Giants of science (Viking)
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
Lexile measure
1010L
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English
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For more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating Everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect human corpses, so he did autopsies in secret, even devising a clever...
2) Isaac Newton
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1000L
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English
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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.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1080L
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English
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Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, who in 19th-century Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.
4) Marie Curie
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1050L
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English
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Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1050L
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English
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This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.