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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: GENERAL SCIENCE & MATH NF ALE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This chapter book biography shows how a self-taught scientist was the first to observe the microbial life in and around us. By building his own microscope, Antony van Leeuwenhoek advanced humanities understanding of the oft-invisible world around us.
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-- Rachel Carsonc2010., Primary, Enslow Elementary Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Amazing AmericansSummary Note: Presents a brief introduction to the life and accomplishments of Rachel Carson, who wrote about why we need to protect the environment; and includes a time line.
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c2008., Putnams Call No: ADVENTURE FIC CUSS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Dirk Pitt sets out on an expedition with his children along the treacherous Northwest Passage to find a silvery mineral, which will prove his theory and link the causes for the sudden deaths in British Columbia and the incidents between the United States and an ally.
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2001., Juvenile, Cascade Pass Call No: Biography CARSON Edition: Rev. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Illustrations and simple text chronicle Rachel Carson's efforts to increase global awareness about the dangers of pesticides.
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Juvenile Call No: Gold Fiction MADDOX Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jasmine Lopez and her brother Arjun love exploring the coral reefs around Fiji, where their marine biologist parents are stationed. Jasmine, already a certified scuba diver, dreams of following in her parents' footsteps and wants to help Arjun do the same. Unfortunately her younger brother is sure he already knows everything. That attitude gets them into danger when Arjun drifts too far from the group during a dive -- and straight into a reef shark.
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-- DNA, secret of photo 51.c2007., WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 572.8 Dna Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of Rosalind Franklin, a scientist whose work was crucial in the discovery of the famous double-helix structure of DNA, but who went without credit for years.
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1998., Juvenile, Oxford University Press Call No: 921 CRICK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Oxford portraits in scienceSummary Note: Describes the collaboration of Watson and Crick in the effort to discover DNA.
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c2005., William Morrow Call No: 660.6 Dun Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Profiles the men and women at the forefront of the latest advances in biotechnology and explores how their research will impact human health in the future.
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2007., Oxford University Press Call No: ENVIRONMENTAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a brief biography of the life of Rachel Carson, her love of nature and the sea, career as a biologist, and her role in advancing the cause of the modern environmental movement.
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2005., Pre-adolescent, Franklin Watts/Joseph Henry Call No: B VED Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women's adventures in scienceSummary Note: Traces the life, work and accomplishments of biologist and mountain gorilla specialist Amy Vedder.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: ANIMALS NF MON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: "... Follow Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, as he strives to better understand the habits and habitats of Great Whites in order to save this amazing, if maligned, creature of the deep."--Publisher.
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-- Head-strong :[2015], Broadway Books Call No: 920 SWA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's ... profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known"--Page 4 of cover.
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[2021]., National Geographic Call No: MEMOIRS NF BAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Oceanographer and marine biologist Robert D. Ballard looks back on a long and storied life that includes accomplishments ranging from discovering new life-forms to finding the wreck of the Titanic"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Wild lifeBy Corwin, Jeff2009., Juvenile, Puffin Books Call No: B CORWIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Traces the life and career of wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin. Includes color photographs.
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-- Wild lifeBy Corwin, Jeff[2016]., Juvenile, Puffin Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to open Summary Note: Traces the life and career of wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin. Includes color photographs.
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By Jahren, Hope2016., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life - but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done "with both the heart and the hands"; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work.
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By Jahren, HopeÃ2016., Vintage Books,a division of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: MEMOIR NF JAH Edition: 1st Vintage Bks. ed., March 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home"--OCLC.
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By Jahren, HopeÃ2016., Vintage Books,a division of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: Biography NF JAH Edition: 1st Vintage Bks. ed., March 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home"--OCLC.
