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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction Targets by John Austin Publisher Comments Any marksman knows that the key to becoming an accomplished shooter is to practice, practice, practice, and Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction Targets contains more than 100 perforated targets that minimarksmen can use to develop their skills. The... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Quality and Reliability Engineering #1: Effective Fmeas: Achieving Safe, Reliable, and Economical Products and Processes Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis by Carl S. Carlson Publisher Comments Outlines the correct procedures for doing FMEAs and how to successfully apply them in design, development, manufacturing, and service applications There are a myriad of quality and reliability tools available to corporations worldwide, but the one that... (read more) Your price: $120.00 New - Hardcover
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Gadget Nation: A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention by FastPencil Premiere Publisher Comments Inspiring, Sometimes-Bizarre Stories of More Than 100 Gizmos and Their Creators. Gadget Nation celebrates the spirit of invention in all its irresistible quirkiness through the stories of a variety of home-grown products, from an extra arm for moms to a... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $9.62 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow Publisher Comments This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nations history. Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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I Used to Know That: Science: Fascinating Truths about How Animals Evolve, Plants Grow, Brains Work, Molecules Bond, and Stars Explode by Marianne Taylor Synopsis Do you know why we are able to see light and hear sound? What is the Earth made of? How does the body produce energy? And, most important, does any of this matter? In I Used to Know That: Science, Marianne Taylor will answer those questions and more and... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Hardcover
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Best American Science & Nature Writing) by Elizabeth Kolbert Publisher Comments Elizabeth Kolbert, one of today's leading environmental journalists, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Bringing together promising new voices and prize-winning favorites, this collection is "a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth by Mark Hertsgaard Publisher Comments "Hot bravely takes aim at perhaps the greatest climate threat of all: apathy." — Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation "Hertsgaards answers . . . are lucid, realistic, and offer reason for hope." — Christian Science Monitor For... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi Publisher Comments When the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave in 1643 and wrote The Book of Five Rings, a manifesto on swordsmanship, strategy, and winning for his students and generations of samurai to come, he created one of the most perceptive and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present by Nick Lomb Publisher Comments A visually spectacular guide to the history, science and significance of Venus’s rare transits across the sun—the perfect companion to the transit on June 5, 2012 (the last one until 2117!)A transit of Venus is one of the rarest and most... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein Publisher Comments Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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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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Dudley's Handbook of Practical Gear Design and Manufacture, Second Edition by Stephen P Radzevich Synopsis For more than 30 years, the book Practical Gear Design, later re-titled the Handbook of Practical Gear Design, has been the leading engineering guide and reference on the subject. Now available again in this revised edition, the book is a detailed... (read more) Your price: $149.95 New - Hardcover
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Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End by David Darling Publisher Comments Celebrate the year of the Mayan Apocalypse in style with Megacatastrophes , as Dr David Darling and Dr Dirk Schulze-Makuch delve into the amazing science of the end of the world.Could it be the asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space, or a super... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Publisher Comments A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover
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Phytonutrients by Andrew (edt) Salter Publisher Comments Plants are a major source of nutrition in our diet, and offer an array of health benefits, yet many Western diets are still over-reliant upon animal-based foods. Growing evidence suggests that this emphasis on foods of animal origin may be linked to... (read more) Your price: $149.99 New - Hardcover
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The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins Publisher Comments THIS BOOK JUST MIGHT SAVE THE PLANET “When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second best time? Today.”—Chinese proverb Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman with a penchant... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fundamentals of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing by Alex Krulikowski Publisher Comments FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING 3E is a unique book that meets the needs of readers studying industrial technology, CAD, engineering technology, or manufacturing technology. This book clearly organizes geometric dimensioning and... (read more) Your price: $148.95 New - Trade Paper
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The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (Terry Lectures) by Nancy Ellen Abrams Review Winner of the 2012 Nautilus Gold Award for the science/cosmology category. The Nautilus Awards recognizes Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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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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The ComSoc Guide to Passive Optical Networks: Enhancing the Last Mile Access (Comsoc Guides to Communications Technologies) by Stephen Weinstein Publisher Comments Describes the major architectures, standards, and technologies of Passive Optical Networks (PONs)The ComSoc Guide to Passive Optical Networks provides readers with a concise explanation of the key features of Passive Optical Networks (PONs); the... (read more) Your price: $59.95 New - Trade Paper
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