Science & Technology
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Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-Teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic
$18.99 Read moreMeet Dr. Wu Lien-teh, defeater of the Manchurian plague–in a story authored by his great-granddaughter, an emergency physician who relied on his life-saving invention during a pandemic a century late… [more below]
- Author: Liu, Shan Woo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1536228982
- Language: English
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I Am Amelia Earhart
$16.99 Add to cartGroundbreaking American pilot Amelia Earhart is the 2nd hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. (Cover may vary)
Amelia Earhart refused to accept no for a… [more below]- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 14, 2014
- ISBN10: 0803740824
- Language: English
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The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath
$18.99 Add to cartChicago Public Library Best of the Best Selection
NSTA Best STEM Books for K-12 Selection
A Mighty Girl Book of the YearIf you like to think big, but some say you’re too small, or they say you’re too y
- Series: Amazing Scientists #2
- Author: Finley Mosca, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 26, 2017
- ISBN10: 1943147310
- Language: English
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
$30.00 Add to cart“Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York Times
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book A b- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1594204225
- Language: English
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Who Was Stephen Hawking?
$6.99 Add to cartLearn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: “Where did the universe come from?”
Stephen Hawking was born exactly t- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Gigliotti, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0451532481
- Language: English
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Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings
$19.99 Add to cartNotable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings brings to life the many ways in which everyone from Galileo to Jane Goodall has used a science notebook, including to sketch their observations, imagin… [more below]
- Author: Fries-Gaither, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1681403072
- Language: English
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I Am Albert Einstein
$9.99 Read more“We can all be heroes” is the message entertainingly told in this New York Times Bestselling picture-book biography series, with this one highlighting Albert Einstein
Each picture book in this series i… [more below]- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593619161
- Language: English
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Mae Jemison
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Mae Jemison, scientist, astronaut, and the first ever black woman in s
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #85
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0711270953
- Language: English
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Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
$20.95 Add to cartYou’ve seen the building. Now meet the man whose life went into it.
Philip Freelon’s grandfather was an acclaimed painter of the Harlem Renaissance. His father was a successful businessman who attended
- Author: Lyons, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1620149559
- Language: English
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The Physics Book
$21.99 Add to cartHow do magnets generate electricity? What is antimatter? Is time travel possible?
Discover the answers to these and over 90 other big questions that explore the most important laws, theories, and bre- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0744082684
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science
$21.99 Add to cartIn this beautiful nonfiction biography, a Robert F. Sibert Medal winner, the Newbery Honor-winning author Joyce Sidman introduces readers to one of the first female entomologists and a woman who flout
- Author: Sidman, Joyce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0544717139
- Language: English
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
$15.95 Add to cartLike the “funny, brilliant, bawdy” (The New Yorker) “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” this book’s many stories–some funny, others intensely moving–display Richard P. Feynman’s unquenchable thirst
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 6, 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355640
- Language: English
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The Ocean of Truth: The Story of Sir Isaac Newton
$12.95 Add to cart- Author: McPherson, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: July 1, 1997
- ISBN10: 1882514505
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir
$0.00 Read more“Inspiring and joyous.”–People
“Heartwarming . . . infectious . . . Morillo’s The Boy Who Reached for the Stars is every bit the inspiration he means it to be.”—Kirkus Reviews
The engineer known as th
- Author: Morillo, Elio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063214318
- Language: English
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Before the Big Bang: The Origin of Our Universe from the Multiverse
$19.99 Add to cart“A riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics.” —The Washington Post
A revolutionary new account of our universe’s creation–and a breathtaking exploration of the land
- Author: Mersini-Houghton, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268523
- Language: English
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Surely You Re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
$50.99 Add to cart- Series: Adventures of a Curious Character
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0393019217
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin
$17.99 Add to cartNSTA Best STEM Books for K-12 Selection
NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books Selection
Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award Recipient
A Mighty Girl Book of the YearIf you’ve ever felt different, if yo
- Series: Amazing Scientists #1
- Author: Finley Mosca, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 29, 2017
- ISBN10: 1943147302
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
$18.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a Slave
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land wi
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 27, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061730335
- Language: English
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Who Was George Washington Carver?
$6.99 Add to cartBorn in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Gigliotti, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0448483122
- Language: English
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Who Is Jane Goodall?
$6.99 Add to cartA life in the wild
Jane Goodall, born in London, England, always loved animals and wanted to study them in their natural habitats. So at age twenty-six, off she went to Africa Goodall’s up-close obs- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Edwards, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0448461927
- Language: English
