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In this era of genetic engineering, nanotechnology, cell phones, computers, and the Internet, science literacy becomes an essential element of survival for both individuals and society as a whole. This unique work makes a positive contribution to that end through the biographies of fifteen American scientists, men and women from paleontology to artificial intelligence, thoroughly researched and written by high school students from the Illinois Mathematics...
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"In 1804, while Lewis and Clark were still making their way up the Missouri River, Thomas Jefferson formulated a plan for a similarly ambitious exploration that would proceed from the Mississippi up the Red River ""to the tops of the mountains"" and then return by way of the Arkansas River. The man he selected to lead this venture was William Dunbar (1750-1810) of the Mississippi Territory. The Scottish-born Dunbar was a man of many abilities and...
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"Edward A. Bouchet was the first African-American to receive the doctorate in any field of knowledge in the United States and that area was physics. He was granted the degree in 1876 from Yale University making him at that time one of the few persons to hold the physics doctorate from an American University. Bouchet played a significant role in the education of African-Americans during the last quarter of the 19th century through his teaching and...
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"In this biography of America's most brilliant and cosmopolitan Founding Father, Joyce Chaplin considers all of Franklin's work in the sciences. Franklin was the first American whose "genius" for science qualified him as a genius in political affairs. It is only through grasping Franklin's full engagement with the sciences that we can understand this great Founder and the world he shaped."--Jacket.
13) Mary Baker Eddy
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Explores the lifework of the radical Christian thinker and pioneer in the recognition of the mind/body connection who devoted herself to the promulgation of the Christian Science religion.
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This work contains twenty-four essays by distinguished Franklinists and is the most ambitious single collection of essays on Franklin ever assembled. The contributors include scholars from several foreign countries and from throughout the United States. The French literary scholar Daniel Royot examines Franklin's humor; the German historian of science Heinz Otto Sibum discusses methods of scientific analysis; the English biographer Esmond Wright investigates...
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"Khabaar is a food memoir/narrative braiding global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration and indenture focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners asking the simple question of what it means to belong, and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. This question is braided into the author's own immigration journey as a daughter of refugees to America, as a woman of color...
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This fully documented account of the most versatile man of his age paints a lively portrait of the writer who invented the lightning conductor; the politician who spent years as an emissary in London trying to prevent the Revolutionary War; and the statesman who served as the US representative in Paris during the war, intriguing for French aid and American victory.
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