Kathleen Krull
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
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English
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"You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers...
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English
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It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people—and other famous musicians—really like? What did they eat? What did they wear? How did they spend their time? What were they like as children? What were their phobias, obsessions, and bad habits? And what did their neighbors think of it all? Here are the fascinating and often humorous...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
37 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
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A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
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English
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History comes to life in this dynamic volume! Here are inside views of twenty writers—people of all shapes, sizes, temperaments, and lifestyles, from various countries and historical periods. Included are William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Charles Dickens, and many others.
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English
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In this entertaining, informative collection, listeners will discover the idiosyncrasies—sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic—of twenty famous artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Peter Bruegel, Sofonisba Anguissola, Rembrandt van Rijn, Katsushika Hokusai, Mary Cassatt, Vincent Van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O'Keeffe, William H. Johnson, Salvador Dali, Isamu...
12) Isaac Newton
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Albert Einstein
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
43 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of renowned children's author and illustrator Ted Geisel, popularly known as Dr. Seuss, focusing on his childhood and youth in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shows Ben Franklin the "natural philosopher" (the term for scientists back in the 1700s), whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity -- including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the thirteenth-century Chinese emperor which offers a more complete picture of the man than books which treat him as just a supporting player in Marco Polo's adventures.
20) Charles Darwin
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Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and work of the British biologist made famous by his controversial theory of natural selection.