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by Richard Dawkins  
Powells.com Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave a hardcover copy to my cousin last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more)  List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher Comments In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (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 - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by David Macaulay Publisher Comments From levers to lasers, from cameras to computers, this 384-page volume is a remarkable overview of the machines and inventions that shape our lives, amusingly presented with a large dose of Macaulay's wit and personality.... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Gleick Publisher Comments Chaos records the birth of a new science. This new science offers a way of seeing order and pattern where formerly only the random, the erratic, the unpredictable – in short, the chaotic – had been observed. Chaos is a history of discovery... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Homer Hickam Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel J. Levitin
Powells.com Staff Pick A revelation for music buffs and science geeks — and all the better if you happen to be both. How do memory and music work together? What makes timbre? How do writers like Lennon and McCartney, or John Coltrane and Miles Davis, manipulate our... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter J Bowler Publisher Comments The development of science, according to respected scholars Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus, expands our knowledge and control of the world in ways that affect-but are also affected by-society and culture. In "Making Modern Science," a text designed... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Dawkins
Powells.com Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave it to my cousin in hardcover last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by New Scientist Publisher Comments Following the immensely popular "Does Anything Eat Wasps?," this compendium from popular science magazine "New Scientist" has even more of the baffling questions, outlandish explanations, and scientific strangeness that makes this book compulsively... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Bryson
Powells.com 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. Recommended by... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Samir Okasha Publisher Comments What is science? Is there a real difference between science and myth? Is science objective? Can science explain everything? This Very Short Introduction provides a concise overview of the main themes of contemporary philosophy of science. Beginning with... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sir Martin Rees Publisher Comments From world-renowned astrophysicist Sir Martin Rees, a timely, brisk, and alarming look at the way today's technology could spell the end of tomorrow. Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour's provocative argument... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Brockman Publisher Comments More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof. Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Publisher Comments Are we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dragons of Eden and Cosmos shows how scientific thinking can cut through prejudice and hysteria... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nikola Tesla and David Hatcher Childress Publisher Comments From the publishers that bring you such cherished yumminess as The Case for the Face, Who Killed Diana?, and Dark Moon comes this fine printing of some of Tesla's own writings along with additional material by David Hatcher Childress. Includes: The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joy Hakim Publisher Comments Newton is the focal point of Book Two of Hakim's The Story of Science series, with his monumental discoveries about gravity, motion, and light marking the true beginning of science as it is known today.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Robinson Publisher Comments A portrait of scientist Thomas Young relates the life of the remarkable man who made major contributions in such fields as physics, languages, and music, describing how he proposed the light-wave theory and the three-color theory of vision, and was... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeff Hawkins Publisher Comments From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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