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2) Bizcocho
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2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A little yellow dog wants ever one more thing before he will settle down for the night.
10) El examen de primer grado: First grade takes a test / by Miriam Cohen ; illustrated by Ronald Himler
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c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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The first grade class is distressed by an intelligence test which fails to measure true aptitude.
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010" Deborah M. Gordon is professor of biology at Stanford University. She is the author of Ants at Work (Norton).
How do ant colonies get anything done, when no one is in charge? An ant colony operates without a central control or hierarchy, and no ant directs another. Instead, ants decide what to do based on the rate, rhythm, and pattern of individual encounters and interactions--resulting in a...
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Scott E. Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (Princeton).
This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy...
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"Second Place in the 2012 Book Series in the Professional Scholarly Series category, New York Book Show" David Archer is professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate and Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, and the coauthor of The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change.
A must-have introduction to this fundamental...
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Geoffrey K. Vallis is professor and senior scientist in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University. He is the author of the standard graduate text Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics.
The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change,...
16) The Cryosphere
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Shawn J. Marshall is the Canada Research Chair in Climate Change at the University of Calgary.
The cryosphere encompasses the Earth's snow and ice masses. It is a critical part of our planet's climate system, one that is especially at risk from climate change and global warming. The Cryosphere provides an essential introduction to the subject, written by one of the world's leading experts in Earth-system science.
In this primer, glaciologist...
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"Winner of the 2012 First Place Cover/Jacket in the Professional, Scholarly Series, New York Book Show" Ricard V. Solé is research professor and head of the Complex Systems Lab at Pompeu Fabra University and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the coauthor of Signs of Life (Basic) and Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems (Princeton).
Phase transitions--changes between different states of organization in a complex system--have...
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David Randall is professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University.
An essential primer on atmospheric processes and their important role in the climate system
The atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject.
Giving readers...
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David Schimel is a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Previously, he was CEO of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and founding codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. In 2007, he was a corecipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's first report...