Category - Biography & Autobiography
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives—including your own. At th...
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No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /If Richard Feynman had not existed it would not be possible to create him. The most extraordinary scientist of his time, a unique combination of ...
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The Raven's Gift: A Scientist, a Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn, traversed the Northwest Passage and paddled across the Pacific Rim. But, the strangest trip he ever took w...
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The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Although Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his "old-fashioned" father, bec...
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The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Larry Ellison started the high-flying tech company Oracle with $1,200 in 1977 and turned it into a billion-dollar Silicon Valley giant. If Bill G...
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveler. Yet shy of fame and never one to stea...
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Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /John Roebling was one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating person...
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The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /THE FIRST-EVER BIOGRAPHY OF JACOB BRONOWSKI—ONE OF THE LEADING SCIENCE POPULARIZERS OF HIS GENERATION.Best remembered today for his blockbuster d...
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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The science behind the traits and quirks that drive creative geniuses to make spectacular breakthroughs What really distinguishes the people who ...
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A 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...
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Heroes and Scoundrels: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Nobel Prize in Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Beware the pronouncements from medical authorities on high… The good, the bad, and the ugly of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine are exp...
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Adventures of a Computational Explorer
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781579550264 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Wolfram Media - Inc. Publication Date: 10-16-2019 Pages: 432 Product Dimensi...
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My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In 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....
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Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /‘In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described on...
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A Dominant Character: How J. B. S. Haldane Transformed Genetics, Became a Communist, and Risked His Neck for Science
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /One of the Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of 2020 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2020 A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the...
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Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, The Beagle, and The Voyage that Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An illuminating and lively narrative of Charles Darwin’s formative years and his adventurous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. Winner of the Georg...
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My Brief History
HardcoverOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLERStephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for t...
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Los Inventores (Spare Parts): Cuatro adolescentes inmigrantes, un robot y la batalla por el sueño americano
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Los inventores es una de esas historias raras que es difícil soltar. Narrada de manera impecable, es hilarante y también triste." --Chris Anders...
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Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In "Part of the Pride", Kevin Richardson, recently dubbed "The Lion Man" on 60 Minutes, tells the story of how he grew from a young boy who loved...
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Forks In The Road: A Life In Physics
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Stanley Deser is a preeminent theoretical physicist who made monumental contributions to general relativity, quantum field theory and high energy...
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Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond...
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Microbe Hunters - Figures from the Heroic Age of Medicine (Read & Co. Science);Including Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Pasteur, Koch, Roux, Behring, Metchnikoff, Theobald Smith, Bruce, Ross, Grassi, Walter Reed, & Paul Ehrlich
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This pop-science volume is Paul de Kruif's classic account of microscopic discoveries, and it presents a history of the most important figures in...
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Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Deke Slayton was one of the first seven Mercury astronauts—and he might have been the first American in space. Instead, he became the first chief...
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Charles Darwin: The Power of Place / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a fo...
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