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Almost Astronauts - 13 Women Who Dared to DreamClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of the "Mercury 13", thirteen women pilots who aspired to be NASA astronauts in the early 1960's. The prejudice they were up against and their courage and perseverance in the face of it make...
author: Tanya Lee Stone |
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, A Graphic AdaptationClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Appealing graphic novel style pictures and writing take the reader on Darwin's journey of adventure and scientific exploration. Artist recreations of Darwin's journal entries and drawings connect the ...
author: Michael Keller |
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Galileo's Daughter - A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Using the surviving letters of Galileo's eldest daughter, a cloistered nun, the author has created a compelling biography of one of history's most influential scientists. A great comfort to Galileo ...
author: Dava Sobel |
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Illustrated LongitudeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This illustrated version contains the entire original narrative of Longitude, accompanied by 178 images, from portraits of key figures, to maps, diagrams and photographs of scientific instruments invo...
author: Dava Sobel and William J.H. Andrewes |
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Inventing the Future - A Photobiography of Thomas Alva EdisonClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A biography of the tireless Thomas Edison, with many illustrations of his life and inventions. When called a "genius", Edison would insist that "Sticking to it is the genius." Stories of his boyhood...
author: Marfe |
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Longitude - The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His TimeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A saga of science and invention, and an historical account of John Harrison's struggle with the technical and political problems of longitude. His tenacity and genius led to the invention of an accura...
author: Dava Sobel |
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Marathon Challenge (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Team NOVA gathered 13 self-professed sedentary people and took them on a nine-month journey of running, with the goal of completing the Boston Marathon. The personal stories of the runners, as well as...
author: NOVA |
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Marie Curie - The Woman Who Changed the Course of ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Told within the broader context of the history of science, this colorfully illustrated biography highlights Marie Curie's youth in Poland, her struggle to become the first woman to study physics at th...
author: Philip Steele |
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No Way Home - The Decline of the World's Great Animal MigrationsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
David Wilcove documents one of nature's great wonders - animal migration - and the threats that modern day society and global warming pose to these long-distance travelers. Fences and farms block her...
author: David S. Wilcove |
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Nobel Prize Women in ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Profiles of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a project that did. Looks at the disparity in the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to women (only ten out o...
author: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne |
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Race to Save the Lord God BirdClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A story sweeping 200 years of history including artists, specimen collectors, lumber barons, plume hunters, pioneering biologists, and the parts they all played in the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's presum...
author: Phillip Hoose |
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The Illustrated LongitudeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This illustrated version contains the entire original narrative of Longitude, accompanied by 178 images, from portraits of key figures, to maps, diagrams and photographs of scientific instruments invo...
author: Dava Sobel and William J.H. Andrewes |
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The Race to Save the Lord God BirdClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A story sweeping 200 years of history including artists, specimen collectors, lumber barons, plume hunters, pioneering biologists, and the parts they all played in the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's presum...
author: Phillip Hoose |
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