by Bill Bryson  
Powells.com Staff Pick This learned and amusing work covers the origin of the universe to the human genome. A welcome journey with Bryson in typical wise and witty fashion. Recommended by... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $9.00 (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 Mark B N Hansen Publisher Comments In New Philosophy for New Media, Mark Hansen defines the image in digital art in terms that go beyond the merely visual. Arguing that the andquot;digital imageandquot; encompasses the entire process by which information is made perceivable, he places the... (read more) Your Price $19.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Carl Djerassi Synopsis This novel, like Jurassic Park, hinges on the real-world technology incorporated in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), one of the most important breakthroughs in biomedical science. The 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry recognized the immense significance... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your Price $3.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Brian Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick "Brian Greene presents the bizarre world of quantum mechanics and string theory using language accessible to all while taking the reader on an exciting journey through a truly unusual universe." Blane, Powells... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Roach  Powells.com Staff Pick In her remarkable debut, Stiff, Mary Roach explored what happens to the body after death, and in the process brought the corpse to glittering life. In her follow up, she stakes out similar terrain. What happens to the soul after death? And how can you... (read more) Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for other copies 
by John Brockman Publisher Comments More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof. Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by NFPA Publisher Comments The world's most widely adopted safety code, the National Electrical Code« (NEC) is now advancing electrical safety requirements with the 2008 edition in an effort to maximize public safety, emergency preparation, and electrical worker protection... (read more) List Price $86.95 Your Price $75.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Barbara Kilarski Publisher Comments Chickens are hot! There's a chicken-farming boomlet on the rise, with upscale urban and suburban homeowners from every part of the country ordering fancy breeds of chickens, hiring architects to build elegant chicken coops in their backyards, and signing... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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by Read Montague Synopsis One of the leading thinkers in the computational neuroscience revolution offers a brilliant new perspective on the minds decision-making process. Why do we make the choices we make? How can science explain free will? If our brains are like slow... (read more) Your Price $15.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by NFPA Publisher Comments The world's most widely adopted safety code, the National Electrical Code« (NEC) is now advancing electrical safety requirements with the 2008 edition in an effort to maximize public safety, emergency preparedness, and electrical worker protection.... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your Price $85.00 (New - Ring Binder) check for used and sale copies
by Brian Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick Using Simpsons and X-Files examples, Brian Greene explains our current understanding of the universe. Whereas The Elegant Universe was primarily about the obscure, largely theoretical world of susperstring theory, Fabric of the Cosmos holds to more solid... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick In her remarkable debut, Stiff, Mary Roach explored what happens to the body after death, and in the process brought the corpse to glittering life. In her follow up, she stakes out similar terrain. What happens to the soul after death? And how can you... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Diane Ackerman
Publisher Comments If Colette had studied science and spent time listening to icebergs in Antarctica and interviewing a professional nose in New York, she might have written a book as luscious and erudite as A Natural History of the Senses. In the course of this grand tour... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Edwin A Abbott
Publisher Comments Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction. Charmingly illustrated by author. Describes the journeys of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, and his adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions). A... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your Price $0.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Read an original essay by Simon Winchester and save 30% on The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom.
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