Category - Science
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Selected Writings
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The first entirely new translation of Galileo's major writings for more than fifty years, this marvelous volume includes selections from all of h...
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Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A Stanford UniversityPress classic. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780804726207 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Stanford University Press Publication...
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Darwin's Lost Theory
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Evolution/ Science/ Darwin/ Biography Powerfully contradicting the stereotype of "survival of the fittest" and "selfish gene" Darwinism, this is ...
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Gerard's Herbal: Selections from the 1633 Enlarged & Amended Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Gerard's Herbal, or The Generall Historie of Plantes, is the fourth gathering in 400 years, in a line of descent from the original folio, the 163...
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic te...
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The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /As staff writer for Scientific American, John Horgan has a window on contemporary science unsurpassed in all the world. Who else routinely interv...
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Science Was Wrong: Startling Truths About Cures, Theories, and Inventions They Declared Impossible
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Two months before the Wright brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk, a top scientist declared that "no possible combination of known substances,...
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A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /With commentary by the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, this anthology has garnered impressive reviews. PW has called it "a gem o...
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Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /From April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany's greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services...
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Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /To understand continental drift and plate tectonics, the shifting and collisions that make and unmake continents, requires a long view. The Earth...
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The History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central d...
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The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The intriguing theory of a land bridge periodically linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debate...
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A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein'...
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Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Niels Bohr, who pioneered the quantum theory of the atom, had a broad conception of his obligations as a physicist. They included not only a resp...
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Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /“If you have any interest in life beyond your own, you should read this book.” —Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal Biologist Rob Dun...
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The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteen...
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The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Hut...
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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"What Stephen Hawking did for cosmology, Leon Lederman does for particle physics" (Dallas Morning News) in The God Particle, a funny and fascinat...
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The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publ...
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The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922-1923
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Albert Einstein’s travel diary to the Far East and Middle EastIn the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, emba...
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Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A clever, thought-provoking guide that attacks common astronomical misconceptions What is Bad Astronomy? Anything that accidentally or intentiona...
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Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know�
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends ...
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100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Scienc...
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Supernova
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A concise illustrated introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars; with striking color illustrations...
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