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Cars on Mars - Roving the Red PlanetClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Learn about "Spirit" and "Opportunity", NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers that began exploring the Red Planet in January 2004. Running on solar power and lasting 20 times longer than planned, they h...
author: Alexandra Siy |
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Cartoon Guide to ChemistryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Using clear, funny illustrations/cartoons and text, the history and basics of such topics as chemistry, atomic theory, combustion, solubility, the mole, entropy, and more are explained. Gonick has al...
author: Larry Gonick, Craig Criddle |
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Chaos: Making a New ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A collection of essays that trace the birth and development of the chaos theory. Includes color and black & white photos and illustrations. Essay Titles: The Butterfly Effect; revolution; Life's Ups a...
author: James Gleick |
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Charles and Emma - The Darwins' Leap of FaithClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A biography of Darwin which focuses on how his wife's religious convictions affected his own thinking and made him rethink how the world would receive his ideas. An intriguing look at the marriage of ...
author: Deborah Heiligman |
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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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Chew on ThisClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A behind-the-scenes look at the fast-food industry that feeds young people and depends on them for a large part of their profits. Learn the origins of many familiar fast-food items, and see what goes ...
author: Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson |
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Children's Night Sky AtlasClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Space photography, see-through pages, and state-of-the-art maps and charts combine to make an excellent guide to the night sky. The book is set up so that you can search by month of the year and by h...
author: Robin Scagell |
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Chimpanzees I Love - Saving Their World and OursClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
In this compelling personal narrative, Jane Goodall writes about her childhood dreams of living with animals in Africa, and her 40 years of studying the chimpanzees of Gombe. Covers her ground-breaki...
author: Jane Goodall |
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City Fish, Country FishClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Comparing fish like in the classic 'City Mouse/Country mouse'.
author: Mary M. Cerullo |
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Civilized Man's Eight Deadly SinsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Through nine essays Lorenz explores the dehumanization of society through the contributing factors of overpopulation, environmental degredation, genetic decay, increasing vulnerability to indoctrinati...
author: Konrad Lorenz |
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Clan ApisClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A creative look at bees in a fast-paced graphic novel format that includes accurate information about their anatomy, behavior, and ecology.
author: Jay Hosler |
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ClockClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Part of the "Turning Point Inventions" series that focuses on the important inventions we often take for granted and how they have affected our lives. This book focuses on the history of time measure...
author: Trent Duffy |
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Close Encounters - Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space TelescopeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes what scientists have been able to deduce about the nature of our solar system and the universe based on data collected by the Hubble telescope. Since being repaired in 1993, the telescope h...
author: Elaine Scott |
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Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum CryptographyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The vivd telling of the history of codes from the ancient Greeks to modern computer science, and the story of treasures, treasure hunters, and the power of codes, or their breaking, to alter history.
author: Simon Singh |
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Coincidenses, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty IdeasClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Written in a style that combines his wit as a stand-up comic with his knowledge as Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, this book will appeal to puzzle and math lovers as well as probability ...
author: Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird |
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Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My StuffClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Pearce traveled over 100,000 miles in 20 countries to try and trace the origins of his own worldly goods - from fair trade coffee to computers, cell phones, chocolate, and even the gold in his wedding...
author: Fred Pearce |
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Cradle of Life: The discovery of the Earth's Earliest FossilsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Firsthand account of J. William Schopf's discovery of the fossilized remains of microgranisms that lived on Earth 3.5 billion years ago, and the story of the earliest evolution of life.
author: J. William Schopf |
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Creepy Crawlies: Ladybugs, Lobsters & Other Amazing ArthropodsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Discusses the evolution of arthropods, their characteristics, their adaptability to many habitats and environments, and their relationship to humans.
author: British Museum (Natural History) |
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Crystal & GemClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes the seven basic shapes of crystals and how they form in nature, how crystals are studied and identified, how crystals are grown artificially and used in industry, and other aspects of crysta...
author: Dr. R. F. Symes, Dr. R. R. Harding |
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Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. TaylorClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Biography of theoretical physicist, Theodore B. Taylor, his work with the development of the atomic bomb, nuclear energy, and nuclear security.
author: John McPhee |
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