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The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind by Barbara Strauch Publisher Comments A leading science writer examines how our brains improve in middle age. Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Barbara Strauch explores the latest findings that demonstrate how the middle-aged brain is more flexible and capable than previously thought. In... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson Publisher Comments Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively on hold — with a five- or possibly ten... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.87 Sale - Hardcover
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Enough: Genetic Engineering and the End of Human Nature by Bill McKibben Synopsis Imagine a future where lab workers can reprogram human embryos to make children "smarter" or "more sociable". Some researchers are doing more than imagining. This text examines such possibilities and explains how we can avoid their worst consequences... (read more) Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Backyard Ballistics by William Gurstelle 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun: Cool Hacks, Cutting-Edge Games, and More Awesome Projects for the Whole Family by Ken Denmead Staff Pick The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun practically makes fun happen just by existing — and not just on weekends and not just for dads. This book contains unlimited inspiration for any level of handy parent to while away innumerable hours doing nerdy... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Probably Shouldn't by Theodore Gray Publisher Comments Author of the best-selling book The Elements Theodore Gray demonstrates essential scientific principles through thrilling daredevil experiments. "What a magnificent book. It's gorgeous, playful, and draws you in." --Adam Savage, cohost of Mythbusters... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J Levitin Publisher Comments The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music's role in the evolution of human culture-and "will leave you awestruck" (The New York Times) Daniel J. Levitin's astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share by Ken Denmead Staff Pick This book is awesome! You don't even need a kid to enjoy the imaginative and techie activities in Geek Dad. Sure, kids will love it, but don't let that stop you from picking up a copy for yourself.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch Publisher Comments Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Hidden Reality Signed 1st Edition by Brian Greene Staff Pick In the first chapter of The Hidden Reality, Brian Greene writes, "There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang." Well, those days are over. From string theory to the Inflationary Multiverse scenario to artificial... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Sale - Hardcover
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The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat by Eric Roston Publisher Comments The story of carbon—the building block of life that is, ironically, humanitys great threat . It could be said that all of us are a little alien—our bodies carbon atoms first shot forth from supernovas billions of years ago and far, far away... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.24 Sale - Hardcover
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Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time by David Prerau Publisher Comments Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and more recently the United States fought an energy... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The New Encyclopedia of Science by Michael Allaby Publisher Comments When The New Encyclopedia of Science appeared in 1995, it answered a pressing need for an easy-to-understand and up-to-date introduction to the world of science. In the eight years since the first edition, an astonishing number of major scientific... (read more) List Price $299.00 Your price: $129.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Why Files: The Science Behind the News by David Tenenbaum Publisher Comments Science magazine meets The Onion, Mental Floss, and Mad magazine in this ingenious guide to the science behind the news For more than a decade , the intrepid folks at whyfiles.org-the #1 science destination on the web-have been exploring the science... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries by Michael Hanlon Publisher Comments From the author of the bestselling The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes another incredible trip to an even more mysterious terrain. Michael Hanlon identifies ten scientific questions that we simply can't seem to answer and explains... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Book Club Hardcover
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Best American Science & Nature Writing #2007: The Best American Science and Nature Writing by Richard Preston Publisher Comments Edited by Richard Preston, Jr., the bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," this new collection is a terrific sampling of science writing at its best" ("Booklist").... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier Staff Pick Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg Publisher Comments “With this book in hand, we have all we need to set off on our next flight with our eyes open to the sheer wonder of what is involved.” —Alain de Botton, author of A Week at the Airport, in the Mail on Sunday “Imagine Leonardo da... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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