Science & Technology
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18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Invented Modern Forensics
$15.99 Read moreThe fascinating story of the forgotten woman who pioneered forensic science
As America ramps up efforts toward victory in World War II, Frances Glessner Lee stands at the front of a wood-paneled classr
- Author: Goldfarb, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1728217547
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science
$12.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0358667933
- Language: English
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Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
$18.99 Add to cart“A tragic tale of obsession, exploitation, and lost souls. And the questions Rymer poses about human experience and experiments on humans make the story both intellectually absorbing and emotionally d
- Author: Rymer, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12, 1994
- ISBN10: 0060924659
- Language: English
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Beyond Genius: A Journey Through the Characteristics and Legacies of Transformative Minds
$35.00 Add to cartAn in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newto… [more below]
- Author: Atalay, Bulent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364897
- Language: English
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Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
$17.99 Add to cartCelebrate Lonnie Johnson, inventor of the Super Soaker, in this inspiring STEM picture book biography about the maker of one of the world’s favorite toys.
You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top t- Author: Barton, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 03, 2016
- ISBN10: 1580892973
- Language: English
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Jane Goodall
$15.99 Add to cartPart of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the amazing life of Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees.
When Jane was little, her father gave her a- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #18
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1786032317
- Language: English
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Elon Musk
$35.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestseller
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era–a- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982181281
- Language: English
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The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer – The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb
$19.99 Add to cartTwo ambitious men. One historic mission.
With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of- Series: World War II Collection
- Author: Kunetka, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513596
- Language: English
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Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
$35.00 Add to cartAlexander (better known as “Sasha”) and Ann Shulgin’s foundational work in the genre was the first book to fully impart the how-to chemistry, and convey the effects, of many of the entheogenic drugs t… [more below]
- Author: Shulgin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 978
- Publish Date: October 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0963009605
- Language: English
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In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army
$29.00 Read moreThe “high-stakes” true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once-in-a-generation lifesaving product: “Suspenseful storytelling helps us see
- Author: Barber, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 30, 2023
- ISBN10: 1538709864
- Language: English
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The Dream Machine
$20.00 Read moreThe story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet–and shifted our understanding of what computers could be.
Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the grea- Author: Waldrop, M. Mitchell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1732265119
- Language: English
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Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando
$18.99 Add to cartWorld War II was over, but in Japan, lines for a simple bowl of ramen noodles wound down the sidewalk. What Momofuku Ando did next would change food forever. Andrea Wang, author of Watercress (a Newbe
- Author: Wang, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 05, 2019
- ISBN10: 1499807031
- Language: English
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The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague
$9.95 Add to cartMeet Raye Montague―the hidden mastermind who made waves in the U.S. Navy
After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she k
- Series: Amazing Scientists #3
- Author: Finley Mosca, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 03, 2020
- ISBN10: 1943147701
- Language: English
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Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
$29.95 Read moreAn exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and resh… [more below]
- Author: Ghose, Shohini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048310
- Language: English
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Who Was Nikola Tesla?
$6.99 Add to cartGet ready for the electrifying biography of Nikola Tesla–part creative genius, part mad scientist, and 100% innovator.
When Nikola Tesla arrived in the United States in 1884, he didn’t have much mone- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Gigliotti, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0448488590
- Language: English
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Jane Goodall: A Champion of Chimpanzees
$5.99 Add to cartLearn about the life of Jane Goodall, a pioneering scientist who became the world expert on chimpanzees, in this early reader biography.
Jane Goodall was the first person to study wild chimpanzees up
- Series: I Can Read Level 2
- Author: Albee, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0062432788
- Language: English
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Prometeo Americano. El Libro Que Inspiró La PelÃcula Oppenheimer / American Prom Etheus
$29.95 Read morePremio Pulitzer 2006 / National Book Critics Circle Award 2005 / Duff Cooper Prize 2008
La biograf?a definitiva de Oppenheimer, el p
EL LIBRO QUE HA INSPIRADO LA NUEVA PELICULA DE NOLAN, OPPENHEIMER- Author: Bird, Kai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 8418967986
- Language: Spanish
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the Crime Writers’ Association ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction–
In her memoir All That
A tour through the human skeleton and the secrets our bones reveal, from the author of All That Remains- Author: Black, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763368
- Language: English
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Tihkal: A Continuation
$33.00 Add to cartA continuation of PIHKAL, TIHKAL focuses on the family of psychoactive drugs in the tryptamine family and provides a blend of biography, botanical facts, scientific speculation, and psychological and
- Author: Shulgin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 804
- Publish Date: May 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 0963009699
- Language: English
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Elon Musk (Spanish Edition)
$24.95 Read moreDel autor de Steve Jobs y otras grandes biograf?as, todas ellas ?xitos internacionales de ventas, esta es la historia asombrosamente ?ntima del innovador m?s fascinante y pol?mico del mundo, un vision… [more below]
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890980144
- Language: Spanish
