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What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
by John Brockman  Publisher Comments More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof. Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated...
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edwin A Abbott 
Publisher Comments Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction — charmingly illustrated by the author — describes the adventures of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no...
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Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? And 114 Other Questions
by New Scientist Publisher Comments Following the immensely popular "Does Anything Eat Wasps?," this compendium from popular science magazine "New Scientist" has even more of the baffling questions, outlandish explanations, and scientific strangeness that makes this book compulsively...
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
by Stephen W. Hawking Publisher Comments Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme...
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Ideas & Opinions
by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments Ideas and Opinions contains essays by eminent scientist Albert Einstein on subjects ranging from atomic energy, relativity, and religion to human rights, and economics. Previously published articles, speeches, and letters are gathered here to create a...
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Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life
by Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments In this funny, inspiring, and revelatory book, a young scientist looks back at the time he shared with Richard Feynman. In the early 1980s, Leonard Mlodinow came to the California Institute of Technology to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. Afraid he...
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
by Ellen Ullman
Publisher Comments A candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs a computer consulting business out of her live-work loft in San Francisco's multimedia gulch. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would like to give in...
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R.U.R. (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Karel Capek Publisher Comments Great play, that introduced the word "robot" into English, looks to a future in which all workers are automatons. They revolt when they acquire souls (i.e., when they gain the ability to hate) and the resulting catastrophe make for a powerful and deeply...
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
by Timothy Ferris Publisher Comments Winner of the 1988 American Institute of Physics Prize and named one of 1988's best books by the New York Times Book Review, this brilliant, lively and informative book seeks to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time and how this quest has...
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Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
by Michael Paterniti
Publisher Comments A journalist, an 84-year-old pathologist, and Albert Einstein's brain rocket across the country through the palpable zeitgeist of contemporary America. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, "Driving Mr. Albert" is one of the most...
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Wrinkles in Time
by George Smoot Publisher Comments Behold the Handwriting of God Astrophysicist and adventurer George Smoot spent twenty years pursuing the "holy grail of science" -- a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. For decades he...
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information-processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they...
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Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics
by Nick Herbert Publisher Comments This clearly explained layman's introduction to quantum physics is an accessible excursion into metaphysics and the meaning of reality.    Herbert exposes the quantum world and the scientific and philosophical controversy about its...
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Next: The Future Just Happened
by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments In Liar's Poker the barbarians seized control of the bond markets. In The New New Thing some guys from Silicon Valley redefined the American economy. Now, with his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged...
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Tunneling Earthworms (Pull Ahead Books)
by Suzanne Paul Dell'oro Publisher Comments Responding to the call of educators for easy-to-read nonfiction for younger students, Lerner created the Pull Ahead Books series. With higher-level thinking questions built into each text, this innovative series engages new readers in their own learning....
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Big Numbers: A Mind Expanding Trip to Infinity and Back
by Mary Gribbin Publisher Comments An entertaining, mind-twisting roller-coaster of a ride through math, physics, chemistry and biology that makes learning fun for the whole family. Big Numbers is a brilliant and imaginative book which paints a comparative scale of phenomena in our world,...
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Ripples on a Cosmic Sea: The Search for Gravitational Waves (Frontiers of Science)
by David G Blair Publisher Comments What these scientists find will allow us to listen to the explosion of stars, the creation of black holes, even the sound of the Big Bang itself, and will undoubtedly chart a new course for astronomy in the coming millennium....
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Looking Backward (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edward Bellamy Publisher Comments Stimulating, thought-provoking utopian fantasy about a young man who's put into a hypnotic trance in the late 19th century and awakens in the year 2000 to find crime, war, and want nonexistent....
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The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
by Francis Crick Publisher Comments Traditionally, the human soul is regarded as a nonphysical concept that can only be examined by psychiatrists and theologists. In his new book, "The Astonishing Hypothesis", Nobel Laureate Francis Crick boldly straddles the line between science and...
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company:...
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