Florence Nightingale

Defines pulleys, explains their functions, and suggests simple experiments to demonstrate how they work.

Follows the life and career of the French scientist who proved the existence of germs and their connection with diseases.

Solar Energy Is Explained. Included In This Book Is Where It Comes From, Who Uses It, And The Positive And Negative Benefits Of Using It. Correlated To Common Core, Texas TEKS, Virginia Sols, And Georgia Performance Standards.

This is a short fun book for children, showing them math simplified so they can learn it’s not hard and that it’s necessary to learn math in life. There are math questions and situations in this book showing that math can be applied in daily life. The book is also bilingual, meaning you can also introduce your child to Spanish or English. Math is a subject many children are scared of and tend to not embrace. This novel is made to break down some math, and the math problems are for children of a young age, for them to analyze and use critical thinking. The book features a nice math teacher ...

Simple text and photographs introduce USDA's MyPlate tool and present healthy fruit options for children.

" A Daniel, el trabajo en la oficina le resulta muy aburrido; su vida se ha vuelto de color gris. Por si fuera poco, descubre que, en los momentos más inesperados, se eleva desde el suelo. ¡Menudo problema!... ¿Qué puede hacer, por ejemplo, para cubrirse con la manta si la cama se ha quedado abajo y él está durmiendo en el aire?... Pero decide aprovechar su extraña facultad, y entonces... "

A foundered Victorian ship looking for the fabled Northwest Passage holds a secret in its icy grave... When Dirk Pitt of NUMAr is almost blown to pieces in a lab explosion, he suspects sabotage. The lab in question belongs to a scientist hoping to use a rare mineral to combat greenhouse gases - but who would want to destroy our one chance to save the planet? However, there are those who will do anything to control such a valuable prize. Pitt's investigations take him to the Arctic in search of a clue to the origins of this precious mineral. There he and NUMAr colleague Al Giordino must battle ...