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    Discovering Life's Story: Biology's Beginnings

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Narrated by Erin Tripp ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - DISCOVERING LIFE'S STORY

    Unabridged

    3 hours 32 min

    Trace the history of life science in the first of a four-part MITeen series by mega-best-selling author Joy Hakim, who brought us The History of US.When did we start learning the scientific secrets of life? Step back to the Islamic Golden Age, when scholars ask questions about life science and medicine that will establish those fields. Chart a path through the Renaissance, as Leonardo da Vinci ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way

    Aristotle Leads the Way

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Series Book 1 - The Story of Science
    Readers will travel back in time to ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. They will meet the world's first astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists and explore the lives and ideas of such famous people as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Brahmagupta, al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Ptolemy, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Hakim will introduce them to Aristotle—one of the greatest philosophers of all ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Discovering Life's Story: The Evolution of an Idea

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Narrated by Erin Tripp ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - DISCOVERING LIFE'S STORY

    Unabridged

    3 hours 52 min

    In the second volume of the Discovering Life’s Story series by best-selling author Joy Hakim, the theory of evolution takes hold—transforming ideas about survival, extinction, and life itself.Can species change? Or go extinct? In the eighteenth century, most people answer no to both questions. But in the century that follows, that certainty gets challenged as some people in Europe question the ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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    Discovering Life's Story: The Birth of Genetics

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Narrated by Erin Tripp ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - DISCOVERING LIFE'S STORY

    Unabridged

    3 hours 43 min

    Can we crack the code to life itself? In the third volume in the Discovering Life’s Story series, scientists compete to decipher the genetic blueprint behind all life on earth.It’s the dawn of the twentieth century. Darwin has theorized that traits get passed down through generations, and Mendel has come up with a mathematical formula that predicts how traits reappear over time. But a key mystery ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • A History of US: Liberty for All?

    1820-1860

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Series series A ^AHistory of US
    Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Early nineteenth century America could just about be summed up by Henry David Thoreau's words when he said, "Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free." It was an exuberant time for the diverse citizens of the United States, who included a range of folk, from ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    Reconstructing America

    Book 7 (1865-1890)

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Narrated by Christina Moore ...
    Series Audiobook 7 - A History of US

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstructing America is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons were roaming across the country. New cities sprang up across the plains, and a new and different American West came into being: a land of farmers, ranchers, miners, and city dwellers. Back east, large-scale immigration was also ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading Science Stories

    Narrative Tales of Science Adventurers

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Reading Science Stories is a book meant to celebrate nonfiction reading, especially narrative nonfiction, as a vehicle for understanding the world around us. We live in what is the greatest scientific era in all of human history, it also happens to be an Information Age, and nonfiction is a great medium for explanations, but many of our schools and book clubs are still mostly focused on fiction. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension

    Einstein Adds a New Dimension

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Series Book 3 - The Story of Science
    In volume three, students will look over Albert Einstein's shoulder as he and his colleagues develop a new kind of physics. It leads in two directions: to knowledge of the vast universe and its future (insights build on Einstein's theories of relativity), and to an understanding of the astonishingly small subatomic world (the realm of quantum physics). Students will learn why relativity and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A History of US: An Age of Extremes

    1880-1917

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Series series A ^AHistory of US
    Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. For the captains of industry men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • A History of US: War, Peace, and All That Jazz

    1918-1945

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Series series A ^AHistory of US
    Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • A History of US: War, Peace, and All That Jazz

    1918-1945

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Series series A ^AHistory of US
    Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • A History of US: The First Americans

    Prehistory-1600

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Series series A ^AHistory of US
    Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Thousands of years--way before Christopher Columbus set sail--wandering tribes of hunters made their way from Asia across the Bering land bridge to North America. They didn't know it, but they had discovered a New World. The First Americans is a fascinating re-creation of pre ... Read more

    $11.39 USD