|
There are 202 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
Featured Titles in Popular Science - Used Books
Page 1 of 11 next
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
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
by Roger Penrose
Publisher Comments
Since the earliest efforts of the ancient Greeks to find order amid the chaos around us, there has been continual accelerated progress toward understanding the laws that govern our universe. And the particularly important advances made by means of the... ( read more)
List Price $40.00
Your price: $19.95
Used - Hardcover
A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down
by Robert B. Laughlin
Publisher Comments
Not since Richard Feynman has a Nobel Prize-winning physicist written with as much panache as Robert Laughlin does in this revelatory and essential book. Laughlin proposes nothing less than a new way of understanding fundamental laws of science. In this... ( read more)
List Price $26.00
Your price: $12.00
Used - Hardcover
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... ( read more)
List Price $13.95
Your price: $3.00
Used - Trade Paper
How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life
by Len Fisher
Publisher Comments
Praised as "the man who put the fun into physics" by the International Herald Tribune, Dr. Len Fisher has written an exceedingly lively and entertaining book on the science of everyday life. Following the routine of a normal day, Fisher shows how the... ( read more)
List Price $14.00
Your price: $3.88
Used - Trade Paper
Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability
by C A Bowers
Publisher Comments
Do computers foster cultural diversity? Ecological sustainability? In our age of high-tech euphoria we seem content to leave tough questions like these to the experts. That dangerous inclination is at the heart of this important examination of the... ( read more)
List Price $22.95
Your price: $8.00
Used - Trade Paper
The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe
by Timothy Ferris
Publisher Comments
For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a startling new discovery. From Earth, the light of distant galaxies appeared to be red, meaning that those galaxies were receding... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $3.00
Used - Trade Paper
Grt Mambo Chicken PB
by Ed Regis
Publisher Comments
Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms, building time machines, hatching plans for dismantling the sun, enclosing the solar system in a cosmic... ( read more)
List Price $17.50
Your price: $4.00
Used - Trade Paper
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: $14.00
Used - Hardcover
Perfect Store: Inside Ebay
by Adam Cohen
Publisher Comments
When Pierre Omidyar decided to start an online auction site, his friends told him he was crazy. But within a few years, Omidyar was worth $4 billion and the company he founded, eBay, was the most successful e-commerce site in history. Once a tiny auction... ( read more)
List Price $25.95
Your price: $7.50
Used - Hardcover
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... ( read more)
List Price $27.95
Your price: $4.95
Used - Hardcover
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
by Sven Birkerts
Publisher Comments
"[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it."<BR>--The Washington Post<BR>In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary... ( read more)
List Price $19.00
Your price: $6.00
Used - Trade Paper
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
Quantum World (Princeton Science Library)
by J C 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: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper
The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, with Special References to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy
by Nikola Tesla
Synopsis
When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement, we must accept this as a physical fact. But can any one doubt to-day that all the millions of individuals and... ( read more)
List Price $8.95
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper
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
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
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: $11.95
Used - Hardcover
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
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: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper
|
see more featured titles
|  |
| 
Don't Miss