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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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Benjamin Franklin
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Bruce Fish |
A biography of the well known American statesman, inventor, printer, and author of "Poor Richard's Almanacks." |
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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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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
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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… |
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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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Ice Station
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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… |
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Truth on trial
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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. |
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Das Serbokroatische zwischen Linguistik und Politik
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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. |
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Frankenstein
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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… |
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Great scientists
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Derek Hall |
Profiles the lives and work of famous life scientists, including Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, and Alexander Fleming. |
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Hunt for the past
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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… |
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Dr. Charles Drew
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Anne E. Schraff |
A biography of the pioneering African American doctor famous for his work with blood plasma. |
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Darwin's ghosts
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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 … |
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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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Benjamin Franklinstein meets Thomas Deadison
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Matthew McElligott |
"Ben and Victor must stop a mysterious light bulb company from brainwashing Philadelphia"-- |
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Island 731
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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… |
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