Science & Technology
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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
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
$15.99 Add to cartA collection of anthropologist Goodall’s letters from her early years reveals the person only her friends and family knew until now. Here is the girl who punts at Oxford, who journeys to Africa for th… [more below]
- Author: Goodall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0618127356
- Language: English
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Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult
$24.95 Add to cartAleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influenc
- Author: Spence, Richard B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1932595333
- Language: English
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
$19.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture, this is the first–and only–definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history.When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’… [more below]
- Author: Hansen, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1501153064
- Language: English
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An Improbable Astronaut: How a Georgia farmboy wound up flying the space shuttle
$54.95 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.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1631070428
- Language: English
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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science
$26.99 Add to cartPerhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrenc
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Krauss, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340651
- Language: English
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Marie Curie: A Life
$25.99 Add to cart“A touching three-dimensional portrait of the Polish-born scientist and two-time Nobel Prize winner” (Kirkus) Madame Curie, the discoverer of radium and radioactivity
One hundred years ago, Marie Curi- Series: Radcliffe Biography Series
- Author: Quinn, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0201887940
- Language: English
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The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
$19.99 Add to cart*Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize*
One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of mat- Author: Steinhardt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 147672993X
- Language: English
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Through the Firewall: The Alchemy of Turning Crisis Into Opportunity
$24.99 Add to cartBoyd Clewis has defied the odds and gravity. He was born dead, changed schools and homes as a child more times than he can count, became a teenage father and a track star, had more than one close brus
- Author: Clewis, Boyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887501802
- Language: English
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A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
$30.00 Read moreWhy understanding evolution–the most reviled branch of science–can help us all, from fighting pandemics to undoing racism
Evolutionary science has long been regarded as conservative, a tool for enfo
- Author: Graves, Joseph L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600711
- Language: English
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting That Changed the Course of Science
$18.95 Read moreA prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil.
In 1911, some of the greatest minds i- Author: Orens, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362177
- Language: English
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Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
$32.00 Read moreTold by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth
- Author: Markoff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0735223947
- Language: English
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Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
$28.00 Add to cartIn this insightful and revelatory new book, the author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla delves deeper into the groundbreaking … [more below]
- Author: Seifer, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0806540966
- Language: English
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Men of Mathematics
$24.00 Add to cartFrom one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics.Men of Ma… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Bell, E. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 15 1986
- ISBN10: 671628186
- Language: English
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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
$21.99 Add to cartNow a CBS All Access series created by Mark Heyman with executive producer Ridley Scott.
ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSIONscreamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times. John Parsons, a m- Author: Pendle, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0156031795
- Language: English
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Forty Years a Forester (Second Edition, )
$24.95 Add to cartElers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot… [more below]
- Author: Koch, Elers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496213351
- Language: English
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Raven’s Gift
$24.00 Add to cartJon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn, traversed the Northwest Passage and paddled across the Pacific Rim. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the rea
- Author: Turk, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611773
- Language: English
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Innovators: 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition–From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson
$32.50 Read moreScientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world–and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them
Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don’t receive wi- Author: Kirsch, Donald R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763392
- Language: English
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
$24.99 Add to cartPaul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einstein’s most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of th… [more below]
- Author: Farmelo, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0465022103
- Language: English
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No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
$36.00 Add to cartNo Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It’s the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irrevere… [more below]
- Author: Raskin, Molly Knight
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821664
- Language: English
