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The Cambridge Companion to Darwin
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Jonathan Hodge |
The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809-82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life… |
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The horse-riding adventure of Sybil Ludington, Revolutionary War messenger
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Amanda Doering Tourville |
In 1777, on a cold and stormy night in the New York Colony, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes a dangerous and difficult ride to warn the local militiamen that the British Army is looting and bur… |
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Slated
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Teri Terry |
In a future England, sixteen-year-old Kyla is one of the "slated," those whose memories have been erased usually because they have committed serious crimes, but as she observes more and more strange … |
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Johannes Kepler and the new astronomy
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James R. Voelkel |
A biography of the German astronomer who discovered three laws of planetary motion. |
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The Innovators
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Walter Isaacson |
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard histo… |
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Mindscape
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M. M. Vaughan |
Guilt-ridden, Christopher Lane returns to Myers Holt, the secret London academy where he and five others are being trained to use their psychic Ability to help the police, while Ernest, the identical… |
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Daniel Boone
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David Armentrout |
Describes the life and times of Daniel Boone, a man associated with the exploration of Kentucky and the westward expansion of the American frontier. |
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Marie Curie
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Liza N. Burby |
Discusses the life of Marie Curie, whose work in physics helped to change the world. |
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Thomas Jefferson
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John B. Severance |
Explores the life of the third president, from his childhood in Virginia, through his involvement in the Revolutionary War, to his years in office. |
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Iguanodon and Dr. Gideon Mantell
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Brooke Hartzog |
Tells how two amateur paleontologists, an English doctor and his wife, found a fossilized tooth that led to the discovery of a large species of dinosaurs known as Iguanodons. |
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For White folks who teach in the hood ... and the rest of y'all too
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Christopher Emdin |
"Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience o… |
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An accidental statistician
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George E. P. Box |
Celebrating the life of an admired pioneer in statisticsIn this captivating and inspiring memoir, world-renowned statistician George E.P. Box offers a firsthand account of his life and statistical wo… |
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Anne Hutchinson
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Susan Bivin Aller |
Biography of Anne Marbury Hutchinson, a Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who was put on trial by the church leaders for her spiritual teachings. |
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Tesla
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W. Bernard Carlson |
"Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of … |
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Mars evacuees
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Sophia McDougall |
Twelve-year-old Alice Dare is one of 300 seven- to sixteen-year-olds evacuated to Mars to attend school and train as soldiers, safe from the war with Earth's invading aliens, the Morrors, but when al… |
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No dream is too high
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Buzz Aldrin |
"Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life--both in outer space and on Earth--in this inspirin… |
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Oppenheimer
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Charles Thorpe |
At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulte… |
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Learning about dedication from the life of Frederick Douglass
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Sam Marlowe |
A simple biography of a man who dedicated his life to fighting for equal rights for African Americans. |
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Ukraine
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Barbara Glasser,Sasha Kotyenko,Jacquiline Touba |
The young Ukrainian artist, Sasha Kotyenko, discusses her culture and traditions, and describes a painting she made of herself and her sisters embroidering. |
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Seeing stars
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Mitchell, Mark |
Relates the history of the McDonald Observatory in West Texas, and discusses astronomical discoveries related to stars. |
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