Feasting on Edinburgh's primeval basalt, the ten-dimensional superstring nanovirus Moonseed is steadily eating its way toward Earth's core. NASA "rock-jockey" Henry Meacher and his Japanese colleague, Blue, race to...
Scientists
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Author:Baxter, StephenSummary: -
Author:Harrell, RobSummary:In a fantastical 1860s England, every quiet little township is terrorized by a ferocious monster--much to the townsfolk's delight! Each town's unique monster is a source of local pride, not to mention tourism. Each town, that is--except...
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Author:Krull, KathleenSummary:Scientists have a reputation for being focused on their work and maybe even dull. But take another look. Did you know that it's believed Galileo was scolded by the Roman Inquisition for sassing his mom? That Isaac Newton loved to...
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After walking out of a traumatic past, Iris plays with science at in a cutting edge lab. Iris is innocent but her games are not, and when she comes up with a discovery worth big bucks the chessboard turns into a dangerous ground where...
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Author:Cooper, R.Summary:In war-torn Europe of 1872, Karol and Hart devoted themselves to protecting England and the peace England maintained. Hart was a spy and bodyguard for Karol, a brilliant but hotheaded scientist. Their partnership was almost unstoppable...
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White weaves the history of early scientific endeavor, Leonardo's colorful personal life, including his deprived childhood, homosexuality, and relationships with contemporaries such as Machiavelli and Borgia.
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Author:Krull, KathleenSummary:Krull presents a vivid and highly accessible portrait of a true renaissance man--an artist, scientist, and inventer of unparalleled genius. Themes include homosexuality.
- Author:Stabler, DavidSummary:
Before their experiments, inventions, and discoveries that changed the world, the world's most celebrated scientists had regular-kid problems just like you. Stephen Hawking hated school and preferred to spend his free time building...
- Author:Cherrix, Amy E.Summary:
The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War: Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket...
- Author:Mercier, JohanneSummary:
Trop tard pour reculer. Peter Paterson a signé un contrat avec le redoutable Bryan Cooper. Dans son petit laboratoire, perdu au fond du bois de Broxingham, le jeune scientifique doit maintenant fabriquer un monstre. Un vrai! Pas du...
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Author:Cayley, DavidSummary:If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything was subject to science, but...
- Author:Koontz, Dean R.Summary:
United Nations researchers in the Arctic Circle are testing the feasibility of towing icebergs to use as a water supply in other parts of the world. Just as the team sets a final explosive, an earthquake breaks off the iceberg they are...
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Author:MacBeath, GeorgeSummary:Generations of practical and ingenious Maritimers have given the word great things. Since the mid-nineteenth century, scientists have fanned out into the world from colleges and universities that are among the oldest in North America....
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Author:Shelley, Mary WollstonecraftSummary: -
Author:Shelley, MarySummary:A brilliant young doctor discovers the secret of animating life and creates a monster out of dead body parts, without thinking what place such a creature might have in society. Lonely, unloved, utterly miserable, the creature turns on...
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A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his creator.
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Author:Shelley, Mary, von Holst, TheodorSummary:Victor Frankenstein is consumed by his desire to discover the secrets of life. After several years of research, Victor feverishly constructs a man out of old body parts and brings him to life. Victor is immediately horrified by his...
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Author:Shelley, Mary WollstonecraftSummary:A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
- Author:Pensini, EricaSummary:
Can you meet again after two hundred years? Science denies the possibility. Iris is a scientist, but when she finds herself in the pages of an antique book her certainties are breached and the boundaries between imagination and reality...
- Author:Harrison, Kim.Summary:
In the wake of the solar eclipse, a portal between our world and a paranormal realm opens-and a scientist's life will never be the same, in this thrilling serialized adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of The...
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