Science & Technology
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Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
$30.00 Add to cartThere may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists–Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner… [more below]
- Author: Hürter, Tobias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1615199209
- Language: English
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Who Is Bill Gates?
$6.99 Add to cartBill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this Who Was…? biography, children will learn of Gates’ childhood passion … [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 21 2013
- ISBN10: 0448463326
- Language: English
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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could su- Author: Zernike, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1982131845
- Language: English
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Computer Decoder: Dorothy Vaughan, Computer Scientist
$9.95 Add to cartA full-color picture book biography about Dorothy Vaughan, one of NASA’s first African American managers and one of the groundbreakers on the front line of electronic computing–includes hands-on STEM
- Series: Picture Book Biography
- Author: Diehn, Andi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1619307650
- Language: English
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The Astronomer Who Questioned Everything: The Story of Maria Mitchell
$18.99 Add to cartPerfect for fans of STEM, this inspiring picture book biography tells the extraordinary story of pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell.
Maria longed to travel beyond her small island of Nantucket. Bu
- Author: Alary, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1525303481
- Language: English
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Wonderful Hair: The Beauty of Annie Malone
$18.99 Read moreForgotten today, Annie Turnbo Malone was an influential Black business leader in the early 20th century.
She turned her personally developed hair care products into a successful industry, including s
- Author: Catarevas, Eve Nadel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 195435410X
- Language: English
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A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
$19.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Ke… [more below]
- Author: Sapolsky, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0743202414
- Language: English
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First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers
$5.99 Add to cartThis Level Four I Can Read book is a perfect bridge to chapter books for elementary-grade kids–and it introduces the thrilling story of the Wright Brothers, flight pioneers.
When Tom Tate hears that
- Series: I Can Read Level 4
- Author: Shea, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0064442152
- Language: English
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
$39.95 Add to cartThe story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth ce… [more below]
- Author: Forbes, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1616149426
- Language: English
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Science Comics: Flying Machines: How the Wright Brothers Soared
$13.99 Add to cartA National Science Teachers Association Best STEM Books of 2017
Follow the famous aviators from their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, to the fields of North Caroli
Take to the skies with Flying Machines!- Series: Science Comics
- Author: Wilgus, Benjamin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1626721394
- Language: English
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Endurance: My Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a … [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0525432434
- Language: English
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Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning Changed the Science of Prehistoric Life
$11.99 Add to cart“This in-depth, beautifully illustrated biography of Mary Anning sings with the passion and perseverance of the woman herself, who from girlhood on scoured the shifting cliffs of her native Dorset to
- Author: Blackford, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063308975
- Language: English
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On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein Book for Kids, Books about Scientists for Kids, Biographies for Kids, Kids
$9.99 Add to cartTravel along with Einstein on a journey full of curiosity, laughter, and scientific discovery. Parents and children alike will appreciate this moving story of the powerful difference imagination can m… [more below]
- Series: Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books
- Author: Berne, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 145215211X
- Language: English
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Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning Changed the Science of Prehistoric Life
$17.99 Read more“This in-depth, beautifully illustrated biography of Mary Anning sings with the passion and perseverance of the woman herself, who from girlhood on scoured the shifting cliffs of her native Dorset to
- Author: Blackford, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0358396050
- Language: English
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Nikola Tesla
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Nikola Tesla, the scientist and inventor whose groundbreaking inventions we continu… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #83
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 071127083X
- Language: English
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137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession
$26.99 Add to cartIs there a number at the root of the universe? A primal number that everything in the world hinges on? This question exercised many great minds of the twentieth century, among them the groundbreaking … [more below]
- Author: Miller, Arthur I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: May 17 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338649
- Language: English
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Steve Jobs
$15.99 Read moreIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Steve Jobs, the visionary whose ideas still shape the world.
Steve Jo- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #48
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 06, 2020
- ISBN10: 0711245770
- Language: English
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
$19.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL!
A moving and enlightening look at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy Ramanujan stunned the scholars of Cambridge Universi- Author: Kanigel, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1476763496
- Language: English
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Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
$23.99 Add to cartThis “inside account captures the energy–and the madness–of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” (Fortune Magazine).
Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story- Author: Zachary, G. Pascal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1497638836
- Language: English
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Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean’s Biggest Secret
$18.99 Add to cartMeet Marie Tharp (1920-2006), the first person to map the Earth’s underwater mountain ridge, in this inspiring picture book biography from the author of Shark Lady.
From a young age, Marie Tharp loved- Author: Keating, Jess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0735265089
- Language: English
