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21) Building wonders
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In Building Wonders, Nova presents three groundbreaking shows that investigate engineering mysteries of the ancient world with the help of dramatic hands-on experiments. Modern architects use medieval tools to examine the Lost City of Petra in the middle of Jordan's desert, the vast Roman Colosseum, and Turkey's 1,500 year-old cathedral dome, Hagia Sophia.
Series
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Using microphotography to explore the hidden world inside the human body, this program covers three incredible team efforts: the coordination of muscles, bones, heart and circulatory system that makes Mike Powell the world's greatest long jumper; the digestive dynamo that turns a simple sandwich eaten by five-time Olympic gold medalist Bonnie Blair into raw energy for a blistering sprint down the ice; and the ultimate event--the development of a new...
26) Artemisa
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Jazz Bashara es una criminal O al menos lo parece. La vida en Artemisa, la primera y unica ciudad de la Luna, es dificil si no eres un turista adinerado o un multimillonario excentrico. Asi que hacer un poco de contrabando de lo mas inofensivo no cuenta, verdad? Sobre todo cuando hay que pagar deudas y tu trabajo como transportista apenas paga el alquiler. De pronto, Jazz ve la oportunidad de cambiar su destino cometiendo un delito a cambio de una...
28) Memoria
Author
Series
The Nova Vita protocol volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The Kaiser Family helped the Nova Vita system avoid a catastrophic multi-planet war, one that the Kaisers might have accidentally caused in the first place. In their wake, two planets have been left devastated by ancient alien technology. Now, the Kaisers try to settle into their new lives as tenuous citizens of the serene water planet, Nibiru, but Scorpia Kaiser can never stay still. So, she takes another shady job. One that gives her a ship where...
29) Steelheart
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny.
30) Kaboom
Series
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Follow an explosive trail through the ages, starting in ninth- century China, and continuing through the discovery of the atomic bomb in the twentieth century.
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