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7) Wild life
Author
Publisher
Wren & Rook
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Follows the career of David Attenborough and his unique wildlife documentaries.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Description
This biographical dictionary covers over 1500 key scientists from more than 40 countries whose work has helped shape modern science. Special attention is paid to those pioneer women whose example opened the way to scientific careers for other women.
10) Albert Einstein
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Bks
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Recounts the life, achievements, and legacy of Albert Einstein.
14) Boy X
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Twelve-year-old Ash discovers he has been genetically enhanced on a tropical island and must stop a scientist escaping with a killer virus.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A riotous depiction of the extraordinary events surrounding theologian and mad scientist De Selby's attempt to destroy the world by removing all the oxygen from the atmosphere. Only Michael Shaughnessy and James Joyce can stop the inimitable De Selby in his tracks.
16) Beetle boy
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A boy investigates the connection between his missing scientist father and some unusually intelligent beetles next door.
17) Beetle queen
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Lucretia Cuttle continues in her plan to have insects take over the world, while Darkus, Bertolt and Virginia try to stop her.
18) The chemist
Author
Description
In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning. Now she rarely stays in the same place...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2024
Description
For decades Marie Curie was the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings, and despite constant illness she travelled far and wide to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. She is still the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.Her ingenuity extended far beyond the laboratory walls; grieving the death of her husband, Pierre, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne, devotedly...
20) Prophet song
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Description
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish,...