Science & Technology
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Thomas Edison
$5.99 Read moreLearn all about Thomas Edison, one of the most important figures in American history, in this colorful, inviting, and entertaining biography. This carefully leveled reader is written in an easy-to-gra… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Kramer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1426314760
- Language: English
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Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
$18.99 Add to cartThe rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.’s disastrous dam collapse: “A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal” (Los Angeles Daily News).
Rivers in the Desert fol- Author: Davis, Margaret Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 149763878X
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science
$26.00 Read moreFINALIST 2019 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award This biography of Oliver Heaviside profiles the life of an underappreciated genius and describes his many contribut… [more below]
- Author: Mahon, Basil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1633883310
- Language: English
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Breaking Through the Clouds: The Sometimes Turbulent Life of Meteorologist Joanne Simpson
$19.99 Read moreWriter Sandra Nickel and illustrator Helena Perez Garcia’s Breaking Through the Clouds is an inspiring picture book biography about the meteorologist whose discoveries helped us understand how weather… [more below]
- Author: Nickel, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1419749560
- Language: English
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
$15.95 Read moreTwenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin’s epiphany that “natural selection” formed the basis of evolution and the scientist’s publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and … [more below]
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039332995X
- Language: English
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Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal
$26.95 Add to cartEdmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the return of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery would be enough to make the career of any scientist, Ha
- Author: Love, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888916
- Language: English
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Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future
$17.99 Read moreClick. Whir. Buzz.
Not so long ago, math problems had to be solved with pencil and paper, mail delivered by postman, and files were stored in paper folders and metal cabinets. But three women, Betty Sn… [more below]- Author: Brown, Tami Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1368011055
- Language: English
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How to Build a Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine
$19.99 Add to cartAmy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville, and Giselle Potter come together to tell the inspiring story of autism advocate Dr. Temple Grandin and her brilliant invention: the hug machine.
As a young girl, T- Author: Guglielmo, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 153441097X
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver: From Slave to Scientist
$11.99 Read moreOnce a kidnapped slave baby, George Washington Carver found freedom in learning everything he could about the world around him. Overcoming poverty and racism, George became a brilliant scientist and a… [more below]
- Series: Heroes of History
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: November 19 2001
- ISBN10: 1883002788
- 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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Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
$19.99 Read moreAs a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead.
When Leonardo grew up and traveled the world, he- Author: D’Agnese, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0805063056
- Language: English
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All about Julia Morgan
$7.99 Read moreAll About Julia Morgan was a finalist for the 2019 Foreword Magazine INDIE Awards for juvenile non-fiction.
- Series: All about
- Author: Perry, Phyllis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1681570955
- Language: English
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Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong’s Work for Sustainable Farming
$9.95 Read moreThe narrator is a composite of people Pu Zhelong influenced in his work. With further context from Melanie Chan’s historically precise watercolors, this story will immerse young readers in Chinese cul
- Author: Schmalzer, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0884486354
- Language: English
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You Are a Star, Jane Goodall
$8.99 Read moreMake way for Jane Goodall!
It’s Jane Goodall like you’ve never seen her before!
Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young
- Author: Robbins, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1338680129
- Language: English
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A Heart Afire: Helen Brooke Taussig’s Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine
$39.95 Read moreA deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children’s heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force against preventable suffering.
In A Heart Afire, Patrici- Author: Meisol, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048523
- Language: English
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Technology: Cool Women Who Code
$9.95 Read moreDo you listen to music with an MP3 player or read books on a tablet? Do you play multiplayer video games with people on the other side of the world? Do you have a robot cleaning your kitchen? Maybe no
- Series: Girls in Science
- Author: Diehn, Andi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1619303256
- Language: English
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Ending Plague: A Scholar’s Obligation in an Age of Corruption
$26.99 Read more“An engrossing exposé of scientific practice in America.”
From the authors of the New York Times bestselling Plague of Corruption comes the prescription on how to end the plague inf
—KIRKUS REVIEWS- Series: Children’s Health Defense
- Author: Ruscetti, Francis W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1510764682
- Language: English
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Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
$16.95 Read moreHere is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world’s most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetic… [more below]
- Author: Mullis, Kary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0679774009
- Language: English
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When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex
$18.99 Read more“An exciting tale of dino discovery” (Kirkus Reviews), New York Times bestselling author Toni Buzzeo tells the true story of Sue Hendrickson’s historic find in the picture book When Sue Found Sue, ill… [more below]
- Author: Buzzeo, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1419731637
- Language: English
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Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything
$18.99 Read moreDo you know what a Solanum caule inermi herbaceo, foliis pinnatis incises, racemis simplicibus is?*
Carolus (Karl) Linnaeus started off as a curious child who loved exploring the garden. Despite his- Author: Sanchez, Anita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1580896065
- Language: English
