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Invention, discovery, & Exploration

6/26/2019

 
Chevalier
The Riddle of the Compass, Amir D. Aczel, 912.0284 ACZ
The Engineering Book, Marshall Brain, 620.009 BRA
How I Killed Pluto, and Why It Had It Coming, Mike Brown, 523.492 BRO *
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson, 500 BRY *ª
Percival's Planet, Michael Byers, F BYE
Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier, F CHE
Darwin's Backyard, James T. Costa, 576.82 COS
​Radioactive, Lauren Redniss, 921 CURIE

Isaacson
Wondrous Contrivances, Merritt Ierley 609.73 IER
The Innovators, Walter Isaacson, 004.092 ISA *ª
How We Got to Now, Steven Johnson, 338.064 JOH *ª
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba, 621.312136 KAM *ª
The Inevitable, Kevin Kelly, 303.483 KEL*
Hedy's Folly, Richard Rhodes, 921 LAMARR *ª
The New Way Things Work, David Macaulay, +600 MAC
Wonder Women, Sam Maggs, YA 305.43 MAG

McCullough
The Wright Brothers, David McCullough, 629.13 MCC *ª
1421: The Year the Chinese Discovered America, Gavin Menzies, 910.912 MEN
How to Invent Everything, Ryan North, 609 NOR
A History of the Earth in 100 Discoveries, Stephen J. Pyne, 919.9204 PYN
A Sense of the World, Jason Roberts, 910.951 ROB
Tesla, Inventor of the Modern, Richard Munson, 921 TESLA
Soonish, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, 601.12 WEI *
The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf, 509.2 WUL *

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