Science & Technology
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The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution
$30.00 Read moreA New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year
Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.
This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victo- Author: Bashford, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 16 2022
- ISBN10: 022672011X
- Language: English
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
$21.99 Add to cartA Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber—Richard P. Feynman was all these … [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0465023711
- Language: English
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
$35.00 Add to cartOne of Esquire‘s 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine B
- Author: Nevala-Lee, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0062947222
- Language: English
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
$22.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of … America’s first Renaissance man”… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0385495404
- Language: English
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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world — twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. A… [more below]
- Author: Mullane, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0743276833
- Language: English
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Feynman and his sidekick fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending
- Author: Leighton, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320693
- Language: English
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What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
$46.99 Add to cartOnly once in a great while does a scientist/adventurer like Richard Feynman pass by; even rarer is there a record in his own words, such as the record Feynman leaves here, of the wonders that abounded
- Author: Feynman, Richard Phillips
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0393026590
- Language: English
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Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
$16.99 Add to cartIn this revelatory and moving memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, persevera
- Author: Melvin, Leland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0062496735
- Language: English
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
$19.99 Read moreA Nobel Prize-winning biologist’s “engaging and witty” (Forbes) memoir tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology’s most important molecule
Everyone has heard of- Author: Ramakrishnan, Venki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604490
- Language: English
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Jane Goodall
$18.99 Add to cartPeterson shows clearly and convincingly how truly remarkable Goodall’s accomplishments were and how unlikely it is that anyone else could have duplicated them. This biography details how Goodall helpe… [more below]
- Author: Peterson, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0547053568
- Language: English
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A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edition: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
$28.00 Add to cartFor much of her life she worked alone, brilliant but eccentric, with ideas that made little sense to her colleagues. Yet before DNA and the molecular revolution, Barbara McClintock’s tireless analysis
- Author: Keller, Evelyn Fox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805074589
- Language: English
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
$19.99 Add to cartMary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton–of an ichthyosaur–while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary’s incredible d
- Series: MacSci
- Author: Emling, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0230103421
- Language: English
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
$19.99 Add to cartIn sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman (“Elegant and scrupulous”–New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa (“A mesmerizing page-
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 60884614
- Language: English
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
$18.00 Read moreThe first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, tells about Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen.
When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were a- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526893
- Language: English
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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller! The untold story of the eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses who helped build the atomic bomb and defeat the Nazis–changing the course of hi… [more below]
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0684872889
- Language: English
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
$35.00 Read moreThe definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi
In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear cha- Author: Schwartz, David N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0465072925
- Language: English
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A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
$18.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Ke… [more below]
- Author: Sapolsky, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0743202414
- Language: English
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Endurance: My Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a … [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0525432434
- Language: English
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
$19.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL!
A moving and enlightening look at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy Ramanujan stunned the scholars of Cambridge Universi- Author: Kanigel, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1476763496
- Language: English
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Edison
$24.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST- Author: Morris, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0812983211
- Language: English
