Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid? Finally...
Math and science
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Author:Brallier, JessSummary: - Author:Demuth, Patricia BrennanSummary:
Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era's great...
- Author:Stine, MeganSummary:
Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie...
- Author:Buckley, JamesSummary:
Presents the lives and accomplishments of the Wright brothers, high school dropouts from Dayton, Ohio, who started out repairing bicycles and went on to build and fly the first successful airplane.
- Author:Matas, CarolSummary:
?"In this delightfully original nonfiction picture book... the readable text offers understandable science, while the engaging illustrations promote careful investigation. A valuable addition to science and nature collections. Highly...
- Author:Barton, ChrisSummary:
A cool idea with a big splash You know the Super Soaker. It's one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive...
- Author:Boothroyd, JenniferSummary:
A baseball player slides on the ground to tag a base. A toy car's wheels rub against the floor and slow the toy car down. Friction is at work all around you. But what exactly is friction? And how does it affect different objects?...
- Author:Cox, Brian, Forshaw, JeffSummary:
The authors offer a highly accessible explanation of Einstein's equation, using everyday life to explore the principles of physics.
- Author:Vermond, KiraSummary:
Science starts with a question in this fascinating compendium for curious kids. The team behind the acclaimed Why Don't Cars Run on Apple Juice? is back to tackle more kid questions like "Are birds really dinosaurs?" and "Why do we have...
- Author:Miller, LuluSummary:
A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why fish don't exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and--possibly--even murder. David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man...
- Author:Walker, Matthew P.Summary:
The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert-Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab-reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative...
- Author:Herz, RachelSummary:
Why You Eat What You Eat examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. Rachel Herz uncovers the fascinating and surprising facts that affect food consumption: bringing...
- Author:Powell, JohnSummary:
Why does music affect us so profoundly? The songs we love do far more than bring back happy memories. They impact the way we think, talk, feel, behave, and even spend money. With his conversational style, humor, and endless knowledge,...
- Author:Stewart, Amy.Summary:
Did you know there are zombie bugs that not only eat other bugs but also inhabit and control their bodies' There's even a wasp that delivers a perfectly-placed sting in a cockroach's brain and then leads the roach around...
- Author:Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara, Bowers, KathrynSummary:
A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity. With Wildhood, Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and award-winning science...
- Author:Woofenden, IanSummary:
The consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production! Maybe you're not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard. Wind Power For Dummies supplies all the guidance you need...
- Author:Cacioppo, StephanieSummary:
From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an old truth: better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. At thirty-...
- Author:Seifer, Marc J.Summary:
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the...
- Author:Ignotofsky, RachelSummary:
The New York Times bestseller Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world.
- Author:Mezrich, BenSummary:
Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species-the woolly mammoth-by the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel. "With his knack for...
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