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Wizard : the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius (96 Edition) by Marc J. Seifer Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company by Owen W. Linzmayer Publisher Comments "Apple Confidential examines the tumultuous history of America's best-known Silicon Valley start-up--from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to profitability, and including Apple... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution by Carolyn Merchant Publisher Comments Nature as Female<P>The world we have lost was organic. From the obscure origins of our species, human beings have lived in daily, immediate, organic relation with the natural order for their sustenance. In 1500, the daily interaction with nature... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W. Brian Arthur Publisher Comments More than any thing else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being, says W. Brian Arthur. Yet, until now the major questions of technology have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from -- how... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are. by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments Only Henry Petroski, author of The Pencil, could make one never pick up a paper clip again without being overcome with feelings of awe and reverence. In his new book the author examines a host of techno-trivia questions – how the fork got its tines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern by Keith Devlin Publisher Comments Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. Even the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Modern Library) by William E. Burrows Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-333) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance 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) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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