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Isaac Newton by Kathleen Krull
19.95 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: Giants of Science (Viking)
Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.Presents a biography of Isaac Newton, ...Show more
Isaac Newton by Kathleen Krull
25.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Giants of Science
Here is a man with an imagination so large that just "by thinking on it", a he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Yet Newton was so small-minded that he tried to destroy other scientists who dared question his findings and spent much time trying to predict the futur ...Show more
Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything by Kathleen Krull
30.00 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Reading Level: 9-12
Always cast in a supporting role in the many books about Marco Polo, the great Kubla Khan now takes center stage in a splendid picture-book biography. He is a wonderful subjectAa man who liked to live large, building the imperial city of Beijing from scratch, siring a hundred children, throwing birthday ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci by Kathleen Krull
25.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Giants of Science
Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. We know him as an artist genius, but there was another side to Leonardo da Vinci. This book will change childre ...Show more
Marie Curie by Kathleen Krull
11.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: Giants of Science
Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but twoain physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.
Sigmund Freud by Kathleen Krull
11.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: Giants of Science
Kathleen Krull proves Sigmund Freud deserves a place in her much-lauded series, because he essentially created a brand-new branch of medicine: psychoanalysis.
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