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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave a hardcover copy to my cousin last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Rocket Boys: A Memoir by Homer Hickam Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Publisher Comments Are we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dragons of Eden and Cosmos shows how scientific thinking can cut through prejudice and hysteria... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Knowledge Book: Everything You Need to Know to Get by in the 21st Century by National Geographic Publisher Comments Indispensable for every home, library, and office, The Knowledge Book distills thousands of years of humankind's most significant ideas and achievements... explains how they are linked and why they are important... and packs everything into a single... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are. by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments Only Henry Petroski, author of The Pencil, could make one never pick up a paper clip again without being overcome with feelings of awe and reverence. In his new book the author examines a host of techno-trivia questions – how the fork got its tines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments "I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,000 years. Why did history take such different evolutionary courses for peoples of different continents? This problem has... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram Publisher Comments This long-awaited work from one of the world's most respected scientists presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments — illustrated in the book by striking computer... (read more) List Price $40.50 Your price: $36.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life by John Maeda Publisher Comments Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte read me manuals. The iPod's clean gadgetry has made simplicity... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd Edition by Thomas S Kuhn Publisher Comments Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil Publisher Comments In his latest, thrilling foray into the future, a great inventor and futurist envisions an event--the "singularity"--in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that human bodies and brains will merge with machines.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier Staff Pick Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum Publisher Comments Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation — many of the most urgent problems of twenty-first century require scientific solutions. And yet Americans are paying less and less attention to scientists. For every five hours of cable news,... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Science Book: Everything You Need to Know about the World and How It Works by National Geographic Publisher Comments A delight for the casual reader, yet so complete and wide-ranging that science buffs and students will welcome it, The Science Book encapsulates centuries of scientific thought in one richly illustrated volume. Natural phenomena, revolutionary inventions,... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style by Randy Olson Publisher Comments You think too much You mother F@$#%&* think too much You're nothing but an arrogant, pointy headed intellectual -- I want you out of my classroom and off the premises in five minutes or I'm calling the police and having you arrested for trespassing... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science & Philosophy by Guy Murchie Publisher Comments "All life in all worlds" -- this was the object of the author's seventeen-year quest for knowledge and discovery, culminating in this book. In a manner unmistakably his own, Murchie delves into the interconnectedness of all life on the planet and of such... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cosmos by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments The best-selling science book ever published in the England language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) by Jeffrey Kluger Synopsis "Time" magazine reporter Kluger adeptly translates cutting-edge theory into high-octane history that surrounds the notion of simplexity--that simple things can be more complicated than they seem, and complex things more simple--and how this affects... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Science Dictionary 4TH Edition by Oxford University Pr Publisher Comments With clear, concise definitions of more than 7,000 terms, this dictionary is an ideal reference for students and non-scientists searching for definitions of widely used scientific terminology. This revised edition has added many new terms, reflecting... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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