Science & Technology
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Who Was Marie Curie?
$6.99 Add to cartBorn in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There sh… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Stine, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 07 2014
- ISBN10: 044847896X
- 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.
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- Author: Morillo, Elio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063214350
- Language: Spanish
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The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow forma
Learn about the Big Bang theory, astrophysics and gravity in The Physics Book.- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 10, 2020
- ISBN10: 1465491023
- Language: English
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Evelyn the Adventurous Entomologist: The True Story of a World-Traveling Bug Hunter
$17.99 Add to cartBack in 1881, when Evelyn Cheesman was born, English girls were expected to be clean and dressed in frilly dresses. But Evelyn crawled in dirt and collected glow worms in jars. When girls grew up they
- Author: Evans, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 24, 2019
- ISBN10: 1943147663
- Language: English
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Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist
$28.99 Read moreTold with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bonesis the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI.
Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in dea- Author: Bailey, Lisa G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1641606517
- Language: English
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Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
$18.95 Add to cart“A new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era.”–The Wall Street Journal
There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless … [more below]- Author: Hürter, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1891011170
- Language: English
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I Am I. M. Pei
$15.99 Read moreThe world-renowned architect I. M. Pei is the twenty-fourth hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series. (Cover may vary)
This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the tr- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 052555601X
- Language: English
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What’s in Your Pocket?: Collecting Nature’s Treasures
$17.99 Add to cartCharles Darwin, George Washington Carver, and Jane Goodall were once curious kids with pockets full of treasures!
When you find something strange and wonderful, do you put it in your pocket? Meet nine- Author: Montgomery, Heather L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 14, 2021
- ISBN10: 1623541220
- Language: English
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The Woman in the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Helped Fly the First Astronauts to the Moon
$19.99 Read moreA stunning and intimate biography of Margaret Hamilton, the computer engineer who helped Apollo 11 and mankind get from the Earth to the moon.
First-hand accounts, exclusive interviews with the legend- Author: Maurer, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1626728569
- Language: English
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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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Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center
$24.00 Add to cartAn unforgettable story of discovery and unimaginable destruction and a major biography of one of America’s most brilliant–and most divisive–scientists, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center v… [more below]
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0385722044
- Language: English
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Who Was Steve Jobs?
$6.99 Add to cartSteve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fifty-six short years. In this Who Was…? biography, children will learn how his obsession with computers and te… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Pollack, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0448462117
- Language: English
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The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology
$27.99 Read moreJeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sici
- Author: Staaf, Danna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1728415772
- 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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Who Was Galileo?
$5.99 Add to cartLike Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name–a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo cont… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 5, 2015
- ISBN10: 0448479850
- Language: English
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
$6.99 Add to cartOne day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edi… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Frith, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0448437651
- Language: English
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Scientists Are Saving the World!
$14.99 Read moreScientists Are Saving the World! is an engaging graphic novel by writer Saskia Gwinn and illustrator Ana Albero that brings young readers into the world of real scientists and their exciting discoveri… [more below]
- Series: My First Discovery Graphic Novel
- Author: Gwinn, Saskia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1419765965
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci
$40.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most importa… [more below]
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1501139150
- Language: English
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Malala Yousafzai
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Malala Yousafzai, the incredible activist for girls’ education and the… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #57
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0711259046
- Language: English
