by Mary Roach  
Publisher Comments Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Eric Brende
Publisher Comments What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Dava Sobel
Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your Price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Fred Turner Publisher Comments In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s, and the dawn of the... (read more) Your Price $29.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Erik Larson
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable follow-up to his hit thriller Devil in the White City, Erik Larson applies his considerable skill to craft a story of invention and murder. A tightly written page-turner. Recommended by Michal, Powells... (read more) Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Ray Kurzweil
Powells.com Staff Pick The future of humanity in Kurzweil's eyes is a startling vision of humans moving beyond our biological bodies to join with computers — the human machine. Controversial and insightful, Singularity illuminates the technologies that are pushing the... (read more) Your Price $18.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by William Gurstelle
Powells.com Staff Pick As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by George Johnson Publisher Comments From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science — moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your Price $16.06 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Fritjof Capra Publisher Comments Leonardo’s pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Yet, acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals that Leonardo was in many ways the unacknowledged “father of modern science.”... (read more) Your Price $26.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
by Michio Kaku Publisher Comments In Visions, theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku examines the ways the three scientific revolutions that reshaped the twentieth century -- quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence -- will dramatically alter science... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Nikola Tesla Publisher Comments In the tradition of The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla, The Anti-Gravity Handbook and The Free-Energy Device Handbook, science and UFO author David Hatcher Childress takes us into the incredible world of Nikola Tesla and his amazing inventions... (read more) Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Mario Livio Publisher Comments Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Lawrence Weschler
Publisher Comments A nondescript storefront operation in Los Angeles, California, the Museum of Jurassic Technology actually exists — that may be the only thing about it that is for certain. The creation of David Wilson, a man of prodigiously unusual imagination, the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Stephen W Hawking
Publisher Comments "A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. The Origin of Species... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your Price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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