Inventions
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Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination
$39.95 Add to cartWhat it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility.
When reality fails us, what can designers do? Question design’s relationship to reality, as A- Author: Dunne, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 026204966X
- Language: English
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What’s It Made Of?: The Materials That Shape Our World
$29.99 Add to cartUnlock the secrets behind everyday items and extraordinary inventions with exploded artworks and photographs that reveal the materials used to create everyday objects.
Finding out What’s It Made Of? i- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593972112
- Language: English
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Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau: A Who HQ Graphic Novel
$7.99 Add to cartExplore how French naval officer Jacques Cousteau forever changed the way people experience life underwater in this STEM-driven graphic novel by GLAAD Media Award-winning author Ned Wolfe and illustra… [more below]
- Series: Who HQ Graphic Novels
- Author: Wolfe, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593385640
- Language: English
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Spark: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone
$18.99 Add to cartIn this first picture book in the Black Innovators series, meet the insatiably curious Jim West, who invented a vital piece of the device we all carry in our pockets–transforming how the world commun… [more below]
- Series: The Black Innovators
- Author: Ramirez, Ainissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1536225282
- Language: English
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Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau: A Who HQ Graphic Novel
$13.99 Add to cartExplore how French naval officer Jacques Cousteau forever changed the way people experience life underwater in this STEM-driven graphic novel by GLAAD Media Award-winning author Ned Wolfe and illustra… [more below]
- Series: Who HQ Graphic Novels
- Author: Wolfe, Ned
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593385659
- Language: English
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Farting Fish: And 49 Other Weird and Wonderful Scientific Discoveries
$19.99 Add to cartI’m sure you’ve heard of the Nobel Prize, but have you heard of the Ig Nobel Prize? Every year, this prize celebrates unusual areas of research that first make people laugh, and then make them think.
- Author: Harman, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0711298815
- Language: English
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Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
$17.99 Add to cartPsst . . . Guess what? 800 miles from the North Pole, buried deep in a mountain, the Svalbard Seed Vault holds priceless treasure. Seeds!
Perfect for 5-8-year-old future conservationalists, this is a- Author: Clendenan, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1623544807
- Language: English
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Cracking the Code: The Human Quest to Uncover Secrets
$29.95 Add to cartHumans have been keeping secrets for generations and using cryptology to make sure those secrets don’t fall into the wrong hands.
From the development of ancient Greek ciphers, to the creation of the
- Series: Orca Timeline
- Author: Kehoe, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1459839595
- Language: English
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Louis Braille
$15.99 Add to cartLittle People, BIG DREAMS Louis Braille explores the life of the remarkable man behind Braille, the tactile reading and writing system.
Little Louis was a curious child – always exploring and having a- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #133
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836007418
- Language: English
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The Kingfisher Space Encyclopedia
$22.99 Add to cartThe Kingfisher Space Encyclopedia is an incredible 160-page volume and the perfect guide to space for children. It’s packed with colorful illustrations, step-by-step sequences, and detailed photograph
- Series: Kingfisher Encyclopedias
- Author: Goldsmith, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0753481464
- Language: English
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ASHA and Baz Meet Gladys West
$8.99 Add to cartAsha and Baz travel beyond the community garden to learn about cardinal directions in their latest adventure!
Asha and Baz are visiting the community garden with their class when their teacher assigns- Series: ASHA and Baz
- Author: Fernandez, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1998484009
- Language: English
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Detroit’s Lost Stove Industry: From Open Hearth to Cast Iron
$24.99 Read moreCasting a legacy
Long before automobiles made Detroit the Motor City, the city boasted a flourishing and diverse industrial economy, albeit on a more modest scale. Among the myriad industries that defi
- Series: Lost
- Author: Van Dusen, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 146715699X
- Language: English
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The Running Machine: The Invention of the Very First Bicycle
$19.99 Add to cartA story of pluck and determination inspired by the real events of 1815-17, when a young man named Karl Drais invented the very first bicycle.
Before there were trains, or cars, or planes, people rode h
- Author: Negley, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 006311982X
- Language: English
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Boardwalk Babies
$18.99 Read moreIn the late 19th century, there wasn’t much hope for premature babies–until Dr. Couney developed the incubator. The device was so new and strange, hospitals rejected it. So Dr. Couney set up a sidesh
- Author: Moss, Marissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1939547660
- Language: English
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Birth of the Bicycle: A Bumpy History of the Bicycle in America 1819-1900
$18.99 Add to cartThree cheers for the birth of the bicycle! Hop on for a jaunty, rhythmic ride through a playfully illustrated history.
From the pedal-less, brakeless wooden velocipedes of the 1800s to the sleek raci
- Author: Nelson, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1536213926
- Language: English
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Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube
$19.99 Add to cartThis first picture book biography of Rubik’s Cube creator Erno Rubik reveals the obsession, imagination, and engineering process behind creating an iconic puzzle.
Celebrating 50 years of the most popu- Author: Aradhya, Kerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 168263664X
- Language: English
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DIY Drones for the Evil Genius: Design, Build, and Customize Your Own Drones
$31.00 Add to cartPublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
Design, buil
- Series: Evil Genius
- Author: Cinnamon, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1259861465
- Language: English
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Maker Girl and Professor Smarts
$12.99 Add to cartWith hands-on maker activities for readers to try, the first book in this zany graphic novel series follows two kid superheroes who use the powers of science and engineering to save their city, one ic… [more below]
- Series: Maker Girl and Professor Smarts
- Author: Florentine, Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1536239585
- Language: English
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Sound: Discovering the Vibrations We Hear
$18.99 Add to cart“Brimming with cogent insights, delightful visuals, and infectious wonder.” – Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW)
Sound — in both science and history — is explored in this dynamic, illustrated nonfiction
- Series: Spectacular Steam for Curious Readers (Sscr)
- Author: Fadeeva, Olga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0802856489
- Language: English
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Maker Girl and Professor Smarts
$19.99 Add to cartWith hands-on maker activities for readers to try, the first book in this zany graphic novel series follows two kid superheroes who use the powers of science and engineering to save their city, one ic… [more below]
- Series: Maker Girl and Professor Smarts
- Author: Florentine, Jasmine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1536227641
- Language: English
