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Engineering your retirement Engineering your retirement 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… OL12421954W
David Suzuki David Suzuki 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… OL12760682W
A landing on the sun A landing on the sun 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 OL13380W
Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Bruce Fish A biography of the well known American statesman, inventor, printer, and author of "Poor Richard's Almanacks." OL14854094W
Mad scientists, weird doctors, & time travelers in movies, TV, & books Mad scientists, weird doctors, & time travelers in movies, TV, & books Seymour Simon Surveys creatures with strange powers, including those mysteriously transformed humans, that have appeared in books, movies, and television. OL14913935W
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein Peter Ackroyd When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only… OL14914924W
Jane Goodall Jane Goodall Katherine E. Krohn In graphic novel format, tells the life story of animal scientist Jane Goodall. OL15049160W
Alexander von Humboldt Alexander von Humboldt Federico Focher A biography of the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, containing excerpts of his writings and letters. OL15087059W
Servants of the map Servants of the map 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… OL15151772W
Ice Station Ice Station Matthew Reilly At a remote US ice station in Antarctica, a team of scientists has made an amazing discovery. They have found something unbelievable buried deep below the surface, trapped inside a layer of ice 400 m… OL15157288W
Truth on trial Truth on trial Vicki Cobb A biography of the 16th-century Italian mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who questioned the accepted scientific theories of his time and was tried by the Inquisition for his ideas. OL15213397W
Das Serbokroatische zwischen Linguistik und Politik Das Serbokroatische zwischen Linguistik und Politik Bernhard Gröschel In this book, it is shown that Croatian and Serbian are variants of a single Serbo-Croatian language. The volume contains 1.500 bibliographic units. OL15295665W
Frankenstein Frankenstein Dean Koontz In a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time, Dr Frankenstein lives on, seemingly indestructible, more malignant than ever. Frankenstein's first monster, Deucalion, has spent two… OL15443537W
Great scientists Great scientists Derek Hall Profiles the lives and work of famous life scientists, including Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, and Alexander Fleming. OL15517606W
Hunt for the past Hunt for the past Sue Hendrickson Self-taught field paleontologist Hendrickson offers an exciting account of her life, from the exhilaration of her first "find" at the age of four to her most remarkable achievement: unearthing the la… OL15831253W
Dr. Charles Drew Dr. Charles Drew Anne E. Schraff A biography of the pioneering African American doctor famous for his work with blood plasma. OL15964765W
Darwin's ghosts Darwin's ghosts Rebecca Stott Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like … OL16283008W
Temple Grandin Temple Grandin 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… OL16318165W
Benjamin Franklinstein meets Thomas Deadison Benjamin Franklinstein meets Thomas Deadison Matthew McElligott "Ben and Victor must stop a mysterious light bulb company from brainwashing Philadelphia"-- OL16546883W
Island 731 Island 731 Jeremy Robinson Mark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working on board the Magellan, a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But his work is interrupted when… OL16803765W
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