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Benjamin Franklin (Biographies)
Par Laura K. Murray. 2021
How much do you know about Benjamin Franklin? Find out the facts you need to know about this Founding Father,…
author, and inventor. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American.Lewis Latimer: The Man Behind a Better Light Bulb (Little Inventor)
Par Nancy Dickmann. 2020
Why is Lewis Latimer important? His invention of the carbon filament made light bulbs more afforable and longer lasting. Readers…
follow his journey from working with Alexander Graham Bell to improving Thomas Edison's light bulb. It's an enlightening story filled with engaging text and colorful images, all reviewed by Smithsonian experts.Lonnie Johnson: NASA Scientist and Inventor of the Super Soaker (Little Inventor)
Par Lucia Raatma. 2020
Why is Lonnie Johnson important? He invented the Super Soaker! Readers follow his journey from a NASA engineer working on…
missions to Jupiter and Saturn to becoming the inventor of one of the most popular toys in the United States. This story of hard work is filled with engaging text and colorful images, all reviewed by Smithsonian experts.Nikola Tesla: Engineer with Electric Ideas (Movers, Shakers, and History Makers)
Par Emily Hudd. 2021
Nikola Tesla was a scientist and inventor in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Among his many inventions and experiments,…
he helped create the modern electricity system. Learn more about Tesla's life as a famous inventor!Dorothy Vaughan: NASA's Leading Human Computer (Movers, Shakers, and History Makers)
Par Deirdre R. Head. 2021
In 1949, Dorothy Vaughan became the first African American woman to lead a team at NASA's Langley Research Center. Her…
work as a mathematician was an important part of helping the United States explore space. Learn more about Vaughan's life as a famous mathematician!Bright Dreams: The Brilliant Inventions of Nikola Tesla
Par Tracy Dockray. 2020
Young Nikola Tesla got a shock when he rubbed his cat's fur. That small spark lit his imagination forever. Covering…
his early years to his eventual success in the world of electricity, Bright Dreams showcases Tesla's incredible journey of discovery and perseverance. Author-illustrator Tracy Dockray conveys Tesla's busy and imaginative world with collage-style artwork and informative sidebars.Jerome Lemelson: The Man Behind Industrial Robots (Little Inventor)
Par Lucia Raatma. 2020
Why is Jerome Lemelson important? His inventions helped create industrial robots, cassette players, and more! Readers follow his journey from…
struggling inventor to a multimillionaire with more than 600 patents. This story of determination is filled with engaging text and colorful images, all reviewed by Smithsonian experts.Privileged Hands
Par Geerat Vermeij. 1997
Going Loco: Further Adventures of a Scottish Country Doctor
Par Dr Tom Smith. 2011
Part memoir, part travelogue, Going Loco takes us on a dizzying journey around the medical world. It is a gripping…
read, full of the colour and charm of Dr Tom's previous book - this young doctor on the move is great company.An inspiring, empowering, fantastically feminist and totally true story, perfect for fans of Little People, Big Dreams and Goodnight Stories…
for Rebel Girls! Meet the remarkable Ada Lovelace: rebellious rule-breaker and maths whizz-kid. Growing up in the shadow of her eccentric superstar father, the poet Lord Byron, and under the eye of her strict mother, Ada spends her time inventing and designing flying machines and studying her favourite subject - maths. In Ada's time, girls aren't encouraged to pursue maths, physics or engineering as they're considered not clever enough but Ada doesn't let this stop her. Once she grows up, Ada meets the famous inventor and engineer Charles Babbage, who introduces her to a truly extraordinary machine ... one that will test Ada's powers of logic and imagination, and establish her as the world'd very first computer programmer!This is the absolutely astonishing, fantastically feminist and, best of all, totally true story of one amazingly determined young lady!Women of the Pandemic: Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19
Par Lauren McKeon. 2021
The story of the pandemic is the story of women. This riveting narrative offers an account of COVID-19, reminding us…
of women's leadership and resilience, reflecting back hope and humanity as we all figure out a new normal, together.Throughout history, men have fought, lost, and led us through the world's defining crises. That all changed with COVID-19. In Canada, women's presence in the response to the pandemic has been notable. Women are our nurses, doctors, PSWs. Our cashiers, long-haulers, cooks. In Canada, women are leading the fast-paced search for a vaccine. They are leading our provinces and territories. At home, they are leading families through self-isolation, often bearing the responsibility for their physical and emotional health. They are figuring out what working from home looks like, and many of them are doing it while homeschooling their kids. Women crafted the blueprint for kindness during the pandemic, from sewing masks to kicking off international mutual-aid networks. And, perhaps not surprisingly, women have also suffered some of the biggest losses, bearing the brunt of our economic skydive. Through intimate portraits of Canadian women in diverse situations and fields, Women of the Pandemic is a gripping narrative record of the early months of COVID-19, a clear-eyed look at women's struggles, which highlights their creativity, perseverance, and resilience as they charted a new path forward during impossible times.Free Innovation (The mit Press Ser.)
