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Blindsided: lifting a life above illness : a reluctant memoir
Par Richard M. Cohen. 2004
Emmy Award-winning television news producer and journalist chronicles his battle with multiple sclerosis and colon cancer. While detailing his vision…
loss and other symptoms, Cohen's frank account is "not about suffering" but about "surviving and flourishing, rising above fear and self-doubt" with the support of his wife and children. Bestseller. 2004Cyrus Field's big dream: the daring effort to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable
Par Mary Morton Cowan. 2018
Recounts the life of Cyrus Field (1819-1892), a wealthy, industrious man of fragile health who pioneered the first transatlantic cable.…
Details how Field's unwavering determination to enable instant communication between North America and the United Kingdom came to fruition in 1866. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2018When sparks fly: the true story of Robert Goddard, father of US rocketry
Par Kristen Fulton, Diego Funck. 2018
Presents the life and accomplishments of scientist Robert Goddard. Describes his many attempts at building (and exploding) different types of…
rockets in his quest for space travel. For grades K-3. 2018How we got to now: six innovations that made the modern world
Par Steven Johnson. 2018
Bretz's flood: the remarkable story of a rebel geologist and the world's greatest flood
Par John Robert Soennichsen. 2008
At the end of the Ice Ages, repeated floods from Lake Missoula in Montana tore through North Idaho and Eastern…
Washington and down the Columbia Gorge to the Pacific. The floods took much of the topsoil and left behind the channeled scablands and Grand Coulee. J. Harlen Breitz was the first geologist to realize what had happened. His reports were roundly criticized. It took aerial photography and field trips by his doubters to prove him rightKid scientists: true tales of childhood from science superstars (Kid Legends)
Par David Stabler. 2018
Unusual yet true stories from the childhoods of notable scientists, including Albert Einstein, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Katherine Johnson. A…
young Rachel Carson was instructed by her mother to catch--not kill--the bugs in the house and free them outside. For grades 3-6. 2018Broad band: the untold story of the women who made the Internet
Par Claire Lisa Evans. 2018
Chronicle of the work women did throughout history that led to the digital age. Includes profiles of Ada Lovelace, Admiral…
Grace Hopper, and Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler. Discusses the contributions of human computers, network development, technology evangelization, and more. 2018Chasing space: an astronaut's story of grit, grace, and second chances
Par Leland Melvin. 2017
Astronaut shares his experiences that led him to space. Discusses his time as a professional football player in the NFL,…
training to be an astronaut, derailment of his career when a training injury resulted in severe bilateral hearing loss, recovery, and eventual work on the International Space Station. 2017Wonder women: 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history
Par Sam Maggs. 2016
Profiles of twenty-five women in the categories of science, medicine, espionage, innovation, and adventure. Features women from all over the…
world and across time, including Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), Anandibai Joshi (1865-1887), and Bessie Coleman (1892-1926). Each section concludes with a Q&A with a living practitioner. 2016Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
Par Margot Lee Shetterly. 2016
Daughter of a NASA engineer profiles the black women who worked for NASA, and its predecessor NACA, as human computers.…
Discusses their lives prior to joining NACA/NASA, the challenges they faced due to gender and race discrimination, and their impact on the space program. Basis for the 2016 movie. 2016Einstein's masterwork: 1915 and the general theory of relativity
Par John Gribbin. 2016
An astrophysicist examines Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which he presented in 1915 and which was partially confirmed a…
century later by the detection of gravitational waves. Places the theory into context within Einstein's larger body of work as well as the scientific research being conducted at the time. 2016The home place: memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature
Par J. Drew Lanham. 2016
Naturalist describes his family history and the development of his love for the natural world around him. Discusses the issue…
of race both in the everyday enjoyment of the outdoors and in his professional life. Examines the impact of the home where he grew up and the loss of it. 2016Brief candle in the dark: my life in science
Par Richard Dawkins. 2015
Author of An Appetite for Wonder (DB 77591) continues the analysis of his life. Discusses his literary achievements, reactions to…
the criticism and fame that came because of his books, and the personalities he has met, including Douglas Adams, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Leakey, and Miriam Rothschild, among others. 2015Magnificent Principia: exploring Isaac Newton's masterpiece
Par Colin Pask. 2013
Mathematician uses the third edition of Isaac Newton's Principia (1726) and explains the ways it frames his approach to science.…
Discusses Newton's place in scientific history, the Principia's reception by Newton's contemporaries, and the impact of the work on later generations of scientists. 2013The eternal Nazi: from Mauthausen to Cairo, the relentless pursuit of SS doctor Aribert Heim
Par Nicholas Kulish. 2014
Aribert Heim, former Nazi doctor at the Mauthausen concentration camp, escaped to Baden-Baden after the war and later to Cairo,…
where he lived in anonymity. German police investigator Alfred Aedtner refused to let Heim go unpunished, and teamed up with Simon Wiesenthal in a quest to bring him to justice. Violence. 2014Murder on the home front: a true story of morgues, murderers, and mysteries during the London Blitz
Par Molly Lefebure. 2014
Author describes how, as a young British journalist in 1941, she accepted forensic pathologist Keith Simpson's offer to be his…
secretary. She describes cases she encountered while working by his side for five years in the mortuary and at crime scenes. 1955An appetite for wonder: the making of a scientist : a memoir
Par Richard Dawkins. 2013
Memoir of evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist details both his education and spiritual awakenings. Describes his life at boarding schools…
in colonial Africa and England, his work at Oxford University, and the writing of his seminal book The Selfish Gene (DB 10899). Reflects on both familial and professional influences. 2013Listen up!: Alexander Graham Bell's talking machine (Step Into Reading)
Par Monica Kulling. 2007
Letters to a young scientist
Par Edward O Wilson. 2013
Pulitzer Prize winner and biology professor reflects on what it takes to succeed in science. Discusses his own career's ups…
and downs, ways to be creative in the field, the day-to-day life of a scientist, and the importance of understanding the big picture. Young adult appeal. 2013Thinking in numbers: on life, love, meaning, and math
Par Daniel Tammet. 2013
Author of Born on a Blue Day (DB 63862) explores "the math of life" in twenty-five essays. Topics covered include…
the calendar created by Omar Khayyám in 1074 CE and the concept of zero in Shakespeare's work. Also discusses why years feel shorter as we age. 2012