Science & Technology
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
$30.00 Add to cartThe smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remar
- Author: Bhattacharya, Ananyo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324003995
- Language: English
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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020.
Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Esquire, Pa- Author: Wiener, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1250785693
- Language: English
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My Inventions and Other Writings
$17.00 Add to cartThe fascinating autobiography of the legendary inventor behind the radio, wireless energy, robotics, and much more.
Famous for his pioneering contributions to the electronic age, his lifelong feud with… [more below]- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0143106619
- Language: English
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After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times’ Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants–Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the C
- Author: Mickle, Tripp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 006300982X
- Language: English
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
$22.99 Add to cartProbing the life and work of Kurt G?del, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning–and brought him to the edge of madness.
Autho… [more below]
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Goldstein, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327604
- Language: English
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the Neumann Prize for the History of Mathematics “We owe Claude Shannon a lot, and Soni & Goodman’s book takes a big first step in paying that debt.” –San Francisco Review of Books “Soni an… [more below]
- Author: Soni, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 147676669X
- Language: English
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Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film the Imitation Game – Updated Edition
$18.95 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that t- Author: Hodges, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 10 2014
- ISBN10: 069116472X
- Language: English
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Wilhelm’s Way: The Inspiring Story of the Iowa Chemist Who Saved the Manhattan Project
$26.95 Add to cartWinner of the Minnesota Book Award
Recipient of the Excellence in Iowa History Award
The untold story of the humble man whose scientific innovation helped end World War II
In February 19
- Author: Waldof, Teresa Wilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985439601
- Language: English
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Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir
$20.00 Read moreIn 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment was to program the complex lunar landing phase in th… [more below]
- Author: Eyles, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 098638593X
- Language: English
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Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut’s Journey
$29.95 Add to cart“The extraordinary autobiography of astronaut Fred Haise, one of only 24 men to fly to the moon”–
- Author: Haise, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1588347133
- Language: English
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An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
$29.00 Add to cartTravel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield’s “enthralling” bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate).
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged n- Author: Hadfield, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0316253014
- Language: English
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A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s leading planetary scientists, a luminous memoir of exploration on Earth, in space, and within oneself–equal parts ode to the beauty of science, meditation on loss, and roadmap
- Author: Elkins-Tanton, Lindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063086875
- Language: English
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The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and the host of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a memoir about growing up and a young man’s budding scientific curiosity.This is the absorbing story … [more below]
- Author: Tyson, Neil Degrasse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 159102188X
- Language: English
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Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
$18.00 Add to cartA masterful and timely biography of the hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time–from the Pulitzer Prize-winn… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1984898353
- Language: English
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Looking Up: The True Adventures of a Storm-Chasing Weather Nerd
$18.95 Add to cartAn energetic and electrifying narrative about all things weather–by one of today’s rising meteorological stars.
Get in–we’re going storm-chasing! Imagine a very cool weather nerd has just pulled up- Author: Cappucci, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364684
- Language: English
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Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
$39.95 Add to cartA major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victoria- Author: Costa, James T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0691233799
- Language: English
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Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
$24.95 Add to cart“The story of one of the most prolific, independent, and iconoclastic inventors of this century . . . fascinating.”–Scientific American
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio- Author: Seifer, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 30 2016
- ISBN10: 0806539968
- Language: English
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
$20.00 Add to cartThe smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remar
- Author: Bhattacharya, Ananyo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050500
- Language: English
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Sky Walking: An Astronaut’s Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartA gripping first-hand account of life in space and the making of an astronaut. What is it like to fly the space shuttle and work on and in the International Space Station? Veteran NASA astronaut Tom J… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: December 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1588344045
- Language: English
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My Family and Other Animals
$18.00 Add to cartThe first book in Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, which was the inspiration for the Masterpiece PBS series The Durrells in … [more below]
- Author: Durrell, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004413
- Language: English
