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Dinosaurs big and small (Let's-read-and-find-out science. Stage 1)
Par Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Lucia Washburn. 2002
The best Eid ever (Families all matter)
Par Asma Mobin-Uddin, Laura Jacobsen. 2007
This Eid, Aneesa should be happy. But, her parents are thousands of miles away for the Hajj pilgrimage. To cheer…
her up, her Nonni gives her a gift of beautiful clothes, one outfit for each of the three days of Eid. At the prayer hall, Aneesa meets two sisters who are dressed in ill-fitting clothes for the holiday. She soon discovers that the girls are refugees -- they had to leave everything behind when they left their native country to live in America. Aneesa, who can't stop thinking about what Eid must be like for them, comes up with a plan -- a plan to help make it the best Eid holiday everFrank Springer and New Mexico: from the Colfax County War to the emergence of modern Santa Fe
Par David L. Caffey. 2007
Frank Springer rode into Cimarron, New Mexico, and found himself in the middle of the Colfax County War. He was…
a foe of the speculators known as "the Santa Fe Ring" and helped establish Highlands University and the Museum of New Mexico and as president of the Maxwell Land Grant company developed natural resourcesDig those dinosaurs
Par Lori Haskins Houran, Francisca Marquez. 2013
Digging Snowmastodon: discovering an Ice Age world in the Colorado Rockies
Par Kirk Johnson, Ian Miller, Kirk R Johnson. 2012
In October 2010, a bulldozer operator working at the base of the Snowmass ski area in Colorado's Rocky Mountains uncovered…
the skeleton of a young female mammoth. Over the next 11 months, this location would yield a treasure trove of amazingly well-preserved ice age fossils - more than 5,000 bones of over 40 kinds of animals - and would change forever our understanding of alpine life in the ice age. The Snowmastodon Project's two lead scientists tell the dynamic story of this discovery and dig: the excitement, emotion, and the colorful cast of characters who made the project a successThe Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims
Par Mustafa Akyol. 2017
Not only is Jesus written of in the Quran, but the Islamic picture of him resonates with Pre-existing Christian sources.…
There is a fascinating similarity between Islam and Jewish Christianity, a branch of the early church that was branded as heresy. Jewish Christians were observant Jews who honored Jesus as a human, not divine, Messiah, and sought salvation by faith and works, not by faith alone. UnratedBone wars: the excavation and celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's dinosaur
Par Tom Rea. 2001
When Diplodocus carnegii was unearthed from the Wyoming badlands in 1899, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie set out to display his prized…
dinosaur. This soon set off a public storm of interest for these incredible creatures around the world. Here is the intrigue, manipulation, rivalry, and skullduggery by which Andrew Carnegie obtained his dinosaur, and by which his opponents did their best to thwart him. For high school and adult readersWings, horns, & claws: a dinosaur book of epic proportions
Par Christopher Wormell, Chris Wormell. 2006
The last days of the dinosaurs: An asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world
Par Riley Black. 2022
In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the…
centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life's losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. Lush verdure will be replaced with fire. Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from their throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet, or disposition. They just don't know it yet. The cause of this disaster was identified decades ago. An asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. In the terrible mass extinction that followed, more than half of known species vanished seemingly overnight. But this worst single day in the history of life on Earth was as critical for us as it was for the dinosaurs, as it allowed for evolutionary opportunities that were closed for the previous 100 million yearsDigging Deep: How Science Unearths Puzzles from the Past
Par Laura Scandiffio. 2019
Poisons, ice men, and graves, oh my! Every archeological find adds to our understanding of the world, but sometimes a…
discovery is made that is so startling and different that it changes the way we view history. Digging Deep showcases the most exciting examples of these lost puzzle pieces and how recent advances in science brought them to light. From the new clues about life in the Stone Age gleaned from Ötzi the Ice Man, to new opinions about King Richard III’s villainous reputation deduced from the discovery of his long-lost tomb, Digging Deep is full of fascinating examples of how modern science has disrupted the status quo. Sidebars and illustrations with easy-to-follow explanations of radio-carbon dating, DNA, and other scientific topics provide further reading to satisfy readers with an interest in STEM.Dinosaurs in your backyard: The Coolest, Scariest Creatures Ever Found in the USA!
