Core Concepts: Chemistry (Second Edition): Sets 1 - 2 (Core Concepts (Second Edition))
Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings (Discovering Life's Story)
by Joy Hakim
Trace the history of life science in the first of a four-part MITeen series by mega-best-selling author Joy Hakim, who brought us The History of US. When did we start learning the scientific secrets of life? Step back to the Islamic Golden Age, when scholars ask questions about life science and medicine that will establish those fields. Chart a path through the Renaissance, as Leonardo da Vinci dissects cadavers by candlelight to learn human anatomy firsthand. In this first of four volumes span...
Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths and mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, due to the evolution and arrival of the wildly adaptive human species, among other factors. Many more of the world's biggest and baddest creatures - including the black rhino, the dodo, giant tortoises, and the great auk - have vanished since our wor...
From brainy biologists and clever chemists to magnificent mathematicians and phenomenal physicists. Discover 100 remarkable scientists who shaped our world. Containing a universe of knowledge, this amazing kids' educational book tells the story of the extraordinary people who revolutionized our understanding of the world. A stunning way for children to meet science's most important people. Read through information-packed mini-biographies of 100 brilliant scientists and innovators who have sha...
You’ve heard of the space race, but do you know the whole story? The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War: Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country—and your textbooks probably never told you. These two brilliant but controversial rocketeers never met, yet together they reshaped spaceflight and...
We can change the world with genetic modification—but should we? CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. If it sounds complicated, it is—but it’s also one of the most powerful ways we can shape the future. And it’s poised to completely upend the way we think about science. Author Yolanda Ridge tackles this topic in a friendly and accessible tone, with two introductory chapters covering the basics of DNA and genetic modification before taking readers throug...
From the Mid-1900s to the Late 1900s: Charles Stark Draper to Gertrude B. Elion (History's Most Influential Inventors)
From 1960 to 2000--Hans Bethe to Steven Pinker (History's Most Influential Scientists)
by Kate Rogers
The Science of Science Fiction (Inquire and Investigate)
by Matthew Brenden Wood
Early science fiction imagined a world with space travel, video calls, and worldwide access to information, things we now know as NASA s human spaceflight program, Skype, and the Internet. What next? Could we really bring back the dinosaurs, travel to a distant star, or live on Mars?
Great Discoveries in Science (Spring 2019) (Great Discoveries in Science)
Core Concepts: Biology (Second Edition): Set 2 (Core Concepts (Second Edition))
In this classic bestseller, Paul de Kruif dramatizes the pioneering bacteriological work of such scientists as Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Koch, Pasteur, Reed, and Ehrlich. This seventieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by F. Gonzalez-Crussi. Index.
60 Scoperte Scientifiche (E Non) Avvenute Per Caso
by Fausto Fratangelo
Core Concepts: Biology & Chemistry (Second Edition) (Core Concepts (Second Edition))
Core Concepts: Chemistry (Second Edition): Sets 1 - 2 (Core Concepts (Second Edition))
Discover the second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon.When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better life in return?In The Pillars of Civilization, Yuval Noah Harari and his companions including Prof. Saraswati and Dr. Fiction travel the length and breadth of human history to investigate how the Agricultura...
Core Concepts: Chemistry (Second Edition): Set 2 (Core Concepts (Second Edition))
The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER. Featuring 256 pages of gorgeous full-colour illustrations and wrapped in a beautiful package. One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one-homo sapiens. What happened to the others?And what may happen to us? In this first volume of the adaptation of his ground-breaking book, renown...