Audrey the Amazing Inventor

Audrey the Amazing Inventor
Title Audrey the Amazing Inventor PDF eBook
Author Rachel Valentine
Publisher Words & Pictures
Pages 35
Release 2019
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0711242828

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A fun and quirky picture book featuring a feisty and inspiring female protagonist with an inventive mind and curious spirit.

Inventor Lab

Inventor Lab
Title Inventor Lab PDF eBook
Author DK
Publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Pages 160
Release 2019-10-03
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0241430763

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This DK children's book aged 11-14 is brimming with exciting, educational activities and projects that focus on electronics and technology. Keep your siblings out of your room with a brilliant bedroom alarm, power a propellor motorboat, make a stereo from pipes, build your own AM radio, and construct a night light by following step-by-step instructions and using affordable equipment. Inventor Lab will engage budding scientists and engineers as they experiment, invent, trial, and test technology, electronics, and mechanics at home. Simple steps with clear photographs take readers through the stages of each low-cost project, with fact-filled "How it works" panels to explain the science behind each one, and to fascinate them with real-world examples. With an increasing focus across school curricula on encouraging children to enjoy and explore STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and maths), Inventor Lab is the perfect companion for any inquisitive child with an interest in how the worlds of science experiments and technology work, and why.

The Unfit Heiress

The Unfit Heiress
Title The Unfit Heiress PDF eBook
Author Audrey Clare Farley
Publisher Grand Central Publishing
Pages 288
Release 2021-04-20
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1538753340

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOT NAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADS For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Phantom of Fifth Avenue, "a sensational story told with nuance and humanity" (Susannah Cahalan, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about the sordid court battle between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her socialite mother. At the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened American women began to seek passion and livelihood outside the home. This alarmed authorities, who feared "over-sexed" women could destroy civilization, either by crossing the color line or passing their evident defects on to their children. Set against this backdrop, The Unfit Heiress chronicles the fight for inheritance between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her socialite mother Maryon, who had her daughter sterilized without her knowledge. A sensational court case ensued, and powerful eugenicists saw an opportunity to restrict reproductive rights in America for decades to come. This riveting story unfolds through the brilliant research of Audrey Clare Farley, who captures the interior lives of these women on the pages and poses questions that remain relevant today: What does it mean to be "unfit" for motherhood? How do racial anxieties continue to influence who does and does not reproduce? In the battle for reproductive rights, can we forgive those who side against us? And can we forgive our mothers if they are the ones who inflict the deepest wounds?

Marmaduke the Very Different Dragon

Marmaduke the Very Different Dragon
Title Marmaduke the Very Different Dragon PDF eBook
Author Rachel Valentine
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 34
Release 2014-01-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1408836785

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A dragon, a princess, a rescue mission and even a bit of breakdancing . . . Being different can be so much fun!

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Title The Invention of Hugo Cabret PDF eBook
Author Brian Selznick
Publisher Scholastic
Pages 264
Release 2015-09-03
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1407166573

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An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!

Marvelous Mattie

Marvelous Mattie
Title Marvelous Mattie PDF eBook
Author Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Pages 36
Release 2013-10-08
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1466852097

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With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father's toolbox, Mattie could make almost anything – toys, sleds, and a foot warmer. When she was just twelve years old, Mattie designed a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off textile looms and injuring workers. As an adult, Mattie invented the machine that makes the square-bottom paper bags we still use today. However, in court, a man claimed the invention was his, stating that she "could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities." Marvelous Mattie proved him wrong, and over the course of her life earned the title of "the Lady Edison." With charming pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations, this introduction to one of the most prolific female inventors will leave readers inspired. Marvelous Mattie is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Tesla: Inventor of the Modern

Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Title Tesla: Inventor of the Modern PDF eBook
Author Richard Munson
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 402
Release 2018-05-22
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0393635457

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"[A] penetrating biography…Munson makes vivid the genius’s eventful life." —Barbara Kiser, Nature Nikola Tesla invented radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories. In the early 1900s, he designed plans for cell phones, the Internet, death-ray weapons, and interstellar communication. His ideas have lived on to shape the modern economy, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In Tesla, Richard Munson presents a comprehensive portrait of this farsighted and underappreciated mastermind. Drawing on letters, technological notebooks, and other primary sources, Munson pieces together the magnificently bizarre personal life and mental habits of the enigmatic inventor whose most famous inventions were the product of a mind fueled by both the humanities and sciences—Tesla conceived the induction motor while walking through a park and reciting Goethe’s Faust. Clear, authoritative, and highly readable, Tesla takes into account all the phases of Tesla’s remarkable life and career.