Science & Technology
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Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption
$12.99 Read moreThe gripping and untold story of how Global Witness have uncovered a worldwide network of highly organized criminality, kleptocracy and corruption and exposed the people behind it.
Arms trafficking,- Author: Alley, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1913183505
- Language: English
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Journey Through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics
$40.00 Add to cartPraise for William Dunham s Journey Through Genius The GreatTheorems of Mathematics “Dunham deftly guides the reader throughthe verbal and logical intricacies of major mathematical questionsand proofs… [more below]
- Series: Wiley Science Editions
- Author: Dunham, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 16 1991
- ISBN10: 0471500305
- Language: English
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Carl Sagan: A Life
$30.95 Add to cartA penetrating, mesmerizing biography of a scientific icon
“Absolutely fascinating . . . Davidson has done a remarkable job.”-Sir Arthur C. Clarke
“Engaging . . . accessible, carefully documented . . . s
- Author: Davidson, Keay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 580
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0471395366
- Language: English
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Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
$27.99 Add to cartHe studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. John Archibald Wheeler’s fascinating life brings us face to face with the
- Author: Wheeler, John Archibald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319911
- Language: English
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The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
$23.99 Add to cartWorlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut
In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenect- Author: Strand, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536538
- Language: English
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100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World
$29.95 Read moreArranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World charts the great b
- Author: Salter, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 1911663542
- Language: English
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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
$17.99 Add to cartThe science behind the traits and quirks that drive creative geniuses to make spectacular breakthroughs
What really distinguishes the people who literally change the world — those creative geniuses- Author: Schilling, Melissa A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1541724534
- Language: English
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It’s Been a Good Life
$28.99 Add to cartNew one-volume autobiography spans Asimov’s life for the first time!As one of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Asimov became legendary for his inexhaustible creativ… [more below]
- Author: Asimov, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1573929689
- Language: English
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Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World
$20.99 Add to cartA critically acclaimed nature writer explores the citizen scientist movement through the lens of entomological field research in the American Southwest.
Award-winning nature writer Sharman Apt Russel- Author: Russell, Sharman Apt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1504083008
- Language: English
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William A. Richards Diaries of a Frontier Surveyor: in Nebraska and Wyoming
$26.95 Add to cartThese unique diaries give a vivid, you-are-there view of what surveyors went through during the westward expansion. Richards, who eventually becomes governor of Wyoming and commissioner of the U.S. Ge
- Author: McCreery, Lucia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988101604
- Language: English
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The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life While Corresponding about Math
$22.95 Add to cartThe Calculus of Friendship is the story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student, as chronicled through more than thirty years of letters between them. What makes their relations
- Author: Strogatz, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0691150389
- Language: English
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept
When renowned scientist Isaac Newton took up the po
- Author: Levenson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0547336047
- Language: English
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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
$20.00 Add to cartDuring World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz’s Angel o… [more below]
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette Matalon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140169318
- Language: English
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Einstein: The Man and His Mind
$70.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented visual biography of the iconic pioneer of modern physics, with signed photographs, letters, manuscripts and more
A one-of-a-kind, hard-cover, 4.4 pound book with rarely-seen photos of
- Author: Berger, Gary S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 8862087845
- Language: English
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The Sky Above: An Astronaut’s Memoir of Adventure, Persistence, and Faith
$27.99 Read moreLooking up at the stars at the age of ten, John Casper dreamed of being a space explorer. The Sky Above tells how persistence and determination led to flying in space, after serving the nation as a
- Series: Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Author: Casper, John Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497160
- Language: English
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Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
$33.25 Read more“Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.”–Barack Obama
A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the- Author: McGuinness, Tara Dawson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0691207755
- Language: English
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
$8.99 Add to cart- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: August 30 2007
- ISBN10: 9562914267
- Language: English
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Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom, Revised and Expanded
$19.95 Add to cartUnlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crew in a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his chance
- Series: Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Author: Leopold, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1557538298
- Language: English
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartDrawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.
C- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1439192375
- Language: English
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My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
$22.00 Add to cartIn My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this f… [more below]
- Author: Derman, Emanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0470192739
- Language: English
