Science & Technology
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – ONE OF GQ‘s TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY – The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve childre… [more below]
- Author: Kolker, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 038554376X
- Language: English
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A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s leading planetary scientists, a luminous memoir of exploration on Earth, in space, and within oneself–equal parts ode to the beauty of science, meditation on loss, and roadmap
- Author: Elkins-Tanton, Lindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063086875
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition
$18.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
W- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0803740808
- Language: English
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Florence Nightingale
$15.99 Read moreIn this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.
Growing up in an upper-class family, it- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #78
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0711270791
- Language: English
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Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code Volume 1
$19.99 Read more“If you’ve got a good idea, and you know it’s going to work, go ahead and do it.”
The inspiring story of Grace Hopper–the boundary-breaking woman who revolutionized computer science–is told told in … [more below]- Series: People Who Shaped Our World #1
- Author: Wallmark, Laurie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1454920009
- Language: English
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The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and the host of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a memoir about growing up and a young man’s budding scientific curiosity.This is the absorbing story … [more below]
- Author: Tyson, Neil Degrasse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 159102188X
- Language: English
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
$17.99 Add to cartSpaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.
When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie C- Author: Teitel, Amy Shira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1538716054
- Language: English
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Who Is Temple Grandin?
$6.99 Read moreAutism did not stop her–in fact, it helped Temple Grandin become a brilliant scientist and inventor.
Temple Grandin wasn’t officially diagnosed with autism until she was in her 40s, but she knew at a- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0451532511
- Language: English
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Google It: A History of Google
$17.99 Add to cartIn Google It, award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares an inspiring story of innovation, personal and intellectual bravery, and most importantly, of shooting for the moon in or
- Author: Redding, Anna Crowley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 125079210X
- Language: English
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Zaha Hadid
$15.99 Read morePart of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Zaha Hadid tells the inspiring true story of the visionary Iraqi-British architect.
Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, surrounded- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #31
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1786037459
- Language: English
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I Am Leonardo Da Vinci
$16.99 Add to cartThe famous Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci is the twentieth hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series. (Cover may vary)
This friendly, fun biography serie- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525555889
- Language: English
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Leonardo. the Complete Paintings and Drawings
$70.00 Add to cartUnmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: a peerless master of painting, sculpture, cartograph
- Author: Zöllner, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 11 2019
- ISBN10: 3836576252
- Language: English
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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
$19.99 Read moreAn electrifying memoir of one woman’s extraordinary effort to save her husband’s life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more.
“A memoir that reads like a thr… [more below]- Author: Strathdee, Steffanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0316418110
- Language: English
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Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
$18.00 Read moreA masterful and timely biography of the hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time–from the Pulitzer Prize-winn… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1984898353
- Language: English
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The Story of Jane Goodall: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers
$6.99 Add to cartDiscover the life of Jane Goodall–a story about loving and protecting nature for kids 6 to 9
Jane Goodall is a celebrated scientist for her studies of chimpanzees in the forests of Africa. Before she- Series: The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers
- Author: Katz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1646118731
- Language: English
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Neil Armstrong: Young Pilot
$8.99 Add to cartNeil Armstrong didn’t grow up wanting to be an astronaut–because there were no astronauts in 1930. But he did love to fly from an early age, and after serving in the Korean War and then finishing col… [more below]
- Series: Childhood of Famous Americans (Paperback)
- Author: Dunham, Montrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0689809956
- Language: English
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Looking Up: The True Adventures of a Storm-Chasing Weather Nerd
$18.95 Add to cartAn energetic and electrifying narrative about all things weather–by one of today’s rising meteorological stars.
Get in–we’re going storm-chasing! Imagine a very cool weather nerd has just pulled up- Author: Cappucci, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364684
- Language: English
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Gamer Girls: 25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry
$17.99 Add to cartDiscover the women behind the video games we love—the iconic games they created, the genres they invented, the studios and companies they built—and how they changed the industry forever.
Women have- Author: Kenney, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0762474564
- Language: English
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The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest
$18.99 Add to cartThis picture book biography tells the story of Meg Lowman, a groundbreaking female scientist called a “real life Lorax” by National Geographic, who was determined to investigate the marvelous, undisco… [more below]
- Author: Lang, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1684371775
- Language: English
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Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica
$15.99 Add to cartEqual parts adventure and STEM, Rebecca E. F. Barone’s Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica is a thrilling nonfiction book for young readers chronicling two treacherous, groundbreakin
- Author: Barone, Rebecca E. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1250866073
- Language: English
