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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Brian Greene presents the bizarre world of quantum mechanics and string theory using language accessible to all while taking the reader on an exciting journey through a truly unusual universe." Blane, Powells...
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis
Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work...
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
Publisher Comments Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If...
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The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking Publisher Comments Stephen Hawking?s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to readers all over the world. Now, in a major publishing event, Hawking returns with a lavishly...
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention...
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Six Easy Pieces Essentials of Physics Ex
by Richard P Feynman
Publisher Comments Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the post–World War II period. His career was extraordinarily expansive. From his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb a Los Alamos during...
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
by David Quammen Publisher Comments In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and...
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The Self Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature
by Philip Ball
Powells.com Staff Pick This is one of those wonderful books that you can open up to any page and find something interesting. From why lightning looks like cracks in glass, to why trees look like river drainage systems, to how zebras get their stripes, this book never fails to...
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The Particle Odyssey: A Journey to the Heart of Matter
by Frank Close and Michael Marten and Christine Sutton Publisher Comments The Particle Odyssey takes the reader on a spectacular illustrated journey to the heart of matter. In clear, non-technical language the authors describe the key experiments and fundamental discoveries which have led to our current understanding of the...
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Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space, and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
by Timothy Ferris
From Powells.com Entwining his personal reminiscences as a backyard stargazer with those of fellow enthusiasts, Timothy Ferris introduces readers to the wonders of amateur astronomy. "Amateur" appears as a misnomer when Ferris examines the advances in...
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