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by Stephen W Hawking  Publisher Comments At the very frontiers of science, professor Stephen Hawking invites you to be a fellow traveler on an extraordinary voyage through space-time. Full-color illustrations.... (read more)  List Price $35.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ira Winkler Publisher Comments They truly ARE everywhere. But if you're looking for James Bond or Sydney Bristow, you're going to be disappointed. The real spies are so much more effective. They convinced your neighbor to "confirm" his PayPal information at a bogus Web site where... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $1.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Rheingold Publisher Comments Imagine being able to "walk" into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it's science fact. Surgeons now rehearse operations on computer-generated "virtual" patients, and architects "walk through... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $2.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company:... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $2.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Arms Publisher Comments An integrated overview of the creation and the distribution over networks of all types of information, ranging from converted historical materials to kinds of information that have no analogues in the physical world.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $13.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by P B Medawar Publisher Comments To those interested in a life in science, Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel laureate, deflates the myths of invincibility, superiority, and genius; instead, he demonstrates it is common sense and an inquiring mind that are essential to the scientist’s... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Redhead Publisher Comments Drawn from the Tarner lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1993, this book deals with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as relativity and quantum theory. The author examines subjectivity in science... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Aviel Roshwald Publisher Comments A major new study of the ancient roots of nationalism and its enduring power in the modern world.... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price $20.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Crossman Publisher Comments A positive look at how talking computers, VIVOs, will make text/written language obsolete, replace all writing and reading with speech and graphics, democratize information flow worldwide, and recreate an oral culture by 2050. Text is an ancient... (read more) Your price $13.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Neil F Comins Publisher Comments One of the great paradoxes of modern times is that the more scientists understand the natural world, the more we discover that our everyday beliefs about it are wrong. Astronomy, in particular, is one of the most misunderstood scientific disciplines.... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $9.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Davies Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A. K. Dewdney Publisher Comments An entertaining and irreverent expose of science gone wrong In his critically acclaimed success 2000f Nothing, A.K. Dewdney revealed the alarming shenanigans of those who use bad math to deceive us. Now he turns his sharp-witted eye on the practitioners... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence M Krauss Publisher Comments “Assume the cow is a sphere.” So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe. Rich with anecdotes and accessible... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John J Fontanella Publisher Comments A physics professor who played in college reveals the key pieces of physics that underscore basketball. He covers almost every aspect of the game, weaving in stories from games he's played and games he's seen, and tales from basketball history and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Kahin Publisher Comments Today millions of technologically empowered individuals are able to participate freely in international transactions and enterprises, social and economic. These activities are governed by national and local laws designed for simpler times and now... (read more) List Price $66.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Stix Publisher Comments Welche der neuen Technologien werden unser zukünftiges Leben am nachhaltigsten beeinflussen? Die Autoren dieses Buches laden ein zu einer faszinierenden Reise durch die "schöne neue Welt" der Gentherapie und der wiederverwertbaren Autos. Werfen... (read more) List Price $8.47 Your price $5.43 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David J. Darling Publisher Comments Until recently the stuff of sci-fi fiction and Star Trek reruns, teleportation has become a reality. Though the current state of the science can only transport such light fare as subatomic particles, it's only a matter of time before larger atoms... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by M Mitchell Waldrop Publisher Comments Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rick Sternbach Publisher Comments The < I> Star Trek: The Next Generation< sup> < font size=-2> & reg< /font> < /sup> Technical Manual< /i> , written by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda, the technical advisors to < I> Star Trek: The Next... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Leer Synopsis We live in a digital age - the wired world. But what does this mean for the way we work, our industries and for business in general? This book is a mix of policy, economics, sociology, technology and, importantly, how they impact on the way we do... (read more) Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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