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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson Publisher Comments “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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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 Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Vintage) by James Gleick Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - 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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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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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil Degrasse Tyson Publisher Comments When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, "Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York." Immediately, the public, professionals, and press... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Staff Pick Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder is at once a history of Regency-era scientific discovery and a meditation on what the pursuit of science says about us as individuals and as a culture. Scrupulously researched and deftly told, this book is an epic... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments During the 1530s, rumors began to spread throughout Europe of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland. Its architect was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. Around 1514, Copernicus had... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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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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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Staff Pick This learned and amusing work covers the origin of the universe to the human genome. A welcome journey with Bryson in typical wise and witty fashion.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Making Modern Science : Historical Survey (05 Edition) by Peter J. Bowler Publisher Comments The development of science, according to respected scholars Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus, expands our knowledge and control of the world in ways that affect-but are also affected by-society and culture. In Making Modern Science, a text designed... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition by Stephen W Hawking Publisher Comments #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser Publisher Comments Advance Praise for How the Hippies Saved Physics: "This book takes us deep into the kaleidoscopic culture of the 1970s--with its pop-metaphysicians, dabblers in Eastern mysticism, and counterculture gurus--some of whom, it turns out, were also physicists... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Proving God by Edward F. Sylvia Publisher Comments A daring work that unifies science and theology by challenging many of the world's current beliefs about both.Proving God is guaranteed to create controversy and energetic conversation. Forget what both scientists and the clergy have told you about the... (read more) Your price: $26.50 New - Mass Market
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Science in the 20th Century and Beyond (Phss - Polity History of Science) by Jon Agar Publisher Comments Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review "A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dry Storeroom No. 1: Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (09 Edition) by Richard Fortey Publisher Comments A remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary people, meticulous research, and driving passions that make Londons Natural History Museum one of the worlds greatest institutions. In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Richard Fortey takes... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Georgian Star (10 Edition) by Michael D. Lemonick Publisher Comments Trained as a musician, amateur scientist William Herschel found international fame after discovering the planet Uranus in 1781. Though he is still best known for this finding, his partnership with his sister Caroline yielded other groundbreaking work... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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