The Greatest Inventor

Join the adventure. Break the curse. Find your way home. A magical new adventure from the bestselling author of THE IMPOSSIBLE BOY.

Join the adventure. Break the curse. Find your way home. A magical new adventure from the bestselling author of THE IMPOSSIBLE BOY.

This paperback addition to our Photobiography series, Inventing the Future, documents the life of Thomas Edison. This prolific American is recogniz...

DescriptionBefore Darwin . . . before Lewis and Clark . . . there was Alexander von Humboldt. Explorer. Naturalist. All-around genius. Lost hero of...

Reducere. DescriptionWriter, printer, scientist, inventor, statesman, and youngest son in a family of seventeen children, Benjamin Franklin is considered one...

Inventor of logarithms, John Napier made one of the greatest advances in the history of mathematics. The 16th century Scot was also a remarkable as...

The only comprehensive selection of Graham's verse to have appeared since his death, containing the wittiest, sickest and most telling verses by on...

Reducere. Discover 15 inventors and inventions that changed the world in this guide for kids ages 8 to 12 Throughout history, Black inventors have achieved s...

Reducere. Welcome to the wonders of famed inventor Nikola Tesla, the revolutionary scientist who dazzled audiences with his cutting-edge experiments, and to ...

In 1905, John Le Brun makes his first excursion to England to visit import broker Geoffrey Moore. Le Brun and Moore became friends six years earlie...

Reducere. One of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed "the Martians" by their colleagues, John von Neumann is often hailed as the greatest mathemati...

Meet the world's greatest heroes, as drawn by the world's greatest creators An introduction to Iron Man for the youngest superfans--featuring art b...

Reducere. Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. Tes...

Reducere. This third and final volume of the "Earth Heroes" books features the youth and careers of eight of the world's greatest environmentalists who champ...

Reducere. Rumo is a little Wolperting who will one day become the greatest hero in the history of Zamonia. Armed with Dandelion, his talking sword, he fights...

Reducere. Unlocking the Sky tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in th...

Reducere. Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, an...

Wonder at the incredible stories behind more than 50 ground-breaking scientists who have changed the worldMeet the brainiest bunch of minds behind ...

Reducere. The tenth and youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become, in Thomas Jefferson's words, the greatest man and or...

William B. Gruber, inventor of the 3D system the View-Master, lived a life as colorful and vibrant as the images he captured in his photos. His bio...

Reducere. (Book). The world's most famous guitar had a golden anniversary in 2004, and this official, authorized book/CD package offers the best photos, quot...

Reducere. Nikola Tesla's accomplishments are today still underrated. While Edison is credited with being the inventor of the light bulb, it is Tesla's altern...

Reducere. One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a mov...

Reducere. Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong.The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying hi...

It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat t...

DescriptionIn this exclusive English edition of the elucidating and award-winning investigation of Archimedes' life, Mario Geymonat provides fresh ...

DescriptionA Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the...

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

Reducere. Young ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but the job is less glamorous than one might think, especially since the assassination atte...

It all begins with an idea... Inventors and entrepreneurs know that the joy of creating something that changes everything is tempered with the terr...

Peek inside one of New York City's grandest homes--that of Benjamin Sonnenberg, Sr., the inventor of modern public relations--in this smart and hil...

Reducere. DescriptionNo 1 NEW RELEASE NOV 2014. This is not a book about Singer sewing machines but Isaac Merritt Singer, the inventor of the first practical...

Reducere. Meet the masterminds behind the greatest inventions in history with this nonfiction book for kids aged 7 to 9. Step into Leonardo da Vinci's worksh...

Reducere. Award NameParents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007)Award categoryRecommended"What good shall I do today?" How Ben Franklin answered that question -- ...

Reducere. Earth's wealthiest man attempts to save humanity from an impending apocalypse The planet's first and only trillionaire, Henry Peel, did not make hi...

Reducere. Archaeologist? Mythmaker? Crook? This engaging, illustrated biography of Heinrich Schliemann -- a nineteenth-century romantic who most believe did ...

Reducere. Ophelia von Hairball V, the world's #1 cat burglar, is ready to make hiss-tory with her latest and greatest heist in Deanna Kent's third book of th...

Reducere. From purple blobs and desert islands to exciting festivals to the laboratory of the greatest American inventor, this outrageously colorful 80-page ...