Science & Technology
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A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edition: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
$28.00 Add to cartFor much of her life she worked alone, brilliant but eccentric, with ideas that made little sense to her colleagues. Yet before DNA and the molecular revolution, Barbara McClintock’s tireless analysis
- Author: Keller, Evelyn Fox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805074589
- Language: English
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
$19.99 Add to cartMary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton–of an ichthyosaur–while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary’s incredible d
- Series: MacSci
- Author: Emling, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0230103421
- Language: English
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
$19.99 Add to cartIn sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman (“Elegant and scrupulous”–New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa (“A mesmerizing page-
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 60884614
- Language: English
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Vaccinated: From Cowpox to Mrna, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines
$18.99 Add to cart“Medical writing at its finest.”–David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribu
- Author: Offit, Paul A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063157616
- Language: English
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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
$19.95 Add to cartIn his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life.
By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that h… [more below]- Author: Carter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0922915970
- Language: English
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Cómo Cambiar Tu Mente / How to Change Your Mind: Lo Que La Nueva Ciencia de la Psicodelia Nos Enseña Sobre La Conciencia, La Muerte, La Adicción, La D
$25.95 Read moreAhora en Netflix en un docu-serie de cuatro partes llamado “How to Change Your Mind” en donde abre el camino a la historia y los usos de los psicodélicos, incluidos el LSD, la psilocibina, la terapia… [more below]
- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 8499929060
- Language: Spanish
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The Visible Unseen: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartAndrea Chapela, one of Granta‘s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winning collection of experimental essays exploring the pro… [more below]
- Author: Chapela, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1632063522
- Language: English
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12 Bytes: How AI Will Change the Way We Live and Love
$18.00 Add to cartTwelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette
- Author: Winterson, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160360
- Language: English
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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
$25.99 Read moreVoted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters, the dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
On February 1, 2003, Columbia di- Author: Leinbach, Michael D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 23, 2018
- ISBN10: 1628728515
- Language: English
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
$18.00 Add to cartThe first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, tells about Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen.
When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were a- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526893
- Language: English
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Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin
$9.99 Add to cartThe inventions and inspiration of Benjamin Franklin and how they’ve stood the test of time
What would you do if you lived in a community without a library, hospital, post office, or fire department? I- Author: Barretta, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0312535694
- Language: English
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Charles Darwin’s on the Origin of Species: Big Ideas for Curious Minds
$12.99 Read moreEvery once in a while, an idea comes along that is so radical, so surprising, that it completely transforms the way that we look at the world.
This beautifully illustrated book brings to life Charles- Series: Arcturus Genius Ideas
- Author: Leach, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1398831182
- Language: English
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¡Fushhh! / Whoosh!: El Chorro de Inventos Súper Húmedos de Lonnie Johnson
$7.99 Add to cartAhora en espa ol, la verdadera historia del juguete favorito de todos los ni os en el verano, la S per Pistola de Agua, y c mo fue inventado por accidente.
Mientras trataba de crear un sistema de enfr- Author: Barton, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1580895239
- Language: Spanish
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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller! The untold story of the eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses who helped build the atomic bomb and defeat the Nazis–changing the course of hi… [more below]
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0684872889
- Language: English
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
$35.00 Read moreThe definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi
In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear cha- Author: Schwartz, David N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0465072925
- Language: English
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Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo Da Vinci
$8.99 Add to cartAn introduction to Leonardo da Vinci’s genius focusing on his famous notebook sketches and the modern inventions they predicted.
In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in- Author: Barretta, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1250079608
- Language: English
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Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission
$18.99 Read moreNow in paperback, the life story of a world-famous astronaut who was a trailblazer for women and is a role model today
Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achie- Author: Collins, Eileen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763422
- Language: English
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Patricia’s Vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight Volume 7
$19.99 Read moreThe inspiring story of Dr. Patricia Bath, a groundbreaking ophthalmologist who pioneered laser surgery–and gave her patients the gift of sight.
Born in the 1940s, Patricia Bath dreamed of being an- Series: People Who Shaped Our World #7
- Author: Lord, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 145493137X
- Language: English
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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of Dna’s Double Helix
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 132405039X
- Language: English
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For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time – A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
$19.99 Add to cartIn For the Love of Physics, beloved MIT professor Walter Lewin, whose riveting physics lectures made him a YouTube super-star, takes readers on a remarkably fun, inventive, and often wacky journey tha… [more below]
- Author: Lewin, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 145160713X
- Language: English
