Science & Technology
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882
$14.95 Read moreCharles Darwin’s Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bowdlerized edition: Darwin’s family, attempting to protect his posthumous reputation, had deleted all … [more below]
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 1993
- ISBN10: 0393310698
- Language: English
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Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm
$21.99 Add to cartInfinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm–brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American Act… [more below]
- Author: Peat, F. David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0201328208
- Language: English
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The Snoring Bird: My Family’s Journey Through a Century of Biology
$17.99 Add to cartAlthough Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his “old-fashioned” father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 006074216X
- Language: English
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The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: South America, 1925
$58.33 Read moreA marvelously annotated and illustrated edition of Einstein’s South America travel diary
In the spring of 1925, Albert Einstein embarked on an extensive lecture tour of Argentina before continuing on- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0691201021
- Language: English
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How to Be Human: An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life
$16.99 Add to cartA “beautiful and astonishing” (Walter Isaacson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker) narrative that examines the many ways to be fully human, told by the first young adult with a… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Jory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1501180525
- Language: English
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A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
$17.99 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detour… [more below]
- Author: Colwell, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1501181297
- Language: English
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An Improbable Astronaut: How a Georgia farmboy wound up flying the space shuttle
$25.95 Add to cartAstronaut Roy Bridges intentionally pursued a life of adventure. From fearlessly hunting bears in the woods with his cap pistol at age five, to piloting a fighter jet in Vietnam in his twenties, to ro
- Author: Bridges, Roy D., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1631070401
- Language: English
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Viktor Schauberger: A Life of Learning from Nature
$24.95 Add to cartSecond edition of a concise introduction to Schauberger’s life and thinking.
Viktor Schauberger’s knowledge of natural energies led to inventions which, if properly harnessed, could solve the world’s
- Author: Cobbald, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0863157246
- Language: English
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Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
$63.00 Add to cartThis richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
- Author: Westfall, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: April 29 1983
- ISBN10: 0521274354
- Language: English
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Machine See, Machine Do: How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System
$16.99 Add to cart“When today’s technology relies on yesterday’s data, it will simply mirror our past mistakes and biases.”
AI and other high-tech tools embed and reinforce America’s history of prejudice and exclusion
- Author: Lin, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: December 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637308213
- Language: English
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Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
$30.00 Read more*A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection*
The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physicsOn July 4, 2012, the announcement came t
- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1541620801
- Language: English
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Science People: A Celebration of Our Diverse People of Science
$24.99 Read moreScience is for everyone!
Science People celebrates the diversity of the scientific community around the world. Meet more than 50 trailblazers in botany, biology, physics, engineering, mathematics, and
- Series: People
- Author: Csicsko, David Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1951963075
- Language: English
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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of Dna’s Double Helix
$30.00 Read moreJames Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how
- Author: Markel, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1324002239
- Language: English
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A Chat with Vivien Thomas: She Was the 1St to Interview Mr.Thomas on His Extraordinary Technical Discoveries Used in Dr Alfred Blalock ‘s ‘Blue B
$10.99 Add to cart” Experiece the interview with Mr Thomas himself as though you were there the history making development of the Blue Baby Operation.
- Author: Gladden, Jessie B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1532085850
- Language: English
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Jane Goodall: A Biography
$17.99 Add to cartRecent polls identify Jane Goodall to be the most recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania has been renowned as one of the … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591026113
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
$19.00 Add to cartWith a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier
A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool—a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. W- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250002486
- Language: English
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An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life
$36.99 Add to cartA gripping narrative of the love and betrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, told through the lives of three unique women.
Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love
- Author: Streshinsky, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1618580191
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents
$18.00 Add to cartWhen Ellen Ullman’s memoir of her life as a software engineer was published in 1997, it was greeted as a revelatory meditation on the dawn of the digital era. Now, twenty-five years later, Close to th
- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250884128
- Language: English
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Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure
$24.99 Add to cartA captivating memoir from one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa.
In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffes and a dream to study them in
- Series: Life Writing
- Author: Dagg, Anne Innis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0889204632
- Language: English
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The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster, The Mystery of the Aleph is Amir D. Aczel’s compelling narrative that blends a story of infinity with the tragic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician.
From the Pythag- Series: Mathematics, the Kabbalah and the Search for Infinity
- Author: Aczel, Amir D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0743422996
- Language: English
