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Da Vinci
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Mike Venezia |
Traces the life of the Renaissance artist and analyses some of his paintings. |
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Engineering your retirement
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John Michael Golio |
A practical retirement planning resource for engineers, scientists, and mathematicians In 1995, Dr. Mike Golio, an electrical engineer, became seriously interested in planning for early retirement… |
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David Suzuki
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Terry Barber |
David Suzuki has become a household name in Canada and much of North America. He has spent the past 40 years educating the public about environmental issues, both in the classroom and over the airwav… |
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A landing on the sun
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Michael Frayn |
Unusual, captivating. A few books I speed read sometimes but not this one. Devoured every single word. Winner of Sunday Express Book of the Year 1991 |
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Mad scientists, weird doctors, & time travelers in movies, TV, & books
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Seymour Simon |
Surveys creatures with strange powers, including those mysteriously transformed humans, that have appeared in books, movies, and television. |
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Benjamin Franklin
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Stuart A. Kallen |
A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. |
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Jane Goodall
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Katherine E. Krohn |
In graphic novel format, tells the life story of animal scientist Jane Goodall. |
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Alexander von Humboldt
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Federico Focher |
A biography of the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, containing excerpts of his writings and letters. |
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Servants of the map
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Andrea Barrett |
"Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A… |
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Great ideas of science
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Isaac Asimov |
Discusses the background of thought leading to the revolutionary scientific discoveries of such scientists as Darwin, Pythagoras, Newton, and Galileo. |
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The scientists behind medical advances
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Eve Hartman |
Looks at some important doctors and medical scientists, historical and modern and from a range of cultures. |
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The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle (Horatio Lyle #1)
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Catherine Webb |
In Victorian London at the height of the industrial revolution, Horatio Lyle is a former Special Constable with a passion for science and invention. He's also an occasional, but reluctant, sleuth. Th… |
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A polar bear biologist at work
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Dorothy Hinshaw Patent |
Describes the work of Charles Jonkel, a biologist who studied polar bears in the Arctic and primarily in Churchill, Manitoba. |
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Bomb
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Steve Sheinkin |
In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific rac… |
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Electric Ben
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Robert Byrd |
Grades K to 3. |
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Prize fight
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Morton A. Meyers |
"We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientis… |
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La scienza e Dio
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Michał Heller |
Nell’orizzonte della cultura contemporanea le scienze sperimentali e la teologia sembrano destinate a non incontrarsi: da più parti, anzi, si afferma che i loro percorsi dovrebbero restare rigorosame… |
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Sir Joseph Banks
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Charles Lyte |
First botanist to make comprehensive collection of flora and fauna in Newfoundland and Labrador. Also sailed round the world with Captain Cook and travelled extensively in Iceland and Great Britain. |
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Prisoner of time
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Lauran Paine |
When Lucy Grantham chose to marry Reggie Denby, she little realized that the suitor she rejected, Bryce Fairfield, had decided to kill her. If he could not have Lucy, then no one would! Bryce, a bril… |
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Medical technology
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Lisa Yount |
Identifies specific scientists and their contributions to some of the major advances in technology that have transformed surgery and medicine in the past two hundred years. |
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