Science & Technology
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The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
$17.95 Add to cartA leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.
Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Barres, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539543
- Language: English
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The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
$32.00 Add to cartThe first biography–“a stunning achievement” (Kai Bird, American Prometheus)–of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose
When he was six years old, Roger Penrose- Author: Barss, Patchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1541603664
- Language: English
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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
$29.99 Add to cartBenjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and
- Author: Munson, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882233
- Language: English
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No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes
$28.00 Read moreAn exhilarating and uncensored account of the maverick tech titan’s wild life, a breakneck journey from Silicon Valley to his sudden, mysterious death in a Barcelona prison.
“This is the only possible- Author: Eglinton, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1642939536
- Language: English
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The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
$21.00 Add to cartHere is the remarkable life story of Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, and his unparalleled contributions to science mathematics, the financial world, and the arts. Mandelbrot recoun
- Author: Mandelbrot, Benoit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 030738991X
- Language: English
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Pierre Curie
$5.95 Read moreA delightful book. It marks one of the few instances in which the proverbial humdrum life of the student of physical science, together with the more austere ideals, have been made intelligible. — The… [more below]
- Author: Curie, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0486201996
- Language: English
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Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
$21.99 Add to cartFrom world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reas… [more below]
- Author: Goodall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0446676136
- Language: English
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My Inventions and Other Writing and Lectures
$15.00 Read moreThis volume presents one of the richest and most comprehensive collections of writings by Nikola Tesla, a founding figure of the modern electrical power industry and long-time rival of Thomas Edison. … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486845753
- Language: English
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Prime Obsession: Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
$19.00 Add to cartThe definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challege the world.
In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathemat- Author: Derbyshire, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0452285259
- Language: English
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No One Loved Gorillas More
$30.00 Read morePresents a collection of letters written by Dian Fossey that captures her spirit, activism, setbacks, and triumphs during the eighteen years she spent studying and preserving mountain gorillas.
- Author: Author Tbd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0792293444
- Language: English
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Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
$18.99 Add to cartThe rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.’s disastrous dam collapse: “A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal” (Los Angeles Daily News).
Rivers in the Desert fol- Author: Davis, Margaret Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 149763878X
- Language: English
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
$15.95 Read moreTwenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin’s epiphany that “natural selection” formed the basis of evolution and the scientist’s publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and … [more below]
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039332995X
- Language: English
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Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal
$26.95 Add to cartEdmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the return of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery would be enough to make the career of any scientist, Ha
- Author: Love, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888916
- Language: English
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A Heart Afire: Helen Brooke Taussig’s Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine
$39.95 Read moreA deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children’s heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force against preventable suffering.
In A Heart Afire, Patrici- Author: Meisol, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048523
- Language: English
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Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
$16.95 Read moreHere is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world’s most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetic… [more below]
- Author: Mullis, Kary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0679774009
- Language: English
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The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
$20.00 Read more“An eye-opening and enchanting book by one of our major scientist-explorers.” –Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper’s Wife
Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, bo- Author: Lowman, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849187
- Language: English
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The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón Y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron
$20.00 Read moreThe first major biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mind–illustrated with his extraordinary anatomical drawings
As the- Author: Ehrlich, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250862906
- Language: English
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
$21.00 Read moreFrom the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that “not only paints a highly attractive port… [more below]
- Author: Gleick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 02 1993
- ISBN10: 0679747044
- Language: English
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Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
$24.00 Add to cart“Nancy Greenspan dives into the mysteries of the Klaus Fuchs espionage case and emerges with a classic Cold War biography of intrigue and torn loyalties. Atomic Spy is a mesmerizing morality tale, tol… [more below]
- Author: Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0593083407
- Language: English
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
$30.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science
- Author: Sobel, Dava
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163823
- Language: English
