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Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Engaging artwork accompanies inspiring text in this STEM-focused addition to the #1 New York times best-selling She Persisted series that introduces readers to women scientists who didn't listen to those who told them "no" and who used their smarts, skills and persistence to discover, invent, create, and explain.
62) Angels & demons
Pub. Date
c2009
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2 videodiscs (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.
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2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Born into a large, well-educated, and loving family in London, Rosalind grew up with a keen desire to do things that would better the lives of others. By the age of 15, she knew she wanted to be a scientist. Less than 20 years later, she took the world's first photograph of DNA, changing the future of science forever. This inspiring story of the pioneering scientist features a fact and photo section at the back.
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"Bomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II. They were leaning over the edge of the unknown and afraid of what they would discover there--meet the World War II female scientists who worked in the secret sites of the Manhattan Project. Recruited not only from labs and universities from across the United States but also from countries...
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2023.
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"In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against its most senior female scientists. It was a seismic cultural event--one that forced institutions across the nation to reckon with the bias faced by girls and women in STEM. The Exceptions is the story of the women on MIT's faculty who started it all, centered on the life and career of their unlikely leader: Nancy Hopkins, a noted molecular geneticist and cancer...
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"When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry:...
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Featuring the true stories of women creators and thinkers from around the world, throughout history, this book shows that sometimes seeing things a little differently can lead to big changes. Some names are well known, some are not, but all the women had a lasting effect on the fields they workd in. Whether they were breaking ground for innovative structures or breaking rules and creating new ones, the women profiled here not only made a place for...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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163 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"An action-adventure original graphic novel, following a team of young women recruited by an elite secret society--originally founded by Marie Curie--with the mission of supporting the most brilliant female scientists in the world. The heroines of the Curie Society use their smarts, gumption, and cutting-edge technology to protect the world from rogue scientists with nefarious plans. Follow recruits Simone, Taj, and Maya as they decipher secret codes,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xvii, 254 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"A stunning and intimate biography of Margaret Hamilton, the computer engineer who helped Apollo 11 and mankind get from the Earth to the moon. First-hand accounts, exclusive interviews with the legendary Margaret Hamilton, and detailed science populate the pages of this remarkable biography. In 1969, mankind successfully left our atmosphere and landed on the moon. It took countless hours of calculations, training, wonder, and sacrifice from all of...
73) Moonraker
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
James Bond joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying human life on Earth.
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NUMA files volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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452 pages + 18 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm
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An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater & Marine Agency leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America's lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA(R) team discovers a murdered body--a member of a mysterious local tribe, who live like ghosts beyond a five-part waterfall the locals call the Hand of God, and...
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2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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"Eight hours of sleep usually means a full night's rest--but now Lunella and Devil face a fight to stay out of the Dream Dimension, a place at the edge of our subconscious where all manner of monsters dwell! What fearsome fiends lay within the unconscious mind of a 65-million-year-old thunder lizard? Or worse yet, a 9-year-old super-genius? As Moon Girl and Devil transverse the Dreamscape, all is revealed about their host, Bad Dream--and he isn't...
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2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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"The War of the Realms comes to the Lower East Side! Lunella and Devil meet the original kid hero, Spider-Man! And if that isn't amazing enough, wait until the War of the Realms breaks out! With Manhattan frozen solid and Frost Giants prowling the streets, Devil must keep the peace - while Moon Girl encounters Thor! Then, it's a real family crisis! With time and space fractured, Lunella and Devil will have to team up with younger versions of her parents...
77) Stolen science: thirteen untold stories of scientists and inventors almost written out of history
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2021.
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122 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Over the centuries, women, people from underrepresented communities, and immigrants overcame prejudices and social obstacles to make remarkable discoveries in science--but they weren't the ones to receive credit in history books. People with more power, money, and prestige were remembered as the inventor of the telephone, the scientists who decoded the structure of DNA, and the doctor who discovered the cause of yellow fever. This book aims to set...
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