by Erik Larson  
Powells.com Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan.... (read more) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Brian Bagnall Publisher Comments Filled with first-hand accounts of ambition, greed, and inspired engineering, this history of the personal computer revolution takes readers inside the cutthroat world of Commodore. Before Apple, IBM, or Dell, Commodore was the first computer maker to... (read more) Your Price $20.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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) Your Price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Eric Brende
Publisher Comments What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Leonard Susskind Publisher Comments What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe... (read more) Your Price $23.00 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Ray Kurzweil
Powells.com Staff Pick The future of humanity in Kurzweil's eyes is a startling vision of humans moving beyond our biological bodies to join with computers — the human machine. Controversial and insightful, Singularity illuminates the technologies that are pushing the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your Price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments "The Origin of Species" sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. "The Origin of... (read more) Your Price $7.99 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
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by Dava Sobel and William J. H. Andrewes Publisher Comments A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Adam Leith Gollner Publisher Comments Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's... (read more) Your Price $20.00 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Howard K Bloom Publisher Comments The Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that "evil" is a by-product of nature's strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Erik Larson
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable follow-up to his hit thriller Devil in the White City, Erik Larson applies his considerable skill to craft a story of invention and murder. A tightly written page-turner. Recommended by Michal, Powells... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Stephen Hawking
Publisher Comments "A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your Price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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