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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Staff Pick In preparing this engaging biography of the world's most famous smart guy, Isaacson enlisted the aid of several physicists including Murray Gell-Mann, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, and Douglas Stone. As a result, this is much more than an "Einstein... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.) by William Kamkwamba Publisher Comments William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Staff Pick In preparing this engaging biography of the world's most famous smart guy, Isaacson enlisted the aid of several physicists including Murray Gell-Mann, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, and Douglas Stone. As a result, this is much more than an "Einstein... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Longitude : True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (05 Edition) by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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Force for Nature: Story of NRDC and Its Fight To Save Our Planet (10 Edition) by John H. Adams Synopsis The world's preeminent environmental organization began with a layer of soot on the windowsill of a Greenwich Village apartment. Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) founder John H. Adams, a pioneer of environmental action, was working as a lawyer... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (P.S.) by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham—the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick Publisher Comments Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies--and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments Break out the TV dinners From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the baboons... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Phillips Feynman Publisher Comments The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) by David Leavitt Publisher Comments Outlines the Bletchley Park mathematician's efforts to launch artificial intelligence innovations, describing his thwarted attempts to gain support for a programmable calculating machine, his contributions to cracking the Nazi Enigma code during World... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe Publisher Comments This Pulitzer Prize-winning biography is available in an updated paperback edition. Working closely with Muir's family and with his papers, Wolfe was able to create a full portrait of her subject, not only as America's firebrand conservationist and... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe by Amir D. Aczel Publisher Comments René Descartes (1596–1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys by Michael Collins Publisher Comments The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet Publisher Comments Jack Nisbet first told the story of British explorer David Thompson, who mapped the Columbia River, in his acclaimed book Sources of the River, which set the standard for research and narrative biography for the region. Now Nisbet turns his attention to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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My Family and Other Animals (04 Edition) by Gerald Durrell Staff Pick This autobiographical work takes place on the island of Corfu when Durrell was a boy. He was pretty much a wild English boy who ended up with a lot of time on his hands, a lot of rugged land to explore, and as a result, a lot of critter friends the likes... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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