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The secular story of man's origins is a simple equation: slime + time = the world as we know it. Sometime in the primordial depths of history, an amoeba-like being crawled out of the sludge and into posterity. Sludgy-boy was the father of all that is, and through limitless permutations and evolutions his little one-celled self became the majestic Living World with its kingdoms, genera, and species.

God's Word tells a different story. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. God made man, the planets, Earth, rivers, the ozone layer, electricity, bullfrogs, and volcanic activity. It's a strange inversion from the story atheists and naturalists like to tell—where they posit the simplest form gave birth to increasing complexity, Christians believe the most complex Being in the universe created a plethora of simpler living things out of absolutely nothing.

But arguing "Creationism" vs. Evolution is not the soul or substance of science. If atheists want to waste their breath, effort, and money trying to "prove" a phony theory, let them. Not that we shouldn't counter their claims, but we have to keep in mind that the battle is spiritual, not scientific and not even merely ideological.

To contrast, real science—observation, hypothesis, theory, and correction—glorifies God by attributing to Him the honor and praise for everything learned about the world, its inhabitants, and its mechanics. For Christians, it should be a joyful and positive pursuit, not simply a retort against secular rebellion. Man is commanded by God to subdue the Earth, to care for it, develop it, and use it, and our duty is to see that done in ways that honor Him.

It's essential that we not think of phenomena in isolated terms. The laws of physics aren't true by themselves, they're true because God decreed them and sustains them. The planets and stars don' crash into each other because mathematical equations keep them on trajectory; God keeps them on their appointed paths, and the equations only describe their movement.

Technology is often equated with science, but technological development is only one aspect of science. It's more broad than we tend to think, too—it's not just electronics and iProducts, it includes the wheel, shovels, stickframe construction, and gas stoves. Our responsibility is to make and use technology in ways that don't negatively affect the rest of God's creation, that help others, and that glorify the Creator of all things.

The world is a fascinating and wonderful place. Christians have more basis than anyone for saying this, since it isn't simply a randomized collection of cells and life forms but the creative work of God. Our study of science and nature should reflect this knowledge, and guide us in our research and development. Our prayer is that increased scientific knowledge will translate to increased thanksgiving and praise of the Maker of all things.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he is a husband and father, teaches adult Sunday school in his Presbyterian congregation, and likes weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.

 

