Science & Technology
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
$21.99 Add to cartFollowing his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atl
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 06, 2015
- ISBN10: 1476708703
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Reached for the Stars El Niño Que Alcanzó Las Estrellas (Sp. Ed.)
$19.99 Add to cartEl joven ingeniero conocido como “el mecánico del espacio” (@THESPACEMECHANIC) comparte su apasionante historia, desde su infancia en Ecuador hasta su trabajo en la misión Marte 2020 de la NASA.
Elio
- Author: Morillo, Elio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063214350
- Language: Spanish
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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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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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An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life
$18.99 Add to cartA gripping narrative of the love and betrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, told through the lives of three unique women.
Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love … [more below]- Author: Streshinsky, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- 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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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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October Sky
$9.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “nostalgic and entertaining memoir” (People), originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film.
“A message of hope in an age of cynicis- Series: Coalwood #1
- Author: Hickam, Homer
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 16, 1999
- ISBN10: 0440235502
- 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 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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Lab Girl: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant lif… [more below]
- Author: Jahren, Hope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1101873728
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
$35.00 Add to cartIn this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America’s founders helped define our nation
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 0684807610
- Language: English
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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
$19.99 Add to cartAn awesome, globe-spanning, and New York Times bestselling journey through the beauty and power of mathematics
What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence?- Author: Frenkel, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09, 2014
- ISBN10: 0465064957
- Language: English
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
$16.99 Add to cartRichard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that “can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist” (Detroit Free Press), Feynman
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355624
- Language: English
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
$50.00 Add to cartTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER – “A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”–Christopher Nolan
#1 NEW YORK TIME- Author: Bird, Kai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0375412026
- 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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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
