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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel  
Powells.com Staff Pick "An account of the man who developed the technology which allowed sailors to determine their longitude at sea. If you don't know where you are, it's hard to know where you're going, whether you've gotten there or if you've missed your target. If, while...
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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived
by Daniel H. Wilson and Richard Horne
Powells.com Staff Pick If you are like me, the Roomba just does not cut it when what I expect is the domestic help of the robot maid featured on The Jetsons. In this highly entertaining look at futuristic inventions once envisioned, but never fully realized, Daniel Wilson...
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Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
by Henry Petroski
Powells.com Staff Pick Fear not! Despite the sound of the title, Success through Failure is blissfully free of the latest corporate management philosophies. Instead of business jargon, engineering and design author Henry Petroski focuses on the fascinating cycle of mistakes...
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Thunderstruck
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...
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Backyard Ballistics
by William Gurstelle
Powells.com Staff Pick As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick What happens to your body after you?re dead? If you?ve been generous enough to donate your body to science, quite a lot can happen to it. Author Mary Roach writes a strangely compelling?and often quite funny?book about dead bodies. While it might appear...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places...
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An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
by Gabrielle Walker
Powells.com Staff Pick Fans of Dava Sobel and Simon Winchester: this book is for you. A fascinating brief history of the scientists and mathematicians who discovered the atmosphere that makes our planet habitable, Walker's intricate and engaging book quickly captures the...
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The Diamond Makers
by Robert M. Hazen
Powells.com Staff Pick The manufacture of synthetic diamonds is one of the lesser-known obsessions of science, a field alled "high pressure research." Recorded attempts at manufacturing diamonds go back to 1828, but repeated/documented success did not occur until 1954, in...
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Turk Chess Playing Machine
by Tom Standage
Powells.com Staff Pick "FABULOUS! This amazing (and true) tale of a chess-playing automaton reads like classic detective fiction. You will be up all night trying to uncover the secrets of the Turk!" Jamie Peruzzo, Powells.com...
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Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement
by Phillip Prodger
Powells.com Staff Pick 150 years ago, when photography was still new, it was considered as formal an art form as painting or drawing. But photographer Eadweard Muybridge changed all that. His work with motion studies?finding out how animals and humans actually moved on film...
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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...
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The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World
by Lawrence Goldstone and Nancy Goldstone
Powells.com Staff Pick Cryptogrophy fans will love this historical unsolved mystery. Great illustrations! Recommended by Ryan, Powell's Technical Books...
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Longitude : the True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (05 Edition)
by Dava Sobel
Powells.com Staff Pick "An account of the man who developed the technology which allowed sailors to determine their longitude at sea. If you don't know where you are, it's hard to know where you're going, whether you've gotten there or if you've missed your target. If, while...
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The Fly in the Cathedral
by Brian Cathcart
Powells.com Staff Pick A revealing, absorbing, detailed account and re-creation of the most celebrated scientific experiment of its time — the splitting of the atom. Recommended by Ryan, Powell's Technical Books...
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