Science Titles Spring 2019 {IPG} The Apollo Missions for Kids The People and Engineering Behind the Race to the Moon, with 21 Activities Jerome Pohlen Summary In 1961 President Kennedy issued a challenge to land a person on the moon and return safely to Earth before Chicago Review Press the end of the 1960s, a bold proclamation at the time, given that only one US astronaut had been to space, 9780912777177 for just 15 minutes. The race to the moon was part of the larger Cold War between the United States and the Pub Date: 6/4/19 On Sale Date: 6/4/19 Soviet Union, a race where the Russians appeared far ahead of the Americans. Apollo was a complicated, $18.99 dangerous and expensive adventure involving 400,000 people across the nation. Before it was over, NASA had Discount Code: LON made 11 Apollo flights, six of which landed on the moon, and eight astronauts had lost their lives. But it was Trade Paperback also fun, and the crews never missed a chance to enjoy the trip or pull off a prank 240,000 miles from home. 160 Pages The Apollo Missions for Kids tells the story from the perspective of those who lived it—the astronauts and Carton Qty: 0 their families, the controllers and engineers, the technicians and politicians who made the impossible possible. Ages 9 And Up, Grades 4 And Up Juvenile Nonfiction / Contributor Bio Science & Nature Jerome Pohlen is a former elementary school science teacher, an engineer, an editor, and the author of JNF051040 Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids as well as a dozen award-winning science kits, including Famous Series: For Kids series Experiments , Microscopic World and Wild Weather . 8.5 in H | 11 in W Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway Map (2nd Edition) The Ultimate Prehistoric Road Map to the Best of the American West Kirk Johnson, Ray Troll Summary An illustrated companion map for Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway , which follows the zany travels of a Fulcrum Publishing paleontologist and an artist as they drive across the American West in search of fossils. 9781682751558 Pub Date: 10/5/18 Contributor Bio On Sale Date: 10/5/18 $19.95 Kirk R. Johnson is a paleobotanist and the Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural Discount Code: LON History in Washington, D.C. With research focus on fossil plants, ancient climates, and the K-T boundary, he Sheet Map, Folded strives to make his science accessible. Kirk is the host of two recent PBS series, Making North America and 1 Pages The Great Yellowstone Thaw . He has written ten books, including Prehistoric Journey; Cruisin’ the Fossil Carton Qty: 80 Freeway; Ancient Denvers; Ancient Wyoming, and Digging Snowmastodon . Travel / Maps & Road Atlases TRV027000 Ray Troll is best known for his twisted yet accurate fish-oriented imagery. Ray has illustrated ten books, 9.8 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.5 in T including Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway; Sharkabet; Rapture of the Deep; Planet Ocean, and Ray Troll’s Shocking | 0.3 lb Wt Fish Tales . His distinctive art has formed the core of many traveling museum exhibits, including "Dancing to the Fossil Record" and "Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes and Other Riches." His science-infused art has appeared on more than two million T-shirts. Ray and his wife, Michelle, own and operate the Soho Coho Gallery, located on a salmon-spawning stream in the former red-light distric... IPG Spring 2019 Science Titles - March 2019 Page 1 {IPG} Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Derek Taylor, Theresa May Summary Jews make up 0.2% of the worlds’ population, yet they have won over 20% of the Nobel prizes. When one considers that Jews weren’t even admitted to the University in Britain until the 1820s, and were on a quota at some American Ivy League colleges until after the Second World War, their successes are truly remarkable. What is the reason for this disparity? Derek Taylor provides biographical chapters on all the prize-winning men and women, and an additional one on Alfred Nobel himself. These chapters include their backgrounds and the work for which they received the awards. In addition, Taylor provides the historical background to the development of scientific research. Vallentine Mitchell Contributor Bio 9781910383896 Theresa May has been the Prime Minister of the UK and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016. Derek Pub Date: 1/9/19 Taylor , OBE, is the author of British Chief Rabbis 1664–2006 , Don Pacifico , and many more works. On Sale Date: 1/9/19 $39.00 Discount Code: SHO Hardcover 400 Pages Carton Qty: 16 BIO037000 9 in H | 6 in W | 1.4 in T | 1.6 lb Wt Albert Einstein The Poetry of Real Marwan