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Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Compact Disc 
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What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained by Robert L. Wolke Publisher Comments Why is red meat red? How do they decaffeinate coffee? Do you wish you understood the science of food but don't want to plow through dry, technical books? In What Einstein Told His Cook, University of Pittsburgh chemistry professor emeritus and award... (read more) Your price: $44.99 New - Compact Disc
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James Hansen Publisher Comments On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch 38-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Compact Disc
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The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt by William Nothdurft Publisher Comments The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Compact Disc
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The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments Weisman, an award-winning journalist, offers listeners a penetrating--and sometimes terrifying--take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence. Unabridged. 8 CDs.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Compact Disc
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On the Wing: To the Edge of the World with the Peregrine Falcon by Alan Tennant Publisher Comments In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon -- an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths. On the Wing transports us from the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Compact Disc
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of The Emperors New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmologys most profound questions: What, if anything, came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Compact Disc
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments Abridged CDs ¥ 8 CDs, 10... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Compact Disc
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The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.Yet the idea of of biology as destiny dies hard... (read more) Your price: $44.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Mummy Congress CD by Heather Pringle Publisher Comments An acclaimed journalist unravels the mysteries of mummies by following the scientists who devote their lives to studying them.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Compact Disc
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Six Easy Pieces by Richard P Feynman TOC Lecture 1: Atoms in motion, Sept. 26, 1961 -- Lecture 2: Basic physics, Sept. 29, 1961 -- Lecture 3: The relation of physics to other sciences, Oct. 3, 1961 -- Lecture 4: Conservation of energy, Oct. 6, 1961 -- Lecture 5: The theory of gravitation, Oct... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Audio Cassette
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Disappearing Spoon & Other True Tales of Madness Love & the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements on MP3 Unabridged by Sam Kean Publisher Comments The periodic table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Compact Disc
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Packing for Mars the Curious Science of Life in the Void Unabridged on MP3 Disk by Mary Roach Synopsis Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness... (read more) List Price $39.97 Your price: $10.95 Used - Compact Disc
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