scientists

Thirty years have passed since Area X appeared, a hostile landscape mysteriously wiped clean of civilization. A government agency known as the Southern Reach is the only body still investigating it. John Rodriguez, Southern Reach's "Control," tries desperately to head up an investigation into the secrets of Area X, each discovery more disturbingly implicating the very organization he is a part of.

Area X is expanding, threatening the humans who have tried with little luck to explore and understand it. Winter rolls in causing even more peril for the last desperate team trying to reach a remote island inside the border, where they hope answers to Area X's origins will be found.

A collection of comics in which sidekick Moist's origin isrevealed, Penny goes on a date, and the Evil League of Evil terrorizes the city.

A graphic novel retelling of H.G. Well's "The Time Machine," in which a scientist invents a time machine and travels 800,000 years into the future where he discovers humans have evolved into two groups--the Eloi and their Morlock oppressors.

Presents an introduction to the life and career of artist, scientist, and inventor Leonardo da Vinci.

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. In graphic novel format.

Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

Introduces children to the life and work of scientist Louis Pasteur, discussing his childhood, schooling, research, impact on the treatment of numerous deadly diseases, and other related topics.

Profiles the life and achievements of cosmologist Stephen William Hawking, one of the world's greatest science writers, whose notable accomplishments were achieved in spite of disabilities caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.