History
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From X-Rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries
$17.95 Read moreA leading figure in twentieth-century physics offers impressions and recollections of the field’s development. Nobel Laureate Emilio Segr (1905-89) knew and worked with many of modern physics’ preemi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics
- Author: Segrè, Emilio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0486457834
- Language: English
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Isaac Newton
$18.00 Read moreIsaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral–an unheard-of honor for a sub… [more below]
- Author: Gleick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400032954
- Language: English
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Einstein’s Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
$18.99 Read moreThis entertaining, eye-opening account of how the laws of thermodynamics are essential to understanding the world today–from refrigeration and jet engines to calorie counting and global warming–is “… [more below]
- Author: Sen, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1501181319
- Language: English
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
$30.00 Read moreSoaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, a
- Author: Falk, Seb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 132400293X
- Language: English
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Two New Sciences/A History of Free Fall
$33.95 Read more- Author: Galilei, Galileo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0921332505
- Language: English
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The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
$24.99 Read moreA compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be!
Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by- Author: McElroy, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1681883813
- Language: English
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The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
$50.67 Read moreAn “elegant”, “engrossing” (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why — despite technological advances — the workings of our most essential orga… [more below]
- Author: Cobb, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646851
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science
$26.00 Read moreFINALIST 2019 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award This biography of Oliver Heaviside profiles the life of an underappreciated genius and describes his many contribut… [more below]
- Author: Mahon, Basil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1633883310
- Language: English
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On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy
$29.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking presents a revolutionary look at the momentous discoveries that changed our perception of the world with this first-ever compilation of … [more below]
- Author: Hawking, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1264
- Publish Date: December 25 2003
- ISBN10: 076241698X
- Language: English
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We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us
$32.95 Read moreHow the monsters of nineteenth-century literature and science came to define us.
“Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” In We Are All Monster- Author: Mangham, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047527
- Language: English
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
$18.99 Add to cartWe know it simply as “the pill,” yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig’s masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a ch
- Author: Eig, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351890
- Language: English
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Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps
$70.00 Add to cartLavishly illustrated with full-color geological maps, tables of strata, geological cross-sections, photographs, and fossil illustrations from the archives of the Oxford University Museum of Natural Hi… [more below]
- Author: Oxford University Museum of Natural Hist
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 23 2020
- ISBN10: 022675488X
- Language: English
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The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla
$16.95 Read moreNikola Tesla’s Electricity Unplugged is a unique anthology of hand-picked Tesla articles, arranged historically, which presents overwhelming and convincing evidence for the reality of Tesla’s high eff… [more below]
- Series: Lost Science (Adventures Unlimited Press)
- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: June 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0932813194
- Language: English
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The History of Computing: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This lively Very Short Introduction reviews the central events, machines, and people that feature in established accounts of the history of comput- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Swade, Doron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0198831757
- Language: English
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The Tesla Papers: Nikola Tesla on Free Energy & Wireless Transmission of Power
$19.95 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Fantastic Adventures of Nikola Tesla, The Anti-Gravity Handbook and The Free Energy Device Handbook, science and UFO author David Hatcher Childress takes us into the incredible… [more below]
- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0932813860
- Language: English
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The Science of Why We Exist: A History of the Universe from the Big Bang to Consciousness
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Big Bang and the evolution of the genetic code to the birth of consciousness, this is the extraordinary story of the chain of events that led to human life on earth.
Have you ever wondered wh- Author: Coulson, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366520
- Language: English
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
$19.99 Read moreSoaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, a
- Author: Falk, Seb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868400
- Language: English
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Biology 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Read moreBiology: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in biology in concise, 100-word s… [more below]
- Author: Amsen, Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0744093783
- Language: English
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What’s Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Levitt, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0063251205
- Language: English
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The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow’s Technology Still Isn’t Here
$28.00 Read moreWe love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality?
For decades we’ve delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from fl- Author: Kobie, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1399403109
- Language: English
