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"Poised to inspire a new generation of naturalists." - Publishers Weekly

A vibrant graphic adaptation of the classic science memoir

Regarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists, Edward O. Wilson spent his boyhood exploring the forests and swamps of south Alabama and the Florida panhandle...

A captivating graphic novel about Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas—three fearless women who revolutionized our understanding of the great apes and changed how humanity sees itself.

From the jungles of Africa to the rainforests of Borneo, Primates brings to life the bold journeys of Jane...

So, you've always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You're inluck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer...he also has a master's degreein nuclear engineering But even though it's not a complete do-it-yourselfmanual (assembly required, and plutonium is definitely not included)...

Einstein looked up to him, the Nazis tried to abduct him, his institute inCopenhagen hosted just about every Nobel prize winner in physics you can name(and then some), and Winston Churchill considered him a dangerous, dangerousman. His friends and enemies agreed: Niels Bohr was more than the father...

Levitation tells the story of the most dazzling gravity-defyingillusion ever performed on stage, and features a cast of characters that seemsalmost too good to be true: John Neville Maskelyne, the very properscientist-magician and the trick's inventor; Harry Kellar, the brash Americanwho fails to...

Psychologists know best, of course, and in the 1950s they warned parentsabout the dangers of too much love. Besides, what was "love" anyway?Just a convenient name for children seeking food and adults seeking sex. It tookan outsider scientist to challenge it. When Harry Harlow began his experimentson...

This original graphic novel features famous women scientists including Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara McClintock, Birute Galdikas, and Hedy Lamarr. The stories offer a human context often missing when we learn about the discoveries attached to these scientists'...

The Xeric Award-winning graphic novel is back in print, in a new edition From Galileo to Isaac Newton to Richard Feynman, you'll be amazed how thepersonalities of the scientists who shaped our world shaped their lives anddiscoveries. Some are serious, some are humorous, yet each is a compelling...

In the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incredible drive of Mary Cleave, Valentina Tereshkova, and the first women in space.

The U.S. may have put the first man on the moon, but it was the Soviet space program...

In Einstein, writer Jim Ottaviani and artist Jerel Dye take us behind the veneer of Einstein’s celebrity, painting a complex and intimate portrait of the world’s most well-known scientist.

E = mc²

A world-changing equation and a wild head of hair are all most of us know about one of history’s...