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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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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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AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by Tom Mcnichol Synopsis Long before there was Windows versus Macintosh, the first standards war was fought over how electricity would be transmitted. That fierce war would change the lives of billions and shape the modern technological age.... (read more) Your price: $60.00 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: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke Publisher Comments The companion to a BBC television series probing the origins of Western attitudes and institutions focuses on eight periods in history when a change in knowledge dramatically altered human understanding of ourselves and the world around.... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Compact Disc
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Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe by Frank Close Publisher Comments The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a scientific gold rush as physicists raced to chart the inner workings of the atom. The stakes were high: the questions were big, and there were Nobel Prizes and everlasting glory to be won. Many... (read more) Your price: $44.99 New - 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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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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Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan Your price: $62.95 New - Audio Cassette 
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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: $105.95 New - Audio Cassette
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Six Great Scientists by J. G. Crowther Your price: $44.95 New - Audio Cassette
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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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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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