and principles in accessible language, covering a wide variety of topics from cell phones and viruses to economics and parenting.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Complexity (Philosophy); Science; Science; Simplicity.; Technology;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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Freedom stone / by Kluger, Jeffrey,author.(CARDINAL)318697;
With the help of a magical stone from Africa, a thirteen-year-old slave travels to the battle of Vicksburg to clear her father's name and free her family from bondage.1030LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Slavery; African Americans; Magic;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 10
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Disaster strikes! : the most dangerous space missions of all time / by Kluger, Jeffrey,author.(CARDINAL)318697;
The tale of the sinking spacecraft : Liberty Bell, 1961 -- Spin-out in space : Gemini 8, 1966 -- The no-good, terrible, horrible spacewalk : Gemini 9, 1966 -- The fire : Apollo 1, 1967 -- The unlucky mission of Soyuz 1 : Soyuz 1, 1967 -- Spin-out at the moon : Apollo 10, 1969 -- The moon trip and the lightning strike : Apollo 12, 1969 -- Apollo 13 behind the scenes : Apollo 13, 1970 -- The three lost cosmonauts : Soyuz 11, 1971 -- The lost teacher : Challenger, 1986 -- Crack-up in orbit : Mir Space Station, 1997 -- The astronaut who almost drowned in space : International Space Station, 2013."A collection of stories about space missions gone wrong."--Ages 8-12.Grades 4 to 6.NC1190LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Space vehicle accidents; Manned space flight;
Available copies: 24 / Total copies: 28
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Raise your voice : 12 protests that shaped America / by Kluger, Jeffrey,author.(CARDINAL)318697;
The Boston Tea Party, 1773 -- The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 -- The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and the fight for workers' rights, 1911 -- The Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956 -- The March on Washington, 1963 -- The Democratic Convention, 1968 -- The Stonewall Uprising, 1969 -- Earth Day, 1970 -- The march against nuclear weapons, 1982 -- ACT UP, 1987 -- The Women's March, 2017 -- Dakota Access uprising, 2016-2017."A recounting of protests throughout American history that have shaped our nation"--Ages: 8-12Grades: 4-61220LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Informational works.; Demonstrations; Protest movements; Political participation;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 14
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