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Selections from Newton's Principia / Edition 1
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Statics For Dummies
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many ...
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersi...
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Rising from the Plains
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to p...
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Hawai'i's Sea Creatures: A Guide to Hawai'i's Marine Invertebrates / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Hawai'i's seas teem with life. Living creatures--swimming, creeping, floating or crawling--have invaded every possible undersea habitat. They hav...
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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A lucid account of quantum theory (and why you should care) combined with a gripping narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle Quantum theory is weir...
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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate t...
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
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 major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence:...
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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world." —Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dream and The Accidental Uni...
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The Periodic Table: A visual guide to the elements
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Which is the densest element? Which has the largest atoms? And why are some elements radioactive? From the little-known uses of gold in medicine...
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependenc...
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In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantam Physics And Reality
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinnin...
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How to Hide an Octopus and Other Sea Creatures
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it." —P. B. Medawar, New York Review of Books...
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Exciting and provocative . . . A tour de force of a book that begs to be seen as well as to be read.”—The Washington Post ...
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The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an...
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens ion
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation comes the first book-length exploration of the most e...
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Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation takes readers on an exciting excursion into the discoverie...
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Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our ...
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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A penetrating exploration of the new physics, including time travel, quantum computers, and the multiverse – as referenced in the film “Avengers:...
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The Origin of Species
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal One ...
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Space And Place: The Perspective of Experience / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings abo...
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