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21) X-men
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Because of unique genetic mutations, children with extraordinary and dangerous powers are born into a world filled with prejudice. Under the tutelage of Professior Xavier, these and other outcasts learn to harness their powers for the good of mankind.
22) Deepsix
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Series
Language
English
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Description
In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Nineteen years later, a rogue moon hurtling through space is about to obliterate the last opportunity to study this rare, life-supporting planet. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins -- the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of the ill-fated planet -- must lead a...
23) The Universe
Publisher
The History® Channel
Language
English
Description
It's time for a new look at a very old universe. In its mysteries, we are finding the secrets of our past and the key to our future. This is a history of how we know what we do about space. Fifty years have flown by since man first ventured into space.
25) Uglies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.
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English
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Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of intellectuals such as Thomas Paine in Common Sense to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our intellectual history through the words of the exceptional few.
Originally published as a political pamphlet in 1848, amidst the...
27) Hollow man
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
After years of experimentation, Dr. Sebastian Caine, a brilliant but arrogant scientist working for the Defense Department, has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Detemined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine instructs his team to move on to phase III: human experimentation. Dr. Caine uses himself as the first subject.
28) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the "uplifting" finale.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Lisa Randall examines the role of science in everyday life, discusses how to determine which scientific questions to pursue, how scientist go about finding answers, and the roles of risk, creativity, and uncertainty in scientific thinking; explains twenty-first- century ideas in physics and cosmology; describes the goals of the Large Hadron Collider--the largest machine built to date--and covers other related topics.
30) Cosmos
Publisher
Cosmos Studios
Pub. Date
2000, [c1980]
Language
English
Description
Carl Sagan's complete Emmy and Peabody award-winning thirteen episode mini-series exploring cosmology and astronomy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Scarlet Plague by Jack London, is a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1910 and was originally published as a series in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after the Red Death, a devastating plague, has wiped out most of humanity. "The handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art, science, and all learning has been lost, and the...
32) Red planet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Looking starward for a solution to the dying of Earth, something no one expected awaits.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Talents, Incorporated was first published in 1962 at the height of the Cold War. The order of the day was MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) and Murray Leinster, pseudonym for William F. Jenkins, author of Talents, Incorporated, does a better job of presenting the absurdity of governing for defeat than does Wibberley. Wibberley assails the patronizing near Imperialism of the anti-Communist frenzy of the era. Both are hilarious, disconcerting, and...
34) Physics
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Language
English
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Description
Written in the fourth century BCE by Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, Physics set out to define the principles and causes of change, movement, and motion. For 2,000 years ― until discoveries by Galileo, Newton, and other scientists ― this treatise was the primary source for explanations of falling rocks, rising flames, the circulation of air, and other physical phenomena. Modern readers are required to bring a keen sense of criticism...
35) How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
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Language
English
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Description
As smartphones, supercomputers, supercolliders, and AI propel us into an ever more unfamiliar future, How to Speak Science takes us on a rollicking historical tour of the greatest discoveries and ideas that make today's cutting-edge technologies possible. Wanting everyone to be able to "speak" science, YouTube science guru Bruce Benamran explains-as accessibly and wittily as in his acclaimed videos-the fundamental ideas of the physical world: matter,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Thomas and the Gladers, having solved the Maze, plan on returning to their lives, but instead find the earth a wasteland with Cranks roaming the desert in search of their next meal and they are faced with the challenge of crossing the Scorch in two weeks in order to arrive at a safe haven.
37) Men Like Gods
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Language
English
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Men Like Gods is set in the summer of 1921. Its protagonist is Mr. Barnstaple (his first name is either Alfred or William), a journalist working in London and living in Sydenham. He has grown dispirited at a newspaper called The Liberal and resolves to take a holiday. Quitting wife and family, but then finds his plans disrupted when his and two other automobiles are accidentally transported with their passengers into "another
...38) The 6th day
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Adam is an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An evil corporation illegally cloned him, and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Ender Wiggin's adopted world of Lusitania, with its three sentient species and his oldest friend Jane, a computer intelligence, are threatened by a fleet of ships sent by the Starways Congress, but with the help of two new beings created by Ender's mind, the planet may still be saved.
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