Science & Technology
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Gutsy Girls Go for Science: Paleontologists: With STEM Projects for Kids
$14.95 Read moreHands-on science projects pair up with inspiring biographies of female paleontologists in a full-color book for ages 8 to 11 that will have kids digging in their own backyards and making real-world le
- Series: Gutsy Girls
- Author: Bush Gibson, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1619307936
- Language: English
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Jérôme LeJeune: A Man of Science and Conscience
$19.95 Read moreThe intelligence of one is a gift for all. Such is the case of J?r?me Lejeune, an extraordinary man who put his brilliance at the service of children with Down syndrome.
A pioneer of modern genetics, D
- Author: Dugast, Aude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1621644111
- Language: English
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The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation
$18.99 Read moreOne of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA’s history, George W. S. Abbey was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight t… [more below]
- Author: Cassutt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1641603186
- Language: English
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Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project’s Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio
$26.95 Add to cartAt the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest’s most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the … [more below]
- Series: Trillium
- Author: Thomas, Linda Carrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0814254047
- Language: English
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-And the World
$17.00 Add to cartFifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists.
“Rachel Swaby’s no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries- Author: Swaby, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0553446797
- Language: English
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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space
$26.00 Add to cartThe basis of the 2014 award-winning feature-length documentary A revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American Space Program from one of its pioneers.
Eugene Cernan was a unique American- Author: Cernan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312263511
- Language: English
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The Starship and the Canoe
$18.95 Add to cart“The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know… [more below]
- Author: Brower, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1680512781
- Language: English
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Leap of Faith: An Astronaut’s Journey Into the Unknown
$22.00 Add to cart“An exciting insider’s look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASA’s internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls” by a pioneering astronaut (Publishers Weekly).
Gordon “Gordo” C- Author: Cooper, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1504054245
- Language: English
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Integrity comes with a price
$21.95 Add to cartI will continue to blow the trumpet for democracy in the state of Antigua and Barbuda.At the end of my life, I would only want to be remembered as that drop of water that bore a hole in the stone, not
- Author: Young, Trevor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1685263402
- Language: English
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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
$26.00 Add to cartIn 2010, the French mathematician C dric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof that he devised with his close collaborator Cl ment Mouhot
- Author: Villani, Cédric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536678
- Language: English
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Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
$21.99 Read moreFor the first time, this is a collection of our greatest science writer’s commentary on the best of contemporary science literature, including exclusive new material from other great thinkers
Includi- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1529176492
- Language: English
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The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
$17.99 Add to cartMeave Leakey’s thrilling, high-stakes memoir–written with her daughter Samira–encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all th… [more below]
- Author: Leakey, Meave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0358629225
- Language: English
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Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science
$28.99 Read more“Evolutionary botanist Zimmerman discusses her passion for plants and inveighs against sexism in the sciences in her marvelous debut memoir…Throughout, Zimmerman’s enthusiasm and expertise make the … [more below]
- Author: Zimmerman, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1685890709
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of Nasa’s Visionary Leader George M. Low
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the “ultimate engineer” du
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Jurek, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 149622941X
- Language: English
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The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth
$16.99 Read moreAt once joyful and profoundly shocking, this is the story of birth, straight from the delivery room.
Strongest supporter, best friend, expert, cheerleader, and chief photographer . . .
Before, duri- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1789464579
- Language: English
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Galileo: And the Science Deniers
$18.00 Add to cartAn “intriguing and accessible” (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history’s greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and… [more below]
- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1501194747
- Language: English
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Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It
$31.99 Add to cartA novel account of how the law contributes to the insecurity of our data and a bold way to rethink it.
Digital connections permeate our lives-and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for … [more below]- Author: Solove, Daniel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0190940557
- Language: English
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The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers
$25.99 Read moreThe story of the people who see beyond the stars–an astronomy book for adults still spellbound by the night sky
Embark on a captivating cosmic journey with The Last Stargazers. This enthralling book t
- Author: Levesque, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1492681075
- Language: English
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Privacy and Freedom
$24.95 Read more“He was the most important scholar of privacy since Louis Brandeis.”–Jeffrey Rosen
In defining privacy as “the claim of individuals…to determine for themselves when, how and to what extent informati
- Author: Westin, Alan F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1935439979
- Language: English
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Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell
$21.99 Add to cartIn the 1930s, while the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression sent most of America into the doldrums, a lively intellectual and artistic community formed in the West, revolving around three legendary fri
- Author: Tamm, Eric Enno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 28 2005
- ISBN10: 1560256893
- Language: English
