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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Albert Einstein (97 Edition) by Albrecht Folsing Publisher Comments "(Folsing) provides a nuanced, nonjudgmental personal portrait resting firmly on prodigious archival work. Albert Einstein allows us to see deeply into (his) inner world". -- Alan Lightman, The New York Review of Books The name of Albert Einstein has... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick Publisher Comments From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman Publisher Comments Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos by Bruce Schechter Publisher Comments Paul Erdõs, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, and certainly the most eccentric, was internationally recognized as a prodigy by age seventeen. Hungarian-born Erdõs believed that the meaning of life was to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Outsider: A Journey Into My Father's Struggle with Madness by Nathani Lachenmeyer Publisher Comments The Outsider is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one familys experience with mental illness. In 1978, Charles Lachenmeyer was a happily married professor of sociology who lived in the New York suburbs with his wife and nine-year-old son... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla 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) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Einstein: A Life by Denis Brian Publisher Comments "An utterly fascinating life of a great scientist, full of new insights and very readable." —Ashley Montagu His name is synonymous with genius. His work helped shape the twentieth century and point the way toward the next. In the more than forty... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem by Amir D Aczel Publisher Comments Over three hundred years ago, a French scholar scribbled a simple theorem in the margin of a book. It would become the world's most baffling mathematical mystery. Simple, elegant, and utterly impossible to prove, Fermat's Last Theorem captured... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics by George Johnson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-409) and index.... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 by Sylvia Nasar Publisher Comments In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller Publisher Comments At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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