Science & Technology
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George Washington Carver: An American Biography
$24.95 Add to cartHe educated tens of thousands.
His life story inspired millions.
Now, the only complete and authorized biography of George Washington Carver, a great humanitarian, scientist, teacher, and conservationis
- Author: Holt, Rackham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: January 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0990538524
- Language: English
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Darwin
$45.99 Add to cartHailed as the definitive biography, this monumental work explains the character and paradoxes of Charles Darwin and opens up the full panorama of Victorian science, theology, and mores. The authors br… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 886
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0393311503
- Language: English
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
$17.99 Add to cartOnce upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and… [more below]
- Author: Torvalds, Linus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0066620732
- Language: English
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Editing Humanity: The Crispr Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
$18.95 Add to cartOne of the world’s leading experts on genetics unravels one of the most important breakthroughs in modern science and medicine.
If our genes are, to a great extent, our destiny, then what would happe- Author: Davies, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1643137638
- Language: English
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Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
$22.95 Add to cartThis book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today’s most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures … [more below]
- Author: Wolfram, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1579550037
- Language: English
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High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband
$19.99 Add to cartRick Husband wanted to be an astronaut since his fourth birthday, but it wasn’t always for the right reasons. Initially, he thought it would be neat . . . cool . . . a fun thing to do. It wasn’t until
- Author: Husband, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0785260684
- Language: English
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The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
$16.00 Add to cartThis is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshnes… [more below]
- Author: Mahon, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0470861711
- Language: English
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
$17.95 Add to cartNikola Tesla invented radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories. In the early 1900s, he designed plans for cell phones, the Internet, death-ray
- Author: Munson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0393358046
- Language: English
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The Art of Healthcare Innovation: Interviews and Industry Insights from 35 Game-Changing Pioneers
$14.99 Add to cartWhat if you had a crystal ball that revealed the future of the healthcare landscape?Wouldn’t you want that ball?
Think of how that information could boost your success and impact your future. You could
- Author: Warner, Christina D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: October 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1733149619
- Language: English
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Tesla: Man Out of Time
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “informative and delightful” (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and i… [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0743215362
- Language: English
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
$24.99 Add to cartThrough family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth–an all-too-human woman struggling to ba
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Goldsmith, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327485
- Language: English
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Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known as L0pht Changed the World
$29.99 Add to cartIn May 1998, the US Congress invited the seven members of the L0pht to testify on the state of government computer security. Two years later, that same group rode the Dot-com bubble to create the pree
- Author: Thomas, Cris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: February 16 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987032404
- Language: English
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
$35.00 Read moreWinner of the Crime Writers’ Association ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction–
In her memoir All Th
A tour through the human skeleton and the secrets our bones reveal, from the author of All That Remains- Author: Black, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1951627806
- Language: English
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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
$19.99 Add to cartThe heroic story of the Mercury Seven, the pioneer astronauts who risked their lives for America’s first manned space voyages.Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in spac
- Author: Carpenter, Scott M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12, 2010
- ISBN10: 1439181039
- Language: English
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Edison
$39.00 Add to cartEin Bestseller jetzt neu als Broschurausgabe! Die gebundene Ausgabe erzielte hervorragende Kritiken im Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, The Independent und in der Sunday Times – um nur einige zu nennen… [more below]
- Author: Israel, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0471362700
- Language: English
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
$21.95 Add to cartThe definitive account of Tesla’s life and work
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, pate- Author: Carlson, W. Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: April 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165610
- Language: English
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Chomsky and Me: A Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartBev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her account of those years, working next to a man described by the New Y
- Author: Boisseau Stohl, Bev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193772
- Language: English
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Teen Innovators: Nine Young People Engineering a Better World with Creative Inventions
$19.99 Read moreTeen Innovators tells the stories of discovery and the inventions of nine young students.
For example, twelve-year-old Gitanjali Rao, appalled by the tragedy in Flint, Michigan, found a cheaper, mor
- Author: Estes, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 172841721X
- Language: English
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
$19.99 Add to cart“A funny, marvelously readable portrait of one of the most brilliant and eccentric men in history.” —The Seattle Times
Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wand- Author: Hoffman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 1999
- ISBN10: 0786884061
- Language: English
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Space Bites: Reflections of a NASA Food Scientist
$16.99 Add to cart“During her decades-long career at NASA, my friend and colleague Vickie Kloeris made sure my fellow astronauts and I were well-fed and healthy while in space. Space Bites is not only a compilation of … [more below]
- Author: Kloeris, Vickie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1955026807
- Language: English
