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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman Publisher Comments Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world. What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the worlds most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski Synopsis How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s — the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 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 "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012 (12 Edition) by Tim Folger Publisher Comments Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this years volume of the finest science and nature writing.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler Publisher Comments A nondescript storefront operation in Los Angeles, California, the Museum of Jurassic Technology actually exists that may be the only thing about it that is for certain. The creation of David Wilson, a man of prodigiously unusual imagination, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable by John Brockman Publisher Comments The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious examples. Here, leading thinkers discuss ideas - whether they... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson Publisher Comments National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion (Large Print) by Chet Raymo Publisher Comments Years ago, noted science teacher and writer Chet Raymo embarked upon his own quest to reconcile the miracle stories he learned as a child with the science he learned as an adult. Skeptics and True Believersis the culmination of that searcha passionate... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living by Fritjof Capra Publisher Comments Fritjof Capra, bestselling author of The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life, here explores another frontier in the human significance of scientific ideas—applying complexity theory to large-scale social interaction. In the 1980s, complexity... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot Staff Pick The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot is one of my favorite books. Fascinating. Amazing! Physics, swamis, waves, and particles. Extremely readable.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L Park Publisher Comments In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how can we separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? From Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old" to unwarranted hype surrounding the International Space Station, Robert... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene Staff Pick Using Simpsons and X-Files examples, Brian Greene explains our current understanding of the universe. Whereas The Elegant Universe was primarily about the obscure, largely theoretical world of susperstring theory, Fabric of the Cosmos holds to more solid... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia by Gregory Benford Publisher Comments Human civilization has evolved to the point at which we have begun consciously sending messages into the far future. How should we communicate who we are, what we know, to asyet-unmet intelligent beings elsewhere in both time and space? Will they be able... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future by John Brockman Publisher Comments Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Chris Anderson, Nassim Taleb, and nearly 150 other intellectual rock stars reveal how the internet is changing our minds, culture, and future, in John Brockmans latest compendium from Harper Perennial and Edge.org.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay From Powells.com Winner of the 1991 Caldecott Medal for Black and White, author-illustrator David Macaulay has more than demonstrated his playful humor, imagination, and technical know-how in over fifteen books for children. His greatest success so far, though,... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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