Jim Ottaviani

JIM OTTAVIANI (Feynman, Primates) is the world’s preeminent writer of comics and graphic novels about science. Notable works include a biography of Niels Bohr and the fast-paced tale of the desperate lives of early paleontologists and T-Minus: The Race to the Moon, from Aladdin books. He has worked as a nuclear engineer and is currently employed as a reference librarian in Ann Arbor, Michigan. LELAND MYRICK (Feynman, Missouri Boy) is the Ignatz Award- and Harvey Award-nominated author and illustrator of The Sweet Collection and Bright Elegy. His writing and illustrations have appeared in publications as diverse as Dark Horse Comics, GQ Japan and Vogue Russia. He grew up in Missouri, a place that has inspired much of his poetry and art, and he now lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife and daughter.

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  • Cover image for Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards

    Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards

    $22.95

    The Wild West provided the setting for some famous battles, but the gunfightat O.K. Corral doesn’t hold a candle to the Bone Wars. Following the Civil War, the (Re-)United States turned its attention to the unexplored territoriesbetween the Mississippi and the Pacific. The railroads led the way, and to buildthem we blasted through mountains and…

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    Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception

    $14.95

    Levitation tells the story of the most dazzling gravity-defying illusion ever performed on stage, and features a cast of characters that seems almost too good to be true: John Neville Maskelyne, the very proper scientist-magician and the trick’s inventor; Harry Kellar, the brash American who fails to buy the illusion, so steals it instead; Howard…

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    Wire Mothers & Inanimate Arms: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love

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    Psychologists know best, of course, and in the 1950s they warned parents about the dangers of too much love. Besides, what was “love” anyway? Just a convenient name for children seeking food and adults seeking sex. It took an outsider scientist to challenge it. When Harry Harlow began his experiments on mother love he was…

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    Suspended in Language: Niels Bohrs Life, Discoveries, and the Century He Shaped

    $26.95

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

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    Dignifying Science: Stories about Women Scientists

    $17.95

    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’ names. Readers, drawn in by the compelling anecdotes, will discover intriguing characters, while…

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    Two-Fisted Science

    $15.95

    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 the personalities of the scientists who shaped our world shaped their lives and discoveries. Some are serious, some are humorous, yet each is a compelling tale of science history.

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    Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas

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    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 Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. Each woman…

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