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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick This is an absolutely fascinating account of a line of cells that would proliferate to such a degree that they became immortal. Shaved from a tumor in a poor black woman in the 1950s, cultured without her knowledge, and grown to amazing proportions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Tube Circuits for Audio Amplifiers: Power Amplifiers and Pre-Amplifiers, for Monaural and Stereophonic Reproduction from Microphone, Radio, Tape, and Pick-up Signals by Mullard Publisher Comments The complete guide to building eleven power and control amps for sound systems with vacuum tubes, featuring a four-chapter tutorial on sound quality which is solid guidance on achieving the best sound with tubes. First published in 1959 by Mullard, one... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the tale of a woman whose cells were used — without her knowledge — in breakthrough medical research after her 1951 death. Skloot's moving story of faith, family, and science uses the past to teach us about... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean Staff Pick Sam Kean proves that chemistry makes for great storytelling with this entertaining look at the human stories behind the elements found in the periodic table. A delightful history of science, The Disappearing Spoon makes for both an engaging and... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Inside the Vacuum Tube by John F. Rider Publisher Comments John Rider has produced one of the funniest and most thorough books ever written on the way vacuum tubes function. His first chapter on the electron is virtually a comic book. Fresh out of the U.S. Army in 1945, he wrote and published an impressive array... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beginner's Guide to Tube Audio Design by Bruce Rozenblit Publisher Comments If you have been intrigued by the rebirth of vacuum tubes as a way of reproducing music but are totally mystified about vacuum tubes and what they do, then Bruce Rozenblit wrote this book for you. This book is the best beginner's guide available on what... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking Publisher Comments #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Human Brain Book by Rita Carter Publisher Comments The Human Brain Book is a complete guide to the one organ in the body that makes each of us what we are - unique individuals. It combines the latest findings from the field of neuroscience with expert text and state-of-the-art illustrations and imaging... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edwin A Abbott Publisher Comments Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction. Charmingly illustrated by author. Describes the journeys of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, and his adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions). A... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Best American Science & Nature Writing) by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments “The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intellect and uplift the spirit.”—Jerome... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Periodic Table Pocket Guide (4" X 6") Laminated Reference Guides (Academic) by Barcharts Inc Publisher Comments This 4-page laminated guide is small enough to fit in your pocket. It includes: the standard table (symbols, atomic number, atomic weight, elements names) physical constants metric conversions common ions and much... (read more) Your price: $3.95 New - Other
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Too Much Magic: Pulling the Plug on the Cult of Tech by Jason Benlevi Publisher Comments Too Much Magic is the story of how venture capital, media moguls and marketeers use digital magic to distract us, invade our privacy, corrupt democracy, distort our human values and sell us things that we don't need. Authored by Silicon Valley... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Publisher Comments 'Is Google making us stupid?' When Nicholas Carr posed that question in a celebrated Atlantic Monthlycover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pocket Ref by Thomas J. Glover Synopsis Among the many topics covered in this handy, pocket-sized guide are air and gases, carpentry and construction, pipes, pumps, computers, electronics, geology, math, surveying and mapping, and weights and measures. Includes tables, charts, drawings, lists &... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual by Susan Prosser Publisher Comments This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how to harness FileMaker's power to make your information work for you. With a few mouse clicks, the FileMaker Pro 11 database helps you create and print corporate reports, manage a mailing list, or run your... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Trade Paper
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Firsts In High Fidelity by Stephen. Spicer Publisher Comments This book is the unique and comprehensive story about one of the world's best high-fidelity audio companies ? H.J. Leak & Co. Ltd. The reader is presented with a stunning collection of delights, through an extensively researched text, accompanied by... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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