Catalog Search Results
3241) Isaac Newton
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Learn all about the life of Sir Isaac Newton and his major contributions to science. What were the significant events of Isaac Newton's early life? What were his major discoveries? The answers to these questions and many more are covered with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment that reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
3242) Doctor Who: Full circle
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Full Circle: Attempting to return home to Gallifrey, the Doctor, Romana and K-9 find themselves on the planet Alzarious. As the local inhabitants retreat in terror to their marooned spacecraft, the Doctor sets out to investigate, and a group of young rebels take Romana hostage in the TARDIS. Besieged by the reptillian creatures rising from the marshes, the colonists of the Starliner face a bleak future without the Doctor's help. Can he uncover the...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Warrior's gate: Still lost in E-Space, the TARDIS is hijacked by a time-sensitive creature. It brings the Doctor, Romana, Adric and K-9 to a crumbling ruin in a lonely white void, where another ship is also stranded and in trouble. Will the TARDIS and its crew ever escape this strange otherworld? The answer lies inside the Gateway, but as the Doctor is about to discover, not everyone wants to go home.
Home use only.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
State of decay: The Doctor, Romana and K-9 are trapped in E-Space, a strange alternative universe. They are unable to find an escape, and do not realize that a young boy called Adric has stowed away aboard the TARDIS. Arriving on a primitive planet where the local inhabitants fear the Three Who Rule, they soon find themselves facing a hideous creature from Time Lord legends that was long thought dead. Soon the Doctor mus confront a blood-sucking monster...
3245) The joy of science
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as things every educated person should know. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more--providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. The Joy of Science,...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Two young Mammoth Islanders and a visiting inventor learn the properties of light by observing a room full of crystal trophies. They learn that light waves can do three things when they strike an object: they can bounce, they can pass through; or they can be absorbed. The Islanders also studied lenses to bend light, and they looked through telescopes, periscopes, and binoculars.
3248) All about magnets
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Kids explore what makes something "magnetic," why opposites attract, how magnetic fields work and much more.
3254) So light, so heavy
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
With an elephant on one end of the teeter-totter, it takes a lot of animals on the other side--and one child--before the teeter-totter will start to move up and down.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein as 'the basis of all twentieth-century physics.' Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work laid the foundation for our modern understanding of matter and energetic processes. But Planck's story is not well known, especially in the United States. A German physicist working...
Author
Series
Great books of the Western World volume 5, 30
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
2nd ed., 9th printing.
Language
English
3257) Physics for poets
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The thought of exploring the sciences can be daunting, and this is especially true with regard to physics. But many of thee most significant principles of physics can be understood in easy-to-understand terms. In these engaging lectures, Kouzes examines the history of physics and delves into the principles such as the laws of motion, energy, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism. Building on these, Kouzes guides listeners to a better understanding...
3258) The 4% universe: y
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Documents the recent efforts of scientists to explain the ninety-six percent of the universe not comprised of known matter, drawing on interviews with leading figures to describe the rivalries, collaborations, and discoveries that are redefining current understandings.
3259) Copenhagen
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's play about the 1941 meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, longtime friends whose work had opened the way to the atomic bomb, but who found themselves on opposite sides of World War II.
Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Main Library Alliance members might be available in other libraries across New Jersey. You can search JerseyCat and place a request for the item to be sent to your library.
If your library doesn't permit JerseyCat requests or the item can't be found, you can also contact your library for assistance.Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request