Giants of science (Viking)
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
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IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
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For more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating Everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect human corpses, so he did autopsies in secret, even devising a clever...
2) Isaac Newton
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
Pub. Date
c. 2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, sho in 19th-dentury Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.
4) Marie Curie
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
Pub. Date
2007.
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IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Albert Einstein: his name has become a synonym for genius. His wild case of bedhead and playful sense of humor made him a media superstar-the first, maybe only, scientist-celebrity.
He wasn't much for lab work-in fact he had a tendency to blow up experiments. What he liked to do was think-not in words, but in "thought experiments." What was the result of all his thinking? Nothing less than the overturning of Newtonian physics.
Once again, Kathleen...