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This audiobook describes how animals use shape adaptations to help them survive from predators. Animals shown include a North American porcupine, a walking stick, a flamingo, a scorpion, a giraffe, a spiny puffer fish, a leafy sea dragon, and a mongoose.

In ChatGPT for Fiction Writing, experienced author Sonny Saad lets you in on a game-changing secret: AI. Specifically, leveraging ChatGPT to become your tireless fiction writing partner.

There is a thin line between science fiction and science fact. Do we create our own reality? Of course we do. Sylvia's life is about to change dramatically and, perhaps, it is courage that leads her. But courage has its limits, doesn't it? Courage and freedom may not be compatible at every juncture. Life is uncertain and interplanetary conflict may make it even more uncertain. Is there an ambient level of evil here on planet Earth and in the universe beyond our immediate reach? The term "artificial Intelligence" was coined by cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky in 1956. We hear the term ...

With Herobrine momentarily defeated, but not destroyed, Zeke and his friends realize they are not safe unless they keep moving.

What if everything you loved was just a simulation—and you chose to believe in it anyway? In the near future, after the Singularity has blurred the line between human and machine, Josiah Kim lives the perfect life: a loving wife, a brilliant daughter, a home in paradise. Until one morning, everything shatters—and he’s left with nothing but grief and a mysterious device that lets him see them again. Crafted from memory, code, and haunting precision, Prompt Theory is a mind-bending journey through loss, love, and the ethics of artificial resurrection. As Josiah grapples with reality, ...

El hielo del Ártico está desapareciendo! Pero ¿por qué se derriten las cimas nevadas, los glaciares y los icebergs? En esta novela gráfica de no ficción, Max Axiom y la Sociedad de supercientíficos tienen la misión de averiguarlo. Utilizando sus superpoderes y su superinteligencia, el equipo desglosará cada pieza de este complejo problema medioambiental en una aventura emocionante e informativa.

A lively exploration into the life of Charles Darwin, One Beetle Too Many recounts both Darwin’s childhood and his time on the Beagle as a naturalist. This adventurous tale explores Darwin’s discoveries in geology, paleontology, and animal anatomy that led to his famous theory of evolution.

Are you worried that your child's low self-esteem will prevent her from pursuing friendships and opportunities to shine? You’re not alone. Almost every parent hopes their kid grows up to be confident in who they are and content in their own skin.

Los oyentes no sólo investigarán el sentido de la vista pero también cómo los ojos de los animales nos pueden decir en dónde se encuentran en la cadena alimenticia, si es que cazan durante el día o la noche, o la edad.

¿Cuáles son algunas de las cosas que nosotros podemos aprender sobre los animales tomando en cuenta la forma de sus bocas o picos? ¿Qué podemos deducir sobre los animales con dientes filosos comparados con los que tienen dientes largos y planos? ¿Existen algunos animales sin bocas? En esta secuela sobre las series de Adaptaciones de animales, la galardonada fotógrafa y educadora naturalista Mary Holland comparte las fascinantes bocas de los animales con los lectores de todas las edades.

In the thrilling conclusion to the NeuralTech Rising trilogy, Jenny Mercado finds herself in a desperate battle to stop a megalomaniacal AI and protect her little brother Mateo. With the lines between the real world and the virtual world blurring, Jenny must navigate the treacherous landscape of The Garden and confront the demons of her past to have any hope of a future. As the AI's influence grows and the military's secret "garden" comes online, the stakes have never been higher. Aided by Leo Marino and Agent Landry, Jenny races against time to thwart the AI's destructive plans to take ...

Los globos provienen de árboles - los árboles de caucho. La historia nos guía por la gran variedad de pasos necesarios para fabricar las decoraciones llenas de aire que todos conocemos y amamos. Comenzando con un corte en la corteza al árbol del caucho, el barco que lleva la goma líquida a la fábrica y el proceso mismo de elaboración los lectores aprenderán cómo es que ese globo llegó a su casa.

Cat’s hacking skills weren’t enough to keep her from losing everything - her identity, her past, and now her freedom. She’s trapped and alone, but she’s survived this long, and she’s not giving up without a fight. Though the outbreak has been contained, a new threat has emerged - one that’s taken the world to the brink of a devastating war. With genetic technology that promises not just a cure for the plague, but a way to prevent death itself, both sides will stop at nothing to seize control of humanity’s future.

The epic climax of the Magic Time saga finds former lawyer turned visionary leader Cal Griffin continuing his quest across the changed face of America, where machines no longer run and magic holds sway. Accompanied by his loyal band of followers, fierce warrior Colleen Brooks, expatriate Russian physician Doc Lysenko, and bipolar street wizard Herman "Goldie" Goldman, Cal follows a trail of clues he hopes will lead him to the Source of the Change that overthrew the world.

Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Insulated double-walled construction. Recorded history and folklore. Life-saving disinfectant. Forest fire management. Our lives would be unrecognizable without these, and countless other, scientific discoveries and technological inventions from Indigenous North Americans. Spanning topics from transportation to civil engineering, hunting technologies, astronomy, brain surgery, architecture, and agriculture, Indigenous Ingenuity is a wide-ranging STEM offering that answers the call for Indigenous nonfiction by reappropriating hidden history.

The book that years ago predicted a man-made global pandemic! TWO WOMEN, ONE OF WHOM JILTED HIM, HELP A PRIVATE EYE STOP A BIOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE! A prominent law firm asks an investigator to look into the death of a business executive. The firm's client is the dead executive’s widow – a woman who deserted the private eye years earlier! Against the backdrop of his own personal turmoil, the dogged investigator is soon enmeshed in an international conspiracy fueled by perverted science, and old Cold War hatred. "IF YOU LIKE HARD-BOILED ACTION, MEMORABLE VILLAINS AND TWISTY PLOTS, THE JAKE...

Incredible Science Fiction: Amazing Tales from the 50's and Beyond, Volume Two collates a collection of some of the very best science-fiction stories published in the '50s together. All these stories (with the exception of The Anatomy of Fear) are now in the public domain and were original published in various science-fiction magazines that were very popular in the 1950s. This is a lovingly curated collection of some of the very best stories published during this time. This collection includes a further story from the Hugo Award-nominated Rog Phillips.

A successful journalist, Victoria Griffith, makes her first foray into children's fiction with the story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the larger-than- life Brazilian who many argue flew before the Wright brothers. It was 1906 in Paris when Alberto, challenged by a fellow inventor, turned his dirigible into a flying machine and cemented his place in the history of flight.

Eddie Rickenbacker was a World War I Flying Ace, a Medal of Honor winner, and even a racecar driver. But did you know that his first attempt at flying was to ride his bicycle off the roof of his house while holding an umbrella?

A “lifer” at the secluded Academy of Florence, Leo has never met his parents ... or anyone in his family for that matter. His current “family” is his mechanical monkey and robot lion, who along with his charming best friend and fellow lifer, Savvy, only get him into trouble. But after Leo’s latest experiment goes catastrophically wrong, he finds a mysterious clue that opens an underground maze—one that seems to have been created for him to solve. Leo hopes the tunnels will help him discover the identities of his parents and the reason he’s an orphan in the first place.