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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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Last Train To Paradise by Les Standiford Publisher Comments Now in paperback, "Last Train to Paradise" is acclaimed novelist Standiford's fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad--one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Social History of American Technology (97 Edition) by Ruth S. Cowan Publisher Comments For over 250 years American technology has been regarded as a unique hallmark of American culture and an important factor in American prosperity. Despite this American history has rarely been told from the perspective of the history of technology. A... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $45.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages (73 Edition) by Richard C. Dales Synopsis Offers a comprehensive introduction to medieval science, presented in the context of an historical narrative.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Time's Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World (Harvest Book) by Jo Ellen Barnett Publisher Comments A perfect balance of science, history, and sociology, Time's Pendulum traces the important developments in humankind's epic quest to measure the hours, days, and years with accuracy, and how our concept of time has changed with each new technological... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer Publisher Comments Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices,... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conceptual Revolutions (92 Edition) by Paul Thagard Publisher Comments In this path-breaking work, Paul Thagard draws on the history and philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and the field of artificial intelligence to develop a theory of conceptual change capable of accounting for all major scientific revolutions... (read more) List Price $47.75 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel J. Boorstin Publisher Comments Daniel Boorstin, former librarian of the Library of Congress, gives a fascinating history of world civilization. From astronomical development, microscopes, telescopes, medicine, vaccines, genetics and map-making, this book delves into the discoveries of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress by Joel Mokyr Publisher Comments In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics (Cambridge History of Science) by Richard S Westfall Publisher Comments First published by Wiley in 1971. This is an introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century. Instead of simply listing discoveries, the author presents a new pattern of organization for students that is designed to integrate separate... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci by Bulent Atalay Publisher Comments Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution by Carolyn Merchant Publisher Comments Nature as Female<P>The world we have lost was organic. From the obscure origins of our species, human beings have lived in daily, immediate, organic relation with the natural order for their sustenance. In 1500, the daily interaction with nature... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Science and Religion : Some Historical Perspectives (91 Edition) by John Hedley Brooke Publisher Comments One of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world is the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in Western societies there have been periods of crisis when new... (read more) List Price $31.99 Your price: $24.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghost of the Executed Engineer : Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (93 Edition) by Loren Graham Publisher Comments Stalin ordered his execution, but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word. Palchinsky tells of Soviet technology and industry, the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate price paid for silencing... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sidereus Nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger by Galileo Galilei Publisher Comments "This fine translation is a god-send. . . . Surely you want to read what Galileo wrote. If so buy this book. Van Helden's introduction is scholarly; no one knows more about Galileo's telescope; the translation is superb; Van Helden's review of the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter Publisher Comments In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet. In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E Ambrose From Powells.com Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Science and Society by Richard W Grinnell Publisher Comments Part of Longman’s successful Topic’s Reader series, Science and Society is a brief thematic reader that touches on the nature of science and various scientific issues and controversies.... (read more) List Price $22.90 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gramophone, Film Typewriter (99 Edition) by Friedrich Kittler Publisher Comments Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Science in Public : Communication, Culture, and Credibility (98 Edition) by Jane Gregory Publisher Comments Does the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists' responsibility to communicate? Critics have argued that, despite the huge strides made in technology, we live in a "scientifically illiterate" society--one that thinks about... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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