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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel Staff Pick "An account of the man who developed the technology which allowed sailors to determine their longitude at sea. If you don't know where you are, it's hard to know where you're going, whether you've gotten there or if you've missed your target. If, while... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis Publisher Comments Already climbing the bestseller lists-and garnering rave reviews—this "little masterpiece" sheds brilliant light on the equation that changed the world. Bodanis begins by devoting chapters to each of the equation's letters and symbols, introducing... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology by Edward Tenner Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-304) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist by Russell Mccormmach Publisher Comments It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips, it is the end of a way of thinking in his own subject. Younger men have challenged... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by David Ewing Duncan Publisher Comments Prelude: A Net Cast Over Time The . . . silent, never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide . . . this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb. --THOMAS CARLYLE, 1840 Not... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best of Technology Writing by Brendan Koerner Publisher Comments < div> < div> & #8220; The essays collected in this book are sparkling, imaginative pieces of journalism that just happen to be about technology. People steeped in the world of AJAX or Massively Mulitplayer Online Games will find a lot to... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Origins of Natural Science: Nine Lectures Delivered in Dornach, December 24 to 28, 1922, and January 1 to 6, 1923 by Rudolf Steiner Publisher Comments These lectures trace the subtle changes in people's ideas and feelings in connection with the development of natural science. Through this, Steiner shows the significance of scientific research and the mode of thinking that goes with it. As we look at... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $5.32 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery by Jeff Goldberg Publisher Comments A true scientific page-turner that traces a remarkable scientific breakthrough (the isolation of endorphins in the brain) as dedicated scientists race--not only with their fellow scientists--but against time and the profit hungry giant pharmaceutical... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Don't Know Much about the Universe: Everything You Need to Know about Outer Space But Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...) by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments Who dug those canals on Mars? What was the biblical Star of Bethlehem? Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials? From the ancients who charted the heavens to Star Trek, The X-Files, and Apollo 13, outer space has intrigued people through the ages... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Welcome to Biotech Nation: My Unexpected Odyssey Into the Land of Small Molecules, Lean Genes, and Big Ideas by Moira A. Gunn Publisher Comments A fun and fascinating tour through the world of biotechnology. As host of public radio’s Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn has long been known for making all aspects of science and technology meaningful to the general listening public. But when she... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History by Alfred W Crosby Publisher Comments In Throwing Fire, historian Alfred W. Crosby looks at hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as unique human capabilities. Humans began throwing rocks in prehistory and then progressed to javelins, atlatls, bows and arrows. We learned to... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Evolution of Wired Life: From the Alphabet to the Soul-Catcher Chip— How Information Technologies Change Our World by Charles Jonscher Publisher Comments "Thoughtful and erudite... Intelligent and readable...Will appeal to people who enjoyed Longitude by Dava Sobel or Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh." –The San Diego Union Tribune "Most engaging."–The Boston Globe "An... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire of Light: A History of Discovery in Science and Art by S. Perkowitz Publisher Comments A Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1997... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Thomas Huxley (Cambridge Science Biographies) by Paul White Publisher Comments Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerged in the nineteenth century from the restrictions of... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone by Edwin S Grosvenor Publisher Comments Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) changed the world. This extraordinary book is the first fully illustrated look at the man, his most famous invention -- the telephone -- and his myriad other achievements. Created with newly uncovered material, it... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Not on My Watch: Hollywood Vs the Future by Peter Dekom Synopsis Twenty-first century technology, computer wizardry, digital effects, and easy Internet accessibility bring exciting new options to the Hollywood entertainment establishment--and these same dazzling techno miracles threaten to ruin Hollywood and its... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.98 Used - Hardcover
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Time Great Inventions: Geniuses and Gizmos: Innovation in Our Time by Time Magazine Publisher Comments DESCRIPTION: From the way we communicate...to the way we travel....from the way we entertain ourselves to the way we do business in every aspect of our lives... it all is so radically different from the time of our grandparents. Now, the editors of TIME... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Best Technology Writing (Best Technology Writing) by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments “The ubiquity of the digital lifestyle has forced us to write and think about technology in a different way.”—Steven Johnson In his Introduction to this beautifully curated collection of essays, Steven Johnson heralds... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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