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Author
Publisher
Miles Kelly
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Questions and answers provide a beguiling and friendly way of accessing information for children. In this volume, answers come thick and fast in the top two-thirds of the spread with text and illustrations, while a panel in the lower third provides background information and images.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In this narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, Jan Zalasiewicz shows how many events in the Earth's ancient past can be deciphered from a single pebble. He explores how geologists reach deep into the past by forensic analysis of even the tiniest amounts of mineral matter, demonstrating and revealing Earth's story.
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Series
The Lord of the Rings volume 1
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Description
The 'Fellowship of the Ring' is the first part of Tolkien's epic adventure 'The Lord of the Rings'. Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care.
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Publisher
John Murray Learning
Pub. Date
2018
Description
The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is. Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the Big Bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow it evolved to become the most amazing place in the known Universe. The only living planet we know of, it also has a very unusual moon, a remarkably dynamic surface, a complex atmosphere...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Description
All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the Ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord. There he must...
Author
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2010
Description
This title covers the wonder and mysteries of time and space, the crackpot theories which held sway for far too long, the discoveries which advanced whole areas of science when people were looking for something else, and the fact that, somehow, the universe exists and, against all odds, life came to be on this planet we call home.
13) Volcano
Author
Publisher
Raintree Pub
Description
Looks at various volcanoes, what we can learn from them and their hidden benefits.
14) Earth and space
Author
Publisher
Watts
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Looks at the planet we live on and its place in our solar system.
Author
Series
Great Tales of Middle-Earth volume 3
Description
There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manw,อก chief of the Valar. Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth....
17) Rocks and gems
Author
Publisher
Raintree Pub
Pub. Date
2021
Description
A basic introduction to the formation and qualities of different kinds of rocks.
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2016
Description
This title takes readers on a mesmerising tour of Tim Peake's historic and inspirational six-month Principia mission. Based on over 150 of Tim's photographs that he took on board the International Space Station, many of which have not been seen before, it showcases the beauty of Earth from above, and is the perfect visual time capsule of Tim's remarkable trip, which captured the imaginations of millions of children and adults across the world.
20) The long utopia
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's convinced they're leading a normal life in New Springfield - they even adopt a child - but it seems they have been guided there for a...