Kahil, Manuel Garcia Iglesias Summary A father offered his son, a five-year-old Albert Einstein, a compass that triggered an irrepressible need to understand the laws of the universe and an iconic scientific career. At first a simple employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, the young Einstein published a series of scientific articles that questioned everything previously understood in the world of physics. His theory, summed up by the formula E = mc2, opened to humanity the doors of the power of the atom. A legendary genius, but also a great humanist, Einstein lived through the first half of the 20th century, with all its horrors and contradictions, in the service of science, but distraught by what man's madness is capable of doing with it. NBM Publishing 9781681122021 Contributor Bio Pub Date: 8/15/19 A graduate of the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, Marwan Kahil found an early passion for writing. He On Sale Date: 8/15/19 $19.99 won a screenwriting competition at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2006 and then Discount Code: LON collaborated with the festival first as an artistic assistant director, then as a set designer and speaker. He is Hardcover currently working on several graphic novels and comics and on several projects for movies and theater. After 128 Pages completing his first artistic studies at the Kunstgewerbeshule in Zurich, Manuel Garcia Iglesias graduated Carton Qty: 20 from the School of Fine Arts in Salamanca, Spain. He has already published several albums in Spain, one with Comics & Graphic Novels / S. Abuli, the creator of the Torpedo 36 series, and another with Ricardo Menéndez Salmon, one of the Nonfiction CGN007010 greatest Spanish writers of today. Series: NBM Comics Biographies 10.3 in H | 7 in W IPG Spring 2019 Science Titles - March 2019 Page 2 {IPG} Biographic Einstein Brian Clegg Summary Many people know that Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was the creator of the theory of relativity that revolutionized modern science. What, perhaps, they don’t know is that he did not learn to speak until he was 4 years old; that he was asked to become the President of Israel in 1952, but refused; that he was under surveillance by the FBI for 22 years; and that after urging the development of the atomic bomb, he later became a proponent of nuclear disarmament. Biographic: Einstein presents an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the scientist behind the science. Contributor Bio Ammonite Press 9781781453339 Brian Clegg is the author of The God Effect ; has written for Nature , BBC History, the Times, and the Wall Pub Date: 3/1/19 Street Journal ; and is the editor of www.popularscience.co.uk. On Sale Date: 3/1/19 $14.95/£9.99 UK Discount Code: LON Hardcover 96 Pages Carton Qty: 30 Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology BIO015000 Series: Biographic 8.3 in H | 5.8 in W | 0.6 in T | 1 lb Wt Biographic Tesla Brian Clegg Summary Many people know that Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was an engineer and inventor, instrumental in developing the alternating-current (AC) electrical system and wireless radio communications we still use today. What, perhaps, they don’t know is that he was born during a lightning storm; that when he first arrived in the U.S. he owned 4 cents, his own poems, and a design for a flying machine; that he spoke 8 languages; that he held 300 patents for his inventions; and that he claimed to have invented a death ray that could destroy 10,000 planes at a distance of 250 miles. Biographic Tesla presents an electrifying exploration of his life, work and fame, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the scientist Ammonite Press behind the science. 9781781453537 Pub Date: 3/1/19 Contributor Bio On Sale Date: 3/1/19 Brian Clegg is an award-winning science writer whose books include The God Effect and Are Numbers Real? $14.95/£9.99 UK Discount Code: LON He has written for Nature, BBC History, The Times, the Wall Street Journal and The Observer , and is the Hardcover editor of www.popularscience.co.uk. 96 Pages Carton Qty: 30 Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology BIO015000 Series: Biographic 8.3 in H | 5.8 in W | 0.6 in T | 1 lb Wt IPG Spring 2019 Science Titles - March 2019 Page 3 {IPG} Nikola Tesla for Kids His Life, Ideas, and Inventions, with 21 Activities Amy M. O'Quinn Summary Nikola Tesla was a physicist, scientist, electrical engineer, and world-renowned inventor whose Chicago Review Press accomplishments faded into oblivion after his death in 1943. Tesla was undeniably eccentric and compulsive; 9780912777214 some considered him to be somewhat of a “mad” scientist. But in reality, he was a visionary.