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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner Publisher Comments The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation, the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies, including the integrated circuit, the communications satellite and the cell phone.From its... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson Publisher Comments “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Longitude : True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (05 Edition) by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Staff Pick This learned and amusing work covers the origin of the universe to the human genome. A welcome journey with Bryson in typical wise and witty fashion.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments During the 1530s, rumors began to spread throughout Europe of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland. Its architect was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. Around 1514, Copernicus had... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil 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... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Engineers by Dk Publishing Publisher Comments From the earliest engineers such as Archimedes and Hero of Alexandria, heroes of the Industrial Revolution like Eli Whitney and Alessandro Volta, and pioneers of the Modern Age with Henry Ford and Wernher von Braun, Engineers looks at more than eighty of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Man Who Knew Too Much (06 Edition) by David Leavitt Publisher Comments Outlines the Bletchley Park mathematician's efforts to launch artificial intelligence innovations, describing his thwarted attempts to gain support for a programmable calculating machine, his contributions to cracking the Nazi Enigma code during World... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel 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... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Illustrated Longitude by Dava Sobel and William J. H. Andrewes Publisher Comments When Dava Sobel's Longitude was published to universal acclaim in 1995, readers voiced only one regret: that it was not illustrated. Now, William Andrewes, the man who organized and hosted the Longitude Symposium that inspired her book, has joined Dava... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney Publisher Comments In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time... by John Grant Publisher Comments Alchemy, the flat earth theory, lost worlds, and aliens among us: these ideas once seemed plausible—but now we know theyre just plain wrong. Take a fun journey through the history of science as it transforms from a field of wild speculation into a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Six Degrees the Science of a Connected Age by Duncan J Watts Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-356) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Staff Pick Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder is at once a history of Regency-era scientific discovery and a meditation on what the pursuit of science says about us as individuals and as a culture. Scrupulously researched and deftly told, this book is an epic... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson's exciting, informative journey into the world of science. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, beloved author Bill Bryson... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen Publisher Comments If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Empires of Light : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race To Electrify the World (05 Edition) by Jill Jonnes Publisher Comments At the close of the nineteenth century, three visionaries strove to establish mastery over the electrification of America. Within this endeavor lay the promise of vast fortunes, but what was really at stake was the chance for one of these men to make his... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn by Pip Coburn Publisher Comments The ultimate guide to predicting winners and losers in high technology Pip Coburn became famous for writing some of the liveliest reports on Wall Street. He quoted everyone from Machiavelli to HAL, Anaïs Nin to Yoda, Einstein to Gandhi. But along with... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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