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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention... (read more) List Price $62.50 Your price: $29.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter Publisher Comments Douglas Hofstadters book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene Staff Pick "Brian Greene presents the bizarre world of quantum mechanics and string theory using language accessible to all while taking the reader on an exciting journey through a truly unusual universe."... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Particle Odyssey: A Journey to the Heart of Matter by Frank Close and Michael Marten and Christine Sutton Publisher Comments Boasting more than three hundred illustrations, the majority in full color, The Particle Odyssey takes us on an exhilarating tour of the subatomic world. The pictures here are truly marvelous--over 100 of the best images ever taken of particle 'events... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen W Hawking Publisher Comments At the very frontiers of science, professor Stephen Hawking invites you to be a fellow traveler on an extraordinary voyage through space-time. Full-color illustrations.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Heaven and Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye by Katherine Roucoux From Powells.com "Heaven and Earth is cleverly conceived and elegantly executed, but what best recommends it, what makes it a bargain at 230 million times the price, are the photographs themselves. Here is Nature in all her vast variety, ravishing color, and myriad... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Self-made Tapestry : Pattern Formation in Nature (99 Edition) by Philip Ball Publisher Comments For centuries, scientists have struggled to understand the origins of the patterns and forms found in nature. Now, in this lucid and accessibly written book, Philip Ball applies state-of-the-art scientific understanding from the fields of biology... (read more) List Price $97.95 Your price: $63.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Six Easy Pieces Essentials of Physics Explained By Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P Feynman Publisher Comments Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the post–World War II period. His career was extraordinarily expansive. From his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb a Los Alamos during... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen Publisher Comments In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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National Geographic Atlas of the World 7ed by National Geographic Publisher Comments You are looking at the authoritative edition of the atlas that has set the world's standard for more than a generation. Based on latest satellite technology and state-of-the-art digital data, this edition has new features, new graphics, and a new format.... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price: $60.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Moon by Maryam Sachs Book News Annotation A compendium of information, legends, lore, superstition, and other approaches to understanding Earth's natural satellite. Color photographs and reproductions and quotations from literature comprise the core of the treatment, with the text filling in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space, and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril by Timothy Ferris From Powells.com Entwining his personal reminiscences as a backyard stargazer with those of fellow enthusiasts, Timothy Ferris introduces readers to the wonders of amateur astronomy. "Amateur" appears as a misnomer when Ferris examines the advances in... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements by Paul Strathern List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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