Science & Technology
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Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
$28.00 Read moreIn this insightful and revelatory new book, the author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla delves deeper into the groundbreaking … [more below]
- Author: Seifer, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0806540966
- Language: English
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Men of Mathematics
$24.00 Add to cartFrom one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics.Men of Ma… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Bell, E. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 15 1986
- ISBN10: 671628186
- Language: English
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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
$21.99 Add to cartNow a CBS All Access series created by Mark Heyman with executive producer Ridley Scott.
ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSIONscreamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times. John Parsons, a m- Author: Pendle, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0156031795
- Language: English
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Forty Years a Forester (Second Edition, )
$24.95 Add to cartElers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot… [more below]
- Author: Koch, Elers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496213351
- Language: English
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
$24.99 Add to cartPaul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einstein’s most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of th… [more below]
- Author: Farmelo, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0465022103
- Language: English
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No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
$36.00 Add to cartNo Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It’s the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irrevere… [more below]
- Author: Raskin, Molly Knight
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821664
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver: An American Biography
$24.95 Add to cartHe educated tens of thousands.
His life story inspired millions.
Now, the only complete and authorized biography of George Washington Carver, a great humanitarian, scientist, teacher, and conservationis
- Author: Holt, Rackham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: January 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0990538524
- Language: English
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Darwin
$45.99 Add to cartHailed as the definitive biography, this monumental work explains the character and paradoxes of Charles Darwin and opens up the full panorama of Victorian science, theology, and mores. The authors br… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 886
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0393311503
- Language: English
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
$17.99 Add to cartOnce upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and… [more below]
- Author: Torvalds, Linus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0066620732
- Language: English
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Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
$22.95 Add to cartThis book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today’s most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures … [more below]
- Author: Wolfram, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1579550037
- Language: English
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The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
$16.00 Add to cartThis is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshnes… [more below]
- Author: Mahon, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0470861711
- Language: English
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
$17.95 Add to cartNikola Tesla invented radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories. In the early 1900s, he designed plans for cell phones, the Internet, death-ray
- Author: Munson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0393358046
- Language: English
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The Art of Healthcare Innovation: Interviews and Industry Insights from 35 Game-Changing Pioneers
$14.99 Add to cartWhat if you had a crystal ball that revealed the future of the healthcare landscape?Wouldn’t you want that ball?
Think of how that information could boost your success and impact your future. You could
- Author: Warner, Christina D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: October 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1733149619
- Language: English
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Tesla: Man Out of Time
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “informative and delightful” (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and i… [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0743215362
- Language: English
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
$16.95 Read moreThrough family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth–an all-too-human woman struggling to ba
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Goldsmith, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327485
- Language: English
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All-American Boys
$29.95 Add to cartEDITORIAL REVIEW: *The All-American Boys* is a no-holds-barred candid memoir by a former Marine jet jockey and physicist who became NASA’s second civilian astronaut. Walter Cunningham presents the ast… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1876963247
- Language: English
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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
$19.99 Add to cartThe heroic story of the Mercury Seven, the pioneer astronauts who risked their lives for America’s first manned space voyages.Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in spac
- Author: Carpenter, Scott M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12, 2010
- ISBN10: 1439181039
- Language: English
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Edison
$39.00 Add to cartEin Bestseller jetzt neu als Broschurausgabe! Die gebundene Ausgabe erzielte hervorragende Kritiken im Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, The Independent und in der Sunday Times – um nur einige zu nennen… [more below]
- Author: Israel, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0471362700
- Language: English
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
$21.95 Add to cartThe definitive account of Tesla’s life and work
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, pate- Author: Carlson, W. Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: April 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165610
- Language: English
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
$19.99 Add to cart“A funny, marvelously readable portrait of one of the most brilliant and eccentric men in history.” —The Seattle Times
Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wand- Author: Hoffman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 1999
- ISBN10: 0786884061
- Language: English
