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Menorah Under the Sea
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Esther Susan Heller |
December is summer in Antarctica, and the warmer temperatures and constant daylight make it the best time for scientists to work. Diving for sea urchins at the bottom of the frigid sea, marine biolog… |
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Temple Grandin
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Sy Montgomery |
When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. Years later she was diagnosed with autism. While Temple's doctor recommended a hospital, her mother believed in her. Temple went… |
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Spider silk scientists
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Bridget Heos |
"In The Spider Silk Scientists, readers enter Randy Lewis' lab where they come face to face with golden orb weaver spiders and genetically engineered goats, whose milk contains the proteins to spin s… |
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Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek
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Lisa Yount |
A biography of the cloth merchant-turned-scientist who made many discoveries examining microsopic life. |
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Makers of science
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Michael Allaby |
Five volumes present the lives and work of more than 40 great Western physicists, chemists, biologists, physiologists, and more. Each biography includes two timelines: scientific and political-cultur… |
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I am Albert Einstein
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Brad Meltzer,Christopher Eliopoulos |
"Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music a… |
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Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
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Mary Colson |
Presents a biography of two scientists who traveled the world separately and developed their ideas separately, but rather than becoming enemies, they both worked to promote acceptance of the controve… |
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Wallace Stegner
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Joanne Mattern |
In this engaging biography, readers will learn about Stegner's childhood in the United States and Canada, his education at the University of Utah and the Iowa Writers Workshop, his wife and son, and … |
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Isaac Newton
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Kay Barnham |
"This book traces the life of Isaac Newton, from his early childhood and education through his sources of inspiration and challenges faced, early successes, and the work on gravity and light for whic… |
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On the track of the mystery animal
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Miriam Schlein |
Describes Sir Harry Johnston's efforts to locate and identify the okapi, a member of the giraffe family found deep in Central Africa's rain forest. |
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The Tree of Life
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Peter Sís |
Presents the life of the famous nineteenth-century naturalist using text from Darwin's writings and detailed drawings by Sis |
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Roentgen's revolution
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Vivian Grey |
The biography of the German physicist who accidentally discovered the x ray and won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. |
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Benjamin Franklin
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Carin T. Ford |
Profiles a man whose childhood love of reading and desire to know about everything led to a multifaceted career as an inventor, scientist, printer, and statesman. |
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Astonishing ancient world scientists
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Amy Graham |
"Read about some of the most well-known ancient scientists and mathematicians: Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, Zhang Heng, and al-Khwarizmi"--Provided by publisher. |
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Steve Irwin
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Heidi Moore |
Tells the story, simply, of the life and work of a man who accomplished much in his short life. His love of crocodiles and other animals inspired many people around the world to help save these creat… |
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John Muir
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Glen Dines |
A simple biography of the man responsible for the preservation of the Yosemite Valley and other beautiful places in the United States. |
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Strange mysteries
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Thomas G. Gunning |
Ten true stories of real happenings involving buried treasure, strange disappearances, and the like, that were puzzling at the time and some of which remain a mystery to this day. |
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