Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint

Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint
Author :
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 112
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781479404476
ISBN-13 : 1479404470
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint by : Jay Williams

Through a mishap in Professor Bulfinch's laboratory, Danny accidentally creates an anti-gravity paint. The natural use, of course, is for a spaceship -- the paint can replace rockets to get the ship into space. Unfortunately, the spaceship is launched prematurely after Danny and Joe follow Professor Bulfinch and Dr. Grimes on a tour of the ship. A mechanical failure dooms the four to a one-way trip out of the Solar System -- unless they can repair the spaceship in time! This is the first of the 15-volume Danny Dunn series and features the original cover by acclaimed artist Ezra Jack Keats. Look for "Danny Dunn on a Desert Island," the second volume of the series, coming soon from Wildside Press!

Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine

Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine
Author :
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 87
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781479408122
ISBN-13 : 1479408123
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine by : Raymond Abrashkin

Danny uses a computer that Professor Bulfinch has created for NASA to prepare his homework, despite Professor Bullfinch's warning that Danny is to leave the machine alone. With his friend Joe Pearson and his new neighbor, Irene Miller, Danny has some success with the machine before it is sabotaged. Can Danny figure out what is wrong with the computer and fix it? And will their teacher learn what's really going on with homework?

Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy

Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0671297333
ISBN-13 : 9780671297336
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy by : Jay Williams

By accidentally short-circuiting Professor Bulfinch's new crystalline material, Danny Dunn enables the professor to create a new machine that makes Danny invisible.

Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave

Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave
Author :
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 85
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781479424061
ISBN-13 : 1479424064
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave by : Raymond Abrashkin

Danny and his friend Joe Pearson discover the entrance to a cave in the woods near their home. Professor Bulfinch has just invented a portable x-ray machine, and the Professor, along with his geologist friend Dr. Tresselt, sees an opportunity to use the device inside the cave. The two adults, along with Danny, Joe, and Irene, enter the cave on an expedition. They make an astonishing discovery, but they encounter a significant problem which prevents them from leaving the cave... Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave is the sixth novel in the Danny Dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.

Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy

Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy
Author :
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 94
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781479454860
ISBN-13 : 1479454869
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy by : Jay Williams

A mistake by Danny leads to one of the Professor';s most startling inventions—ISIT, the Invisibility Simulator with Intromittent Transmission—a dragonfly-like probe which could be piloted with a telepresence helmet and gauntlet gloves. They all get to try it out. Irene uses it for bird watching. Joe investigates a bee hive. And Danny discovers a bully plans to cheat in a spelling bee. But none of them realizes the ISIT has military possibilities—until a general tries to sieze it!

Danny Dunn on a Desert Island

Danny Dunn on a Desert Island
Author :
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 119
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781479404483
ISBN-13 : 1479404489
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Danny Dunn on a Desert Island by : Jay Williams

"I challenge you to a duel of desert islands!" Dr. Grimes cries, when Professor Bulfinch accuses him of not being practical. Grimes plans to go ashore on an uninhabited desert island, and the Professor on another. After a month they will see who has survived the best! Danny and his best friend Joe soon get permission to join them, and the four take off in the scientists' plane. But when they crash-land in the ocean and are really marooned on an island off the coast of Peru -- the four must survive and come up with a plan to be rescued, using only their scientific ingenuity!

Everyone Knows what a Dragon Looks Like

Everyone Knows what a Dragon Looks Like
Author :
Publisher : Scholastic
Total Pages : 40
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0590077511
ISBN-13 : 9780590077514
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Everyone Knows what a Dragon Looks Like by : Jay Williams

Because of the road sweeper's belief in him, a dragon saves the city of Wu from the Wild Horsemen of the north.

The Uninhabitable Earth

The Uninhabitable Earth
Author :
Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 386
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780525576723
ISBN-13 : 052557672X
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The Uninhabitable Earth by : David Wallace-Wells

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books

Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero

Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
Author :
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 210
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780593121382
ISBN-13 : 0593121384
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero by : Kelly J. Baptist

A coming-of-age tale about a boy who discovers a love of poetry after finding his late father's journal. Adapted from a story that first appeared in Flying Lessons & Other Stories and perfect for fans of The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson. Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can count on his best friend, Sneaky, who always has a scheme for getting around the rules. Plus, his classmate Angel has a few good ideas of her own--once she stops hassling Isaiah. And when things get really tough, there's Daddy's journal, filled with stories about the amazing Isaiah Dunn, a superhero who gets his powers from beans and rice. Isaiah wishes his dad's tales were real. He could use those powers right about now! Kelly J. Baptist's debut novel explores the indomitable spirit of a ten-year-old boy and the superhero strength it takes to grow up. "Isaiah's optimism, drive, and loyalty to friends and family make him a hero to cheer for." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Author :
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 385
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780486131627
ISBN-13 : 0486131629
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by : Martin Gardner

Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.