Invention

Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games - Michael Llewellyn

Reducere. A joyful middle grade novel based on the Netflix holiday film Jingle Jangle A Chistmas Journey, starring Phylicia Rashad, Forrest Whitaker, Anika N...

Izzy and Fixer are back in a glorious story about recycling and teamwork!

Reducere. A National Science Teachers Association, Best STEM BookHere is the story of Ben Franklin's first invention, his journey through the scientific meth...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Louys GruauIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 178Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 245...

Reducere. Learn about machines the fun way! The Magic School Bus meets The Way Things Work in this kid-friendly guide to understanding the basics of simple m...

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Reducere. Inventions change people's lives. But the stories told about how they were invented are often wrong. That story you heard of an overnight success t...

Reducere. 1. Didja Get Any Onya? - 3: 44 2. Directly From My Heart To You - 5: 17 3. Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask - 3: 35 4. Toads...

The Black Invention Rap uses hip hop to introduce readers to black scientist and inventors. It uses rhythm to make historical information accessibl...

Reducere. In the early 17th century, both Jost B rgi and John Napier dared to invent a logarithm table whose construction required tens of thousands of compu...

Provides an introduction to the history and development of the television and explains how a television works. Includes information on some of the ...

Provides an introduction to the history and development of the telephone and explains how a telephone works. Includes information on Alexander Grah...

Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret,...

The definitive autobiography of James Dyson, the UK's most successful businessman, revealing the secrets of his success and the inspiration behind ...

WATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL 'I am absurdly excited for this book' Caroline Criado Pe...

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They ar...

Reducere. From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' ...

Reducere. From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Simon Baron-CohenNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 18Cover type: Paperback /...

Tom Stoppard's new play is centered around A.E.Housman, poet and Classics scholar, whose most famous poem was A Shropshire Lad. This new play premi...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 How did a country that liberated itself from seventy years of Soviet rule end up as one of the biggest threats to t...

Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. This is a powerful, sweeping novel, inspir...

A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

WINNER OF THE 800-CEO-READ BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015In the vein of Susan Cain's QUIET and Malcolm Gladwell's DAVID AND GOLIATH, HOW TO FLY A H...

The ideal gift for every young inventor It's all hands on deck! This activity book is full of ideas to help you come up with new inventions to save...

The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer, and who received a royal pardon in...

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press LtdAuthor(s): Jennifer RahimNumber of pages: 88Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 234 x 25Cover type: Paperback /...

A book about art, literature, science -- and meteorologyPublisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Richard HamblynNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 201...

A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by...

The much-anticipated, first full authorised biography of one of the greatest, most imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Publication to coi...

The history of Japan's unprecedented takeover of the global imaginary, as told through the eight packaged fantasies that charmed and changed the wo...

The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial TimesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Jeevan V...

Reducere. Eleven-year-old Christopher Fritz has become all too familiar with loss. While he struggles to settle into a new town and school, Christopher longs...

DescriptionIn the glorious, boozy party after the first World War, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the so-called flapper. Young, ...

DescriptionA historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Je...

Reducere. It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard s ``The Inv...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Robin Lane FoxNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 28Cover type: Paperback / so...

In 1794, Joseph Priestley - amateur scientist, ordained minister and radical thinker - set sail for America to escape persecution. In this title, t...

Izzy and Fixer are back in a glorious story about recycling and teamwork!

'Fascinating. It blew my mind!' - Malcolm GladwellWonderworks reveals that literature is among the mightiest technologies that humans have ever inv...

Immerse yourself in the world of the spellbinding genius Leonardo da Vinci, master of art, architecture, engineering, mathematics and more. From hi...

A characteristically robust and controversial account of Scotch myth and Scottish history by one of Britain's greatest historians.

DescriptionLearn about electricity the fun way The Magic School Bus meets The Way Things Work in this kid-friendly guide to understanding the basic...

Gripping story of the events that led up to the sailing of the Mayflower

Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relativel...

`We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, le...

'Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.' Irvine Welsh, GuardianA dramatic and intrig...

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From Karyn Parson's critically acclaimed Sweet Blackberry video series comes the little known story of Garrett Morgan, an African American inventor...

Reducere. The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A ...

Reducere. CD 1: Semi-Fraudulent / Direct-From-Hollywood Overture - 1: 59Mystery Roach - 2: 33Dance Of The Rock & Roll Interviewers - 0: 48This Town Is A Seal...

Reducere. From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood This debut work by...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacqueline M. BattaloraBirth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration...

Reducere. The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the b...

Reducere. The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, revealing, and delightful novel about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food. Uwe Timm h...

A provocative account showing that "China"-and its 5, 000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political ...

Reducere. The ultimate collection of curious and inventive trivia for all you need to know about the origin of just about everything on the planet. This fact...

Reducere. Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist, David Hungerfor...

Identical twin sisters take turns swapping places over the course of a summer in order to pursue their secret ambitions in Samantha Hastings' Victo...

Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret,...

Instant New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerIndie Bound BestsellerAuthors Round the South BestsellerMidwest Indi...

Reducere. A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

Change the way you look at office supplies forever with this wonderfully enlightening and quirky exploration of the fascinating backstories of ever...

Reducere. DramaCharacters: 15 male, 3 femaleIt's 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called "television." Separated by...

Reducere. A Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013In as little as a decade, artificial intelligence could match and then surpass human intelligence. Co...

DescriptionHobart's reputation as an armored warfare specialist began in the pre-war era. In 1923 he transferred from the Royal Engineers to the Ro...

Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret,...

The definitive autobiography of James Dyson, the UK's most successful businessman, revealing the secrets of his success and the inspiration behind ...

Reducere. It s being heralded as a silent revolution, a state of the art global tracking device, and as significant of an invention as the Internet or even t...