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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M Mitchell Waldrop Publisher Comments Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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God and the New Physics by Paul Davies Publisher Comments How did the universe begin and how will it end? What is matter? What is mind, and can it survive death? What are time and space, and how do they relate to ideas about God? Is the order of the universe the result of accident or design? The most profound... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla and David Hatcher Childress Publisher Comments From the publishers that bring you such cherished yumminess as The Case for the Face, Who Killed Diana?, and Dark Moon comes this fine printing of some of Tesla's own writings along with additional material by David Hatcher Childress. Includes: The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civic Society in Cyberspace by Douglas Schuler Publisher Comments Information and computer technologies are used every day by real people with real needs. The authors contributing to Shaping the Network Society describe how technology can be used effectively by communities, activists, and citizens to meet society's... (read more) List Price $50.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments "Carl Sagan didn't live to see the millennium, but he probably has done more than any other popular scientist to prepare us for its arrival". -- Atlanta Journal... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene 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."... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments Stephen Hawking& #8217; s worldwide bestseller, < i> A Brief History of Time< /i> , has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author& #8217; s engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Possession by Ann Rule Publisher Comments Joanne Lindstrom's camping trip to Washington's Cascade mountains goes terribly awry--leaving her husband dead, and Joanne's only hope for survival with a twisted stranger.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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Digital Libraries (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing) by William Arms Publisher Comments The emergence of the Internet and the wide availability of affordable computing equipment have created tremendous interest in digital libraries and electronic publishing. This book is the first to provide an integrated overview of the field, including a... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy & the Global Information Infrastructure by Brian Kahin Publisher Comments Today millions of technologically empowered individuals are able to participate freely in international transactions and enterprises, social and economic. These activities are governed by national and local laws designed for simpler times and now... (read more) List Price $66.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Quantum World (Princeton Science Library) by John Polkinghorne Review The author's life as well as his oeuvre, especially this lovely little book, bear testimony to the fact that . . . science and nature can coexist in harmonious complementarity.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku Publisher Comments A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible (from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks) revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future. One hundred years ago... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Laws of the Game: How the Principles of Nature Govern Chance (Princeton Science Library) by M Manfred Eigen Publisher Comments Using game theory and examples of actual games people play, Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler show how the elements of chance and rules underlie all that happens in the universe, from genetic behavior through economic growth to the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry by Mario Livio Publisher Comments What do the music of J. S. Bach, the basic forces of nature, Rubik's Cube, and the selection of mates have in common? They are all characterized by certain symmetries. Symmetry is the concept that bridges the gap between science and art, between the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar (Paperback) by Eric S Raymond Publisher Comments Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Who Gives a Gigabyte: A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed by Gary Stix Publisher Comments An exhilarating chronicle of the most revolutionary advancements in recent-and future-technology Which new technologies are bound to have the biggest impact on our lives in the years ahead? This groundbreaking book looks at the latest technological... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $3.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen Publisher Comments Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen warns in THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR–our newspaper, magazine, music, and movie industries–are being supplanted by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Our newspapers’ advertising... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Coordinating the Internet (Publication of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Projec) by Brian Kahin Publisher Comments For years, the world saw the Internet as a creature of the U.S. Department of Defense. Now some claim that the Internet is a self-governing organism controlled by no one and needing no oversight. Although the National Science Foundation and other... (read more) List Price $47.75 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity by John Gribbin Publisher Comments Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds From Powells.com William Blake saw "the world in a grain of sand." David Edmonds and John Eidinow had something trickier in mind. They sought to find buried in the details of a ten minute argument the entire intellectual history of the 20th century... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Hardcover
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