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Gifted hands: The Ben Carson Story
By Ben Carson. 1990
Neurosurgeon Carson discusses his rearing by his poor, uneducated mother, who convinced her sons to rise above their surroundings. Religion…
helped Carson overcome a violent temper as an adolescent and became a guiding force in his life. As a doctor, Carson is best known for surgery on children, including a successful separation of Siamese twins and many hemispherectomies, in which half of the child's brain is removedAmerica's mountains
By Frank Staub. 2003
Digging up dinosaurs (Let's-read-and-find-out book)
By Aliki. 1988
Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then suddenly, they died out. For millions of years, no one knew these giant…
creatures even existed. Then people began finding fossils - bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Today, teams of experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground, and then put together skeletons that look just like the dinosaurs of millions of years ago. Find out how these experts dig up dinosaurs. For grades K-3A weed is a flower: the life of George Washington Carver
By Aliki. 1988
Brief text and pictures present the life of the man, born a slave, who became a scientist and devoted his…
entire life to helping the South improve its agriculture. For grades 2-4Vagina obscura: an anatomical voyage
By Rachel E. Gross. 2022
Examination of the historical and modern research into and care for female sexual anatomy. Topics are arranged around individual anatomical…
parts, including the glans clitoris, the internal clitoris, the vagina, vaginal microbiome, egg cells, ovaries, the uterus, and the neovagina. Addresses the impact of prejudicial views of female anatomy on the care of people with those anatomical parts.Can you hear me?: how to connect with people in a virtual world
By Nick Morgan. 2018
Guide to effective online communication addresses problems inherent in the virtual world, including the lack of feedback, empathy, control, emotion,…
and connection and commitment. Discusses specific techniques for emails, conference calls, webinars, chat sessions, and sales. 2018Nothing stopped Sophie: the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain
By Cheryl Bardoe. 2018
Biography of Sophie Germain (1776-1831), who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics. In…
1816 she was the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences for her work on vibrations. PRINT/BRAILLE. For grades 2-4. 2018Sixteen essays examining the integrated systems of nature by the author of The Hidden Life of Trees (BR 21761) and…
The Inner Life of Animals (BR 22130). In "Salmon in the Trees," he looks at the impact of fish on tree growth. Translated from the original 2017 German edition. 2019Cyrus Field's big dream: the daring effort to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable
By Mary Morton Cowan. 2018
Recounts the life of Cyrus Field (1819-1892), a wealthy, industrious man of fragile health who pioneered the first transatlantic cable.…
Details how Field's unwavering determination to enable instant communication between North America and the United Kingdom came to fruition in 1866. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2018Countdown: 2979 days to the moon
By Suzanne Slade, Thomas Gonzalez. 2018
Told in free verse. Recounts the story of the American effort to land the first man on the moon in…
1969, and the eleven Apollo missions it took to get them there. For grades 4-7. 2018A woman's guide to a healthy stomach: taking control of your digestive health
By C. E. Murphy, Jacqueline L. Wolf. 2010
Harvard gastroenterologist provides a guide to women's digestive problems. Describes risks and causes for common problems such as gas, heartburn,…
acid reflux, diarrhea, and constipation. Discusses life-altering conditions, including colitis, Crohn's and celiac diseases, endometriosis, irritable bowel syndrome, and cancers. Explains treatments and medications. 2011Gorgon: paleontology, obsession, and the greatest catastrophe in earth's history
By Peter Douglas Ward. 2004
The Gorgons were the T. rex of their day until an environmental cataclysm 250 million years ago annihilated them and…
90 percent of all plant and animal species on the planet. For more than a decade, the author and his colleagues have been searching in South Africa's Karoo Desert for clues to this world: what were these animals like? How did they live and, more important, how did they die? The author is a professor of geological sciences at the University of Washington and he combines the tale of gorgonopsians with a South African travelogue and musings on mass extinction. Washington State Book Award winner747: creating the world's first jumbo jet and other adventures from a life in aviation
By Jay Spenser, Joe Sutter. 2006
Astronaut, aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact (Nat Geo - Science And Nature Ser.)
By Jennifer Swanson, National Geographic Kids, Parry Gripp. 2018
Highlights the differences and similarities between the deep ocean and outer space. Discusses the danger--and attraction--of exploring both of these…
vast domains, the technology involved, and amazing discoveries. For grades 4-7. 2018When sparks fly: the true story of Robert Goddard, father of US rocketry
By Kristen Fulton, Diego Funck. 2018
Presents the life and accomplishments of scientist Robert Goddard. Describes his many attempts at building (and exploding) different types of…
rockets in his quest for space travel. For grades K-3. 2018How we got to now: six innovations that made the modern world
By Steven Johnson. 2018
Inconspicuous consumption: the environmental impact you don't know you have
By Tatiana Schlossberg. 2019
New York Times science writer discusses four areas of environmental impact: the Internet and technology, food, fashion, and fuel. Examines…
complexities and frustration of living in a carbon-intensive society and provides advice for reducing impact and making informed choices. 2019Journalist profiles the twenty-one youth plaintiffs from across the United States who sued the government in 2018 for the right…
to inherit a planet not irrevocably damaged by climate change. Discusses the individual circumstances of the plaintiffs and government policies which relaxed environmental regulations. Strong language. 2020Bretz's flood: the remarkable story of a rebel geologist and the world's greatest flood
By John Robert Soennichsen. 2008
At the end of the Ice Ages, repeated floods from Lake Missoula in Montana tore through North Idaho and Eastern…
Washington and down the Columbia Gorge to the Pacific. The floods took much of the topsoil and left behind the channeled scablands and Grand Coulee. J. Harlen Breitz was the first geologist to realize what had happened. His reports were roundly criticized. It took aerial photography and field trips by his doubters to prove him right