Science & Technology
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Fever: How Tu Youyou Adapted Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria
$25.99 Add to cartFor ages 7-12
People were dying! Malaria is a deadly mosquito-borne disease that causes fevers, chills and often death. In 1969, the People’s Republic of China created a task force to find a cure.
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- Series: Moments in Science #7
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1629441953
- Language: English
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The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps
$19.99 Add to cartAcclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windo… [more below]
- Author: Winter, Jeanette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0375867740
- Language: English
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The Wright Brothers: Nose-Diving Into History
$11.99 Add to cartA hilarious nonfiction look at two of history’s most epic “failures” the Wright brothers, whose countless crashes ultimately led to groundbreaking success.
Although Orville and Wilbur Wright are celeb- Series: Epic Fails #1
- Author: Thompson, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1250150566
- Language: English
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Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize
$17.95 Add to cartAlmost everyone has heard of the Nobel Prize, a collection of prizes awarded for accomplishments in science, medicine, literature, and peace. But few people know about the man who established the awar… [more below]
- Author: Wargin, Kathy-Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 1585362816
- Language: English
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The Age of Learjet: Adventures, Innovations, and Sky-High Dreams
$17.91 Add to cartJet Dreams Take Flight
Imagine the sleek Learjet streaking across the sky in this high-flying adventure! Picture yourself zooming through the clouds as young readers discover the trailblazing history
- Author: Hamel, Peter G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989216000
- Language: English
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Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge
$19.99 Read moreOn a warm spring day in 1883, a woman rode across the Brooklyn Bridge with a rooster on her lap.
It was the first trip across an engineering marvel that had taken nearly fourteen years to construct. T- Author: Dougherty, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250155320
- Language: English
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What Miss Mitchell Saw
$19.99 Add to cartDiscover the amazing true story of Maria Mitchell, America’s first professional female astronomer.
Every evening, from the time she was a child, Maria Mitchell stood on her rooftop with her telescope- Author: Barrett, Hayley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1481487590
- Language: English
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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
$16.99 Add to cartA Newbery Honor-winning biography of the men whose experiments brought about the Age of Flight.
This engaging narrative account of Orville and Wilbur Wright, two men with little formal schooling but- Author: Freedman, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 082341082X
- Language: English
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Gutsy Girls Go for Science: Paleontologists: With STEM Projects for Kids
$14.95 Read moreHands-on science projects pair up with inspiring biographies of female paleontologists in a full-color book for ages 8 to 11 that will have kids digging in their own backyards and making real-world le
- Series: Gutsy Girls
- Author: Bush Gibson, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1619307936
- Language: English
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Jérôme LeJeune: A Man of Science and Conscience
$19.95 Read moreThe intelligence of one is a gift for all. Such is the case of J?r?me Lejeune, an extraordinary man who put his brilliance at the service of children with Down syndrome.
A pioneer of modern genetics, D
- Author: Dugast, Aude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1621644111
- Language: English
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The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation
$18.99 Read moreOne of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA’s history, George W. S. Abbey was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight t… [more below]
- Author: Cassutt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1641603186
- Language: English
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Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project’s Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio
$26.95 Add to cartAt the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest’s most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the … [more below]
- Series: Trillium
- Author: Thomas, Linda Carrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0814254047
- Language: English
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-And the World
$17.00 Add to cartFifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists.
“Rachel Swaby’s no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries- Author: Swaby, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0553446797
- Language: English
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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space
$26.00 Add to cartThe basis of the 2014 award-winning feature-length documentary A revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American Space Program from one of its pioneers.
Eugene Cernan was a unique American- Author: Cernan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312263511
- Language: English
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The Starship and the Canoe
$18.95 Add to cart“The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know… [more below]
- Author: Brower, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1680512781
- Language: English
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Leap of Faith: An Astronaut’s Journey Into the Unknown
$19.99 Add to cart“An exciting insider’s look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASA’s internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls” by a pioneering astronaut (Publishers Weekly).
Gordon “Gordo” C- Author: Cooper, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1504054245
- Language: English
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Integrity comes with a price
$21.95 Add to cartI will continue to blow the trumpet for democracy in the state of Antigua and Barbuda.At the end of my life, I would only want to be remembered as that drop of water that bore a hole in the stone, not
- Author: Young, Trevor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1685263402
- Language: English
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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
$26.00 Add to cartIn 2010, the French mathematician C dric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof that he devised with his close collaborator Cl ment Mouhot
- Author: Villani, Cédric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536678
- Language: English
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Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
$21.99 Read moreFor the first time, this is a collection of our greatest science writer’s commentary on the best of contemporary science literature, including exclusive new material from other great thinkers
Includi- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1529176492
- Language: English
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The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
$17.99 Add to cartMeave Leakey’s thrilling, high-stakes memoir–written with her daughter Samira–encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all th… [more below]
- Author: Leakey, Meave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0358629225
- Language: English
