Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology
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Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
$15.99 Add to cartA riveting biography of the groundbreaking innovator who was a giant in the worlds of computing, music, filmmaking, design, smart phones, and more. A finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Aw
- Author: Blumenthal, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 125001445X
- Language: English
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The Real Rosalind: The Truth about Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Discovery and How It Was Erased
$19.99 Read moreShe was called angry, irascible, and combative. But more than anything else? She was correct.
Ask most people what they know about DNA and they might be able to tell you some basics: It exists inside
- Author: Dunn, Debbie Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765627709
- Language: English
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Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People): Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People): The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who
$9.99 Read moreFrom Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Truck Full of Money, and adapted by Michael French comes this captivating and critically acclaimed young adult adaptation of the nonfiction editio
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 038574319X
- Language: English
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Dreaming in Code: ADA Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer
$9.99 Read more“Written with grace and intelligence, researched with care. . . . Sure to inspire a new generation of pioneers.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review)
This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter- Author: McCully, Emily Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1536228230
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
$19.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2021 YALSA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS!
SIX STARRED REVIEWS! Discover the dark side of Charles Lindbergh–one of America’s most celebrated heroes and complicated- Author: Fleming, Candace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 052564654X
- Language: English
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Steve Jobs: Insanely Great
$13.99 Read moreWhether they’ve seen Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs movie, read Walter Isaacson’s biography, or just own an iPhone, this graphic novel retelling of the Apple innovator’s life will capture t… [more below]
- Author: Hartland, Jessie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 030798298X
- Language: English
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Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb
$12.99 Add to cartBomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II.
They were leaning over the edge o- Author: Montillo, Roseanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0316489603
- Language: English
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Teen Innovators: Nine Young People Engineering a Better World with Creative Inventions
$19.99 Read moreTeen Innovators tells the stories of discovery and the inventions of nine young students.
For example, twelve-year-old Gitanjali Rao, appalled by the tragedy in Flint, Michigan, found a cheaper, mor
- Author: Estes, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 172841721X
- Language: English
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El Ni?o Que Dom? El Viento / The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
$14.95 Add to cartEl libro en el que se bas la pel cula de Netflix con el mismo nombre, protagonizada y dirigida por Chiwetel Ejiofor, esta es una apasionante memoria de supervivencia y perseverancia sobre el heroico … [more below]
- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1644732645
- Language: Spanish
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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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Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures
$14.99 Add to cartWhen Valentina Tereshkova blasted off aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she became the first woman to rocket into space. It would be nineteen years before another woman got a chance–cosmonaut Svetlan
- Series: Women of Action
- Author: Gibson, Karen Bush
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1641603135
- Language: English
