Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 9-12) Bargain Book Box SP2931

Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 9-12) Bargain Book Box SP2931

Isaac Asimov had a gift that most scientists lack: the ability to make discovery feel like the most thrilling story ever told. These fourteen volumes from his beloved How We Found Out About... series cover everything from Antarctica to atoms — and every one of them makes the science feel inevitable and the scientists feel human.

1. How We Found Out About Antarctica — Isaac Asimov — The frozen continent, its extraordinary wildlife, and the brave and occasionally foolhardy expeditions that mapped it; Asimov's gift for the human story behind discovery is at its best here.
2. How We Found Out About Electricity — Isaac Asimov — From Benjamin Franklin's kite to Edison's laboratory, a gripping account of the experiments and arguments that gave us the modern world.
3. How We Found Out About Vitamins — Isaac Asimov — The story of how scientists discovered that invisible substances in food were the difference between health and scurvy, rickets, and beriberi; extraordinary detective work told with great clarity.
4. How We Found Out About Comets — Isaac Asimov — The fiery visitors from the outer solar system, what they tell us about the birth of planets, and the astronomers who refused to be satisfied with not knowing.
5. How We Found Out About the Earth Is Round — Isaac Asimov — The Earth was round long before anyone proved it, and the history of how humans worked this out — and what they did with the knowledge — is one of the great intellectual adventures.
6. How We Found Out About Dinosaurs — Isaac Asimov — The fossil hunters, the great debates, and the creatures that turned out to be considerably stranger and more varied than the illustrations ever suggested.
7. How We Found Out About Germs — Isaac Asimov — Pasteur, Lister, Koch: the scientists who discovered that invisible living things were killing us — and how that discovery transformed medicine entirely.
8. How We Found Out About Energy — Isaac Asimov — From fire to the splitting of the atom, a history of the most fundamental concept in all of science, told step by careful step.
9. How We Found Out About Oil — Isaac Asimov — Where oil comes from, how we find it, how we refine it, and why the modern world runs on it; scientific and economic history in Asimov's most accessible style.
10. How We Found Out About Outer Space — Isaac Asimov — The rockets, the astronauts, the planets, and the sheer scale of what lies beyond our atmosphere; Asimov was writing about the space race as it happened, and the excitement is still on the page.
11. How We Found Out About Our Human Roots — Isaac Asimov — The fossil evidence for human evolution, the scientists who assembled it, and the astonishing story of how a small African primate became the species reading this book.
12. How We Found Out About Earthquakes — Isaac Asimov — The science of plate tectonics, how seismologists read the trembling of the earth, and what that knowledge means for the millions of people living above fault lines.
13. How We Found Out About Numbers — Isaac Asimov — From counting on fingers to zero to infinity: the history of mathematics is a history of increasingly strange and beautiful ideas, and Asimov makes every step feel like a revelation.
14. How We Found Out About Atoms — Isaac Asimov — The invisible building blocks of everything: from Democritus's ancient intuition to Rutherford's gold foil experiment, told with the clarity that is Asimov's greatest and most enduring gift.