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Bill Nye's great big world of science
Title:
Bill Nye's great big world of science
Author:
Nye, Bill, author.
ISBN:
9781419746765
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Physical Description:
257 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
General Note:
"The must-have, everything-you-need-to-know science book from every kid's favorite science educator, Bill Nye."--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Ch. 1.You are an amazing machine -- Ch. 2. Adventures in zoology: The how and why of running, swimming, soaring, and slithering -- Ch. 3. The essential science of plants: They don't dance, but they've got moves -- Ch. 4 orld: How the other two-thirds lives -- Ch. 5. Evolution: The fact of life -- Ch. 6. Move! How everythign that happens...happens -- Ch. 7. Heat: Natural laws you need to know -- Ch. 8. Chemicals and their reactions -- Ch ht: Secrets of sunlight, starlight, and our friend Roy -- Ch. 10. Tiny particles: What it's all made of -- Ch. 11. The four fundamental forces of nature -- Ch. 12. Astrobiologists: The alien hunters -- Ch. 13. There's no place like Earth -- Ch. 14. What you need to know about climate change and why -- Ch. 15. Water: Why it's hard to find on our very wet world -- Ch. 17. Interesting places to visit in the solar system-if you could -- Ch. 18. Huge cosmology, astrophysics, and a few unsolved mysteries of the universe -- The big finish.
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