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1) Dams
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"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the world's most amazing dams while explaining the engineering behind their creation. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
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The giant dams of today are the modern Pyramids, colossally expensive edifices that generate monumental amounts of electricity, irrigated water, and environmental and social disaster.
With Deep Water, Jacques Leslie offers a searching account of the current crisis over dams and the world's water. An emerging master of long-form reportage, Leslie makes the crisis vivid through the stories of three distinctive figures: Medha Patkar, an Indian activist...
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"Created to support NGSS, the Be An Engineer! series explains how different structures are designed by engineers to solve problems. Each title takes readers through the steps of the engineering design process to explain how an everyday structure is designed to overcome physical obstacles to meet peoples' needs. Real-world examples, vibrant photographs, and fact boxes reinforce learning, and readers design and create their own model structures. A link...
5) Dams
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"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to dams. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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2020.
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First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
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A century after an early 20th-century New York community is intentionally flooded to redistribute water downstate, an inspector overseeing a dangerously neglected dam uncovers a prophecy that warns of additional sacrifices.
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"Kids will learn about different types of dams with Engineer It! Dam Projects. They will discover how dams are built. Then, build their own beaver dam, waterwheel, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Young crafters will be budding engineers in no time!Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles."--Publisher's website.
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"Dams are important engineering marvels. However, if not built correctly, dams can cause catastrophic damage to people's homes and many people may die. In this book, readers will learn about the different types of dams, the materials needed to build them, the steps to preparing the dam site before construction begins, and the designing process. This book also explores the many benefits of dams, such as harnessing the power of water to create electricity...
13) Watershed
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In 1937 rural Tennessee, a small-town housewife, finding her place in the post-Depression South, struggles to balance motherhood and a new-found freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she never knew she possessed.
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2017.
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First edition.
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Life in Sunrise Valley is tranquil, but beyond its borders lies certain death. A dangerous black fog looms outside the village, but its inhabitants are kept safe by an ingenious machine known as the dam. Pig's father built the dam and taught him how to maintain it. And then this brilliant inventor did the unthinkable: he walked into the fog and was never seen again. Now Pig is the dam keeper. Except for his best friend, Fox, and the town bully, Hippo,...
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Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Hoover Dam. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
20) Patagonia Rising
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2015.
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English
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Deep in the heart of Chile's Patagonia region flow two of the world's purest rivers, the Baker and Pascua. Fed by vast glacial systems, these untouched rivers drive biodiversity in rainforests, estuaries and marine ecosystems. They are also the life source for Patagonia's most tenacious residents: the Gauchos, the iconic South American Cowboy. Now, five huge hydroelectric dams are planned for the two rivers. Over the past century more than 45,000...
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