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Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Staff Pick In preparing this engaging biography of the world's most famous smart guy, Isaacson enlisted the aid of several physicists including Murray Gell-Mann, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, and Douglas Stone. As a result, this is much more than an "Einstein... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover 
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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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The Curve of Binding Energy by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Staff Pick In preparing this engaging biography of the world's most famous smart guy, Isaacson enlisted the aid of several physicists including Murray Gell-Mann, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, and Douglas Stone. As a result, this is much more than an "Einstein... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bite-Size Einstein by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments The kindly, white-heaired old fellow with the bushy mustache once called "the world's grandfather," Albert Einstein was easily the twentieth century's most remarkable and revered man of science. His leaps of imagination changed forever the way we look at... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein by Stephen W Hawking Publisher Comments With commentary by the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, this anthology has garnered impressive reviews. PW has called it “a gem of a collection” while New Scientist magazine notes the “thrill of reading Einstein’s... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy by Stephen Hawking Publisher Comments World-renowned physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking presents a revolutionary look at the momentous discoveries that changed our perception of the world with this first-ever compilation of seven classic works on physics and astronomy. His... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ideas & Opinions by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments IDEAS AND OPINIONS contains essays by eminent scientist Albert Einstein on subjects ranging from atomic energy, relativity, and religion to human rights, government, and economics. Previously published articles, speeches, and letters are gathered here to... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman and Michelle Feynman Publisher Comments "I'm an explorer, OK? I like to find out!" — One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The World as I See It by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments Einstein believed in humanity, in a peaceful world of mutual helpfulness, and in the high mission of science. Intended as a plea for these beliefs, this book, like no other provides a complete key to the understanding of this distinguished man's... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect (Studies in Crime and Justice) by Charles Thorpe Publisher Comments At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Thread of the Silkworm by Iris Chang Publisher Comments Thread of the Silkworm tells the story of one of the most monumental blunders the United States committed during its era of McCarthyism. It is the biography of Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen, a pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Albert Einstein (97 Edition) by Albrecht Folsing Publisher Comments "(Folsing) provides a nuanced, nonjudgmental personal portrait resting firmly on prodigious archival work. Albert Einstein allows us to see deeply into (his) inner world". -- Alan Lightman, The New York Review of Books The name of Albert Einstein has... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Time Albert Einstein: The Enduring Legacy of a Modern Genius by Richard Lacayo Publisher Comments TIME invites readers to explore the life and times of one of history's greatest minds, the genius selected by TIME as the Most Infl uential Person of the 20th Century. The book provides an illuminating overview of Albert Einstein's life, work and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Stephen Hawking Quest for a Theory of Ev by Kitty Fergusen Publisher Comments More than a biography, this book introduces both the life and theories of the world's most famous scientist. Interviews with Hawking and his colleagues tell the story of his quest to understand the origins and fate of the universe.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Beat of a Different Drum by Jagdish Mehra Publisher Comments Few would argue that Richard Feynman was one of the greatest American-born theoretical physicists of the twentieth century, and fewer still would dispute that he was the most iconoclastic. In the words of the eminent mathematician Mark Kac, geniuses are... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Strange Beauty by George Johnson Publisher Comments No contemporary scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner many consider the most brilliant physicist of his generation. His discoveries of the quark and the Eightfold Way were... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ideas and Opinions (82 Edition) by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives by Helen Dukas Publisher Comments Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in these personal papers, most of them never before published, from the Einstein archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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