Amy E Cherrix
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
73 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
Describes the ways in which technology is being used to study hurricanes in order to predict both the timing and strength of these storms, focusing on NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission (HS3) mission that uses drone technology.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations ; cm
Description
"North Carolina's black bears were once a threatened species, but now their numbers are rising in and around Asheville. But what happens when conservation efforts for a species are so successful that there's a boom in the population? Can humans and bears live compatibly? What are the long-term effects for the bears? Author Amy Cherrix follows the scientists who, in cooperation with local citizen scientists, are trying to answer to these questions...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War: Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country. These two brilliant but controversial rocketeers never met, yet together they reshaped spaceflight and warfare. From Stalin?s brutal gulags and Hitler?s concentration...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
56 pages cm
Description
"Did you know the natural world is a construction zone? Amazing animals all over the world are building all kinds of structures every single day. This fascinating, fact-filled book will captivate young scientists and naturalists and have them looking out for animal construction projects happening in their own backyards!"--