Science & Technology
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The Woman in the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Helped Fly the First Astronauts to the Moon
$19.99 Read moreA stunning and intimate biography of Margaret Hamilton, the computer engineer who helped Apollo 11 and mankind get from the Earth to the moon.
First-hand accounts, exclusive interviews with the legend- Author: Maurer, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1626728569
- Language: English
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Madame Curie: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cartMarie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. Winner of two Nobel Prizes (for physics in 1903 and for… [more below]
- Series: Da Capo Series in Science
- Author: Curie, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: April 2, 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810387
- Language: English
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Rocket Boys: A Memoir
$21.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A “nostalgic and entertaining memoir” (People) about a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space–the inspiration for the film October Sky
“A- Series: Coalwood #1
- Author: Hickam, Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0385333218
- Language: English
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Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center
$24.00 Add to cartAn unforgettable story of discovery and unimaginable destruction and a major biography of one of America’s most brilliant–and most divisive–scientists, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center v… [more below]
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0385722044
- Language: English
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Who Was Steve Jobs?
$6.99 Add to cartSteve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fifty-six short years. In this Who Was…? biography, children will learn how his obsession with computers and te… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Pollack, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0448462117
- Language: English
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The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology
$27.99 Add to cartJeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sici
- Author: Staaf, Danna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1728415772
- Language: English
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys
$24.00 Add to cartReissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon
The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the
- Author: Collins, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0374537763
- Language: English
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Who Was Galileo?
$6.99 Add to cartLike Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name–a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo cont… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 5, 2015
- ISBN10: 0448479850
- Language: English
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
$6.99 Add to cartOne day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edi… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Frith, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0448437651
- Language: English
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Scientists Are Saving the World!
$14.99 Read moreScientists Are Saving the World! is an engaging graphic novel by writer Saskia Gwinn and illustrator Ana Albero that brings young readers into the world of real scientists and their exciting discoveri… [more below]
- Series: My First Discovery Graphic Novel
- Author: Gwinn, Saskia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1419765965
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci
$40.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most importa… [more below]
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1501139150
- Language: English
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Malala Yousafzai
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Malala Yousafzai, the incredible activist for girls’ education and the… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #57
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0711259046
- Language: English
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Becoming a Good Creature
$11.99 Read moreA New York Times Bestseller
School is not the only place to find a teacher. In this beautiful picture book, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship, compassion, and
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063312689
- Language: English
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who pro
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01, 1992
- ISBN10: 0140159940
- Language: English
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Spare Parts (Young Readers’ Edition): The True Story of Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and an Impossible Dream
$19.99 Add to cartA riveting true story about dreams, dedication, and an amazing robot named Stinky, based on Joshua Davis’ New York Times bestseller and now adapted for young readers by bestselling Mexican American au
- Author: Davis, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 037438861X
- Language: English
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The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem
$18.99 Add to cartA Robert F. Sibert Honor Book!
Discover the true story about the determined engineer who fixed London’s pollution problem in this funny, accessible nonfiction picture book featuring engaging art from- Author: Paeff, Colleen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1534449299
- Language: English
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
$6.99 Add to cartAs young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and an… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Buckley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 1, 2014
- ISBN10: 0448479516
- Language: English
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How to Spacewalk: Step-By-Step with Shuttle Astronauts
$19.99 Read moreAspiring astronauts will be ready for liftoff with this thrilling guide to preparing for and doing a real spacewalk with the first American woman to walk in space as their partner.
What is it like to- Author: Sullivan, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1536226211
- Language: English
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
$22.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0525562648
- Language: English
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
$18.00 Add to cartTwo of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these men, separated in age by forty years, d… [more below]
- Author: Forbes, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1633886077
- Language: English
