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Michael Anthony DiSpezio is an author, educator, and public speaker on topics in science and science education. He was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City and was educated at Brooklyn College and Boston University where he worked as a research assistant to Nobel Laureate, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. He is an author of elementary, middle school and high school science textbooks and classroom ancillaries for publishers that include Addison-Wesley, Pearson Education, National Geographic Society and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He has authored dozens of children's trade books on an assortment of science and puzzle topics. In 1994, he worked in the Middle East as part of the Israel/Jordan peace accord where he trained Arab counterparts in educational television production. He lives in Cape Cod and continues to write and speak on science, creativity, and applying brain research to increase classroom effectiveness.

Selected publications

Your 21st Century Brain (Sterling Publishing), ISBN-10: 1402776586 The Science of HIV (National Science Teachers Association) ISBN-10: 0873551605 Dino Mania: Discovering Who's Who In the Jurassic Zoo (Sterling Publishing) ISBN-13: 978-0806989815 Awesome Experiments in Light and Sound (Sterling Publishers) ISBN-10: 1402723725 Science Fusion(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company) ISBN-13: 9780547365879 Space Mania: Discovering Distant Worlds Without Leaving Your Own (Sterling Publishing) ISBN-13 978-08069782879 Great Critical Thinking Puzzles (Sterling Publishing) ISBN-13: 978-0806997254 Science Insights (Addison Wesley) ISBN-13: 978-0201332858 Visual Foolery (Tormont/Brimar Publications) ISBN-10 2764102138 USA today: Weather Wonders Book & Kit (Sterling Innovation) ISBN-10: 1402765339 Exploring Earth and space (Addison Wesley) ISBN-10: 0201257009 Heath Chemistry Lab Experiments (D.C. Heath) ISBN-13: 978-0669098556 Super Sensational Science Fair Projects (Sterling Publishing) ISBN-13: 978-0806944098