Science & Technology
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The Sky Above: An Astronaut’s Memoir of Adventure, Persistence, and Faith
$27.99 Read moreLooking up at the stars at the age of ten, John Casper dreamed of being a space explorer. The Sky Above tells how persistence and determination led to flying in space, after serving the nation as a
- Series: Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Author: Casper, John Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497160
- Language: English
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
$8.99 Add to cart- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: August 30 2007
- ISBN10: 9562914267
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882
$14.95 Read moreCharles Darwin’s Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bowdlerized edition: Darwin’s family, attempting to protect his posthumous reputation, had deleted all … [more below]
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 1993
- ISBN10: 0393310698
- Language: English
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Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm
$21.99 Add to cartInfinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm–brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American Act… [more below]
- Author: Peat, F. David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0201328208
- Language: English
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The Snoring Bird: My Family’s Journey Through a Century of Biology
$17.99 Add to cartAlthough Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his “old-fashioned” father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 006074216X
- Language: English
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A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
$17.99 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detour… [more below]
- Author: Colwell, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1501181297
- Language: English
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An Improbable Astronaut: How a Georgia farmboy wound up flying the space shuttle
$25.95 Add to cartAstronaut Roy Bridges intentionally pursued a life of adventure. From fearlessly hunting bears in the woods with his cap pistol at age five, to piloting a fighter jet in Vietnam in his twenties, to ro
- Author: Bridges, Roy D., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1631070401
- Language: English
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Viktor Schauberger: A Life of Learning from Nature
$24.95 Add to cartSecond edition of a concise introduction to Schauberger’s life and thinking.
Viktor Schauberger’s knowledge of natural energies led to inventions which, if properly harnessed, could solve the world’s
- Author: Cobbald, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0863157246
- Language: English
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Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
$30.00 Read more*A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection*
The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physicsOn July 4, 2012, the announcement came t
- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1541620801
- Language: English
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Jane Goodall: A Biography
$17.99 Add to cartRecent polls identify Jane Goodall to be the most recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania has been renowned as one of the … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591026113
- Language: English
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An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life
$36.99 Add to cartA gripping narrative of the love and betrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, told through the lives of three unique women.
Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love
- Author: Streshinsky, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1618580191
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents
$18.00 Add to cartWhen Ellen Ullman’s memoir of her life as a software engineer was published in 1997, it was greeted as a revelatory meditation on the dawn of the digital era. Now, twenty-five years later, Close to th
- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250884128
- Language: English
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Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure
$24.99 Add to cartA captivating memoir from one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa.
In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffes and a dream to study them in
- Series: Life Writing
- Author: Dagg, Anne Innis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0889204632
- Language: English
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The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
$17.99 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster, The Mystery of the Aleph is Amir D. Aczel’s compelling narrative that blends a story of infinity with the tragic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician.
From the Pythag- Series: Mathematics, the Kabbalah and the Search for Infinity
- Author: Aczel, Amir D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0743422996
- Language: English
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
$15.99 Add to cartA collection of anthropologist Goodall’s letters from her early years reveals the person only her friends and family knew until now. Here is the girl who punts at Oxford, who journeys to Africa for th… [more below]
- Author: Goodall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0618127356
- Language: English
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An Improbable Astronaut: How a Georgia farmboy wound up flying the space shuttle
$54.95 Add to cartAstronaut Roy Bridges intentionally pursued a life of adventure. From fearlessly hunting bears in the woods with his cap pistol at age five, to piloting a fighter jet in Vietnam in his twenties, to ro
- Author: Bridges, Roy D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1631070428
- Language: English
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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science
$26.99 Add to cartPerhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrenc
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Krauss, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340651
- Language: English
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Marie Curie: A Life
$25.99 Add to cart“A touching three-dimensional portrait of the Polish-born scientist and two-time Nobel Prize winner” (Kirkus) Madame Curie, the discoverer of radium and radioactivity
One hundred years ago, Marie Curi- Series: Radcliffe Biography Series
- Author: Quinn, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0201887940
- Language: English
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting That Changed the Course of Science
$18.95 Read moreA 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 was in turmoil.
In 1911, some of the greatest minds i- Author: Orens, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362177
- Language: English
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Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
$32.00 Read moreTold by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth
- Author: Markoff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0735223947
- Language: English
