Science & Technology
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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
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Edison
$24.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST- Author: Morris, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0812983211
- Language: English
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Charles Darwin
$15.99 Read moreFrom the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Charles Darwin, the scientist who changed the way people see the world.
Although h- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #53
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 071125771X
- Language: English
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
$30.00 Add to cartThe smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remar
- Author: Bhattacharya, Ananyo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324003995
- Language: English
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Who Was Charles Darwin?
$6.99 Add to cartAs a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0448437643
- Language: English
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Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
$19.99 Add to cartCapturing an engineer’s creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossibl… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Kathryn Gibbs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0547959222
- Language: English
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Kids Who Are Changing the World: Ready-To-Read Level 3
$5.99 Add to cartMeet the inventive kids who are coming up with ways to save the world in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people “you should meet “
Have you ev- Series: You Should Meet
- Author: Higginson, Sheila Sweeny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1534432140
- Language: English
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Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr
$29.99 Add to cartIn the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world’s greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she li… [more below]
- Author: Deakin, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591025206
- Language: English
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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020.
Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Esquire, Pa- Author: Wiener, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1250785693
- Language: English
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Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World
$17.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai, and John Legend. Since 2012, the organizat- Series: Girls Who Code
- Author: Saujani, Reshma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 042528753X
- Language: English
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Kid Scientists: True Tales of Childhood from Science Superstars
$13.99 Add to cartFunny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell tales from the challenging yet defining growing-up years of Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Marie Curie, and 12 other bril… [more below]
- Series: Kid Legends #5
- Author: Stabler, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1683690745
- Language: English
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My Inventions and Other Writings
$17.00 Add to cartThe fascinating autobiography of the legendary inventor behind the radio, wireless energy, robotics, and much more.
Famous for his pioneering contributions to the electronic age, his lifelong feud with… [more below]- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0143106619
- Language: English
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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
$18.99 Add to cart“A remarkable story of a young man’s loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society’s most dreaded outcasts.” –John Grisham
“Hilarious, as
- Series: P.S.
- Author: White, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0061351636
- Language: English
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After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times’ Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants–Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the C
- Author: Mickle, Tripp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 006300982X
- Language: English
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The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
$8.99 Add to cartJacques Cousteau was the world’s ambassador of the oceans. His popular TV series brought whales, otters, and dolphins right into people’s living rooms. Now, in this exciting picturebook biography, Dan… [more below]
- Author: Yaccarino, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0375844708
- Language: English
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
$22.99 Add to cartProbing the life and work of Kurt G?del, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning–and brought him to the edge of madness.
Autho… [more below]
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Goldstein, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327604
- Language: English
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Electrical Wizard: Candlewick Biographies: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World
$6.99 Read more“An engaging volume that will encourage both budding scientists and anyone intrigued by the creative process.” — Kirkus Reviews
Here is the story of the ambitious young man who brought life-changing- Series: Candlewick Biographies
- Author: Rusch, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0763679798
- Language: English
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Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom Volume 6
$19.99 Read moreMeet Wu Chien Shiung, famous physicist who overcame prejudice to prove that she could be anything she wanted.
“Wu Chien Shiung’s story is remarkable–and so is the way this book does it justice.” —Bo- Series: People Who Shaped Our World #6
- Author: Robeson, Teresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1454932201
- Language: English
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Chasing Space
$9.99 Add to cart“In Chasing Space, Leland Melvin tackles stupendous obstacles with dogged determination, showing you what is indeed possible in life–if you belive.” –Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Astrophysics for
- Author: Melvin, Leland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0062665936
- Language: English
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the Neumann Prize for the History of Mathematics “We owe Claude Shannon a lot, and Soni & Goodman’s book takes a big first step in paying that debt.” –San Francisco Review of Books “Soni an… [more below]
- Author: Soni, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 147676669X
- Language: English
