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Flower Hunters
by Mary Gribbin
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The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and helped establish the new science of... ( read more)
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Wizard : the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius (96 Edition)
by Marc J. Seifer
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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited by many as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Yet very few people know about his life and work. Based on original source materials and previously... ( read more)
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
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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)
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This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Modern Library)
by William E. Burrows
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It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond. ... ( read more)
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
by Stephen E Ambrose
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Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge... ( read more)
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The Tesla Papers: Nikola Tesla on Free Energy and Wireless Transmission of Power
by Nikola Tesla
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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)
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
by Steven Johnson
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From the author of The Ghost Map and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new national bestseller: the exhilarating( Los Angeles Times) story of a founding father long forgotten.(Newsweek) National bestselling author Steven Johnson tells the fascinating... ( read more)
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Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
by Amir D. Aczel
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René Descartes (1596–1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian... ( read more)
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On the Beauty of Science: A Nobel Laureate Reflects on the Universe, God, and the Nature of Discovery
by Herbert A. Hauptman
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In this memoir of a long, distinguished career devoted to scientific research, world-renowned mathematician Herbert A. Hauptman recounts both the joys and the disappointments of his lifelong quest to induce nature to “reveal her secrets.”
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Not on My Watch: Hollywood Vs the Future
by Peter Dekom
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Twenty-first century technology, computer wizardry, digital effects, and easy Internet accessibility bring exciting new options to the Hollywood entertainment establishment--and these same dazzling techno miracles threaten to ruin Hollywood and its... ( read more)
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