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Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar
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Include books by the same authorThe Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
Deborah Heiligman · 42 pages
Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. At the age of four, he could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't learn to butter his own bread until he turned twenty. Instead, he traveled around the world, from one
How Much Is a Million?
David M. Schwartz · 40 pages
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
Laurie Wallmark · 38 pages
Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone
Cindy Neuschwander · 32 pages
If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers
David J. Smith · 40 pages
Compares large, complicated numerical concepts with smaller-scale facsimiles to examine such statistics as the size of the Milky Way, the history of human population, and the history of Earth.
One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale
Demi
A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl.
Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money
Amy Axelrod · 40 pages
The hungry Pig family learns about money and buying power as they turn the house upside down looking for enough money to buy dinner at the local restaurant.
Ten Little Ladybugs
Melanie Gerth
Young ones will love learning to count backwards as they watch ten touchable ladybugs disappear one by one.
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Kathryn Lasky · 48 pages
A colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek philosopher and scientist Eratosthenes, who compiled the first geography book and accurately measured the globe's circumference.
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster · 256 pages
It has been fifty years—and millions of readers—since the world was first introduced to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond with Tock, the Humbug, and the captive princesses Rhyme and Reason. Now we have a remarkable 50th anniversary edition to honor this universally adored and deeply influential novel. This special edition will include: • Gorgeous packaging that features the classic
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
Hans Magnus Enzensberger · 262 pages
Murderous Maths: Guaranteed to Bend Your Brain
Kjartan Poskitt
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe · 312 pages
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll · 273 pages
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte · 197 pages
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio. Time-series, relat
The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher
Bruno Ernst, M.C. Escher · 112 pages
Mathematician Bruno Ernst examines the oeuvre of twentieth-century Dutch artist M. C. Escher, as well as the artist's life and his inspirations and techniques.
An Abundance of Katherines
John Green · 256 pages
Katherine V thought boys were gross Katherine X just wanted to be friends Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail K-19 broke his heart When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-
The Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor
Joanna Cole · 48 pages
Wowee! A class trip to the ocean! Finally, the kids in Ms. Frizzle's class are going on an ordinary field trip, just like everyone else. But when the Friz drives onto the beach, across the sand, and straight into the ocean water without stopping, the kids know that they have once again embarked on one of Ms. Frizzle's crazy class trips.
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
Duncan Tonatiuh · 40 pages
Presents the life of the Mexican artist, who became famous for his drawings of skeletons in multiple everyday poses which have become identified with the Mexican Day of the Dead.
Pocahontas
Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire · 44 pages
A simple biography of the proud Indian princess who saved the life of John Smith, married an Englishman, and went to England where she met the Queen.
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
Peter Sis · 37 pages
Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
Me, Frida
Amy Novesky · 32 pages
Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on her own.