Par Alan Barnard, Hugh Brewster. 2009
Presents facts learned from fossilized evidence of dinosaur species that roamed the North American continent millions of years ago, like…
the Stegosaurus of Colorado. Discusses size, eating habits, head crests, skull shapes, tail clubs, raptor claws, and dinosaur descendants. For grades 3-6. 2009Dangerous dinosaurs: Everything You Never Knew about the Dinosaurs
Par Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff, David Lambert, Carey Scott, Dk Publishing. 2008
Scientific answers to questions about dinosaurs--from the number of years dinosaurs ruled Earth to the ways carnivores killed their prey…
and plant-eaters defended themselves. Compares the sizes of giant sauropods. Discusses whether bigger was always better, whether body armor offered protection, and more. For grades 3-6. 2008The Arab conquests of the Middle East (Pivotal moments in history)
Par Brendan January. 2009
Recounts the first hundred years of Islam: the founding of the religion by Muhammad (died in C.E. 632), the conquest…
of major empires by Arab Islamic armies, and the blossoming of a dynamic civilization. For grades 6-9. 2009British historian chronicles the final contests between Christians and Muslims for control of the Mediterranean Sea in the sixteenth century.…
Describes the battles between Spain's Philip II and Sultan Suleiman at the siege of Malta in 1565 and the battle for Cyprus that ended in Lepanto in 1571. Violence. 2008Mirror of the Arab world: Lebanon in conflict
Par Sandra Mackey. 2008
Journalist of the Middle East profiles Lebanon as a case study of the Arab world. Discusses the culture, religion, economics,…
and history of the country. Posits that "most Arabs, Westerners, and Israelis...are ignoring the warning signs that three faiths and three cultures...are on a collision course." 2008Black crescent: the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
Par Michael A. Gomez, Michael Angelo Gomez. 2005
Social history of African Muslims in the Western Hemisphere, beginning with fifteenth-century Latin America. Describes revolts in Brazil, "slaveocracy" in…
the Caribbean, and Islamic societies in the United States. Discusses the influence of Noble Drew Ali, Malcolm X, and the Nation of Islam. ALA Black Caucus Award. 2005God's crucible: Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215
Par David Levering Lewis, David L Lewis. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning professor pens a seven-hundred-year history of the Islamic presence in Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire.…
Argues that the competition between the Western and Islamic world views is still apparent in twenty-first-century conflicts. Highlights the 732 Battle of Poitiers and the campaigns of Charlemagne. 2008Rocks & fossils (Kingfisher knowledge)
Par Margaret Hynes. 2006
Explains basic facts about rocks above and below the Earth's surface and their usefulness as fuel, building material, and precious…
jewels. Discusses fossil remains from sea creatures, plants, insects, and dinosaurs and examines the clues they provide to the prehistoric past. For grades 4-7. 2006The rise and reign of the mammals: A new history, from the shadow of the dinosaurs to us
Par Steve Brusatte. 2022
By "one of the stars of modern paleontology" (National Geographic), a sweeping and revelatory new history of mammals, illuminating the…
lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us Though humans claim to rule the Earth, we are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals. Indeed humankind and many of the beloved fellow mammals we share the planet with today—lions, whales, dogs—represent only the few survivors of a sprawling and astonishing family tree that has been pruned by time and mass extinctions. How did we get here? In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs—hailed as "a masterpiece of science writing" by the Washington Post—American paleontologist Steve Brusatte enchanted readers with his definitive his - tory of the dinosaurs. Now, picking up the narrative in the ashes of the extinction event that doomed T-rex and its kind, Brusatte explores the remarkable story of the family of animals that inherited the Earth—mammals— and brilliantly reveals that their story is every bit as fascinating and complex as that of the dinosaurs. Beginning with the earliest days of our lineage some 325 million years ago, Brusatte charts how mammals survived the asteroid that claimed the dinosaurs and made the world their own, becoming the astonishingly diverse range of animals that dominate today's Earth. Brusatte also brings alive the lost worlds mammals inhabited through time, from ice ages to volcanic catastrophes. Entwined in this story is the detective work he and other scientists have done to piece together our understanding using fossil clues and cutting-edge technology. A sterling example of scientific storytelling by one of our finest young researchers, The Rise and Reign of the Mammals illustrates how this incredible history laid the foundation for today's world, for us, and our future. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobookThe monster's bones: The discovery of t. rex and how it shook our world
Par David K Randall. 2022
In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the…
empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, forever changing the world of paleontology, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. With four-foot-long jaws capable of crushing the bones of its prey and hips that powered the animal to run at speeds of twenty-five miles per hour, the T. Rex suggests a prehistoric ecosystem more complex than anyone imagined. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the mysteries of its disappearance, Brown and Osborn together turn dinosaurs from a biological oddity into a beloved part of culture. The Monster's Bones journeys from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan. With a wide-ranging cast of robber barons, eugenicists, and opportunistic cowboys, New York Times bestselling author David K. Randall reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it