Presents H. G. Wells's science fiction classic "The Time Machine" and includes explanatory notes, an outline of plots and themes, critical analysis, a Wells chronology, discussion questions, and other study tools.
Twelve-year-old Hazel is uprooted from her quiet, East coast life during World War II to move to a secluded army post in New Mexico where her father and other scientists begin working on a top secret project.
Presents brief career biographies of women prominent in the field of science, including Florence Sabin, Chien Shiung Wu, Margaret Mead, and Alice Hamilton.
Mitchell Zukor, a young mathematician, has been hired by a mysterious consulting firm to calculate the worst case scenarios for possible future disasters. One of his predictions becomes a reality in Manhattan and he struggles to decide his next move.
Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of the modern world
Dolnick, Edward
2011
Examines how, at the end of the seventeenth century, a group of geniuses that included Isaac Newton re-imagined the field of science by find intricate and precise patterns that regulated the world and the chaos that seemed to exist in it.