Par Eric Von Hippel. 2016
Abraham Dee Bartlett knew from a young age that he wanted to spend his life working with animals. But in…
Victorian London, there weren’t many jobs that provided an opportunity to do that. Still, Abraham spent years gaining knowledge and pursuing his dream until he eventually became superintendent in the London Zoo. Driven by his compassion for the animals, Abraham dramatically improved the conditions of the zoo to ensure that the animals could be happy and healthy.With engaging back matter and charming illustrations, Cassandre Maxwell’s book brings to life the little-known story of the man who helped to create the modern zoo.No, no está bien. Está mal: Una pasión argentina por la ciencia (y por el arte y la política)
Par Alberto Kornblihtt. 2021
Testimonio absolutamente personal del científico argentino más reconocido en el mundo que da cuenta de su pasión por la investigación,…
pero también de su amor por el cine, la literatura y la música, sus obsesiones personales, su historia, su participación en la esfera pública y su reivindicación de la política. Alberto Kornblihtt le dijo "No, no está bien. Está mal" a la senadora Silvia Elías de Pérez, en el marco de las audiencias públicas previas al debate en el Congreso de la Nación de la ahora ley 27.610 de acceso a la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo. Antes de que terminara su exposición esa frase se había viralizado en las redes sociales: la oposición entre conocimiento y charlatanismo se convertía en "meme". Pero ¿quién era ese profesor universitario que con información científica y razonamiento lógico mientras expresaba su apoyo a un proyecto restituía algo de valor a la argumentación y al saber en tiempos de eslóganes y perogrulladas? Este libro absolutamente personal responde esa pregunta; presenta a uno de los científicos argentinos con más prestigio en el mundo en su faceta más humana (y, por qué no, humanista). Aquí aparecen, en primera persona, el Kornblihtt apasionado por la literatura, la música y el cine; el que se permite exponer su subjetividad y contar su historia personal y familiar; el que ejerce ciudadanía a través de sus intervenciones en la esfera pública y su reivindicación de la política y, sobre todo, el que da testimonio con su propia vida del valor social de la reflexión y el pensamiento críticos.The Man He Used To Be: Dementia and My Mad Dad
Par Robyn Hollingworth. 2018
'This is a wonderful, rather special book: funny, warm and loving but also thought-provoking and deeply moving. Absolutely unforgettable -…
ironically.'ADAM KAY, Sunday Times bestselling author of This Is Going To HurtInadvertent cross-dressing. Attempted murder. Jail break. A waltz at a funeral. A hernia the size of Guernsey.Heartbreaking and darkly comic, these are the moments that litter the messy road from cared-for to carer, a journey that Robyn Hollingworth finds herself on when she's only twenty-five years old. Leaving London to return home to rural South Wales, Robyn finds that it's her old life - same teddy bears resting on her pillow, their bodies tucked under the duvet; same view of the garages behind which she'd had her first cigarette and first kiss - but so much has changed. Her dad, the proud, charmingly intelligent, self-made man who made people laugh, is in the grip of early onset Alzheimer's. His brilliant mind, which saw him building power stations and literally bringing light into the lives of others, has succumbed to darkness. As Robyn settles back in the rhythms of life in the rain-soaked vast Welsh valleys, she keeps a diary charting her journey as the dad she knew disappears before her eyes. Lyrical, poignant and with flashes of brilliant humour, The Man He Used To Be explores how in helping others we can heal ourselves. Previously published in hardback as My Mad Dad.Albert Einstein Was a Dope? (Wait! What? #0)
Par Dan Gutman. 2021
From the best-selling author behind My Weird School: a quirky new biography series that casts fresh light on high-interest historic…
