scientists

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Sir Isaac Newton

1994
Biography of Newton, the inventor, scholar, and researcher, who formulated the basis of all modern science.

The time machine

2004
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.

Where the ground meets the sky

2004
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.

Thomas Harriot

science pioneer
1998
Examines the life and studies of the sixteenth-century scholar, mathematician, explorer, optician, and astronomer, Thomas Harriot.

Women and science

1979
Presents brief career biographies of women prominent in the field of science, including Florence Sabin, Chien Shiung Wu, Margaret Mead, and Alice Hamilton.

The invisible man

2008
Presents H.G. Wells' classic story "The Invisible Man" written in graphic novel format.

Everyone is a scientist

2000
Describes what a scientist does and the tools a scientist uses. Explains that different types of scientists do different jobs.

Odds against tomorrow

a novel
2013
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.

The clockwork universe

Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of the modern world
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.

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

1995
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.

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