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by Eric Brende  
Publisher Comments What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "... (read more)  List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. The Origin of Species... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dava Sobel
Powells.com 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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Seth Shulman Publisher Comments A gripping intrigue at the heart of one of the world's most important inventions. While researching Alexander Graham Bell at MIT's Dibner Institute, Seth Shulman scrutinized Bell's journals and within them he found the smoking gun, a hint of deeply... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 they’re just plain wrong. Take a fun journey through the history of science as it transforms from a field of wild speculation... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dava Sobel
Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Field Publisher Comments Step-by-step instructions to building more than 30 fascinating devices are included in this book for workbench warriors and grown-up geeks. Detailed illustrations and diagrams explain how to construct a simple radio with a soldering iron, a few basic... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Steele Gordon Publisher Comments Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe?the center of world affairs?was only as quick as the fastest ship could... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $2.24 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith Publisher Comments The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time. Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald A Norman Publisher Comments Technologies have a life cycle, says Donald A. Norman, and they must change as they pass from youth to maturity. Alas, the computer industry thinks it is still in its rebellious teenage years, exalting in technical complexity. Customers want change. They... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments Suspense, Intrigue, Magic and Mysticism at Its Best With unexpected plot twists, the two couples that translated unknown scrolls in Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls, are now shocked out of complacency when Ellen has a surprising encounter with a... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Marie Boas Hall Publisher Comments Exceptional work examines Copernican revolution, discusses alchemy, astrology and Harvey’s discovery of the circulatory system, Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, much more.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments Henry Petroski, "America's poet laureate of technology" (Kirkus Reviews) author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things — now gives us an entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life, while revealing the checkered pasts, and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Clifford D. Conner Publisher Comments We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Brockman Publisher Comments What was the greatest invention of the past 2,000 years, and why? This provocative question was posed to some of the world's foremost scientific and creative thinkers, including several Nobel laureates. Their answers may surprise you. Lively and thought-... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rich Gold Publisher Comments We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound: composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Amir D Aczel Publisher Comments Sometimes it pays to be in the right place at the right time. Certainly the mariners in Amalfi in the twelfth century were. Here the compass was first invented and used in navigation, eventually helping to make Italians the world's greatest sailors.But... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Whitelaw Publisher Comments Every wonder how long a cubit really is? How much is in a hogshead and what it refers to? Or the difference between a light year, a parsec and a Planck length? How many pings there are in an acre and who uses which term in what context? Every wonder... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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