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Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact
by John Cornwell  Synopsis From the bestselling author of Hitler's Pope comes a gripping in-depth account of Germany's horrific abuse of science and its consequences--then and now....
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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce, and Adventure
by Adam Leith Gollner Synopsis Adam Leith Gollner weaves business, science, and travel into a riveting narrative about one of earth's most desired foods: fruit....
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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce, and Adventure
by Adam Leith Gollner Synopsis Adam Leith Gollner weaves business, science, and travel into a riveting narrative about one of earth's most desired foods: fruit....
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel 
Publisher Comments An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd. It is also a captivating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.For centuries, the...
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Map That Changed the World CD: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments This is the fascinating story of William Smith, the 19th century engineer who painstakingly created the first geological map, but ended up homeless and in prison after he was swindled out of his profits, until a kindly aristocrat discovered him and he...
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The Day the Universe Changed
by James Burke Publisher Comments The companion to a BBC television series probing the origins of Western attitudes and institutions focuses on eight periods in history when a change in knowledge dramatically altered human understanding of ourselves and the world around....
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach Publisher Comments An oddly compelling, often hilarious forensic exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest...
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Natural Science & Planet Earth
by Edwin Newman Publisher Comments This series of cassettes on Science & Discovery recreates one of history's most successful journeys -- 4,000 years of scientific efforts to better understand the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom of accepted...
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Voyage to Mars
by Laurence Bergreen Synopsis Bergreen is an acclaimed writer and NASA insider who set out to understand the scientists who are reaching for Mars--the most charismatic, diverse group of space explorers ever. People want to know the inside story of NASA's missions to Mars, and...
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The Day the Universe Changed
by James Burke Publisher Comments When people knew the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth. Galileo's telescope changed the truth. And with that one change, all architecture, music, literature, science, politics -- everything changed,...
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop CD: Story Sci Sainthood Humble Genius Who Discovered New Hist EA
by Alan Cutler Publisher Comments The story of enigmatic scientist-turned-priest, Nicholas Steno, who first proposed that the shell-shaped rocks commonly found on Italian mountaintops actually were fossils--a notion completely antithetical to the 17th century theological and scientific...
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Stiff (Library Edition): The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
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Science in Antiquity
by Jon Mandaville Synopsis The scientific impulse can be said to have existed forever. But only with the written word did there emerge a record of speculations about how and why things happen. Middle Eastern civilizations developed ways to measure and describe (e.g. math and the...
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Six Great Scientists
by J. G. Crowther
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Galileo and the Stargazers
by Jim (nrt) Weiss
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Six Great Scientists
by J. G. Crowther
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Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age
by Michael Riordan
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