figures. Did you know that Albert Einstein was a high school dropout, and that he failed his physics class when he finally made it to college? Or that when he died, his brain and eyeballs were removed from his body? Ever wondered why his hair looked so wild? Siblings Paige and Turner do—and they’ve collected some of the kookiest and most unusual facts about the world-famous scientist, from his childhood and school days through his time studying relativity and working on the atomic bomb. Narrated by the two spirited siblings and animated by Allison Steinfeld’s upbeat illustrations, Albert Einstein Was a Dope? expertly balances authoritative information with Dan Gutman’s signature zany humor.Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes From A Medical Life
Par Suzanne Koven. 2021
A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven…
published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"—a long-held secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a “real” doctor. Accessed by thousands of readers around the world, Koven’s “Letter to a Young Female Physician” has evolved into a deeply felt reflection on her career in medicine. Koven tells candid and illuminating stories about her pregnancy during a grueling residency in the AIDS era; the illnesses of her child and aging parents during which her roles as a doctor, mother, and daughter converged, and sometimes collided; the sexism, pay inequity, and harassment that women in medicine encounter; and the twilight of her career during the COVID-19 pandemic. As she traces the arc of her life, Koven finds inspiration in literature and faces the near-universal challenges of burnout, body image, and balancing work with marriage and parenthood. Shining with warmth, clarity, and wisdom, Letter to a Young Female Physician reveals a woman forging her authentic identity in a modern landscape that is as overwhelming and confusing as it is exhilarating in its possibilities. Koven offers an indelible account, by turns humorous and profound, from a doctor, mother, wife, daughter, teacher, and writer who sheds light on our desire to find meaning, and on a way to be our own imperfect selves in the world.Albert Einstein: Young Thinker (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)
Par Marie Hammontree. 1961
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Par Rachel Ignotofsky. 2017
A gloriously illustrated celebration of trailblazing women. Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the STEM…
fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, from both the ancient and modern worlds. The book also contains fascinating infographics and an illustrated scientific glossary. The extraordinary women profiled include well-known figures like the physicist and chemist Marie Curie, as well as lesser-known pioneers such as Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician who calculated the trajectory of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Women in Science celebrates the achievements of the intrepid women who have paved the way for the next generation of female engineers, biologists, mathematicians, doctors, astronauts, physicists and beyond ...On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
Par William Souder. 2012
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson,…
founder of the environmental movement. She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world. Rachel Carson began work on Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT, whose inventor had won a Nobel Prize for its discovery. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife. Silent Spring was a chilling indictment of DDT and its effects, which were lasting, widespread, and lethal.Published in 1962, Silent Spring shocked the public and forced the government to take action-despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry. The book awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and eventually led to the establishment of the EPA and to the banning of DDT and a host of related pesticides. By drawing frightening parallels between dangerous chemicals and the then-pervasive fallout from nuclear testing, Carson opened a fault line between the gentle ideal of conservation and the more urgent new concept of environmentalism.Elegantly written and meticulously researched, On a Farther Shore reveals a shy yet passionate woman more at home in the natural world than in the literary one that embraced her. William Souder also writes sensitively of Carson's romantic friendship with Dorothy Freeman, and of her death from cancer in 1964. This extraordinary new biography captures the essence of one of the great reformers of the twentieth century.