Science & Technology
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
$17.99 Add to cartWhat is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refriger
- Author: Brende, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0060570059
- Language: English
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The Eclipse of 1919: How Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity Changed Our World
$18.99 Add to cartFrom his earliest days as a child, Albert Einstein was fascinated with the relationship between light and gravity. He couldn’t stop thinking about the laws of the universe, and was determined to descr… [more below]
- Author: McCully, Emily Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0316475521
- Language: English
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Hidden Heroes of Science: Shining a Light on the Unknown Trailblazers of the Scientific World
$19.99 Add to cartUncover the unnamed heroes who contributed to some of our world’s most important science.
Explore the hidden heroes that created the miraculous things we find all around us in this science book for ch- Author: Gallivan, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 593969065
- Language: English
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Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein
$18.98 Add to cartA nuanced portrait of Albert Einstein, a world citizen pivotally engaged in politics, humanitarianism, and science.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential scientist of the twentieth centu… [more below]- Author: Buchwald, Diana Kormos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 019767819X
- Language: English
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
$23.00 Add to cartAn epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth–a competition “with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid doub… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1984855220
- Language: English
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Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler Than Its Parts
$32.00 Add to cartMarginalian Editions presents a groundbreaking poet’s biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century–and an ingenious, expansive treatise on Ame
- Author: Rukeyser, Muriel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1961341158
- Language: English
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A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults): My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
$12.99 Add to cartA NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation’s top physics PhD program at Stanford in this inspiring c… [more below]
- Author: Oluseyi, Hakeem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1984849662
- Language: English
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Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
$31.99 Add to cartTo his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a k
- Author: Nevala-Lee, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075104
- Language: English
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Audrey Evans: Not Your Ordinary Doctor
$21.99 Add to cartAudrey Evans was not a perfect child! Who would have guessed that when she grew up she would make an important medical discovery, found the Ronald McDonald Houses, and start a school?
Kirkus Reviews p
- Author: Butler, Heidi Bright
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0578571579
- Language: English
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Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
$22.95 Add to cartAn exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and resh… [more below]
- Author: Ghose, Shohini
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 026255299X
- Language: English
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The True Story of Vanilla: How Edmond Albius Made History
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1841, a 12-year-old enslaved boy, Edmond Albius, made history when he discovered how to hand-pollinate vanilla plants using a bamboo twig.
Until that time, only bees in Mexico could pollinate the p
- Series: Orca Biography
- Author: Richards, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1459838440
- Language: English
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The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of Our Solar System
$19.99 Add to cartA “captivating, behind-the-scenes account” (Sara Seager) of NASA’s historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the remark… [more below]
- Author: Lauretta, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 153872295X
- Language: English
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Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb: Young Readers Edition of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
$18.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus was the inspiration for the blockbuster film, OPPENHEIMER, and is now adapted for young readers.
This brand-new editi- Author: Sherwin, Martin J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 593856457
- Language: English
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Santiago Saw Things Differently: Santiago Ram?n Y Cajal, Artist, Doctor, Father of Neuroscience
$8.99 Add to cart“An introduction to Santiago Ram?n y Cajal, an artist and medical researcher who made a crucial discovery. . . . Brightly illuminates a brilliant and multitalented yet unjustly obscure scientist.” —K… [more below]
- Series: Curious Minds
- Author: Iverson, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1536238333
- Language: English
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The Optimist: Sam Altman, Openai, and the Race to Invent the Future
$31.99 Add to cartOn November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chatbot that captivated the world with its uncanny ability to hold humanlike conversations. Not even a year later, on November 17, 2023, Sam Altman, th
- Author: Hagey, Keach
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075961
- Language: English
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I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein
$30.00 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (David Fideler) spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his personal philosophy — “a must-read for anyon… [more below]
- Author: Fox, Kieran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1541603575
- Language: English
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The Tarantula in My Purse: And 172 Other Wild Pets
$9.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling nature writer and Newbery Medal winner Jean Craighead George comes an autobiographical story about how wild it can be living in a house full of animal fans.
Imagine living with a skunk
- Author: George, Jean Craighead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0064462013
- Language: English
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Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane
$19.99 Read moreMeet self-taught engineer Emma Lilian Todd as she tackles one of the greatest challenges of the early 1900s: designing an airplane.
Emma Lilian Todd’s mind was always soaring–she loved to solve probl- Author: Larson, Kirsten W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1629799386
- Language: English
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Inventions of the USA
$12.99 Add to cartMeet brilliant American inventors and discover their marvelous inventions by means of the special see-through-page format. Be inspired to think up your own!
- Series: Shine-A-Light
- Author: Brown, Carron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1684645174
- Language: English
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
$32.99 Add to cartUntitled Flatiron nonfiction book to be announced 2025
- Author: Wynn-Williams, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250391237
- Language: English
