Author : Dan Zettwoch
Publisher : First Second Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250216907
"Get to know your universe!"--Front cover.
Author : Tory Woollcott
Publisher : First Second
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250229375
With Science Comics, you can explore the depths of the ocean, the farthest reaches of space, and everything in between! These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. In this volume, Fahama has been kidnapped by a mad scientist and his zombie assistant, and they are intent on stealing her brain! She'll need to learn about the brain as fast as possible in order to plan her escape! How did the brain evolve? How do our senses work in relation to the brain? How do we remember things? What makes you, YOU? Get an inside look at the human brain, the most advanced operating system in the world . . . if you have the nerve!
Author : Dan Zettwoch
Publisher : First Second
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250890195
A 2023 National Science Teachers Association Best STEM Book Suspend your disbelief with Science Comics: Bridges, a new volume of First Second's STEM graphic novel series! Follow Bea, Archie, Trudy, and Spencer (otherwise known as the BATS!) as they crisscross the globe using every type of bridge: beam, arch, truss, and suspension. From ancient low-slung rope bridges to modern hi-tech towers of steel, they’ll traverse ‘em all. Their journey will take them through history and connect them with new ideas and different cultures. Along the way they'll identify the dangerous forces trying to bring bridges crashing down, and how to defeat them...through engineering!
Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 147663193X
The J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature--long held at the University of California, Riverside--have been a major influence in the study of science fiction and fantasy for thirty years. The conferences have attracted leading scholars whose papers are published in Eaton volumes found in university libraries throughout the world. This collection brings together 22 of the best papers--most with new afterwords by the authors--presented in chronological order to show how science fiction and fantasy criticism has evolved since 1979.
Author : Anne Drozd
Publisher : First Second Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1626728267
"Meet the visionary physicists, chemists, engineers, and entertainers (as well as mice, bears, tortoises, and more) who took rockets from illuminations in the sky to the most powerful vehicles ever known. You'll also find out how using a gyroscope, swinging on a swing set, and spraying water from a garden hose are the keys to understanding space travel"--Back cover.
Author : Dan Zettwoch
Publisher : First Second
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781626728226
Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic—dinosaurs, the solar system, robots, and more. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty year old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you! In this Science Comics: Cars, you'll learn where cars came from and how they work. When you pop the hood, what are you looking at? How does gasoline—or electric batteries, or even steam—make a car move? Rev up your motor and take look at the combustible history of the automobile and its explosive effects on our modern lives.
Author : Falynn Koch
Publisher : First Second Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 162672752X
Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you This volume: In PLAGUES, we get to know the critters behind history's worst diseases. We delve into the biology and mechanisms of infections, diseases, and immunity, and also the incredible effect that technology and medical science have had on humanity's ability to contain and treat disease.
Author : John Kerschbaum
Publisher : First Second
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250767679
Leave no brick unturned in John Kerschbaum's Science Comics: Skyscrapers, the latest volume in First Second’s action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle-grade readers! Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic—dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you! In this volume, join a pair of superheroes as they uncover the secrets of skyscrapers, from the great Egyptians pyramids to the world’s tallest building. Read along and learn how skyscrapers are a bold combination of applied physics, ingenuity, and a lot of hard work!
Author : Andy Hirsch
Publisher : First Second
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250750415
This format is designed to be read on color devices and cannot be read on black-and-white e-readers. In Andy Hirsch's Science Comics: Cats, we meet feline friends from the tiniest kodkod to the biggest tiger, and find out what makes your neighborhood domestic cats so special. Equipped with teeth, claws, and camouflage to survive everywhere from deserts to mountaintops, how did these ferocious felines make the leap from predators to playmates... and are they even done leaping? Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic—dinosaurs, the solar system, robots, and more. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty year old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you!
Author : Falynn Koch
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Bats
ISBN : 9781536404333
In Bats, we follow a little brown bat whose wing is injured by humans on a nature hike. He is taken to a bat rehabilitation center where he meets many different species of bats. They teach him how they fly, what they eat, and where they like to live --
