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human ingenuity

Books about human ingenuity for readers of all ages.

Brain powered

Yoshiyuki Tomino, Aya Matsunaga, Ross Richie

Ages 10–16science and technologyenvironmental crisis

Earth invaded (Home team advantage / In the arena/ Pattern / Three times around)

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Jack C. Haldeman, Jane Roberts, Brian W. Aldiss, Fredric Brown

Ages 10–14alien contactsurvival

Brain powered

Yoshiyuki Tomino, Aya Matsunaga, Ross Richie

Ages 10–16science and technologycourage

Technology

Clive Gifford, Steve Parker, Sue Malyan

Ages 7–12innovationdiscovery

Stone Age Boy

Satoshi Kitamura (きたむらさとし)

Ages 4–9adventurehistory

Tools of Navigation

Rachel Dickinson

Ages 8–14explorationhistory

Maya (History Opens Windows (Paperback))

Jane Shuter

Ages 9–12ancient historycivilization

The life & strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner

Daniel Defoe, George Chaliners, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Thomas Woodward, William Taylor, Edmund Pytts, John Lawrence

Ages 10–16survivalperseverance