The Woman Who Invented the Thread that Stops Bullets: The Genius of Stephanie Kwolek 9781464511240

Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty 9781908313553, 1908313552

Long before SKII, La Prairie, or the coveted Crème de la Mer, there was Helena Rubinstein. Your mother or grandmother pr

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The Man Who Invented the Laser: The Genius of Theodore H. Maiman 9781464511219

Maiman was a graudate of the University of Colorado, which awarded him a B.S. in engineering physics in 1949. Later, he

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The Man Who Invented the Computer 9780385533720

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Who Really Invented the Automobile? 2225353034

The automobile was perfected in 1829 and ran well on English roads. Who prevented its development? Was it the railway en

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The Man Who Invented 'Genocide' 093948417X

Subtitle: "The Public Career and Consequences of Raphael Lamkin." DjVu derived from (and reformatted to stand

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In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World 9781760983185

A voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald. W

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Edmund Burke - The Visionary Who invented Modern Politics

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have nev

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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution 2006051249, 9780743286923, 0743286928, 9780743286930, 0743286936, 9781416554042

The successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story. The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in

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The thread of life 9781313789363

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Zwicky; The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe 0674979672, 9780674979673

Fritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic scientists of the twentieth century. He predicted the existe

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