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365 Simple Science Experiments with Everyday Materials
by E. Richard Churchill, et al.
from Black Dog & Leventhal
for 2nd-8th grade
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Africa's Vanishing Wildlife
by Chris & Tilde Stuart
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for 5th-10th grade
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American Eagle: A Photographic Portrait
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American Wild Life
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Animalium
by Jenny Broom, illustrated by Katie Scott
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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by Rebecca W. Keller
from Gravitas Publications, Inc.
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$4.00 (2 in stock)
Careless Animal
by Ada & Frank Graham Jr.
from Doubleday & Company
for 5th-8th grade
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Color in Your Life
by Irving Adler, illustrated by Ruth Adler
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
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by Kristen Lippincott
from DK Publishing
Science Reference for 4th-8th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
DK Eyewitness: Astronomy
by Kristen Lippincott
from DK Children
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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from DK Publishing
Science Reference for 4th-8th grade
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Science Reference for 4th-8th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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DK Eyewitness Series
by Richard Platt
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
History Reference for 4th-8th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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DK Eyewitness Series
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from DK Publishing
Science Reference for 4th-8th grade
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
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Science Reference for 4th-8th grade
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Science Reference for 4th-8th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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DK Eyewitness Books
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from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Sience Reference for 4th-8th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by Martin Rees, general editor
from DK Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Oversized Science Books (Location: SCI-OVER)
$25.00 (1 in stock)
Earth for Sam
by W. Maxwell Reed, revised by Paul F. Brandwein
Revised edition from Harcourt, Brace & Company
for 6th-12th grade
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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Exploring Our Universe
by Franklyn M. Branley, illustrated by Helmut K. Wimmer
from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 7th-10th grade
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Electronics
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by Roger Francis Bridgman and Jack Challoner
from DK Publishing
Science Reference for 4th-8th grade
in How Things Work (Location: SCIREF-HOW)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Encyclopedia of Animals
from Fog City Press
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Encyclopedia of Mammals
by Professor David Macdonald, editor
from Barnes & Noble
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
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from Routledge
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
Encyclopedia of the Horse
by Elwyn Hartley Edwards, ed.
from Crescent Books
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$7.50 (1 in stock)
Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals
Peterson Field Guide Series
by Frederick H. Pough
3rd edition from Houghton Mifflin
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
from Dutton Juvenile
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1928 Newbery Medal winner
in Animal Stories (Location: FIC-ANI)
$14.00 (2 in stock)
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by Ned Seidler
from Odyssey Press
for 6th-12th grade
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
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by John D. Morris
from Master Books
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$15.19 $11.00 (1 in stock)
Getting There
by Suzanne Hilton
from Westminster Press
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$8.50 (1 in stock)
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by Claire Llewellyn
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Great Inventions
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Hand That Paints the Sky
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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Come Learn With Me
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$7.50 (1 in stock)
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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from Fourth Day Press
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Kingfisher Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals
by Michael Chinery, ed.
from Kingfisher
for 4th-8th grade
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
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for 4th-10th grade
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$34.99 $24.00 (2 in stock)
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by Charles Taylor, ed.
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for 4th-10th grade
in Clearance: Science & Health (Location: ZCLE-SCI)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
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by Martin Redfern
from Kingfisher
for 3rd-8th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Let's Experiment
by Martin L. Keen
from Grosset & Dunlap
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Life Nature Library: The Desert
by A. Starker Leopold
from Time Inc.
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Living Amphibians of the World
by Doris M. Cochran
from Doubleday & Company
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Magnetism
Golden Library of Knowledge
by Raymond Holden, illustrated by Weimer Pursell
from Golden Press
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$8.00 (2 in stock)
Mammals of Grand Canyon
by Donald F. Hoffmeister, illustrated by James Gordon Irving
from University of Illinois Press
for 8th-12th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon
by Bea Uusma Schyffert
from Chronicle Books
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Moon, The
Exploring Our Universe
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from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
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$10.00 (2 in stock)
My Hobby is Bird Watching
by Mary P. Pettit
1958 Printing from Hart Publishing Company
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$24.00 (1 in stock)
Naming Living Things
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1st edition from Hale-Cadmus
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$18.00 (1 in stock)
Naming of Flowers
by Anne Halpin, illustrated by Rob Proctor
from Harper & Row
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in Botany & Mycology (Location: SCI-BOT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
National Geographic Science Encyclopedia
from National Geographic
for 3rd-8th grade
in Oversized Science Books (Location: SCI-OVER)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Nature Company Guides: Rocks & Fossils
