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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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Experiment Eleven: Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug by Peter Pringle Publisher Comments In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.D. student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksmans lab, searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. In his eleventh experiment on a... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies) by Jimmy Maher Publisher Comments Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commodore products); and the boring, beige adult box used for business (exemplified by products from IBM... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy by Seth Fletcher Publisher Comments Lithium batteries may hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a “smart” power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and the wind and use them... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Engineers by Dk Publishing Publisher Comments From the earliest engineers such as Archimedes and Hero of Alexandria, heroes of the Industrial Revolution like Eli Whitney and Alessandro Volta, and pioneers of the Modern Age with Henry Ford and Wernher von Braun, Engineers looks at more than eighty of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion by Steven Gimbel Publisher Comments Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein's revolutionary theory by calling it Jewish science, a charge typical of the ideological excesses of Hitler and his followers. Philosopher of science Steven Gimbel explores the many meanings of... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Final Journey of the Saturn V by Andrew R. Thomas Publisher Comments The Saturn V can be considered one of mankind’s greatest achievements. The outcome of President Kennedy’s 1961 call to put a man on the moon, the Saturn V is a technological marvel that stood more than 36 stories tall. An enormous workforce... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us about the History of Life and the Future of Technology by John Long Publisher Comments What happens when we let robots play the game of life? The challenge of studying evolution is that the history of life is buried in the past—we can’t witness the dramatic events that shaped the adaptations we see today. But biorobotics... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet by Charles Arthur Publisher Comments Which of Apple, Google and Microsoft had an office with a "drawer of broken dreams" ---and what (real) objects lay inside it? When did Microsoft have the chance to catch Google in making money from search ---and who vetoed it? Why did Google test 40... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf Publisher Comments The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor--the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system. On June 6, 1761,... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science by Michael Brooks Publisher Comments The thrilling exploration of the secret side of scientific discovery --proving that some rules were meant to be broken scientists have colluded in the most successful cover-up of modern times. They present themselves as cool, logical, and level-headed... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Eaten by a Giant Clam: Great Adventures in Natural Science by Cummins Publisher Comments The inspiring exploration stories of natural scientists in the field from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries The history of natural science is often a case of truth being stranger than fiction, as is evidenced by these 22 rollicking tales... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Selected Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Galileo Galilei Publisher Comments The first entirely new translation of Galileo's major writings for more than fifty years, this marvelous volume includes selections from all of his important writings on science, including virtually the complete text of A Sidereal Message and a... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Experiment Eleven by Peter Pringle Publisher Comments In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.D. student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksman's lab, searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. In his eleventh experiment on a... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price: $19.42 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Darwin Archipelago: The Naturalist's Career Beyond Origin of Species by Steve Jones Review "A dazzling post-Darwin performance. . .youll find this book very much worth your time." — Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly J.S. Schwartz... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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The Day the World Discovered the Sun by Mark Anderson List Price $26.00 Your price: $23.07 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters: From Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalogue by Wolfgang Steinicke List Price $116.00 Your price: $111.65 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Darwinian Heresies by Abigail Lustig List Price $28.00 Your price: $26.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800-1965 by Roy Porter List Price $40.00 Your price: $38.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Power by Alan F. Blackwell List Price $60.00 Your price: $57.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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