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The New Barbarian Manifesto: How to Survive the Information Age by Ian O Angell Publisher Comments Technology and the Information Age have been hailed as the great liberators -- genies that will free us all from enslavement to mundane chores and the daily grind, and empower all those that are computer literate. Not so, according to Ian Angell, dubbed "... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan W Hirshfeld PW Review "Nineteenth-century English scientist Faraday, who made the revolutionary discovery that electricity, magnetism and light are all related, personified the self-made man. Son of a blacksmith, Faraday (1791 — 1867) was apprenticed at an early age to a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity by Thomas Landauer Publisher Comments Despite enormous investments in computers over the last twenty years, productivity in the very service industries at which they were aimed virtually stagnated everywhere in the world.If computers are not making businesses, organizations, or countries... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Infamous Boundary: Seven Decades of Heresy in Quantum Physics by David Wick Publisher Comments "Provides (an)...accurate portrait of the essence of the disputes, both epistemological and technical, that characterize contemporary inquiry. This book will profit any reader-physicist, mathematician, philosopher, or civilian-who wants a comprehensive... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible and Other Journeys by James Burke Publisher Comments For James Burke, knowledge is a vast interconnected web -- which means you never know how a new discovery or development or even a chance accident will affect everything else. To prove his point, he takes us on twenty exhilarating, all-new journeys... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Clone the Perfect Blonde by Sue Nelson Publisher Comments Want to travel back in time to your high school prom? Wish your brain had a “hard drive” that remembered all of your appointments? Wouldn’t you love to have a permanent size 6 figure? Why can’t robots make your bed every morning? &... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Longitude by Dava Sobel Synopsis First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries until John Harrison dared to... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Why the Sky Is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life by Götz Hoeppe Publisher Comments "This delightful combination of science and history should be required reading for poets, pilots, artists, weather watchers, and anyone who ever marveled at the manifest colors of the sky or wondered why it is only sometimes 'blue.'"--James Rodger... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Anti Gravity: Allegedly Humorous Writing from Scientific American by Steve Mirsky Publisher Comments Steve Mirsky, humorist and podcaster, has entertained and provoked readers of Scientific American magazine in his "Anti Gravity” column for the past ten years. With his sharp wit, wide-ranging interests, and droll application of a scientific... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 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: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Pandora's Seed: Why the Hunter-Gatherer Holds the Key to Our Survival by Spencer Wells Publisher Comments Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Discovering Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Lessons of Prehistory by Mark A Norell Publisher Comments Expanded and updated This handsome book addresses the questions of what the fossil record tells us about the evolution and extinction of dinosaurs, what their relationship to the rest of the organic world was, and what we can learn from them about our... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life by Len Fisher Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-244) and index.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship by John Polkinghorne Publisher Comments Despite the differences of their subject matter, science and theology have a cousinly relationship, John Polkinghorne contends in his latest thought-provoking book. From his unique perspective as both theoretical physicist and Anglican priest... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Discover Nature in the Weather (Discover Nature Series) by Tim Herd Publisher Comments Concise introduction to the hows and whys of weather Lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes, snowstorms Meteorology explores the earth's weather and attempts to explain the various phenomena associated with it, from the continuous movement of water in the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Patently Silly: From the Collapsible Walker to the Incinerating Toilet, the Craziest Inventions Ever Devised by Daniel Wright Publisher Comments Someone very wise once said, "Necessity is the mother of invention."Patently Silly asks, "Who is the father?" Building on the international reputation of the eponymous Web site Patently Silly is what you get when a stand-up comedian earns an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Popular Science: The Future Now FYI: 229 Curious Questions Answered by the World's Smartest People by Bjorn Carey Publisher Comments Just how old is dirt, really? Are men or women more likely to be hit by lightning? What do whales sing about? Why don’t we have our jetpacks or flying cars yet? If I had to, could I survive on cat food alone? ...and 224 more curious questions... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al Khalili Publisher Comments A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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To seek out new life :the biology of Star Trek by Athena Andreadis Publisher Comments The Star Trek TV series, movies, and books have speculated as much about the nature and potential of life as they have about such inorganic concerns as warp speed. black holes, and time travel. In The Biology of Star Trek, Athena Andreadis uses her... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things by Laurence Gonzales Publisher Comments "Curiosity, awareness, attention," Laurence Gonzales writes. "Those are the tools of our everyday survival. . . . We all must be scientists at heart or be victims of forces that we don't understand." In this fascinating account, Gonzales turns his talent... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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