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Homes from home : inventive small spaces, from chic shacks to cabins and caravans / by Lee, Vinny.;
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Subjects: Small houses.; Dwellings; Architecture, Domestic;
© c2013., Jacqui Small,
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Genius lego inventions with bricks you already have : 40+ new robots, vehicles, contraptions, gadgets, games and other fun STEM creations / by Dees, Sarah.;
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Subjects: LEGO toys;
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Cardboard creations for kids : 50 fun and inventive crafts using recycled materials / by Ho, Kathryn,author.;
Subjects: Box craft.; Cardboard art.; Cardboard tube craft.;
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The steam tractor encyclopedia : glory days of the invention that changed farming forever / by Spalding, John F.,1956-; Rhode, Robert T.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-255) and index.LSC
Subjects: Traction-engines; Tractors;
© 2008., MBI Pub. Co. and Voyageur Press,
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Canadians who innovate : the trailblazers and ideas that are changing the world / by O'Reilly Runte, Roseann,author.;
"From saving lives to saving harvests, From discovering ancient diamonds to identifying the first exo-planet, From driverless cars to quantum computers, From Nobel laureates to your next-door neighbor, This book offers uplifting stories of innovative Canadians. Canadians Who Innovate includes two Nobel laureates, an astronaut, extraordinary business leaders, the godfathers of artificial intelligence, and top quantum experts, including the inventor of what may be the next quantum computer. It features profiles of the first director of engineering at Google, who is now working on nuclear fusion; a medical researcher who communicates on TikTok about the efficacy and potential for RNA vaccine technology; and a PhD in nuclear physics who has twice won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Meet the linguist who works with Indigenous people to make online dictionaries, an internationally consulted specialist on migration, an agri-tech investor, a world specialist on permafrost, and the expert in systems and number theory who has a way to fix health care. And don't forget the engineer who grew human cells on apples, a feat that is leading to the creation of replacement organs that do not require donor -- not to be confused with the aerospace technology developer who created a tethering system to clean up space debris and a 3-D printer that prints biological tissue. Featuring brilliant thinkers from coast to coast to coast, and others from around the world who now call Canada home, Canadians Who Innovate paints a promising picture of a cleaner, healthier, more innovative future for us all."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Inventions; Inventors; Technological innovations;
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What kids did : stories of kindness and invention in the time of COVID-19 / by Silver, Erin,1980-;
Highlights the accomplishments of 25 kids from all over the world who made a difference in their communities during the COVID-19 lockdown.LSC
Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease); Epidemics; Quarantine; Helping behavior in children; Kindness;
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If I built a car / by Van Dusen, Chris.;
Jack describes the kind of car he would build--one with amazing accessories and with the capability of traveling on land, in the air, and on and under the sea.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Automobiles; Inventions; Imagination;
© c2005., Dutton Children's Books,
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Biomimicry : when nature inspires amazing inventions / by Menu, Séraphine.; Walker, Emmanuelle.; Waters, Alyson,1955-;
"Discover how bats led to the development of radar, whales inspired the pacemaker, and the lotus flower may help us produce indestructible clothing. "Biomimicry" comes from the Greek "bio" (life) and "mimesis" (imitation). Here are various and amazing ways that nature inspires us to create cool inventions in science and medicine, clothing design, and architecture. From the fireflies that showed inventors how LEDs could give off more light to the burdock plant that inspired velcro to the high speed trains of Japan that take the form of a kingfisher's sleek, aerodynamic head, there are innumerable ways that we can create smarter, better, safer inventions by observing the natural world. Author Seraphine Menu and illustrator Emmanuelle Walker also gently explain that our extraordinary, diverse, and awe-inspiring world is like a carefully calibrated machine and its fragile balance must be treated with extreme care and respect. "Go outside," they say, "observe, compare, and maybe some day you'll be the next person to be struck by a great idea.""--Provided by publisher.Grades 4-6LSC
Subjects: Biomimicry; Technological innovations;
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A thread of violence : a story of truth, invention, and murder / by O'Connell, Mark,1979-author.;
"From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murders in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. Malcolm MacArthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his inheritance had dwindled to almost nothing, a desperate threat to his lifestyle. MacArthur hastily conceived a plan: He would commit bank robbery, of the kind that had become frightfully common in Dublin at the time. But his plan spun swiftly out of control, and he needlessly killed two innocent people. The ensuing manhunt, arrest, and conviction amounted to one of the most infamous political scandals in modern Irish history, contributing to the eventual collapse of a government. Wellcome and Rooney Prize-winning author Mark O'Connell spent countless hours in conversation with MacArthur-interviews that veered from confession to evasion. Through their tense exchanges and O'Connell's independent reporting, a pair of narratives unspools: a riveting account of MacArthur's crimes and a study of the hazy line between truth and invention. We come to see not only the enormity of the murders but the damage that's inflicted when a life is rendered into story. At once propulsive and searching, A Thread of Violence is a hard look at a brutal act, its subterranean origins, and the long shadow it casts. It offers a haunting and insightful examination of the lies we tell ourselves-and the lengths we'll go to preserve them"--
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Personal narratives.; MacArthur, Malcolm.; Murderers; Thieves; Violence;
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The golden age of murder : the mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story / by Edwards, Martin,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets.
Subjects: Detection Club.; Detective and mystery stories, English; English fiction;
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