The Discovery of Insulin
8 best books like The Discovery of Insulin (Michael Bliss): The Fated Sky, The Last Summer of Reason, Stowaway, What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?, Phoebe the Spy, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018, The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, E penguara: Requiem për Linda B.
| Author | Mary Robinette Kowal |
The Fated Sky continued the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars. It is 1961, and the International Aerospace Coalition has established a colony on the moon. Elma York, the noted Lady Astronaut, is working on rotation, flying shuttles on the moon and returning regularly...
| Author | Tahar Djaout |
| ISBN | 1886913501 |
This elegantly haunting work of fiction features bookstore owner Boualem Yekker, who lives in a country overtaken by a radically conservative party known as the Vigilant Brothers, a group that seeks to control every aspect of life according to the precepts of their rigid moral theology. The belief...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0689839898 |
It is known that in the summer of 1768, Captain James Cook sailed from England on H.M.S Endeavour, beginning a three-year voyage around the world on a secret mission to discover an unknown continent at the bottom of the globe. What is less known is that a boy by the name of Nicholas Young was a stowaway on...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698113721 |
A fun historic tale by Newbery Honor-winning author, Jean Fritz!
No matter how busy he was, Ben Franklin always found time to try out new ideas: a remote-control lock (so he could lock his door without getting out of bed), a rocking chair with a fan over it (to keep flies away), and a windmill (to...
| Author | Judith Berry Griffin |
| ISBN | 0698119568 |
Someone is planning to kill George Washington, and young Phoebe Fraunces is trying to save his life. Phoebe gets a job as George Washington's housekeeper, but her real job is to work as a spy. She listens and watches very carefully, and she meets her father every day to tell him what she has learned. One...
| Author | Sam Kean |
| ISBN | 1328987809 |
“This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science,” New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. “Things aren’t perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in...
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
| Author | Martin D. Davis |
| ISBN | 0393047857 |
Computers are everywhere today -- at work, in the bank, in artist's studios, sometimes even in our pockets -- yet they remain to many of us objects of irreducible mystery. How can today's computers perform such a bewildering variety of tasks if computing is just glorified arithmetic? The answer, as...
E penguara: Requiem për Linda B.
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
| ISBN | 9789994342 |
A Girl in Exile, first published in Albanian in 2009, is set among the bureaucratic machinery of Albania's 1945-1991 dictatorship. While waiting to hear whether his newest play will be approved for production, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl - Linda...
