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  • Edward Roberts and the Story of the Personal Computer

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Publishers, Dec. 1, 2002)
    Written especially for young adult readers, this series helps place each significant invention, discovery, or development in historical perspective while exploring the life of the person responsible for each breakthrough. Readers will travel back in time to learn about each important scientific, medical, or technological discovery. No science fiction story even approximates the mystery and suspense contained in these true science biographies.The story of the pioneering young man who is credited with designing and marketing the first personal computer, the Altair.
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  • The Life and Times of Marco Polo

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, Nov. 16, 2004)
    Looks at the life and times of Marco Polo, the first European to travel to China and write about his adventure.
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  • Guglielmo Marconi and Radio Waves

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Publishers, Sept. 16, 2004)
    Tells the story of Guglielmo Marconi and his invention of the wireless telegraph.

  • The Life & Times of John Philip Sousa

    Susan Zannos

    Hardcover (Mitchell Lane Publishers, July 16, 2003)
    A biography of the famous band leader and composer who was known as the March King. Includes sidebars on such topics as ragtime music, the Civil War, and trapshooting.

  • Dmitri Mendeleyev and the Periodic Table

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, June 24, 2004)
    Traces the life and work of Dmitri Mendeleyev, a Siberian who overcame great odds to become the greatest chemist of the nineteenth century and whose Periodic Table of the Elements is still used by chemists today.

  • The Life and Times of Franz Joseph Haydn

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Publishers, May 16, 2003)
    Discusses the life and career of the eighteenth-century Austrian composer.

  • Sandra Bullock

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, Aug. 30, 2000)
    Chronicles the life and career of the actress, from her early start as a gypsy child and bartender to her current success in Hollywood.
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  • The Life and Times of Socrates

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, June 16, 2004)
    Describes the life and times of Socrates, a philosopher and teacher in ancient Athens who held that wisdom comes from questioning ideas and values rather than simply accepting what is passed on by parents and teachers.
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  • The Life and Times of Archimedes

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, June 15, 2004)
    Describes the life and times of Archimedes, the mathematician from Sicily whose weapons and inventions had a great influence on ancient warfare.
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  • The Life and Times of Felix Mendelssohn

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Publishers, Aug. 1, 2003)
    A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer.

  • The Life and Times of Stephen Foster

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Publishers, Aug. 1, 2003)
    A biography of the nineteenth-century American musician whose many compositions include "Oh, Susannah," "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," "My Old Kentucky Home," and "Old Folks at Home."

  • Chester Carlson and the Development of Xerography

    Susan Zannos

    Library Binding (Mitchell Lane Publishers, Aug. 15, 2002)
    Written especially for young adult readers, this series helps place each significant invention, discovery, or development in historical perspective while exploring the life of the person responsible for each breakthrough. Readers will travel back in time to learn about each important scientific, medical, or technological discovery. No science fiction story even approximates the mystery and suspense contained in these true science biographies.The story of the man whose determination to simplify the process of copying documents led to the invention of xerography.
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