Archives: Books
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Super Gear: Nanotechnology and Sports Team Up
Stronger – lighter – safer – faster: Innovative improvements through nanotechnology demonstrate progressively better solutions, changing the world of sports. Sidebars and suggested hands-on experiments enrich the text. Author’s Note, …
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Steve Jobs: Insanely Great
Creative genius, curious innovator, temperamental tinker, imperfect person, yet inspiring perfectionist with so many technological breakthroughs: all describe American entrepreneur Steve Jobs as he changed so much in our lives …
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Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
As a young scientist in the late 1940s, Marie Tharpe found work at an ocean-studies laboratory. As a woman, she was not allowed on research ships, but could assist on …
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Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
The story of how Louis Braille turned a problem for the blind into a life-changing system of reading and writing is a fascinating and important one. Seeing the engineering design …
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Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
Faced with the German invasion of Norway, nine Norwegian commandos explore multiple solutions to life-threatening problems as they change the course of World War II. With few supplies, the brave …
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Red Madness
Pellagra, a mysterious disease, affects millions until a public health crusader keeps an open mind while analyzing the results of medical research. An abundance of photographs enhance this fast-paced thriller. …
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Inventions That Could Have Changed the World…But Didn’t!
A flying car, a bed that can ejects its sleepers, a toilet seat for cats – these are just a few of the imagined, created, and sometimes patented inventions that …
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Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding
This fanciful look at the logical processes that underlie coding is sure to entice young readers. Ruby and her animated friends cooperate to find logical solutions to problems that computers …
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Green City
Told from a child’s point of view after a 2007 tornado destroyed everything, the Greensburg, Kansas residents helped to design multiple solutions and rebuilt an environmentally sustainable city, one of …
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Genetic Engineering: Science, Technology, Engineering
Delve into the field of genetic engineering and discover what’s going on in this innovative field that we depend upon to solve problems in agriculture, medicine, energy, and more. Colorful …
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Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
Ruth Law, 1916 biplane pilot, improves and redesigns flight equipment, daring to fly across country and setting a new long distance flight record. Ruth’s inspiring story is captured through breathtaking …
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Emmet’s Storm
Quirky Emmet’s community has a problem during a huge storm. He uses his STEM knowledge and skills to help solve it in this vintage novel with modern day applications. (JT)
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Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World
An inspirational story for all teens, fifteen year old Jack overcame personal hardship to invent a four-cent strip of paper capable of detecting cancer. This memoir challenges all young people …
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Ben Franklin’s Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention
A delightful tale of a famous American as a young man and his first invention. Motivated to swim faster, young Ben observed aquatic creatures in the river near his home. …
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Ada’s Ideas
Ada was the world’s first computer programmer—who knew? Ada’s Ideas demonstrates what happens when someone is both creative and persistent. Ada perseveres and achieves her dreams. The illustrations and the …
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Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer. Long before the computer age, Ada Lovelace developed the code (first computer program) for Charles Babbage’s famous analytical engine. Her inventive …
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Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine
Long before the computer age, Ada Lovelace developed the code (first computer program) for Charles Babbage’s famous analytical engine. Her inventive spirit and creative mind come alive in this strikingly …
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A Global Warming Primer
A thought-provoking question and answer format summary of the most important global warming topics. This primer is accessible for high school students as solid scientific evidence is presented in a …
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Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
The personal and professional challenges that face a diverse group of architects are described in this frank collection of biographies. Secondary readers who aspire to the field will find these …
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Women of Steel and Stone
The personal and professional challenges that face a diverse group of architects are described in this frank collection of biographies. Secondary readers who aspire to the field will find these …
