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Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact by John Cornwell Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Hitler's Pope comes a gripping in-depth account of Germany's horrific abuse of science and its consequences--then and now.... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce, and Adventure by Adam Leith Gollner Publisher Comments Tasty, lethal, hallucinogenic, and medicinal-fruits have led nations into wars, fueled dictatorships, and even lured us into new worlds. Adam Leith Gollner weaves business, science, and travel into a riveting narrative about one of earth's most desired... (read more) Your price: $69.99 New - Compact Disc
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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean Carroll Publisher Comments Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales; fossils, known for millennia, were... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Jesuit & the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man by Amir D. Aczel Publisher Comments In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man... (read more) Your price: $69.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind Synopsis The inside account of the battle among Stephen Hawking, Leonard Susskind, and Gerardt Hooft over the true nature of black holeswith nothing less than our understanding of the entire universe at stake... (read more) Your price: $27.25 New - Compact Disc
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The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke Publisher Comments When people knew the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth. Galileo's telescope changed the truth. And with that one change, all architecture, music, literature, science, politics -- everything changed,... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Compact Disc
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson Publisher Comments “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Compact Disc
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser Your price: $109.00 New - Compact Disc
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Six Great Scientists by J. G. Crowther Your price: $64.00 New - Compact Disc
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Your price: $123.00 New - Compact Disc
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser Your price: $34.95 New - Compact Disc
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Your price: $39.95 New - Compact Disc
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The Jesuit & the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man by Amir D. Aczel Publisher Comments In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Stiff (Library Edition): The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Publisher Comments An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For 2,000 years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's... (read more) Your price: $59.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind Synopsis What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? This question has implications for the most fundamental laws of the universe. The scientific battle to prove the answer would change the course of physics.... (read more) Your price: $99.00 New - Compact Disc
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Little History of Science by William Bynum Publisher Comments Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its... (read more) Your price: $71.99 New - Compact Disc
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Science in Antiquity by Jon Mandaville Publisher Comments The scientific impulse can be said to have existed forever. But only with the written word did there emerge a record of speculations about how and why things happen. Middle Eastern civilizations developed ways to measure and describe (e.g. math and the... (read more) Your price: $23.25 New - Compact Disc
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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession by Adam Leith Gollner Publisher Comments Tasty, lethal, hallucinogenic, and medicinal-fruits have led nations into wars, fueled dictatorships, and even lured us into new worlds. Adam Leith Gollner weaves business, science, and travel into a riveting narrative about one of earth's most desired... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Publisher Comments An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For 2,000 years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean Carroll Publisher Comments Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales; fossils, known for millennia, were... (read more) Your price: $92.97 New - Compact Disc
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