by Arthur B. Busbey III, Robert R. Coenraads, Paul Willis, David Roots
from Nature Company
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in Geology (Rocks & Minerals) (Location: SCI-GEO)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Nature Notes of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
1st edition from HarperCollins
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$6.50 (1 in stock)
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Wonders of Creation Series
by Jonathan Henry
2nd edition from Master Books
for 4th-10th grade
in Astronomy (Space) (Location: SCI-AST)
$15.19 $10.00 (1 in stock)
New Ocean Book
Wonders of Creation Series
by Frank Sherwin
from Master Books
for 4th-10th grade
in Oceanography & Marine Biology (Location: SCI-OCEAN)
$15.19 $9.00 (1 in stock)
New Way Things Work
by David Macaulay & Neil Ardley
2nd edition from Houghton Mifflin
for 4th-10th grade
in How Things Work (Location: SCIREF-HOW)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
New Weather Book
Wonders of Creation Series
by Michael Oard
2nd edition from Master Books
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$15.19 $11.00 (1 in stock)
Nibbling on Einstein's Brain
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from Annick Press
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Ocean Book (old)
Wonders of Creation Series
by Frank Sherwin
from Master Books
for 4th-10th grade
in Clearance: Science & Health (Location: ZCLE-SCI)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Our Historic Desert
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First Edition from Copley Books
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Periodic Table Explorer: Your Guide to the Elements
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from Thunder Bay Press
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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by Noble Proctor, Roger Tory Peterson
2nd edition from Houghton Mifflin
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Physics Level I - Set
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from Gravitas Publications, Inc.
for 5th-8th grade
in Real Science-4-Kids (old editions) (Location: OSCI-RS4K)
$18.00 (1 in stock)
Planets
by David McNab and James Younger
from Yale University Press
for 6th-12th grade
in Our Solar System (Location: SCI-AST)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Practical Astronomer
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from Crescent Books
for 7th-12th grade
in Astronomy (Space) (Location: SCI-AST)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Real Book About Prehistoric Life
by Dorothy Shuttlesworth, illustrated by Matthew Kalmenoff
from Garden City Books
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$6.00 (2 in stock)
Real Book About Submarines
by Samuel Epstein, Beryl Williams, illustrated by Manning deV. Lee
from Garden City Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Real Books series (Location: VIN-RBA)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Reptile
DK Eyewitness Series
by Colin McCarthy
1st edition from DK Publishing
Science Reference for 4th-8th grade
in Reptiles & Amphibians (Location: SCI-REPT)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Rockets, Probes, & Satellites
by Isaac Asimov
from Gareth Stevens Publishing
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Safe & Simple Projects with Electricity
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
San Francisco Bay
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from Cornell Maritime Press
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
San Francisco Bay
by John Haskell Kemble
1978 Reissue from Bonanza Books
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in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Science
by John Farndon
from Dempsey Parr
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$1.50 (1 in stock)
Science Activities From A to Z
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Sea Around Us
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from Golden Press
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$20.00 (1 in stock)
Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude
by Louise Borden
1st edition from Margaret K. McElderry Books
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Seafaring America
by Alexander Laing
from McGraw-Hill
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in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine
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from Carolrhoda Books, Inc.
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2006 Robert F. Sibert Medal winner
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$10.50 (1 in stock)
Secrets of Backyard Bird-Feeding Success
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from Rodale Press
for 7th-Adult
in Birds (Location: SCI-BIRD)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Shape of the Earth
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from Rand McNally
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in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Signs & Seasons - Text and Field Journal
by Jay Ryan
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for 5th-9th grade
in Astronomy (Space) (Location: SCI-AST)
$38.50 (1 in stock)
Smithsonian Rock & Gem Book
Our World in Pictures
from DK Children
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in Geology (Rocks & Minerals) (Location: SCI-GEO)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
Snow Goose
by Paul Gallico
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 7th-12th grade
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$19.95 $14.00 (3 in stock)
Space Garbage
by Isaac Asimov
from Gareth Stevens Publishing
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
Spacecraft at Work
by Mary Elting, illustrated by Ursula Koering
from Harvey House, Inc., Publishers
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Strange Birds and Their Stories
Strange Stories From Nature #4
by A. Hyatt Verrill
from L. C. Page & Company
for 5th-12th grade
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Student Science Dictionary
from Houghton Mifflin
for 7th-12th grade
in Clearance: Science & Health (Location: ZCLE-SCI)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
There's Adventure in Geology
by Julian May, illustrated by Robert Borja
from Popular Mechanics Press
for 5th-8th grade
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$24.00 (1 in stock)
Timechart History of Aviation
from Lowe & B. Hould Publishers
for 6th-Adult
in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown-Ups
by Gina Ingoglia
from Brooklyn Botanic Garden
for Kindergarten-Adult
in Botany & Mycology (Location: SCI-BOT)
$15.95 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Visual Dictionary of Everyday Things
DK Visual Dictionaries
from DK Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Oversized Science Books (Location: SCI-OVER)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Visual Dictionary of Physics
DK Visual Dictionaries
by Jack Challoner
from DK Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Oversized Science Books (Location: SCI-OVER)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Visual Dictionary of the Universe
DK Visual Dictionaries
by Paul Docherty, ed.
from DK Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Oversized Science Books (Location: SCI-OVER)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Volcanoes
by Phillippe Bourseiller
from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
for 4th-Adult
in Oversized Science Books (Location: SCI-OVER)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
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